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What happened with that bathroom? The more you post about this, the more it seems clear to me that you probably did something totally out of line, because I refuse to believe that one small, honest mistake like going through the wrong door would lead to all of this. Did you say something inappropriate? Do something to cross boundaries? Because if so, you deserve all of this. The dearth of women in science is bad enough without predation from within.

I assume you're going for the 90-meal plan? That still leaves a lot of food-buying we'll have to do, and no cooking either... might add up a bit.

I believe I marked down New as my preference, but either would be fine, as long as it's a single. And yeah, everyone else, say hi! Not everyone in the GC can be EE!

Everyone should check out the "Graduate College Guide to the Universe," if you haven't already. The latest site is down at the moment, but it has a lot of useful information in it. Interesting tidbit: the tower is closed during generals period. Pretty macabre...

Sent in my housing form yesterday! GC for me, praying for a single.

Certainly there's wiggle room on verbal scores (and that section strikes me as very difficult to study for), but you're an engineer: there's absolutely no excuse for a math score below the 90th percentile (and even that is pushing it). Practice, practice, practice. Regardless, this process is generally something of a crapshoot. It's entirely possible that you could be qualified for four schools, apply to all of them, and get into none. That's just how it goes. I wouldn't call it unfair, though.

Ha, thank god for speech-language pathology then! I somehow doubt the dating prospects will be that great for me within EE...

If you want to learn what's taught in the course, and you meet the prereqs, then take the course! Graduate courses aren't that different from undergrad courses.

I guess that's sensible.....

It's a bit later in the season, so hopefully by now we have more people who know they're heading to Princeton! I just decided two days ago myself. I'm planning on living in the GC, which is apparently guaranteed to first-years who want it. Anyone else know what they're doing for housing?

Hey, you might be thinking of me, if the thread is the one I'm thinking of. The guy at the bookstore kinda chuckled when I asked him where "all the stores and restaurants" were, and I can see why-- Nassau Street is not the most exciting place. It reminded me of the commercial section of an expensive suburb of New York (which is, like, kinda what it is). Not at all the "college town/quirky/weird/etc" vibe I'm used to near to campus. But then again, I wasn't there for that long. The ride from Penn Station in NY was a bit more than an hour, I think.

The department in general looked great. I'll be doing solid-state, so, for example, the clean room is very important to me, and that was REALLY impressive! They have a cool system where rather than paying per use of a machine, each research group just plays a flat fee for the year-- this is supposed to encourage experimentation, and that makes sense to me. Of course you'll be loath to try something new if your use of the e-beam and aligner will cost you hundreds of dollars per attempt... Also for the clean room, each piece of equipment has a few "super-users," who are just grad students who use the machine a lot and are particularly knowledgable about it. They're charged with some maintenance, with training new users, etc. Seems like a great way to pick up useful experience. But if you're doing information science, I assume you'll just be needing a pencil and paper, right? Besides that... engineering-wide cookies every Friday... "everyone in EE gets a job".... idk, what can I say, it's a great department!

I visited recently (admitted EE PhD, can't make standard visiting day). It sounds like living in the graduate college (basically dorm living, on meal plan) is really conducive to forming friendships with the other graduate students, even with people outside your discipline. I was told this by a couple of people. As for with undergrads-- meh, not so much, as TAing isn't universal. Within engineering, all labs have a common key, the idea being that you can always just go visit other groups and see what they're up to. This is supposed to encourage socializing and collaboration. Also, there's a big grad-student cubicle area that I assume lends itself well to meeting new people. Anyway, people are people everywhere. If you want to make friends, you'll make them.

Undergrad at Brown... Providence is a pretty nice city in general. The food's great, anyway! Thayer Street (right on campus) has a nice selection of various ethnic restaurants, and Federal Hill is full of really great Italian places. Obviously the city has its bad areas, but if you're careful crime is not something to worry about. There's a shuttle service called SafeRide that will drive you home from campus until about 3 AM if you feel unsafe walking. For housing, if you want to live close (walking distance), look up places on the East Side (NOT East Providence) and Fox Point. In that area, depending on whether you share a house with other people, expect to pay $600-$1000/month. Finally, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the Grad Center Bar: http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/best-college-bars?cm_mmc=Twitter-_-MensHealth-_-Content-MHU-_-20BestCollegeBars ...Grad students get a free membership!

No, I meant more that there might be some nationalist/ethnic/whatever animus at play here.