Carly Rae Jepsen

Welcome guys! This thread is a really nice community, we have more than 10 applicants now. It's making this app cycle so much bearable for me lol.

every day without a notification of some sort feels so long

Gracias amigo! Good luck to you and the Spanish applicants too, Romance languages unite!

Congrats @HomewardBound !!

Spanish and German people are starting to receive Chicago notifications. It shouldn't worry me since it's different departments but

I hope you get it, good luck!

Yes to so many of these! Especially about visiting Paris and French food (coffee, bread and cheese--and for some wine! I like cheap wine myself though), and lecturing people about geography and dialects. Québecois is so nasal, I find it ok to understand but I couldn't imitate their accent haha. Also: -Introducing your friends to Stromae -Being asked to translate something in French only for that person to pronounce it wrong and forget it immediately -Knowing that you NEED to study abroad from the moment you declared your major -As a tutor I would get irritated when people asked me "Why are there masculine and feminine genders???" or "Do people even use the subjonctif?"

Inspired by Shit English Majors Say, what are some things that Spanish, French, Italian, German, Slavic etc. majors say?

Congrats @Monsieur Vénus ! Do you know where in France you're going? Sounds exciting I had a phone call with someone from WashU and I think I'll attend their visit day in March. Also received my stipend info from UNC and greetings emails. Otherwise silence from everybody else. Can't wait for next week, the application cycle has made me hate weekends lol.

I had to unsubscribe from Duolingo emails because they were driving me nuts. Every single time it was them.

Absolutely. It looks to me like an app middle schoolers would enjoy. Same with Vine.

outrage culture on twitter? at the same time i live for the drama it causes though Self help media (90% of them anyway) super hero movies (except for Spiderman with Toby McGuire cause it was the first movie I watched on theaters) Taylor Swift's new bad chick persona. Maluma (reggaeton as a whole, actually. Apparently it's mandatory to like it if you're Latino). undergrad party culture

Afraid of replying to a few awkward-ish emails. I'm super bad at messages and I ghost people more frequently than I want to. Or maybe I'm just a jerk, but I swear sometimes my mind just shuts down when I don't know how to express or what to say at a message.

Oop I am with everybody who pointed out ETS is evil. The fees are ridiculous. I would be okay with the exam fee if sending scores was at least free or less than 10 dollars. Why exactly is it so expensive to send an electronic or hard piece of paper to a school? About fees, I actually could get lots of fee waivers through BTAA (Big Ten Academic Alliance) or sometimes even by just asking. I did pay two, though, which amounted to almost 200 bucks. I can't imagine spending a thousand dollars or more on applications.

Ditto on the transcripts. I suppose someone could in theory go through the trouble of sending a fake transcript but when they are admitted they will need to send a real one, so why would anybody do that? What exactly is the logic behind requesting official transcripts as part of the application? Requesting the TOEFL from people whose first language is not English but who attended an English-speaking school in the United States for undergraduate is ridiculous. I've been living in the US for 8 years now. I finished high school and college here. I submitted a statement of purpose that shows I know English. Why would you require the TOEFL? (Only one school said I had to take it. It seems like they did away with that, though, after I insisted). Otherwise, I suppose there are things that would be fantastic but logistically hard. I wish most programs were part of a single application portal and letters could thus be easier to send (and therefore I could save my professors time). Most of the schools I applied to notified me of when I could expect to hear back from them, actually, and for that I'm thankful!

3 this week doesn't sound too bad, some committees haven't met yet (like Rutgers I've heard). But I'm with you, waiting is no fun. One thing about applying to many schools is feeling embarrassed and just bad in general about having to pick just one (I have been admitted to just 1 so far so I don't know why I would even be thinking this, but alas).

Congrats!

Congrats on your Columbia interviews @awhiterussian and @Saltshaker! I see someone in the survey got into UCLA. Congrats

Thank you so much all for your advice! It really helps puts things into perspective. The task of figuring out finances at first seems daunting, to say the least, so I really needed to talk about this.

Hi everyone--sorry if this is the wrong section; I have a question about what life is like on a stipend for graduate students. From what I've seen, grad schools adjust their budget depending on the cost of living in the area, but I wanted to ask what life is like on a grad student's budget. I received an offer with health insurance and a 16,000 yearly stipend, which according to my calculations 2/3 of that would go to rent and utilities (it's not an expensive area). Is 2/3 of your stipend going towards rent and utilities common for grad students? What adjustments have you made since starting grad school? In undergraduate I had financial aid that went towards campus housing and cafeteria food ,so I'm unexperienced and worried about adjusting to paying rent, utilities and other expenses on my own. Just looking for any advice and general comments that will help me plan things for August

I was starting to feel like that last week (got a couple emails this week though). Very few schools are sending out stuff yet, I think mid-February is the peak for notifications. Are you in Slavic Languages? You should come to the French thread! All languages majors are hanging out here and talking about the wait together:

Reading all this as a gay man is...interesting, given how we also have that issue of older men fixated on youth. When it's two fully consenting adults and there is no manipulation then sure, but I agree that otherwise it's creepy.

Ah, that makes sense, thank you. I remember being worried about all this back when that horrendous tax plan that counted remitted tuition as income was about to be passed. Luckily we grad students dodged that bullet.

Thanks guys, that's what I was thinking. These past 2 days have been silence for me except for WashU (I talked with a professor from there.) There's still 2 days this week!

Guys do you know if there's any difference funding-wise between public schools and private schools (when you're out of state)? I would think no since most schools offer tuition remission but I wonder. Just thinking cause I realized I'm a "non-resident" for UNC (completely forgot it was a public school lol).