Sarah S.

What is the difference between a hominin and a hominoid? A: A hominin is a human ancestor and a hominoid is an ape-robot.

Yep - pretty much! I mean "considerably cheaper" can mean some pretty awful places but mine is just under $600 for a nice 1 br in franklin park which is on the busline. Is your studio one of the remodeled houses? That's what I love about Lafayette - how many of the beautiful old houses have been converted to apartments.

Hi! I'm currently a purdue graduate student and proximity to campus can mean a lot of different things. I live in Franklin Park Apartments (which I recommend - they're flexible with lease start and end dates, and give graduate student discounts) and it's right on the bus line so it takes me about 15-20 minutes to get to campus and I don't have a car.

I just want to say that as a current grad student and gradcafe lurker I'm happy to see you guys start to get your admits Congratulations everyone who has, and good luck for everyone who hasn't YET!

I have seven tattoos, two of which are quite visible (wrist) and two of which could easily be visible (upper arm and my entire calf). I'm in an anthro department and my tattoos have not been a problem. All but one of my advisor's students have tattoos and they're all quite respected within the department and outside of the department. The arch students are also fairly tattooed and they also do quite well for themselves. I don't cover any of mine intentionally, though I would likely do so for conferences. It helps that someone in my field who is quite the professional has full sleeves done.

I always quite like myedu. I used it to help pick which section of a course to take as an undergraduate.

Hi BionicKris, I read this when you posted without looking at the poster and just now realized it's you! I think you should incorporate more stress-relieving activities...such as going out with friends, even if it's just to a coffee shop so they can study while you write.

I came up for an unofficial visit but my host is now one of my closest friends. However, this is because I chose to attend here and she's one of my advisor's other students.

Read everything you can that seems relevant; studies done in the general area you want to do studies, similar subjects...find out what's been done and what hasn't, and what interesting questions come out of that.

Yeah, I applied to study new world monkeys and instead I'm working with lemurs. My interests actually changed over the summer, after I knew where I was going, and I freaked out a little bit since I wasn't even here yet but things are fine.

I'm going to get one as soon as I have some money. I still have a 1st gen Kindle, that cost over $300. It sort of makes me want to cry, knowing how cheap they are now!

I won't miss being so broke that I literally cannot pay bills OR buy food.

Alpha Sigma Alpha, Missouri State University...alumna as of Sunday!

Update: Moving to W. Lafayette July 15th. Starting my MS in the fall. Got a teaching assistantship (stipend, tuition waiver, insurance) so life has been very good to me!

A group of the anthropology students from my school are going just as attendees because one of our graduate students is also presenting. I am scheduled to volunteer with things 7:30 to...10:30 Friday morning but after that I'm free to attend whatever presentations. Which is yours?

I applied for assistantships outside of my department, but if I do not get them I will have to defer my admission. I can do so up to a week before classes start, so I can wait and see if more assistantships pop up as well. If not, I cannot afford the out of state tuition and I'm not comfortable enough to take out that much in loans.

Right now I keep everything in a large purse. It holds netbook, textbooks, purse things...if I need to carry a binder or more books with me, I take a larger shoulder bag. For grad school, I'm getting a messenger bag. My poor purse is looking a bit beat up and I think it'll be a long while before I have $350 to drop for another one.

I've been looking at the apartments here and think they sound great. I was referred to them by a graduate student who lived in one of the one bedrooms for a while: http://franklinparkapartments.com What I've been doing is searching the internet, asking current students if the place is alright or in a good area, and emailing lots of apartment managers. My fiancé and I are going back to West Lafayette sometime in April to check out places in person. Is it possible for you to do something like that as well? I agree about expensive, but I'm coming from Springfield MO where housing is notoriously cheap. I'll be leaving a 2 bedroom townhouse (with a basement and office) that is just over $500 a month... Roommates seems like the way to go but since I'm dragging poor fiance to Indiana with me, I'm hoping just one person is enough to help cover costs. For my year of freedom, I plan on becoming a slave to retail. I'll be applying for jobs everywhere this summer. I'll work, and save money, and miss school. There's always a 1 in a million chance I'll get an on campus job with tuition remission! Sorry for the lengthy reply. Procrastinating.

I'll be there for anthropology! I may be deferring admission for a year so I can get in-state tuition, though. Have you started looking for places to live? I loved the area too

You all-nighter folks are crazy! I've never pulled an all-nighter in my life...at some point I decided that sleep is one of my top priorities. I never sacrifice sleep for fun or school. I get very stressed if I get less than eight hours of sleep and I have insomnia so it takes me a couple hours to get to sleep every night. When I go a few nights in a row with less than six hours (of lying down time, since sleep time is so much shorter) I just crash.

Well I feel like a weirdo now. I always just start with name and then the email. Like: Dr. So-and-so, Blah blah blah - My Name email, etc.

Yay! (not yay to the no funding parts) Keep the forum updated on your decision! Have fun on your visits

None whatsoever

I will be at Purdue unless UPenn miraculously offers funding for an MA. Pretty excited! I may be taking a year off to move and get in-state tuition so we'll see how that goes.