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    Ahh, sorry to hear.
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    @kpietromica , I'm going with which university can give me the "most bang for my buck" so to speak. So like, they might not be offering me the most money, but are they giving me a lot of other opportunities? What are their placement rates post graduation? Are the current graduate students really happy there? Is the program itself well funded and respected within the university? Those are the questions I'm asking myself as I'm going into the decision making process, and see how each of the schools compare.
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    @rising_star, That is a really good idea! I know where I am most likely going, and it also just happens to be the school that is furthest away, so its probably going to be the most expensive. I've been checking the US gov't's sources on moving companies, they keep a log of all the complaints that are lodged against USDOT registered companies and what the complaints are about. While it doesn't get into specifics, its still useful to know if I'm looking at a company with 0-5 complaints vs hundreds in the past 4 years.
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    @Paleoman , did you have to give them an inventory list? Also, $1700 is definitely a price I could swing, but the thing I'm worried is moving and then the quoted price being vastly different than when all of my things are actually delivered. I have also heard of people not having all of their things being delivered (i.e. "lost") or just being destroyed in the move. I'll have to look up the company you're trying though, and see what their reviews are.
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    @TakeruK So with the pod, did the Pod Service, ship it for you? My significant other and I have two cars, so I'm not super keen on hitching one to a U-Haul. Also, I am disabled, so the prospect of having to lug a very heavy IKEA sofa doesn't appeal to me much! I wonder if I could just get a mover service to put stuff into the pod? We're just in the consideration period, as the move itself is a few months away.
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    Has anyone ever hired a professional mover to move them across country? What service did you use? Did you have a good experience? Is it worth it to consider it for a cross country move?
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    It depends if you're an MA or a Ph.D. lots of Ph.D. students are considered "staff/faculty" by their departments, so you can get a staff or faculty parking pass, which will enable you to park in lots much closer your building. I'm currently an MA, and I have to park in the "commuter" lot-- basically 1-2 miles away from the building that I take classes in and the place on campus where I work. I add 15-20 minutes to my commute to account for the bus ride, so I usually give myself almost 30 minutes extra from driving to taking the bus to walking from where the bus drops off to my classes/work. I like to get places early rather than on time. All in all it takes about an hour for my commute and the bus. It's not unbearable, but it is a bit inconvenient and you are forced to never be in a rush to go anywhere.
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    It was an email! I was surprised I didn't have to email him first. But I did follow up the email by saying, "Sorry, I can't make it to AAG either" and I didn't get anything back to that... lol
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    I am very seriously considering WVU. They've given me their funding offer, and it's pretty good, though I do need them to clarify a few things. I am flying out to Indiana this week, and we'll see how I like it out there. Their WGSS program is really really good. Kentucky, because their Geography program didn't give me funding, I'm not so sure about taking the WGSS department offer, since I can't get a certificate in Geography, I would only be able to work with their Geography people. I know WVU isn't known for their human geography, but I did meet some of the human geography people there, and I think I mesh pretty well with them, even if our research doesn't align *perfectly*. Plus it is much closer to the areas I want to research. What are you thinking about? Also, does anyone have any specific advice regarding my predicament?
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    Hey, so I live in the general Stony Brook area right now with my significant other. My situation is a little different than yours, as he did not want to live with a roommate, so our current monthly rent is $1670/mo for a 789 square foot one bedroom apartment not including utilities. If you are willing to live with roommates, look for calls within your department for roommates, look on craigslist. Do not, DO NOT, look at one bedrooms in the general vicinity as they will all be about the same cost as mine or higher. One of the quotes we got for a one bedroom when we first were looking was $2000/mo because it was a nicer complex. Also consider that lots of people live in roomshares in Brooklyn in their later years in school as they tend to be about the same price or cheaper than the island. I don't want to scare you away from Stony Brook, especially if it is your top choice. But it has an extremely high cost of living.
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    Got my Penn State rejection today. Didn't make it seem like I wasn't a competitive applicant, but still a rather generic and yet personal rejection letter from my POI. Oh well, at least I was at the point where I was expecting it!
