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As someone who also took a gap year, I think the time away from school has helped me create a more fleshed out and realistic plan for the future. I was intending to specialize in syntax/psycholing and apply for PhD programs, but for various reasons I've gotten cold feet about the PhD process and no longer believe that I have the internal fortitude to go through with it. That being said, I did well in an upper level computational ling course during my final semester and really enjoyed the machine learning and NLP courses offered at NASSLLI this summer. So I'm going to apply to a few master's programs in comp ling that I think have particularly good career outcomes, namely Edinburgh, Brandeis, Rochester (my hometown), and Washington. There are a few others that I'm eyeing up but not so sure about, those being Stony Brook, Syracuse, and CUNY Graduate Center. If anyone has any advice or personal experience with those programs (applying, financing, general atmosphere of the program, professors), please feel free to chime in or pm me. Good luck everyone!

I lived in Creekside East last year (before they switched it to undergrad-only housing) and now live in Creekside West. Parties have not been an issue at all, though you might get stuck with a noisy roommate. Also, I'm not exactly sure what Tigla meant by the bus rides not being a guarantee. That might be true for students living in South Lake Village, but Creekside West is the first stop for the on-campus shuttles so there are always empty seats. But in all honesty, I can't fully recommend living here. The living space is a little bit cramped, and you're stuck with a roommate with whom you may or may not gel. If you plan to spend most of your time on campus, that might not be an issue. But then it would be hard to justify the asking price (roughly $900/mo). For that price, you can get a 1 bedroom apartment of similar quality off-campus, in a location that's less isolated/suburban. Also, if you're fine living in a bigger space with multiple roommates, you could live extremely cheaply elsewhere. I've seen some rooms going for less than $300/mo. If you don't mind living with a roommate, you can easily afford the asking price, and you won't have a car in Buffalo, I would say go for it. Otherwise, I would recommend looking elsewhere.

Hi all! I'm currently a senior set to graduate in Spring 2018. Here's some info about myself: Attending: SUNY Buffalo Major: Linguistics CGPA: 4.0 GRE: N/A Subfields: syn/sem Desired (reach) schools: Stanford, MIT, NYU, McGill I want to get into a PhD program as soon as possible. The problem is that I think I'll have to take a gap year, primarily because I won't be writing my thesis until next semester, at which point grad school applications will have already been due several months prior. It seems to me that there's no way around this: I have to take a gap year. My questions--apart from my thesis adviser, how do I maintain relationships with faculty in order to ensure I have great LORs a year from now? Also, what should I do in the interim besides possibly attending LSA/NASSLLI? Are there any good post-bac positions apart from UMD's Baggett Fellowship? Is there any sense in applying for Fall 2018 without a writing sample initially, then uploading some (hopefully substantial) portion of my thesis later on? Any advice would be appreciated!