ResilientDreams
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Haha well over here at Cornell we had a giant snowstorm and the faculty couldn't make it into campus so everyone who was here ended up doing Skype interviews anyway...
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Yeah I think Cornell sent out all their invites.
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1 hour ago, slothh said:
I really hope to hear back this week....
They've already asked us if we're able to host you guys for interview weekend so it will probably be soon!
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28 minutes ago, goldenxpenguins said:
Based on past results for Cornell, we should be hearing back about formal interviews in the next few days!
Current Cornell student. Invites have not been extended yet and they are going really slowly.
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3 hours ago, DangerDave said:
Official invites haven't gone out yet. Based on the schedule last year (from the results page) they should go out this week or next (hope I get one!). Are you applying? ?
Darn it! I was over eager. I thought I remember getting my email this week last year. Umm. Sure hope I got in, because otherwise this past semester has been very confusing. ?
And you'll definitely get one ?
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Who here is interviewing at Cornell?
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Dance class
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4 hours ago, s1147 said:
Hey, thanks for starting the thread! This is also my second time applying for PhD programs. I applied to a couple of schools last year but wasn't as prepared as I needed to be. I graduated from my undergraduate degree (UK) in December and I am currently working as a research assistant on a few different projects to gain some additional experience before applying again for 2020 entry.
My area of interest is language and cognitive development in early childhood, especially the development of word-learning heuristics and bilingualism. I am still deciding on my full list of universities to apply to, but here are the schools that I am currently interested in:
- Stanford University
- Cornell University
- UC Berkeley
- Yale University
- Boston University
- University of Oxford
- University of Edinburgh
I feel like a lot of these are definitely long-shots so I need to add some more realistic options as well!
If you have questions about Cornell let me know!
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2 hours ago, sgaw10 said:
Finished my last ever assignment of undergrad. Feels strange.
Wow your semester went late!
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Study hall
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Oh no. I've been off GradCafe for a while. Is Adelaide gone??
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42 minutes ago, Troyyy said:
Hey heyy,
I’m actually new to the site, so I feel bad coming into this thread, but I just graduated from my college yesterday with a Psychology B.S, and I’m going into one of my top choices for my PhD in the Fall. If I found this thread last semester, then I would definitely have spoken about the stress of the application process. There has been many times where I wanted to give up and had a lot of self-doubt, but my professors and friends supported me throughout the entire process and I’m glad I was able to complete it!
As far as my feelings in the program, I am not exactly nervous at all. I’m actually very excited and ready to take on the course load. I feel prepared! I hope to see people continue this thread when the Fall begins so we can share our experiences in our transition!
Hey you sound like me! I just got my Psychology BS a week ago! Where are you headed?
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Okay good, these replies are making me feel a lot better because I read on some other question and answer sites that professors got mad when grad students took off a few days (!) in the summer to see family, and I was really counting on summer to be able to see my family and participate in family vacation. I completely expect to have to work independently on research stuff during the summer, but it seems like a bit much to expect grad students to be in the lab 24/7 when they're not even getting paid...
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Oh my goodness I love this thread! I will be living on my own for the first time in August and I'm super nervous about it.
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I second this. It's too late to decline.
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12 hours ago, PsyDGrad90 said:
That stinks, I'm sorry that your leasing agent messed up so bad. However, it may be a good thing. College towns usually have really good public transportation. A few people I know in various schools had their cars in grad school and still almost never used them because the bus was way easier than parking in the downtown area or by school.
Hopefully, if you find that you do want your car, you can snag a parking pass after a year.
I agree and being from the south, I was a bit worried about driving in the snow anyway.
And @Sigaba, that is a brilliant idea that would be very cathartic.
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1 hour ago, PsyDGrad90 said:
Aren't you going to Cornell? I've been to Ithaca, and I would never imagine there would be parking trouble there. That's almost bizarre. Is there street parking in the area? You could hopefully find street parking and then buy a parking pass later.
Yes I am, and maybe the town in general would have been okay, but I don't have a spot at my apartment complex and we aren't allowed to park in the neighborhood, so that doesn't really leave me with a lot of options because paying for and dumping my car in a parking garage somewhere else and then still needing to take the bus back to my apartment doesn't make a whole lot of sense unfortunately. ?
14 minutes ago, Sigaba said:FWIW, the product you're encountering is unbundled parking. The product acknowledges that not all residents will have vehicles and therefore benefit from not having to pay for parking.
Unbundled parking also helps the process of getting a building developed, funded, approved, and built. Parking spaces can be tremendously expensive to build. The cost of parking gets passed along to you as a resident, employee, patron, and shopper.
More and more, a parking permit is a hunting license with no guarantee that you'll find a space.
IRT parking at Cornell, the web page https://fcs.cornell.edu/parking-and-transportation suggests that motorists should manage their expectations or consider seriously alternative modes of transportation.
I do begrudgingly understand the reasoning behind this tactic, but what really gets me is that I was sitting right in front of the leasing manager talking about my car and wanting to be able to take it/park it and he never mentioned anything about buying a pass. I actually only found out about this because I RANDOMLY checked their website. Otherwise I would have shown up there in my car in August. Anyway yes, I will be forced to be green or whatever and take the bus/walk/~sled~ down the hill into town.
I am clearly still very upset about this lol.
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Hello I am bumping my thread again.
How is everybody? I'm finding that I'm getting nervous because of a lot of small details about moving and living on my own, and less so about the program itself.
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1 hour ago, dakotaS said:
Wow. I can't believe that's a thing.
Yup me neither and the worst part is, I drove all the way up to New York to look at apartments, signed the lease right in front of the leasing manager, and discussed with him how I was planning to bring my car with me. He even told me that they try to put your spot as close to your apartment building as possible, but neglected to tell me that I needed to purchase a separate pass in order to get a space at all or that parking wasn't guaranteed.
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I just found out that parking was a separate thing that I needed to pay extra for to have included in my lease and now they're all out of parking passes, so I won't have my car for the first year of grad school. ?
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I feel this. I grabbed a really nice apartment way back in March but just found out that parking was a separate thing that needed to be added to the lease, and now they're all out of parking passes so I can't bring my car. ? I've never lived in an apartment before so I find all the details super overwhelming.
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23 when I applied, 23 when I got in. I applied senior year of undergrad (did a gap year between high school and college).
Fall 2021 Developmental Psychology
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Hi guys! Current Dev Psych PhD at Cornell. Let me know if you have any questions!