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Same here, I have no idea what to do! There is only one required course at Cornell, and beyond that it's also up to whatever your mystical special committee decides! Who knows

Doubtful... I'm sure she's aware of all the bureaucracy behind all that nonsense.

Phew, glad I'm not the only one! Also am I the only one excited to have dental insurance?!?! I need a root canal and now I only have to hold out until August!

Strange that you guys already know which classes you're taking... I think it's pretty typical to find out the day before classes start in August here

Wow congratulations!! Excited to move in?

Same! And I move in 9 days! I picked up a textbook and went to put it in a box, and then realized that I didn't want to move. Ah well

Unfortunately this sounds just like the apartment I'm moving to... a major down-size in the kitchen, which considering I love to bake makes me a little sad. But considering my current apartment doesn't have working A/C or heat, the thought of having central air/heat overwhelmed me. Ah well, no place is permanent, right?

Same to you... may figuring out housing be quick and painless!!

I chose not to live on campus... the apartments there are pricey and pretty run-down, and it's hard to find a one-bedroom (and I really didn't want a roommate), so I'm living like 10 minutes away near Lansing. Then again, I didn't look very hard I'm definitely not the one to answer your questions... I know nothing about the area other than two visits so far And hi, nice to meet you too! I'm glad to meet someone else who is moving to Ithaca!!

Hey, me too! I actually move next week From what I hear, the summers more than make up for the winters, but we'll see!!

Strange, they don't sell a battery? I was looking for a backup battery and was able to find one on Amazon and Ebay with no problems. I've had 3 Lenovos now, with no issues. But that's good to know.

Anything Lenovo I use a cheap $300 Lenovo to keep at school for Matlab/Mathematica/programming as well as some word processing, etc. and then I also have a better computer at home. You could probably spend a few hundred more dollars and get a REALLY nice Lenovo for the price. Really though, as long as it's a PC, it doesn't matter

I guess I should've looked at reviews for this apartment place before signing a lease with them... utilities run about 3x what they said they would, and the maintenance sucks apparently Live and learn, I guess.

Geology has the best puns... most of mine are from Woot and are just stupid little comics. For instance, one is a cell doing long division on a black board (cell division), that one is my favorite. I got them way too large though, I really need to figure out how to cut them down to size!

Just cleaned out my closet so that I can pack all this stuff for my move to Ithaca (less than two weeks, whaaaaat?!) I've bought so many things in the hopes that one day I might care enough to dress cute and not just wear a nerdy t-shirt, but I've given in now. Nerdy t-shirts ahoy!

For what it's worth, purple mattresses are "try free for 100 days", so why not just try it for 3+ months before you buy it? It'd be better than an air mattress I'm inhering an old mattress from my grandparents. I can only yet dream of having the money to buy an actual good mattress

If only mine are actually airborne allergies, so I can't even be near some foods or I can stop breathing. Gggrrrrrrrrrr

Darn, I'm allergic to at least half of those ingredients Maybe I'l just do some protein powder

@hippyscientist Mug cakes are my spirit animal... how do you make them high protein, if I may ask?

YES I AGREE. I hate that when we get awards and things they tend to mean less because the general feeling is "you only got this because you're a female". If I could afford to (and if it were logically feasible) I would've submitted two applications to each grad school, one as myself (female, first-gen college student, low SES), and one as a male from a well-off middle-class educated family and see where that got me.

I'd like to think that being female doesn't affect my chances, but the fact is as follows: being a girl -> """diversity""" -> fellowships -> more funding -> acceptance. So maybe indirectly it does affect my chances. Although I rejected an offer from a school who gave me a fellowship which led to nearly a doubled stipend because I'm a female, and I rejected it less than 2 minutes after getting it just out of spite. Plus, one of the first things a potential PI told me is that "he hires a lot of females". Like, SO???

Yeah totally! I definitely remember my childhood fondly. I'm incredibly lucky - we never had to go for a day without food, though sometimes it was a bit scarce, so we had more than most. I always had clothes to wear, never new but my mom had a way with a sewing machine so I never could tell the difference between Bergner's and hand-me-downs. When I was in high school though, my family hit a lucky streak and my dad got a job with a great accounting firm (seriously, some random accountant hired a hard laborer who didn't even graduate high school, imagine that!!), and my mom also got an office job (instead of house painting) and ever since then I've felt kind of spoiled And honestly I'm kind of glad my parents don't help me out (though they would if I needed)... it means I'm more independent financially.

YES. People assume that just because my family was "poor" that I had a profoundly unhappy childhood, and they wonder why I'm such a "well-adjusted" adult (emphasis on the quotes there). Do people just assume that because I didn't have a Nintendo or a computer I just sat in the corner all day and cried about being "poor"? And I also feel bad for saying this, but I can't help but wonder if the reason I got into Berkeley was because they required a "diversity" essay.

Brilliant idea!!

I wish! I don't even know what kind of physics I want to study or whether I want to go into academia/industry, or literally anything else. I'm kind of hoping I'll discover that along the way