Phyl
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Anyone heard anything yet? I've not gotten a thing from any schools, and we've only got 2 days to go.
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I have an internship with a really cool start-up. Everyone there is very smart and very nice. I'm constantly learning and having fun. My boss there just told me that I can probably stay on permanently with my current duties, but gradually gaining in responsibility and salary. (they have employees who started as interns and are now full engineers so I know this can happen).
I was also just admitted to Berkeley for a masters in mechanical engineering (no funding). I've met with the prof at the lab I'm interested in, and they're research is really exciting to me. It's a great school, and I definitely never expected to be admitted. It seems crazy to not go.
In the short-term it's a choice between starving student with lots of new debt and less-starving tech/intern without new debt. In the long term, I'm not sure which will be better for me.
I'm also considering trying to keep working part-time while I'm in school or deferring for a year to save up money and gain experience. (haven't asked either place about it yet)
Any thoughts?
Even though they have done it in the past, I wouldn't count on it unless you have a firm "yes we will be able to take you on and increase your pay by XX date." I'm biased in this situation, my boyfriend was told pretty much the same thing and a few months later the budget for his position to become full time wasn't approved. This was at an established international corporation, not a start up. If you can't get something firm from your boss don't count on it.
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Ha! Someone else that endured the twilight! And I agree, I was completely underwhelmed by the last installment. I glance at Chuck Palahniuk (how do you even pronounce that?) whenever I visit Barnes and Noble. I haven't read anything by him yet. Where do you suggest I start. I can see now that my reading list is going to be long this year.
Has anyone read Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie? It's an enticing story of revenge and political intrigue set in a fictional, seemingly European, land.
Happy Reading!
I'm a big Palahniuk fan (I've heard it pronounced Pal - a - nook) I started with Fight Club the movie is pretty close to the book although the book adds more. I've also read Choke which I saw the movie after reading the book and preferred the book. I also really liked Haunted. The thing I really like about his books is that every time you read them you get something new out of them, it just makes more and more sense the more times you read it.
Anyone read the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris? It's what the HBO show True Blood is based on. I need some short, quick, beach reads. I do like the show but it might be all the southern accents.
My beef with Twilight is that it glorifies a relationship where a girl gives up absolutely everything for a guy who's essentially dangerous and predatory. I wasn't so vehemently against it until I was talking with 3 of my little female cousins who were in the target age range who thought it was all acceptable and expected to meet a guy to take care of you and end up barefoot and pregnant. They don't have many positive female role models and the attitude is mostly a product of that but it was upsetting to hear.
- Jae B. and psycholinguist
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I have pretty eclectic taste I guess I gravitate towards historical fiction and sci fi/fantasy. I haven't wanted to read anything serious for pleasure since I started college.
House of Leaves -- Weird horror novel, plays with format. Wikipedia has a pretty decent article on it. I don't read it before I go to bed.
Atlas Shrugged -- I was surprised I actually liked the style of writing
Dune and related books -- Liked the movie, love the books
and -slightly embarrassed- morbid curiosity got the best of me and I read Twilight just the first book and loathed it. I usually don't mind young adult books but a little of me died after reading it. I can't even express how disgusted I am by it.
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The other question seems to be missing here is.... which state would he prefer to teach in to begin with?
This.
Where he wants to teach and where the two of you want to live after school should be given a lot of weight in your decision. It's what is going to effect your lives and relationship the longest.
I don't know what type of library you would like to work in but the NJ public libraries have some proposed cuts as well. One of big things I've read about finding a library job is that it's not too bad if you are willing to be geographically mobile, so think about you trying to find a job after school too.
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Phyl, given that Rutgers won't even notify some people of their decision until today or tomorrow (they told me I'd hear back by "early this week" and found out on Saturday), Rutgers probably will not be sending out financial info until later this week or early next week, though feel free to correct me if I am wrong. And given that Friday is more than likely a holiday for the University (it was for my undergrad alma mater, though I could be wrong), I'm thinking they won't send stuff out til next week. I hope they do soon because they want a decision by April 15, which gives me less than three weeks... and I want to know about funding before I make a decision!
