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Please tell me I'm not the only one who was super excited to go to the school's bookstore and buy a sweatshirt, tshirt, pen, etc!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I was just accepted but I will be attending in the fall and I just want the world to know where I'm going. Not too weird, right? 

I surely browse the school's apparel and regalia!!! so sad nike does not produce for mine...

Please tell me I'm not the only one who was super excited to go to the school's bookstore and buy a sweatshirt, tshirt, pen, etc!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I was just accepted but I will be attending in the fall and I just want the world to know where I'm going. Not too weird, right? 

I totally did the same thing when I visited a school this past weekend!  I was accepted to the school (have not officially taken the offer yet), and I bought a bunch of things for family and friends from the bookstore and spent so much! haha.  I will most likely go to this school but have another school visit that may change my mind.  For more merchandise, I am going to wait until I am officially a student...maybe students get some sort of discount.   

i may or may not have slightly judged my acceptances by the quality and variety of items in their bookstores..!   when i make my final decision, i'm treating myself to a new sweatshirt from my school-to-be and a tattoo of my alma mater's motto.

thank you for supplying a lifetime first for me: spitting out my drink (i would say water, but.. well.. it may or may not be a bourbon and lemonade) from laughing so hard.
 
i'm a sucker for cute heels — not all archaeologists are poorly dressed, i swear! — but i always carry a pair of comfy, super-worn-in flats with me. i have a coral pair with flowers (same material as the shoes) on the front, and another muted gold pair; between the two, i can't think of any business/professional outfits i have that wouldn't match one or both. it's nice to have an excuse to carry around a big, bright, adorable bag anyway!
 
edit: as much as i like cute clothes, i should also note that i spend a lot of my time in wolverine steel-toed boots, carhartt carpenter pants, extremely unflattering field shirts and fleeces, and a camo budweiser hat, so take my advice with a grain of salt. i'm only a shovel bum, after all.

I'm not going for a PhD yet (going for Masters)  but I just wanted to say that I completely agree with you. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks like that. I feel like a lot of people are concerned about financial obstacles to graduate school, but I'm ready to take on as many loans as I need to. This is what I want to do and education is priceless. Knowledge is priceless. It will be worth it in the end,  no matter how much debt you'll be in. There are ways of figuring out payments. I just look at it as a future monthly bill. 

Right? And the most recent posts talking about crippling debt in the future....I completely understand that, and it does worry me. But I won't let it stop me from bettering myself now. Live in the moment! You will find solutions, but you only live once so do what you want.

Thank you! That's a good point.....the thing is though, NYU is offering me a pretty good scholarship. I know that The New School isn't big on funding....they were even honest about it during a grad school information session. They don't have much money to give out. As for Fordham, I'm not too interested in going because of its location & also it's a public communications degree as opposed to journalism (which I'm getting at NYU). 

If you want in and nothing will change your mind, I'd go ahead and accept. The fact is that they accepted you because they want you. If you accept right away, I'm sure they'd be really happy to hear it and they certainly won't judge you or think less of you for it.
 
 
Congratulations!!!

I know this isn't good but I like to eat ice as a stress reliever....the crunching.....

I know this isn't good but I like to eat ice as a stress reliever....the crunching.....