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Demeter

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  1. Agreed. I happen to like my corn fields. See if I bring their harvest. People these days. Bah. *wrathful goddess stare* Seriously, seriously, though. I know rejection hurts, but lashing out at entire state is a bit much. Besides, Indiana was second in corn production last year. Iowa wants this poster to know that they produced more corn last year. Just saying, okay?
  2. Isn't it, though? He's wonderful, really.
  3. This is my jam right now, but I'm not good at following its advice. I'm not sure how to embed here, but here's the dailymotion video. http://dai.ly/x3659il
  4. @The Interdisciplinarian I can not up vote your post fast enough. <3 <3 Bowie. This song is perfect.
  5. @Neist I just really want to hear from New York Medical College. I know they're supposed to be slow but I'd love to hear something. Unfortunately, they don't have an online management system (WHY I don't know), and it's frustrating. I've got one offer, but honestly, that's only made me more antsy. Now I keep thinking, "So obviously decisions are happening for schools that had the same deadline (I know, I know, each school is different), so where's info on NYMC? Maybe they've forgotten me? I'll be in the city next week, maybe I should write and see if I should swing by! No! Bad Demeter, don't do that!" Waiting for PSU is easier because their deadline is ages away, yet. Well, two weeks. @magnetite Thinking about money right now is scary. So I try not to do so. Thankfully, I've got a part-time job right now. I finished my master's in December. It seems like the last two months have gone on forever. I hear you on comparing money. FB is horrible for that. My working friends are buying homes and new cars. It's just a different life path, right now.
  6. The only feedback I can really give you is this: your worry is totally normal. This process is bewildering for anyone, even those of us who have been around the block. Good luck!
  7. I've hit that awful headspace in the admissions cycle. I just want to know something, anything. Time seems to crawl. I need to say off the results page. Refreshing only slows my perception of time.
  8. @easybreezy Congratulations! Georgia Southern has a great reputation in the South, IIRC.
  9. @gingin6789 So much love for that meme. Perfectly applied!
  10. @sjoh197 I've got a chocolate lab. He's a working dog, so he eats like one. He's also a bit spoiled. I've occasionally been able to find coupons for his brand, but rarely. He definitely eats better than I do!
  11. ^^^ The two above make me rage. Those are offers from good schools! And here I am biting my nails, wondering if I'll get enough funding to eat AND buy dog food. I'm sorry. I'm not a bitter crone, I'm not. Just maybe my perceptions of a good offer are skewed. I know it's Southern CA, but geez… they got into schools many people did not, and they were offered funding. No matter what, that's positive on some level.
  12. @kamber Congratulations on both of your acceptances! As an aside, one of my friends went to BU for her MPH and she loved it, absolutely loved it. She's working at a health organization in the midwest now, but loved Boston, as well as the school.
  13. Just wanted to let anyone applying to Maryland's MPH that I got an email from the chair basically saying that they'd recommended me for admission. This seems the best place to put this info. Have any of you applying to MPHs heard from your schools of choice lately?
  14. I don't resent people in other programs. I like them when I can learn about their work, because learning new things is fun. I just don't have a lot to do with them. In grad school, I was busy doing my own research. I heard once that we learn more and more about less and less, and I think that is kind of seen in how easy it is not to interact with people outside our disciplines. It was sometimes to our detriment, because transdisciplinary research does a lot. I don't resent undergraduates. I just don't have a ton of interaction with them. When I did, it was in a professional context, so those boundaries had to be minded. I think in some ways, that also contributed to a divide that I felt was very real. Even without being a TA or RA, there was a hierarchy that had to be minded and professionalism was key. It wasn't a bad thing. I liked the UG students I got to know. It's just that we were doing two totally different things, and there wasn't much to talk about or interact around. But I don't think these two differences I mention are the same thing, exactly. Grad school is a totally different ballgame, a totally new way of working and being and doing academics. It's not really comparable to UG work in my mind. I think this sense of divide is a common experience. It was generally 'easier' to interact with other grad students rather than undergrad students in my department because there was some common ground between us. With the undergrads, not so much. For some people, this can spill out into daily living if they live in a heavily UG area, or if they live in apartments more populated by graduate students. I wouldn't want to put up with things in daily living now that are common in dorms. I shop at a grocery store. I go to the dry cleaners. I tried to go home at night and forget about work. My life, while situated around work on campus, isn't centered on it like it was in UG. It's just that my job was school. It wasn't my life in the same way that being at college was, if that makes sense. So that may contribute to a feeling of division or a sense of differences in daily life. I think, broadly, that it's important to understand that there may be a different culture in the graduate program you enter than you may have experienced at undergrad. These two groups can exist rather independently, and I think that this divide is pretty common. It's not bad, it's not dislike, at least for me. Part of it is a commitment to professionalism, part of it is having little common ground in what you're doing and experiencing, and part of may be one's way of living or stage of living. It may be all those things or none of those things. I have more to say, but for now I need to think about the best way to say what I mean. Good luck to you as you explore programs!
