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

== Meetings (prospective UW graduate students) ==

Unfortunately, my fall quarter 2024 is completely booked with teaching and service responsibilities and I simply do not have the bandwidth to meet with prospective students 1-on-1 while the quarter is in session. Feel free to ask me questions by email and we can take things from there. I'd also be happy to talk in the new year if it's still useful.

Both the UW Department of Communication and the Community Data Science Collective will have open PhD recruiting events that will provide an opportunity to meet folks. UW Communication has an event on [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-washington-communication-maphd-and-phd-information-session-tickets-1004714527197?aff=oddtdtcreator a recruiting event on November 6] (which I sadly will not be able to attend) and the CDSC is running [https://blog.communitydata.science/cdsc-phd-application-info-session-and-q-a-october-18/ a Q&A session on October 18] that I plan to be at. Either will be good a place to get your questions answered. The CDSC event is probably your best opportunity to talk with me in person.

<!-- Many university faculty have blanket rules against meeting with prospective doctoral students. Although I typically do not have time, I'm willing to consider these meetings in some situations. Keep in mind that there are hundreds of students seeking to start their PhD at UW Communication every year, so it is simply not possible for the faculty to meet with every interested student. Personally, I'm happy to meet with prospective students whose interests and backgrounds truly match what I'm looking for. 

This means that either of the following things should be true:
	
:* You are interested in graduate school because you want to study [[:wikipedia:peer production|peer production]], knowledge commons, and the production of online public goods like [[:wikipedia:free culture|free culture]] and [[:wikipedia:free software|free software]].
:* You are interested in graduate school because you want to do quantitative data science on online communities and plan to use programming, statistics, and mathematics as the core of your research program.
 
If the above does not apply, ''this doesn't mean I don't want to work with you''. It just means I'm extremely unlikely to be able to impact your application to the department. If one of my colleagues at UW has referred you to talk to me, that's also good enough because it means that they might ask for my opinion when the admissions committee makes final decisions later. -->