Fwd: Volunteering to help with GRE study group.

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From: Scott Pratt <pratts@pa.msu.edu>
Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:45 PM
Subject: Volunteering to help with GRE study group.
To: Generic Mailing List <list@pa.msu.edu>

Dear Grad Students,

Dr. Bauer recently sent out a letter requesting volunteers to help the
undergrads study for the GRE, and I thought this would be a good time
to encourage you as a group to volunteer with outreach activities.

In the next few years, you will be applying for jobs, as postdocs, in
industry, or teaching for small colleges. Many of you will also be
considered for special fellowships or awards. In each of these
instances you will be sending out CVs, and strangers will be forming
an opinion and judging you by a piece of paper. As a person who has
read many CVs, I can tell you that one aspect of a person's
personality and character one would like to understand is whether a
person is outgoing, interactive, personable and positive. A few
outreach activities really helps form a picture of a complete person.

Whereas you may work day and night for 9 months to gather results and
write a paper, an outreach activity often only requires a single day
of your time. In both cases you add one line to your CV.

For international students, a few outreach activities can really help
dispel some of the prejudices people may have about international
students not being communicative or interactive. Even if your English
skills are less than perfect, there are things you can do -- the
example below is one of them.

Thanks for your time, and get back to work, - Scott

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Hi,

Our undergrad majors would like to get a GRE study group together, and
they would like some help from the faculty. If you can put in a few
hours with them, it would be of tremendous help.  It would be
particularly good if some of our grad students would volunteer,
because you have recent experience with taking the GRE.

If you are interested in helping, please drop Andrew (email below) a
quick message.

Thanks in advance
Wolfgang

--
Dr. Wolfgang Bauer
University Distinguished Professor

Michigan State University
Biomedical Physical Sciences
567 Wilson Road, Room 4208
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

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> From: Andrew Supka <supkaand@gmail.com>
> Subject: Volunteers for Summer Physics GRE Study Group
> Date: April 10, 2012 15:31:09 EDT
> To: <bauer@pa.msu.edu>
>
> Dr. Bauer,
>
> Would you please send an email out to the physics professors and grad students to ask if there is anyone possibly interested in volunteering to lead a Physics GRE study group? If you could, please let them know that there has been interest shown by at least a couple dozen students and that it seems like it would be best for most of the students if the group would meet 2-3 times a week for maybe two hours in the evening from mid-July to mid-August. Thanks!
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Supka