AKCarlton

Just let them know you forgot to include some pertinent information and I wouldn't see why they wouldn't be understanding about the circumstance.

I actually did pretty well, but did not go so far as to refer to myself in the third-person passive voice. I'll let the lucky first-year next Fall know that he/she should do so... My worst concept will be structuralism. We get to write the paper from the standpoint of how it would or would not work well in the research we would like to see ourselves conducting one day. I would have to admit though, it's peculiar to see Darwinism slowly finding its way into Historical Archaeology.

I never said I don't like him...I'm saying his Entangled book is not liked very much at my school for some reason. If you even mention it you get ::sighs:: and huge ::eye rolls::, but I didn't have to read it. I had to personify Binford in a debate in one my courses this semester, and one of the guys in my cohort personified Hodder...so he decided to read that and is now actually using that theory as the "worst concept" for our final paper on the "best/worst concept" in theory. Anyway, I had to defend "myself" as Binford by attacks from the kid who personified Hodder, and it just seems like Hodder and his post-processualism includes theoretical viewpoints that just don't make a lot of sense...but so does processualism. Anyway, I should clarify that I'm don't NOT like him, but I don't love him either.

more like ending point lol... bane of your existence ... used to be a required reading last year, students didn't like it at all and the professor took it off his syllabus... but good luck to anyone who succeeds with it.

I'll add that...it's also finals time...at least in my program. My professors are making themselves available to me, but they might not be making themselves too available to inquiry emails at the moment.

Pushy. Don't do it. They get numerous applicants and if you've already maintained contact with your POI(s) they'll definitely remember you when the bring up your application during their selection process.

I love THAI! it's the best!

Best of luck to all of you!

I don't go to Amherst. I could to UMASS-Boston. My program is funded. If you don't get funding, don't go ... is my motto.

I've heard good things about that one. Maybe... If you get accepted to Amherst, maybe I will see you around!

Nice, that was my TGIF show. I plan to watch Breaking Bad next.

Haha, I've been literally watching the entire series of Gilmore Girls one episode at a time in between my readings. I'll read a chapter, watch an episode...write a paragraph...watch an episode...eat lunch while watching an episode...it's my motivator at the moment. Never watched it before, but I must say...it's a rather good and well-written series.

I'm definitely willing to help read and edit any SOPs.

One piece of advice I can give you is to not just limit yourself to one professor. If you see any sort of resemblance with multiple professors regarding any aspect of your research interests, contact them and connect with them. I have more than one adviser assigned to me because of this and it's nice knowing I can talk to more than one person when it comes to my research. Also, I didn't have the time nor money to visit any of my programs, and I still got accepted to 3/4 of the ones I applied to so don't let that stress you out.

I called everyone of my programs I applied to and asked what their typical GRE scores were and only one said they compared theirs to the previous cohort for reference, the others said not to even sweat about it.

I would call them and ask them if they had a chance to read your email, and if not, start the dialogue right then and there.