I applied to a professional program that I had been striving for in my undergrad, at a top school, but I've since felt overwhelmed with how to pay for it and incurring so much debt. I think I should wait a year so get into a better place financially. I've become so anxious, thinking I've ruined my opportunity with this school if I don't go.  I am considering withdrawing my application, but I'm very worried about how it might hurt me in the future when I reapply. Or I may wait but need to decline if I am accepted, and reapply the following year. I feel like both will hurt my chances in the future. How will admissions consider me the second time?
I applied to a program that I had been striving for in my undergrad, at a top school, but I've since felt overwhelmed with the thought of going this year. I think I should have waited until I was absolutely sure I could handle grad school emotionally and financially. I am so anxious now, thinking I've ruined my opportunity with this school if I don't go.   I am seriously considering withdrawing my application, but I'm very worried about how it might hurt me in the future when I reapply.  Otherwise I may have to decline if I am accepted and reapply.
Do we have any experimental evidence to confirm that light is an electromagnetic wave? Or is it confirmed simply by Maxwell's equations showing a similarity in speed? I noticed that my American friends tend to use the past perfect form when they use the verb mention in its past form, almost despite of the context of the sentence. I hear them say  "you had mentioned" a lot more often even in situations where the use of simple past would have been perfectly fine. Have you noticed it too and is it one of those unwritten rules, or is there a more formal explanation to it?  It seems like there was more verbs like that, but I am having a hard time remembering it now. If I do, I will edit the post and likely change the title to accommodate other verbs. robots meta not blocking indexing We have a staging version of our website to test changes on at trailheadpaddleshack.ca/staging1. This never appeared in search before. Recently the staging site has appeared on Google and is affecting our search results.  I'm trying to figure out how the pages got there and how to remove them. The pages have always had &lt;meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"&gt; in the head.  I am kinda new at this but was under the impression this should prevent Google from showing my site in results. I am pretty sure the results appeared in google after I accidently copy pasted some codes from the staging site to the live site that contained links to pages on the staging site. If anyone can point me in the right direction to figure out what happened and prevent it from happening again would be much appreciated.  robots.txt looks like this:  User-agent: * Disallow: /calendar-2/action~posterboard/ Disallow: /calendar-2/action~agenda/ Disallow: /calendar-2/action~oneday/ Disallow: /calendar-2/action~month/ Disallow: /calendar-2/action~week/ Disallow: /calendar-2/action~stream/ #Begin Attracta SEO Tools Sitemap. Do not remove sitemap: http://cdn.attracta.com/sitemap/4035112.xml.gz #End Attracta SEO Tools Sitemap. Do not remove   I also tried adding an X-Robots-Tag header and submited the site to be re-crawled. Did that a few days ago and I still see no changes. Here are the HTTP headers according to "Fetch as Google":  HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Robots-Tag: noindex,nofollow Vary: Accept-Encoding Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 16:26:49 GMT Server: LiteSpeed Connection: close X-Pingback: http://trailheadpaddleshack.ca/staging1/xmlrpc.php Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Link: &lt;http://trailheadpaddleshack.ca/staging1/?p=170&gt;; rel=shortlink   I am now faced with a bunch of results I need to remove from Google asap as they contain out of date information and are affecting our search results. Webmaster Tools has something for removal of a single URL but I am looking to remove the entire /staging1/ subfolder. Any tips? Gimp won't allow me to copy and paste a transparent image On the latest version of GIMP on my PC, whenever I try to copy a transparent image from the internet, GIMP will automatically fill in the transparent areas with the background color I have selected.  This is a non-issue on my Mac, but I need to do this work on my PC, so how can I make it recognize the alpha of the image and not fill it with the background color?  The image canvas that I'm working with does have an alpha channel, but that does not seem to make a difference. On freedom in Sartre's existentialism I am reading "Existenstialism is a humanism", the text of the famous conference by Sartre in which he explains his own version of existentialism. I think is full of logical inconsistencies, but maybe it's just because I don't understand it or I don't know enough about existentialism. Anyway, my question is about a specific passage. After having "demonstrated" that there is no way one can derive an ethics outside of Man (God does not exist and reason is insufficient), he asks himself according to what principle a person should behave and he says:     "For I declare that freedom, in respect of concrete circumstances, can   have no other end and aim but itself; and when once a man has seen   that values depend upon himself, in that state of forsakenness he can   will only one thing, and that is freedom as the foundation of all   values. That does not mean that he wills it in the abstract: it simply   means that the actions of men of good faith have, as their ultimate   significance, the quest of freedom itself as such."   