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Jae B.

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  1. will do her best to respond to queries via PM.

  2. We switched from Comcast to AT&T as soon as we could, here in California. Comcast was $40 for slow (for gaming), unreliable internet. I used my campus's internet as much as possible. Our internet went out on me the night one of my grad apps was due. I had to send it using a neighbor's wifi to make the deadline! But you gotta use what you gotta use.
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    Berkeley, CA

    I make it on 15k, sharing. It's definitely possible to live on 19k if you rent a studio between 700 - 1,000 / mo., so you get a space to yourself. Tons of grad students, myself included, haven't needed a car around here — you get an AC Transit bus pass that'll get you around and there's BART for when you're in a hurry.
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    Berkeley, CA

    From what I've observed, it's pretty competitive in the Berkeley area (including those medical records jobs!), but there are always odd babysitting jobs around Albany. There are some slimy part-time marketing jobs — and a few okay ones. It gets easier to find work if you don't mind commuting towards San Francisco.
  5. I just finished a two-day orientation. Tried to dress up the first day, my nice pants, favorite pullover. Looked good enough for our class photo. Second day: t-shirt and blue jeans.
  6. I agree with adaptations, actually. I'm almost positive it would be valuable for an art history master's (and definitely better than a cold third letter from a professor) but far less so for a PhD application, where teaching is all they care about. Since the OP said working in a museum is part of their career goal, an internship letter would be part of indicating they're working towards their goal appropriately and are applying their academic knowledge to their professional work. Maybe more informed answers would come from the art history forums, though?
  7. That could be a worthwhile strategy, if you really can't get at least one more recommendation from undergrad. Your undergrad experience is recent enough that maybe you could get another letter, not based on knowing the professor well, but based on an excellent paper you wrote or project you did -- just remind the professor of your work and affirm your interests and how they relate to that work. But no, all your letters don't have to be from undergrad. It does seem a little weird to me to graduate and then take classes to get letters. I think the professors will know what you're doing, and it will seem contrived. But that might not matter.... Still, I think undergrad would be preferable. Plus, you'll have more expenses to get back to school, more transcripts to report if it's a school other than your alma mater, and if it's a community college you're going to, the letters probably won't mean as much as letters from your undergrad institution would have. If you have any work experience related to history, you might be able to use that for a letter. Good luck!
  8. Jae B.

    UC Berkeley

    I'm not sure whether grad students buy those tickets. My impression is they're more mellow about games than undergrads. I've only heard them talk about non-collegiate, professional games. The season football tickets are hugely popular with undergrads -- I felt like the only person who didn't buy them. Friends would remind me to buy them, and later were always like, "See you at the game?!" and I'd have to sheepishly say, "Nope...." Surely you'll be able to find some grad students who are interested, though. So go for it?
  9. happy house (Anyone else have that downloaded at some time? )
  10. That seems like a future prospects vs. current comforts question. Which is more important to you? How long will it take you to earn this degree? I'd probably sacrifice for a more prestigious school, thinking of my future professional prospects. But depending on how many years you'll be attending, you might understandably decide your schedule and personal interests are more important for you to succeed in the long-haul effort. Whatever makes you all-around most able to succeed is really most important.
  11. I like soft lighting in a perfectly quiet space for reading, someplace I can stretch my legs out and stay for hours. So I usually read at home, when everyone else is away or similarly occupied. Or I'll read on the bus early in the morning. People don't talk much, there's natural lighting and soft seats. But sometimes the bouncing makes me repeat reading lines more than usual! I've also had a decent time reading in an underground library at my university -- it's usually pretty quiet, has low lighting instead of those annoying florescent lights, and adequate desk and seat space. Somewhere comfy outdoors, alone in the sunshine, is actually my favorite place to read if weather and time are on my side. It's very relaxing. Writing is something I am far more flexible about. I can do that anywhere -- under almost any circumstances -- if I'm close enough to my deadline! Florescent lighting, whatever. An old cranky PC even though I'm a longtime Mac person. Doesn't matter. I've tried to find an ideal writing space, set of conditions and tools for some time, but nothing's mattered more than my state of mind. Usually, what I need most, unfortunately, is either crazy passion for my topic or a sense of urgency only procrastination delivers. Still, I most like writing in a coffee shop or library for practical reasons. Or at home when everyone's asleep, so I know they won't call me away from my work for anything. But a lot of my writing has been finished on buses or at bus stops, while sitting on park benches, busy staircases, planterboxes in blinding midday sunlight, while waiting in lines or for appointments, during lunches in noisy restaurants while attempting to be sociable with friends, on my Blackberry with my thumbs because my laptop battery died, or hovering anywhere near a printer, with me ready to run! I have plopped down and yanked out my laptop on a barely-lit city street corner at night, in cold winter drizzle, outside a closed café with wifi I could still mooch off of, to finish and submit a paper just before midnight. I was a little nervous about the situation, but I still finished a fine paper on-time! That said, most music I'm fond of is way too distracting for me when I'm working. If I'm in a café and a song I like comes on, I totally zone out listening to it. I'm pretty good at ignoring movies and tv shows while I'm writing, though.
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