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Right! I can imagine it's a mess. But does it work like...if I go looking beforehand in, say, June-July, can I find something that I would sign for in September? Like a reservation of sorts? (I feel like a rookie adult but uhhh this isn't how it works where I'm from, so!)

Hey all, I'm starting an MA at BU this fall and I'm looking into housing at the moment. Regardless of whether I go for a 1BR, with or without a roommate, I'm worried about when will be a good time to lease something. Right now I see most people are subletting for the summer. I will be in Boston from the beginning of August, will that be too late to find anything acceptable? I don't really want to agree to something without visiting first. I might have the possibility of visiting at the beginning of July for a couple of days--should I try and do that, visit some places and rent something then? Would I be able to rent something for an Aug-Sep move in?

Hey! My previous experience has been in psycholinguistics, as that's what I had access to during my undergrad, but I want to learn more about language acquisition, syntax and multilingualism. But, tbh, I am aware that I also don't know enough about other areas to just outright say I'm not interested in them. Hence the MA. I could not tell you. I don't come from a country with a credit-based system so I have no idea how it works, but from what I understand, BU looks a little more intensive. And yeah, that's true about make up courses (I've been offered them) but I will probably be doing them in a summer school abroad which costs significantly less than a semester at BU and is also fun! (And, which, in fact, they recommended and will be accepted in my transcript). So if I were to prolong the MA in order to write a thesis, it would end up being 1.5 years. And don't quote me on this but I don't know if at CU you'd have to extend your time if you chose the thesis option, I spoke with them and this was never mentioned.

No, neither, and the two years at CU are slightly more expensive than one at BU, including the fact that I've heard getting a job in Boulder is more difficult because there's too many people in the same situation.

Hi! I got accepted into both CU Boulder and BU for the Masters in Linguistics. They both have the same-ish amount of credits (30-32) but BU is one year instead of two, which I feel just makes it more intensive. I was wondering if anyone had information on these two departments and cities, and could help me compare them. I don't come from a Ling background and I'm using the MA as a way of diving in and also see if I want to pursue a PhD later on, so I kind of wanted to go somewhere that would a) offer a relatively global look of the field; b)allow me to get some hands-on experience with research; c) give me a leg up re:applying for programs later.