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I fully get that approach of applying for specific reasons. I think people forget how broad certain fields are and certain topics are too, I mean the social sciences certainly are. I think we applied to different places though from what your program list says but still best of luck! Your current program sounds more simplified than mine was- I had to figure everything out for myself (classes, how to build a minor, etc...) something to guide me would have been nice!

I think they gave it to her because she was an older student returning to school. She was really upset that someone who was still in the process of earning an MA was her sole instructor in the first place (she was a problem student all term that's why she only missed 1.5 points or whatever because I didn't want to deal with her wrath).

One term I had a student freak out because I gave her an 85 because although her paper was perfect she didn't follow the prompt. After yelling at me and following me around campus for nearly TWO HOURS and my explaining the prompt over and over and why she missed 5 percent (it was like 1.5 points on the rubric) she didn't give up. She tried to go above my head (I was the instructor of record) and so my advisor and the lady who was suposed to be managing all the MA's teaching our class got involved and it was a nightmare. They just changed this lady's grade. They told me I was in the right, but that it wasn't worth their energy to fight it. I was stunned. Just absoluteley floored by the way that it all went down.

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At least we have what, like 4 months, til that's a real worry to consider so I guess we all just wish eachother the best and do everything possible to distract ourselves til (hopefully/knock on wood) some good news arrives. (I am feeling hopeful today!)

I would say that you are somewhat right but largely wrong in terms of how you describe anthropoogy. I double majored in my undergrad career and my second major was sociology and my graduate minor in my MA program was Rural Sociology so I have a fairly good grasp on the differences. It is easy to make the statement of micro vs macro, but I think that the distinction between the two fields is more subtle. Through contemporary theory anthropology and sociology share theorists. We share Foucault, Bourdieu, Goffman, etc and from what I've read (and I've read extensively in my subject area of poverty, inequality, and class) the approach to ethnography is essentially the same. The difference, which is fair to critique, is the use of statistics and mixed-methods. I am looking forward to learning more about how sociologists approach this, but from my methods series that I took in my MA I can say that quantitative work and mixed methods projects are what distinguish sociology and give the allusion of "macro" theory. In Anthropology our ethnography might be a little more extensive in approach because of the lack of mixed methods approaches to triangulation. That is the one big difference. You can do both in either field (and I did, infact, do a mixed methods thesis). You are right, however, in suggesting that sociology gives a little more freedom for mixed methods and quantitative methodologies. I think the two fields are in the process of learning from eachother, however, and how could they not. They are both in the business of studying people.

Good luck this time around! Like someone said above, we only need one acceptance & as you point out there is more to life than this one plan we imagined for ourselves.

Bah I miss wine! No alcohol January at my house (family tradition)...have a glass for me!

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What do graduate programs weigh more heavily? MA GPA or undergraduate GPA. My grad GPA is much higher (3.95) vs my undergraduate GPA at (3.4). I would assume that my graduate GPA wins here, but what do you all think. I am applying to Sociology PHD programs so maybe the field you are in matters too. Thanks for the answers to come!

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I get you with the checking of e-mail. It is hard to not do! Once your term starts back up it will get easier to wait. My advice, just try to keep busy busy busy. On days I don't have stuff going on: I work on thesis edits for 5 hours (small stuff at this point), go for a 5 mile walk in the neighborhood (walk because it takes longer than running and we are talking about taking time), after shower do another hour of thesis edits, and then read, knit, or make a complicated dinner, and then find a good/complicated show or book on tape. The waiting is the worst and nothing really makes the low key wondering go away- with this being my second time around keeping busy is the best medicine.

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Swimming is the best because you can't do other things. It is also great to go on long walks, listen to audio books, knit (or better crochet because you have to count and that makes it hard to think about research), go hiking or on runs. Or be around people, although when this was first posted that sounds like it wasn't an option haha.

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