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    I haven't heard back OFFICIALLY yet. There were lots of unofficial promises made, but looking back at how the Kentucky email looked, I'm feeling terrified. At least the emotional devastation comes on a Friday where I can just binge eat and watch Emperor's New Groove and not do work. I thought I would have a *better* chance of funding with Geography than WGSS, as historically the funding for WGSS is not very good! Who knew that they would both be terrible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    Also just got told I didn't get funding to Kentucky's Geography program.... but hooray for the acceptance, I guess >:(
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    My POI is the director of graduate studies... So its kind of a double edged sword, I feel.
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    Has anyone taken the leap and contacted Penn State? I want to, but I am chicken.
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    Do you think it depends on what department you are in? I come from departments that typically are not well funded (though I did get in to much better funded programs than the one I'm in now). Like would a hard sciences person have more leeway than a humanities person?
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    @fvcr, are you coming or thinking of coming to SBU's admitted students day?
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    Right. It's just the longer I wait to hear from them, the less hope I have! It makes me disappointed though, I really thought I had a better connection with my POI than to be tossed to the wind like this. Apparently not though lol
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    If I don't get into Penn State (and maybe even if I do) University of Kentucky's Geography program is looking really good. Their funding package hasn't come out, but there are a lot of faculty there who I can see myself working with, along with a great WGSS department that I can get a certificate in. It's all about the combo.
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    So can we assume that if we haven't heard back from the Penn State Ph.D. program yet, its a rejection? There have been two Ph.D. updates on the results page so far, that I've seen.
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    So I would think about it like this, which school, or career path would enable you to do the work you want with the least amount of stress? I know we've talked about it a little bit before, but is a "better ranked" anthro department like an R1 school or is it just a good teaching school? Or is the low-ranked med school because of the nature of the department/school being a med school ridiculously work-oriented? I know I want to be able to do the things I want to do, but also with... this might be sacrilegious to say, but the least amount of *work* possible. Here's the way I'm starting to make my decisions: 1. Say you work with X professor. Do you feel, right now that that would completely fulfill you or are you still feeling like you're missing something? 2. Say you don't get into the more prestigious school, are you really disappointed? How does the thought of not getting into the other one make you feel? If you're disappointed with any of the decisions you're making, choose the other one. How do you feel about it? Any better? Pretend someone took one of the options away, do you feel devastated? Maybe that was the thing you wanted all along. I get the fact that this method might not be helpful for everything, but sometimes it helps me make decisions! I just try to avoid disappointment or FOMO in my decisions, and then its usually the right one in the end.
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    Ahh. Does anyone want to claim the Penn State acceptance? I’m still waiting to hear
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    Do you think that potential jobs would see a human geographer from a school that isn't well known for human geography and go, "euuhh"? Because here is where I become conflicted in the academics: I am becoming more and more interested in adding GIS work to my dissertation, and WVU has great applied GIS faculty, along with a couple of human geographers who are very interesting. Moving to WV would also give me an opportunity to work with a new community, as the community that I was trying to work with originally shut me out and it is located where University 2 is. The other school (University 2), my POI is absolutely fantastic, and I love his work. I also think that he and the faculty have great things to offer me in terms of human geography, but something about the student community there seemed off. Maybe when I visited, it was just that it was a little clique-ish and I couldn't really get a good sense of how I would fit in. I don't know if that's a rational position to take though.
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    So this post is predicated on me getting things that aren't set in stone yet, so its more of a hypothetical at this point. I want to go to a Geography Ph.D. program, but one where I can also focus on Gender Studies. There is one program that is a dual Ph.D. in Geography and Women's and Gender Studies, which I haven't heard back yet, but I feel really good about it. However, I definitively got accepted to another program which is less prestigious and they also nominated me for a university-wide fellowship and their department is raising their GA stipends. The second program, I would only be able to get a Women's and Gender Studies Certificate, which would enable me to do the same level of teaching a dual degree would, but I'm not sure which one I would go with, especially if it just comes down to money and areas the universities are in. What would you do in this scenario? Is there something I'm not considering (apart from I haven't actually been accepted yet at the first place which will 100% solve this problem, lol)?
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    The longer I wait, the less and less sure I'll get in as well. It doesn't help that my parents and family believe that Penn State is the *pinnacle* of education, like the best education I could ever hope for. Pennsyltucky is so weird.
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