Good to know, the person I spoke to sounded a little taken off guard when I asked. I'm pretty much 100% sure I'll be going but it will be nice to know what the situation will be with money. I'd like to get all the paperwork going so I can put in for a parking permit, after an hour long commute I'd like a decent lot.
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I randomly checked my online status today and saw "Congratulations! You have been admitted." in the status part. So I have been accepted to and will be attending Rutgers! I am so glad I finally got an answer one way or the other for them. I just don't know how they expect me to give them an answer by April 15, unless I get info on funding and such by that date. I certainly can't make any decisions about going until I know the full financial picture (though more likely than not I'll go even if I don't get funding, but I may have to go only part-time).
Are you going to be on campus or online?
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I haven't heard anything yet. I called 2 schools (Rutgers and Southern CT) and they said info should be coming out "soon"
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There's a catch-22-like complication here. There are two possible funding-decisions-scenarios:
- find funding for those who will be coming for sure first; (take care of your own type decision)
- find funding for the undecided first (reel them in with the promise of money type decision).
Point being, either is possible. Do you have information from previous years about how funding decision were made?
ooh I didn't even think about that first possibility. I know nothing about previous decisions. I suppose I could call and see when to expect any financial information and make a guess off of that.
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Mom always said not to give it away for free.
I'm willing to do so since Rutgers is so damn sexy but if I can get something out of it, that would be an added bonus.
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I was accepted to my top choice program. Yay! However there was no financial aid/funding info and all the acceptance letter said was that "registration and billing info will be sent separately." Since it's a Masters program I don't really expect anything other than federal loans. I know this is the school I want to go to, and it's the cheapest out of all the schools I applied to by a lot. I know I'm going to accept the offer.
But just in case there is some free money floating around should I wait to send in the forms? I don't want to get passed over for funding for being a sure thing.
I never thought applying to grad school would be so much like dating.
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were you accepted to the online or the on campus program? The website still has me as a "no decision" and I am applying for online..
On campus
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I got into Rutgers, and will be going!
Good luck to everyone still waiting! -
For what it's worth, my best friend is at OHSU doing a dual MD/PhD, she went in already having a Masters in Neuroscience and her interest is in drug addiction. She's very happy, likes the program and the area.
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Thanks, I think my post was a product of the realization I'm going to actually have to start making decisions about grad school rather than just waiting to get in. The other programs I've applied to are far more flexible and it'll be easier to blend my interests and more marketable stuff. I just need some patience while waiting to hear from them. :deep calming breath, check online status,still no decision:
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Today I had to fill out a "plan of study form" so I can be accepted by the Graduate Admissions Office (already accepted by the department). This particular school has 6 required courses and 6 electives. As someone who's undergrad only had one required class this is super limiting to me. I feel like if I took a variety I'd not have enough experience with anything. This isn't my first choice program but filling out the form caused me think about what I actually want to study.
My interests are in museums, archives, and college libraries. From the (limited) research I've done this is a pretty small job market and especially in college libraries most people have another degree in a specific subject. Also with the economy and job market being how they are right now lots of these institutions are hurting for funding and not really hiring. I also have experience working with my undergrads Rare Books library, and in talking with my internship supervisor (the university archivist) that seems like where my interests definitely lie.
I feel that taking public library classes and more database management, online info and other things that would relate to corporate libraries and information management might be more useful in terms of finding a job. But as fun as reading young adult literature for class would be I don't know if I see myself being happy in a public library. But other than my use, I have no experience with public libraries. I've done some database/computer science type classes in undergrad and I hated them. Mind numbing, spirit sucking, mentally screaming at a TA who didn't speak adequate English hate. I know I could make it through a class or two if it meant better job prospects.
I want a job after graduation. I chose to take a year between undergrad and grad, and I'm spending most of it unemployed or temping. My BA does not qualify me to flip burgers or file; it's been frustrating to say the least. I don't want to be in the same position 2 years from now with more debt, another degree, and no job.
