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Personally, I would steer you towards a cheap state school, or wherever you get the best financial aid package. There's no need to graduate with crushing debt if you don't need to.

My speech neurology professor recommended the Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book and I love mine! Netter’s has a few different books and I prefer the Anatomy over the Neuroscience one for speech stuff. Of course there is a lot more covered than the speech mechanisms but it helped me visualize the larynx since my teacher rarely used diagrams that were in relation to the body as a whole. Netter’s Anatomy Hope that helps!

I had a old 3D Printer that I built years ago..used it 3 times got mad at it and left it on the shelf.. So i bought a new one.

A tablet computer (like a Surface Pro), Moleskine for handwritten notes, Zotero to keep all the stuff I have to read organized, RStudio for (almost) all the statistical analyses I have to do, and a LaTeX editor for all the papers I have to write. As for textbooks, I haven't had more than a few in my 6 years of graduate school and I doubt that will change any time soon.

Like others have said, it's time to work on research and catch up on academic reading. Other popular summer options: teach summer classes, attend institutes offered by national/international organizations, and attend conferences. I usually fit in a trip to see family at some point and a few satisfying days of doing absolutely nothing.

I can't speak from experience, but my coworker with a family moved from off-campus to on-campus housing and loved it. It was cheaper than the townhouse they had been renting, and he could walk in every day instead of being dropped off by his wife.