Editing User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Prospective graduate students (section)

== Asking questions ==

If you have questions about the departments or the admissions processes, you should check the material on the admissions websites and FAQs and/or contact the admissions staff who will be more helpful and more responsive than I am.

If you have questions about my research or about working with me, you can email me directly at [mailto:makohill@uw.edu makohill@uw.edu]. If I don't know you, you should introduce yourself by describing your interests, qualifications and the reason you think these are a match for my research interests and methodologies. If you don't know my research interests and methods, you should look through [http://mako.cc/academic/ my academic page]—maybe even read a couple papers—and try to make sure it really is a good match.

Please keep in mind that I am often busy and not always awesome at email. As a result, it might take me some time to respond to prospective students. If it's been more than a week or two, feel free to ping me again.