So it seems Sartre says that when deciding a course of action, people will always choose "freedom," (and also, elsewhere, that "freedom" is always a good thing). That is for him the only principle, the only moral that governs or should (because we can do wrong judgments about what is freedom) govern our action.  My questions are:  1) do I understand correctly Sartre's thinking?  2) He says: a) freedom is absolute; b) the values that man chooses are also absolute because no God or reason can tell him what to do, c) therefore man will choose freedom. Is there any logic in this statement? If I replace freedom with X where X is "pleasure" or "justice" or "pain" or "zero temperature", wouldn't I "demonstrate" by this logic that man will choose X?  3) assuming what I said makes any sense, how can existentialism ever find a rule of moral conduct? and if it does, what is it and how can be demonstrated? and if it cannot, why is or has been important at all as a philosophy?  Thanks! Show that every group of prime order is cyclic Show that every group of prime order is cyclic.   I was given this problem for homework and I am not sure where to start. I know a solution using Lagrange's theorem, but we have not proven Lagrange's theorem yet, actually our teacher hasn't even mentioned it, so I am guessing there must be another solution. The only thing I could think of was showing that a group of prime order $p$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$. Would this work?    Any guidance would be appreciated. Theoretical Proof of Pauli's Exclusion Principle How long does mana from Burning-Tree Emissary stay around? Usage and origin of "sister" in expressions like "sister company, sister ship, sister site" etc Show that $\aleph_{\alpha}^{\aleph_{1}} = \aleph_{\alpha}^{\aleph_{0}}\cdot 2^{\aleph_1}$ So basically I want to show:  $\aleph_{\alpha}^{\aleph_{1}} = \aleph_{\alpha}^{\aleph_{0}}\cdot2^{\aleph_1}$ , Where $\omega\leq\alpha&lt;\omega_1$  There is a proof that I found;    But I don't understand his proof for the limit case of $\alpha$.  To be more specific, I dont understand why $ \left( \sup_{\omega \le \beta &lt; \alpha} \aleph_{\beta}\right)^{\aleph_1} \le \left( \prod_{\omega \le \beta &lt; \alpha} \aleph_{\beta}\right)^{\aleph_1}$  Any insights or help is deeply appreciated.  Cheers Homemade coconut milk separates into different layers after a day in the fridge Does being denied entry to a country affect future travel to other countries? I was denied entry to India due to a visa technicality. I was advised by organisation I was travelling with to get tourist visa when I actually needed miscellaneous visa. Will this affect future travel to other countries if I have been refused once by a country, or if I want to re-enter India? Is there a grammatical term for moving a word to the front or back of a sentence? In C#, what makes a field different from a property, and when should a field be used instead of a property? Alright, I think we all agree that what happens with the following code is undefined, depending on what is passed,  void deleteForMe(int* pointer) {      delete[] pointer; }   The pointer could be all sorts of different things, and so performing an unconditional delete[] on it is undefined. However, let's assume that we are indeed passing an array pointer,  int main() {      int* arr = new int[5];      deleteForMe(arr);      return 0; }   My question is, in this case where the pointer is an array, who is it that knows this? I mean, from the language/compiler's point of view, it has no idea whether or not arr is an array pointer versus a pointer to a single int. Heck, it doesn't even know whether arr was dynamically created. Yet, if I do the following instead,  int main() {      int* num = new int(1);      deleteForMe(num);      return 0; }   The OS is smart enough to only delete one int and not go on some type of 'killing spree' by deleting the rest of the memory beyond that point (contrast that with strlen and a non-\0-terminated string -- it will keep going until it hits 0).  So whose job is it to remember these things? Does the OS keep some type of record in the background? (I mean, I realise that I started this post by saying that what happens is undefined, but the fact is, the 'killing spree' scenario doesn't happen, so therefore in the practical world someone is remembering.) How to configure an app to run correctly on a machine with a high DPI setting (e.g. 150%)? My name includes space - How do I enter my username when typing command? My username in Minecraft is sun solar arrow. This name includes spaces. Situation - When I want to get OP privilege, a user who has OP privilege will enter: /op sun solar arrow  But my username includes spaces. So it shows an error message:  Invaild syntax  How do I enter my username? Increasing Flood Plain I am doing a project where we are attempting to determine how many more buildings would flood if the FEMA flood plain increased by 1',2' and 5'. I have the elev of the flood plain rasters from lidar data, but I am having trouble figuring out how much more area will be inundated by the rises I described earlier. I'm using raster calc and I have a buffer for the flood plain that also has elevation data. Any thoughts? Exponent and abelian groups Why is it so hard to do this in Java? If you want to have any kind of module system you need to be able to load JAR files dynamically. I'm told there's a way of doing it by writing your own ClassLoader, but that's a lot of work for something that should (in my mind at least) be as easy as calling a method with a JAR file as its argument.  Any suggestions for simple code that does this?