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Tangential question - are there good places to volunteer for people who may want to work with adults? Do SNFs have volunteer opportunities or are there legal liabilities? I have experience tutoring elementary kids (a long time ago) and mentoring high school kids (recent) in at risk populations, but not specifically kids with special needs and it wasn't SLP-related, though half the tutoring was in reading. Not sure if any of this is relevant/applicable? I'm thinking about getting some volunteer time in before this fall but am wondering where would be best. I'll mentor the high school kids again this summer, but ideally would like to do something once a week that's more SLP-related.

This thread is awesome! Thanks for everyone who has shared info!! I'm currently looking to take three classes this summer and was wondering if any of these prereqs are sequential, or if I'm free to take any that I'd like. They recommend two (Neuro + Survey of Communicative Disorders) in their year-long plan, but I have to take three to be eligible to apply to SFSU this fall. Anyone have recommendations of a third class, or if I should sub out Neuro for two different courses, given how hard people are reporting that it is? If I take Basic Audiology first, will it make sense? I'd like to front load it in case I end up liking audiology better.

Looks like there's actually one student in Roski's incoming class this fall! http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-usc-art-school-dean-erica-muhl-exclusive-20150624-column.html#page=1 I guess they'll have the attention of all the faculty?!

I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol or coffee, have no cable, and only eating out on special occasions. I can't cut hair, but only get it cut once or twice a year. I also use a simple flip phone and have a prepaid plan that averages out to $8-10/mo. I use T-mobile's free 200mb plan for tablets on the iPad and that's enough to navigate and check emails when I really need to, and when I'm on campus, I use the internet on my laptop. I also love the library. If I bought all the books I read, I'd be out thousands. And if you live in or near a big enough city, you can find a lot of course books there too, which you then don't have to buy. I also use the copies of course materials put on reserve for courses if they aren't main texts, rather than buying books.

Alcohol. Sigh.

I'm a bit of a night owl, so my productive hours are from 11p-3a. Thankfully most of my classes are afternoon classes, but this semester I had one in the morning, and boy was that rough. Still, I'm glad I got to work with that professor. This thread is a good reminder to get a workday schedule for summer going now that I don't have as much structure. I'm relieved that I get to revert to my night owl schedule. Do you guys actually track your time with apps or software, or are your schedules so ingrained that you don't need them?

I think it depends on what kind of content you're posting. If it's not something you want them to see, then I wouldn't "poke the bear" by following them. But if it's a professional acct, the advice already given is good. As for FB, I think it depends on dept culture. Some of our faculty are friends with us and we are all friends with each other. But I look at the accts of other faculty and they are more locked down and have few friends, so I don't try to friend those people. I let the rest of the cohort lead. If I see that they become friends with the faculty, then I friend those faculty that I've had meaningful interaction with. Otherwise, I leave it.

I'm done! I can't believe a year has passed. It feels pretty good, and near the end there I forgot that there were grades to worry about. I'm excited about summer too - I'm hoping to get a lot of research, reading and planning done before the next year. And maybe a roadtrip!

Totally second this. Apatow before he got big. I like(d), from the last year or so: Mad Men Boardwalk Empire Louie Silicon Valley Masters of Sex (yes, nudity, but really good acting and period issues like Mad Men) Homeland (+ Prisoners of War, the original that Homeland is based on - it's free on Hulu) Also, randomly watched a BBC miniseries called An Honorable Woman, which sounds so dull, but actually turned out to be an exciting Middle East spy/political thriller told non-chronologically and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. I recommend it.

Rejection email received. <sad trombone>

I did well last semester and really enjoyed the break but did have a bit of remorse about school starting again since between holiday travel and preparing for an event that happened the first week of the semester I didn't get much of a break except maybe a few days. I didn't get sick this year though, and I think that was because I was in such high spirits from being in my program and having my partner with me the whole time instead of going our separate ways for a week and a half. This semester has been a whirlwind. After prepping day and night for the big event, I ended up spending another intense week altering what I'd done and then the weekend after that was a 24 hr live broadcast marathon event at a place where I volunteer. Now there's an assignment due next week and a couple of shoots coming up this weekend as well as needing to take down all the trappings of the initial event... I get the sense that this is going to be my meltdown semester where I hash out totally new working methods and have serious doubts about the quality of my work in relation to my peers. Maybe I'm trying too many new things, even though that is what I came to school for. I just feel like I'll never get to the point where I can reliably get accepted to things. It's application season for a lot of residencies that will happen in the summer and fall, and I'm not confident I'll get any of them. The program has been super supportive and people are guiding us through applying to important awards so it has been the best case scenario despite the uncertainty. Maybe I should be more zen and think of rejections as work I don't have to do! It's interview season again! Crazy to think that we'll be meeting the potential incoming students soon - it hasn't felt like that much time has passed. I don't feel like I'm a second year! And I do to want our second years to leave after this semester - They're so nice! Teaching is coming up next year too - a masters goes by so quick.

Yep, a couple but it's also small. The bigger programs will have a LOT more young people.

I've heard average is early 30s, but I've also seen the number 27 thrown around. There's someone in their 40s in our prog right now and I'm in my early 30s.

Yeah, I don't think 100K is worth it unless you are affluent and have cash to spare. It's already going to cost to apply to residencies and opportunities once I get out of school; I'd prefer to come out debt free. Even if the tuition is covered there's still living expenses to consider, so things seem expensive to me already. We were talking about this a few weeks ago and someone mentioned local artists who had stopped paying their student loans in order to put more into their artwork. Sounds scary as hell to me. Avoid debt like the plague...

Are you concerned about GPA for some reason? It seems that yours is well above the cut-off. Even if you have a below 3.0 GPA, you can still apply in most cases. I screwed up real good in UG and thought I was a goner since mine was sub-3.0, so I didn't even consider applying for years, but when I actually sat down with professors, most of them didn't care. If the dept wants you, they can always submit some sort of waiver form to the university and get that requirement waived. At any rate, I think the vast majority of schools will not even look at GPA or statements to begin with. That stuff only comes into play once they select the portfolios they like. I think you should try to briefly explain the withdrawals if you can, but if you did fine in your art classes and have strong work then I can't see how it would matter. Just have an answer on hand and own it, just in case they do ask.