So where do I compromise what I want to what is marketable? What is a reasonable expectation of library jobs in the next few years? How's everyone else handling this? Am I really really going to need more school to do what I want and is there anyway to start working and have whoever I'm working for pay for it?
Additional thought: being geographically mobile helps, of course, but I've got a long term relationship and he's got a steady position and wants to stay in urban areas for his field. How screwed am I for not wanting to move a significant distance from NYmetro area?
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Both my parents barely made it through high school. My dad worked a job he hated most of his life and took his frustrations out on my mom and I. My mom is really unambitious and doesn't want anything other than to please my dad. Neither has anything to make them happy, no friends, no social lives, jobs they hate, and it was all in the name of "Saving For My Education". They had a plan for me. I was supposed to get a full scholarship to a state school, live at home and become a kindergarten teacher, marry (then I was allowed to move out) and start making them some grand-babies.
During high school being at home was pretty unbearable, so I joined a ton of clubs, volunteered, worked, did all my homework in the library and took my time of it. My sophomore year one of my best friends had a baby, I swore to not have sex until I was out of high school so I would never go through that. Come senior year I had a fabulous resume, great grades, my parents were too busy fighting with each other to notice I applied to strictly out of state schools far enough away to never have them drop in unannounced. I struggled through selecting schools to apply to, I didn't really know what I was supposed to want. I got offered a full tuition scholarship to a very nice school 8 hours away that I found because I was offered some random award that came with a scholarship.
It was hard since seemingly everyone was upper middle class, had designer clothes, been to Europe, and didn't worry about money. The girl next door had a rough day, called her mommy who told her to order something from Tiffanys for herself. A (over dramatic and entitled) girl down the hall ran up a $5,000 credit card bill (all the purchases in the same day)cried to her grandpa that her trust fund wouldn't cover it, so he paid it all for her. I started working, joined a sorority and found a lot of people who were more like me. I went a little nuts partying, enjoying the freedom of being able to have friends, boyfriends and a social life. I met a nice guy, settled down a bit, went to therapy to build up some self esteem and recognize that how I grew up wasn't healthy or normal.
I knew I wanted to go to graduate school but I wasn't really sure what I wanted. I talked with my boyfriend's parents, who both have PhDs and they made some suggestions. I couldn't commit so I decided on taking a break from school. I had an okay position right after graduation until the company did layoffs and there I went. The day I moved back in with my parents they handed me an application to be a cashier at Walmart and told me it's what I deserve for not being a teacher. I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's parents house, and while my parents don't get why I decided to go back to school so I'll have "more useless pieces of paper" I get my support from his parents. My time off from school only ended up being a year but I feel better for it. If anything living back at home has shown me how incredibly nuts and abusive my parents are and it just doesn't get to me anymore. They are so glued to Fox News they don't notice me much anyway. Most of my friends from high school that stayed in the area are married with babies, the same jobs they had in high school and no aspirations. I volunteer in a library and animal shelter when I'm not working to stay out of the house.
So far I have one acceptance, should hear more in the next two weeks. I found my support elsewhere. I'll be moving in with my boyfriend in our own apartment in a few months once we know where I'm going. While I'll never be a kindergarten teacher/baby factory my parents want me to be I think I'm doing very well for myself. Good luck everyone, and keep at it. We are doing something right to get where we are and for whatever our background was or wasn't hopefully we learned something from it. I mean I know I'll never run up a $5000 credit card bill on shoes in a 2 hour period.
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I just got an email from Pratt saying my app has gone to the admissions committee. How long did it take between that and for you to get a decision?
--Hopefully I'll have something other than a question to this topic soon--
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I attended University of Rochester for undergrad (history major and did some research). There isn't much to choose from outside of American and Western European history. The faculty they have listed as global don't teach a lot of global classes, or they are global in the sense they include American and Western European topics. The department has been working on getting a Central or South American history professor and a Asian (most likely Chinese) history professor. But UR is more of a science school and the history program isn't something they put a lot of money into. There are a lot non majors in the classes and it takes the level of class down a lot. It was frustrating as a junior and a senior I can't imagine how annoying it would be as a grad student.
