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All things and offers considered, I think that the best solution for me would be to grab a SIM card by T-Mobile with your offer of 30 $, and then wait for iPhone 5S. By the way, is there any offer that allows you to pay only for data? Since I'll be newbie in the States, I don't think that unlimited calls will be useful for me, and unlimited messages are useless with Whatsapp/Facebook Messenger.

Grab a Nexus 4 with which carrier?

Many thanks for your help!!

That would be an idea. How can I find further info on that?

Hi there! My adventure as a grad student in the States is coming in a couple of weeks, and I'm starting thinking about all the thing I will need to take care of the minute I will land there. So, my question is: which phone carrier to choose? Since I'd like to wait for the new iPhone (reportedly coming out in September/October), I think that it's worth getting by with my current phone for the first time and thus buy a US sim card. In this situation, which carrier should I choose? I thought of T-Mobile, but unfortunately it's covered in the campus area, but not in my intended area od living. When the time of grabbing a new phone will finally come, which carrier do you recommend, all things considered? Thank you a lot!

Thank you for answering and congratulations for being accepted by the Fulbright commission!!! I totally had the point man! Moreover, as far as I understand, this fellowship is primarily to pay the administrative costs (fees and tuition), whilst it gave you no funding for living cost. Honestly, the only thing that makes me hesitant on rejecting is the consequent prestige.

That's the problem!! I also got a departmental offer, that would allow me to possibly work in the States after the PhD without having immigration-related issues. Hence, I don't know what to do!

Hi everyone, last week I received an email by the Fulbright Commission asserting that I have been selected as a Fulbright student for the next Academic Year. What I am unsure and hesitant about is the 2-year home residency requirement, whereby I should come back to my country (Italy) after the PhD for at least 2 years, thus forbidding me to accept any eventual job offer in the USA. What you do think I should do? It is about a grant only for the 1st year, but it is quite demanding, don't you think? Thank you in advance!

UPenn is much more renowned instead?

Wow, is UConn so unknown and unheard of?

Good point. As an Italian student, I have this (untrue?) concern about school ranking and notoriety: I mean, will both of them give the same chances in the future? how are each of them considered? Perhaps they are result of my typically Italian way of thinking, but since I am about to invest my next years (together with a lot of money) for my professional growth, I am just worried about making the right decision.

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Honestly I do not favor any of them. I am just passing from the one to the other without any firm decision. UConn has also a particular IGERT program which I got into too. As an academic point of view, the fact is that UConn has my professor, with whom I already worked, and this program, which starts next Fall though. UPenn has instead more experience, but lacks any professor that I know or that has the same theoretical perspective of mine. Philly is very attractive to me from a social point of view, but on the other hand I wouldn't like to leave my professor. I am SO confused.

Hi there! I'm an international student who has been accepted both at UConn and UPenn to get a Ph.D. This decision is really freaking me out!! The fact is that my MA advisor teaches at UConn, and that would be easier, but I am afraid of not being able to get accustomed to such a isolated campus (even though extremely beautiful and resourceful). Living in Philly would allow me to live in a city, have a more social life and avoid to get a car (thing extremely needed at UConn instead). Secondly, UPenn offers me more money than UConn...but there I would start completely from the top! I'm so confused, and don't know where to turn to!!! Please can you give me some hints? Thank you in advance.