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I looked at student housing and found it wanting. 3-days for guests only rules are kind of...arbitrary. But more importantly: $990 for an unfurnished apartment?? It's nuts, given what it is. I think I'm massively spoiled: I pay $500 for a furnished apartment: full kitchen, couch, chair, I share my room with a friend so beds, desks, two closets, private bathroom, nightstands, dressers... The idea of paying double for less that what I'm already getting in a smaller town than where I live now. Eeeh. I might look into it but off campus, the unfurnished apartment I'm looking at is $825. Cats and being able to have a roommate or my family visit for a week? Awesome. I should clarify: I love and adore both (My family has four dogs), but...being able to afford housing which allows dogs is an uphill climb. Haha.

Ahaha, they put me on the wait list for that stipend (it's about $18k?), but I'm probably accepting my PhD offer. Regardless, I think $18,000 is doable!

God I hope so. This is great free entertainment, but I can't be assed to pretend like it's in any serious enough of a discussion to merit paragraphs worth of reply.

Thanks! I'm over the moon!! One of them was one of my top choices: a PhD w/ full tuition remission, big stipend**, and a curatorial track. The fit is perfect and I'm going to accept (they even said they thought they were perfect for me and I may have blurted that I was glad they agreed with me). No point in going to an MA when the PhD program I want is already on the table. **It's so silly, but I'm so excited I'll be able to afford a cat! And not have to work two extra jobs on top of being a student. My boss gave me a big hug when I told her.

I don't think you'll get comparable packages, but a few places like Tulane, Williams...they fund their MAs.

I'm looking at Colonial Gardens, because it seems walkable/close to the shuttle and affordable for just me. If you could share anything you find/see though, that'd be great!

Being disproportionately sad about something CAN be a sign of depression. Even people who have everything seemingly "perfect" in their lives can still be depressed because it's a chemical imbalance, not a life imbalance. Why must you be so flippant about it? There's no "right" way to be depressed.

"myopic and undisciplined" ... do you mean misanthropic? unless you really have something against people who wear glasses. The rest of this was so achingly narcissistic and offensive that I don't care to address the rest of it. "Only I have the proper pure love of academics, no one else has possibly ever worked for what they've earned, I am the only one ever to have struggled in life." Don't bother going.

I take generic brand zoloft for general anxiety disorder (I take a tiiiiny dose, smallest available)/minor depression, and it's fine. SSRIs aren't really that scary, and if you're that afraid, you can ask to start on smaller doses. Mine is only $4 with insurance (that varies, I'm sure), but it was important for me to recognize I needed to take something. I convinced my doctor when I started to panic when they took my pulse, haha. After I got past the initial few weeks (my only side effects were feeling bone tired constantly), I don't really have side effects anymore. Here's the thing: SSRIs don't make you happy. That's simply not what the medication does. Also generally speaking people who take SSRIs and have suicidal thoughts already had those thoughts beforehand. You don't really need to tell your family what medications you take. I bought a small moleskine notebook to write generally my mood every day, if I was happy/sad/frustrated/stressed/panicked. I also have an anxiety app for my iphone which was free so I can track that too. If you start feeling suicidal and you've been tracking your emotions, you'll notice pretty quickly. Not being able to regulate your emotional chemistry is not a personal or moral failure. I work two jobs with a lot of customer service -- I definitely don't feel less bubbly or outgoing? I think you quickly need to mentally remove yourself from the stigma you're giving SSRI's especially if you want to work with people who also experience mental health issues. I think the biggest thing I've noticed since taking SSRIs is that before I didn't really cry no matter how I felt. Now if I get upset (or really happy, once in awhile), I'm more likely to cry. Kind of feels nice to get it out, to be honest! I could probably get my dosage adjusted but other than that, I really think you're much more concerned than you need to be.

Whoo hoo. Two offers in a 24 hour window.

there's three acceptances already listed on the first page of the results board for art history. they should hear soon.