Grad students don't teach classes and out of 15 history courses I took 3 had TAs, the professors let them give one or two lectures during the semester.
There are a lot of undergrad courses that are crosslisted as grad courses. The grad students would have to do an extra paper or two. I'd want more out of graduate study. From the graduate students I talked to they were all American history interested in abolition and suffrage or interested in medieval Europe.
As an undergrad I was happy with my experience, but my main interest is American history, so take it as you will. I did consider doing graduate studies in history but I'm not willing to deal with the poor job prospects, it wasn't the department that was a turn off. Just my 2 cents.
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Wait, so in New Jersey all the gas stations are full service? I'm pretty sure I've never had someone else pump gas for me before, only wash my windshield.
Yeah, it's illegal to pump your own gas anywhere in the state. There's only one other state that's the same Washington or Oregon I think. And since everyone seems to ask this, no you don't tip the people pumping your gas.
Are we all relatively young since we are living with our parents? From the open houses I've attended it seemed like library science was a lot returning students, people getting a second masters, long time teachers switching to school librarian. I graduated last spring, thought a gap year would be fun/help save up money/recharge the academic batteries. I'm certainly ready to get back into school, the other gap year ideas not so successful.
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OMG, I went through the exact same thing a week ago when I got that email! I almost had a heart attack, hahaha. I would love to get into Rutgers, not only because it is the only program I applied to, but also because I would possibly incur no living expenses since I could easily commute by train and live for free/cheap with my mom-- that's if I don't get sick of her and move out.
I looked at LIU and St. John's, but both were about double the cost of Rutgers. Unfortunately those are the only three universities in NJ/NYC that are ALA accredited for the MLIS (don't want the MLS, I think it'll be obsolete in 5-10 years anyway). Good luck!Glad I wasn't alone on that one. I'm in the same boat with living with parents, I do have the option of moving in with my boyfriend where-ever I go, but I'm more comfortable having my parents support me than him. Plus, and I know this is silly, I really don't want to pump my own gas, I've done it and don't like it. I don't really want to go to Southern CT if I don't absolutely have to.
I got a mailing today for LIU's open house, apparently you can apply, be accepted and register all on the same day. That just seems so shady/way too easy to get into. Maybe I'm just being elitist and maybe I'll change my tune if I get rejected from Rutgers and Pratt. I just want to know already, March 15 isn't coming soon enough.
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I've applied to Rutgers, Pratt Institute(sent in my app on 12/12), and Southern Connecticut State (accepted, no financial info). I'm holding off on sending in my Long Island University app since their deadline is in July, and I put together an app for CUNY Queens but I don't think I'm going to send it in. A $125 app fee is pretty steep and I was the least enthusiastic about their program. Since I've already gotten in elsewhere I just don't want to spend the money.
I went a little nuts the other day when I got a Rutgers email with the subject: "Your Current Rutgers MLIS Application Status" but it was just a notification that the app was going to the admissions committee. Seriously uncool. Sweet sweet instate tuition and best ranked program I'm applying to, I don't need the tease.
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I'm a Gamma Phi Beta alumna.
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Anyone have an experience with schools in the NJ, NY, CT? I've applied to Rutgers, Pratt Institute, CUNY Queens, Long Island University, and Southern Connecticut State. I'd be happy to be accepted to any of the schools.
For Rutgers, does being from NJ help?
I'm obscenely nervous about being admitted anywhere, I have a strong GPA, lots of internships, good LOR from a top undergraduate university and an overall good resume but my GRE score wasn't as high as I would have liked. Many of the schools didn't require the GRE if your GPA was over a 3.0, so is it not as important as it is for other fields?
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This might be a silly question. Is there a way to check and see what the government is willing to give loans for, maybe through the FASFA page or something?
My estimated contribution was a zero, and I'm pretty sure I'm not near the caps since I did take some loans for undergrad. Rutgers instate costs are low enough for me to go without any free money coming my way but I'd like to know if I actually will get loaned the money.