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nooneatall

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  1. Why bother responding at all if you're "so against passive aggresion" (jesus a fucking sarcastic joke) calm yourself.
  2. Jesus, calm yourself. Can't take some sarcasm?
  3. Okay, who can advise on the statement of purpose and it's specificity? Do you need to have your thesis subject ready to go, or is there wiggle room? Honestly, there is so much that I love about linguistics, I feel as though I could go in so many directions, or hone in on so many different language families, I don't have one topic I am hellbent on exploring. Do I just need to have a general subfield I am interested in, and go from there? Am I allowed to say I have a few different ideas? Or do I more or less need the topic of the dissertation ready to go?
  4. What difference does that make? I graduated with honors and have the capability. I imagine that I will be going into the program with others who only have a bachelors as well, so we are all equally equipped, and from my research, there are very few terminal Masters degrees, and the majority of PhD degrees require you to put in the 5 years and gain the masters en route.
  5. I am eight years out of college and thousands of miles from my professors at this point. It just seems like undergrads aren't able to develop relationships with two of three professors enough to garner these LORs. I wasn't thinking about grad school as an undergrad, but eight years later I am and I feel a little SOL.
  6. I did linguistics undergrad in the US and thought it was a bit bizarre that we had grad students in the same courses, enrolled through a different call number. Not sure if they were taking it to refresh their memory, but it was like there wasn't anything more advanced. I think the difference in grad-level linguistics comes through the novelty of research.
  7. Thinking about applying for a PhD for fall 2016. My undergrad was in Linguistics and I have been loosely in and out of the field for the past seven years. It seems pretty standard that PhD applications require 3 LOR, and I just don't know how to wrangle up three strong letters. Am I the only one in this position? I mean, I'm not in the PhD program yet, how many people have 3 scholars or professors they could really get these from? Any suggestions or advice?
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