Really? Wow I thought it would be next week.

nah but it's super fun. i like personality quizzes. i've even taken meyer-briggs "officially" (i.e. more than 40 questions, full diagnostics of my percentages of each one, etc) which was paid for by a student group I was a part of. We also did the five factor. ((I always get supremely amused by how poorly people misunderstand Extrovert vs Introvert personality types. Of course ~~all the introverts are supremely gifted amazing wonderful people who pursue higher degrees~~~ Oops, that's me laughing. There's at best loose correlation between intellect and introversion. Anything to feel special, I guess?))

Am I really the only "E"? Weird. ...surely there are more around!

$42.5k all government loans just for the BA. Parents can't pay for me, so two jobs, scholarships (small), pell grants and parent plus denial loans so I can go over the undergrad maximum and afford state school + living expense basics. Not looking forwards to a possibility of adding any debt, but at least it's all government loans. I just want my grad studies funded.

Same. :/ The other MA and the PhD that use the same applyyourself all just show "submitted". I'm guessing I just have to wait until march for everything... (As much as I want to go to the BGC, the other two MAs I applied to are more likely to fund me, and the PhD I want to be accepted to most has a POI that is very very in my area of interest. So I'm just as eagerly waiting to hear about those and really hoping I get in. I just want good options. Even so, I definitely applied to more placed than I wanted to, and think I should have just narrowed it down to the top five choices I had instead of applying to 7). I keep telling myself if I don't get into a PhD this round (the one I want), I really want to thrive at an MA so I can be more discerning about my applications.

I really do want to be able to ask: "....Poopcat, is that you?"

They told me when I visited that PhD students are fully funded and MAs are ranked against each other and funded in tiers. I think that's information they're pretty open with.

Is giving valentine's gifts common in the philosophy field? It just seems inappropriate unless you are already good contacts...

It has nothing to do with being a firebrand. The facts state: Which means 97% of the time, sexual assault charges are NOT false. You can look at pretty much any center that discusses this and find similar information, including RAINN and so on. I believe that stat is found on the NCVS [National Crime Victimization Survey]

Perhaps it's just being easily misled on the internet: but with the variety of apartment/roommate/share finding websites available, I've seen a variety of places from $900-$1,300ish for single rooms/one bedrooms/studios in Manhattan. Some of these places say they have all utilities incl. (i.e. $1,000 for a studio + utilities). A lot are in Harlem/Morningside heights but I adored East Harlem/uptown. My big concern is hunting for these places again in august/visiting them in person. On campus housing at the place I'm looking at is $16,220/yr or roughly $1,351 a month for a studio or $16,060 / $1,338 for a private room but shared living room. Not sure if that's worth it (for utilities and furnishings) for moving to the city, as opposed to trying to find cheaper digs on my own. Thoughts? Is it perhaps better to shell out the cash for at least the first year so I can hunt for apartments on the ground? I'm thinking that in the long run it looks cheaper to move into someplace already furnished.

I wish I could go to CAA. :/ sounds wonderful!

nah i did great on the writing and verbal 90+ percentiles for both. thanks y'all!

I feel like I'm going nuts waiting for March 1 to hear back from the BGC and countdown to all the march school decisions! :/

I think on large campuses like my own, if you're not interested in fitness, you don't have to partake in that culture. There's just too many people, no one cares what everyone else is going. My school is the definition of sunny year round, new expansions to our fitness center, loads of available fitness options, people in tanks and flip flops and what have you. We're known to be "hot" and I mean that both literally and in the attractiveness scale kind of way. Tons of people are fit. I don't care about exercising (I walk everywhere, I don't want to run on the treadmill for an hour, and luckily for me I have a very fast metabolism) but have tried the yoga pass (access to all the yoga classes I want, which was nice). That said, even though I'm fairly close to the gym on campus, I can utterly and completely ignore it and go about my day as usual. People who are fit who judge others for not wanting to live in the gym -- well, in general, you wouldn't want to hang out with them anyways. But I think it is fair to point out: most gyms on campus are free to students which plays a HUGE factor in why people use them. Like Gnome Chompsky says, that's going to be pretty much every campus in America. If you want to avoid going to places that care deeply about fitness, health, organic food, whatever as a whole, avoid small liberal campuses (there's little else to do besides drink or exercise sometimes), avoid places with huge environmentalism/nutrition programs, and maybe strike out the schools that play sports the div 1 schools if you're adamant about avoiding the culture altogether.