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  1. A Seattle comrade! Congratulations!
  2. mmm

    U of Washington

    I've lived in Portland for the last few years, and haven't been up to Seattle for any substantial period as an adult... So I'm pretty much on the same page as anyone else when it comes to figuring out neighborhoods to live in, etc. I'm hoping to make a trip up there in a few weeks (to introduce myself to faculty, to scout neighborhoods, and so on).
  3. Yeah, that was the reasoning behind my MCM app. Kind of wish I could get my arm-and-a-leg application fee back... Oh well.
  4. mmm

    U of Washington

    Well, my long shot fell through (no surprise there!), so it looks like Seattle is my city... Which is a bit of a relief, really. I didn't really realize how much I wanted to stay in the Northwest until that East Coast rejection came.
  5. I really appreciate this post. Courses and professional goals are only half of school, so it's encouraging to hear others' experiences with integration into "academic culture." My own background certainly isn't as extreme as some here. Although my father now has a profession-related M.S. (the first in person in either side of my family to obtain a college degree), he didn't finish school until after I entered undergrad, so I definitely have experience with growing up in a rural, blue-collar, and low-income family structure. Even though my family has been fairly upwardly mobile (in a financial sense), I still acutely sense the lack of social or cultural capital. When I finished high school, for example, my parents were unable to offer any advice about college besides "You should go." As a consequence, I chose one school to apply to (more or less at random), and went there. It worked out alright in the end, but I still regret my ignorance of the basics -- things like "Apply to more than one school" or "Not all schools are academically equal." Fortunately, my parents have been supportive of my graduate aspirations, even if they don't understand the academy. The opinion of my (still blue-collar, low-income) extended family is decidedly less positive; for them, grad school is a completely foreign world (and everything foreign is obviously bad, or at least not worth one's time). Mostly I deal with this by deliberately adopting a working-class persona at family gatherings. If I'm dressed like I just got back from fishing and talk like I just got back from fishing, they tend to ignore my status as a student. It's a strange, in-between space to live in, though.
  6. Strangefox: Out of curiosity, what area of study are you interested in at UW?
  7. 95% sure I'll be headed there to do a Communication MA/PhD in Fall 2011. The only thing standing between me and Seattle is a long shot at another school... I expect to get rejected there, so I'll probably end up at UW. Any other future Huskies out there?
  8. When submitting recommender info, there's a space for "Title" -- I assume this is for Professor, Associate Professor, etc. Two questions regarding this: 1. Should I list a title and subject -- i.e. Professor of Sociology -- or just the title -- i.e. Professor? 2. One of my LOR writers is both a full professor and the director of my university's Honors Program. There's not space on the app to list both (Director and Professor). Is it obvious that anyone who is directing an Honors program must be a full prof? Or should I take the safe route and simply list him as Professor? I imagine he'll mention in his letter that he knows me through his direction of the program, etc.
  9. mmm

    AWA Devestation

    Thanks for the responses everyone. I talked to some faculty (at the university I'm currently attending) and they more or less echoed the sentiments expressed here. I've decided to let my scores stand and not worry about taking the GRE again this season. I figure that I've got enough on my plate as it is, with grad apps, senior thesis, etc... It's not as if I'd have time for the GRE anyway. *sigh* What will be, will be.
  10. So I took the GRE a couple of weeks ago, and got 700v and 750q. I had expected ten or twenty points more for the verbal, but 50 to 100 points less for the quantitative, so I figured that it all evened out. All in all, I was pleased with my scores. However, my writing score was finally available online this morning. I was completely floored to find that I only got a 3.5! In retrospect, I can definitely see that I was overconfident in approaching it, and that I was too worried about the other parts of the test... Still, I consider myself an excellent writer -- even one who can adapt to the bland needs of standardized testing -- and never imagined anything lower than a 4. I have a 3.98 GPA, I'm enrolled in my university Honors program (which is quite intimate and rigorous), I have excellent letters of rec, I have a great writing sample, and I'm working on what I hope will be a standout SOP... I'm applying to a variety of communication PhD programs (my interests lie in Internet studies, new media, etc). I'm fairly certain that if I took the GRE again, my verbal would stay more or less the same (perhaps a 10 or 20 point fluctuation), but my quantitative would likely drop significantly (that 750 had to be a lot of lucky guessing). Is it worth my time to retake the test just to boost my AWA?
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