  15. @mm3733 Thank you very much! That advice helps me to put this process in perspective. I've heard through the grapevine about loan forgiveness programs, and done a little research on those and external scholarships, but I'm not banking on anything. I'm crossing my fingers for a good funding package.
  16. ^^^ This. Exactly this, IMHO. I know a person who chose to do an extra year or so of study for a BA after doing a three year BA for exactly this reason. They wanted to go to grad school, and the BA from their home country's school wasn't accepted only because it was a three year BA.
  17. I finished my UG degree in three years. It was 126 credits. It was never a boost for me. I wanted to make sure I made hay while the sun shined, and had funding to finish my degree. I was petrified towards my senior year that my external funding would run out. So I took extra of 21 credits one semester, and loaded up my summers. As you can see from others in this thread, it's not an uncommon thing. I never mentioned it. I did put down the number of credits on my CV for each degree I have. They would have seen it on the transcripts anyway, but I had to because I'd picked up credits in Basketweaving (not really), as opposed to my major, at another school, mostly for fun. My school was pretty well known so there was a common knowledge that came from being at a rather well known school. However, since you want to mention it, perhaps include it in the "Is there anything else the committee should know?" question, however that might look on your app. In my field, that was separate from the SOP most times. Otherwise, your SOP might be a good spot.
  18. I wish I had an answer! I wish I'd heard something other than radio silence myself. I was told to wait 4-6 weeks after the deadline before calling. I don't know if that was good advice, but I'm going to try my best to follow it. For some programs, I only have two weeks left.
  19. Demeter is a goddess of agriculture with a cool story. I like mythology. I thought it was fitting for two reasons. 1) I'm an agriculturalist, and I have a hat I wear in the fields that my friends call my agricultural goddess hat. 2) By using the name, I get to use creative commons art for avatars, which is helpful, because I am not photogenic, and I like to maintain an air of mystery on the web. TL;DR. I'm an agriculturalist. It's a joke about a hat. I'm not really the goddess of my field.
  20. Good thoughts to you! Your interview might seem different after a bit of reflection, and even so, a bombed interview doesn't always mean an outright rejection. Interviews are funky, you never know what they're really looking for in a question. Thinking of you. This process is tough, but you're not alone.
  21. Just chiming in to say that I have not yet heard from anyone. I applied to Penn State, NYMC, and Maryland. They're pretty strong fits for me in health literacy research, which is my focus. I trained previously as a biomedical agriculturalist, which are, I'm told, pretty rare in public health. Glad to have some field specific GC'ers waiting with me!
  22. Haaaa, I'd forgotten all about that! I think I will pass, respectfully, and will now crank up some Bohemian Rhapsody to help myself forget. I said I was desperate, but even I've got limits. I think that "rap opera" is like a fanfic that the author can't bring themselves to end, so they keep updating, and people who had the work on update go, "Wait, they're still updating that thing?"
  23. I tried the whole 'stay of the internet' for a few days. It did not help. However, I'm re-watching all of Doc Martin so that's something. I just want to know something, anything. I keep checking Maryland's portal like nobody's business, but none of the programs that used SOPHAS actually have portals to check obsessively and I really wish I had something to look at for these schools. I am telling myself not, not, not, to email anybody. It will reek of desperation. I know this because I admit to my desperation. I am clinging to what remains of that voice in the back of my head that says "No news is good news."
  24. @rhombusbombus Hope you have a great interview tomorrow! Thinking of you with good thoughts. For myself, I am binging TV when I'm not working. My hours have been cut this week, so in the past few days, I've watched: The Age of Adeline, Burnt, The Hundred Foot Journey, The Intern, The Intership, Accepted, Finishing School (1934), Bachelor Mother, Home, Vivacious Lady and the first season of When Calls the Heart. I've also rewatched a few episodes of House, because I needed the background noise. I'm running out of movies to watch. I found Accepted to be heartwarming, given that it's like a giant middle finger to the establishment, even if it is farfetched. I need a hobby that makes the waiting easier. I should have not gotten a new phone today. All I keep doing is checking my status to "make sure the phone works."
  25. @kseeful I was accepted, shockingly!
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