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Well, if we're talking music, can I suggest everyone checkout www.earbits.com? Pretty sweet music discovery experience, similar to Pandora but no advertising.... they are adding new channels all the time too, so it keeps getting better!

I always waive my rights to such documents. A professor would either not write or withhold information. My only regret is not to see the nice things they would say! I've had one professor say he wrote a really nice one, and the POI mention that that same professor wrote a really nice one. Apparently, I won't get to see it! Ah well.

oh my! that is a really interesting scenario! I'd certainly put off accepting until you know more from them... they may mass friend people to boost their stats, but on the other hand, it would be really cruel to friend people they are rejecting!

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it sounds like you are in for 2012, although it is a bit ambiguous when they say "considered for 2012." Is this one of your main schools of choice? Would it be worth waiting until 2012?

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Since I will likely get an e-mail rejection (if I get one, think positive!!!) then maybe I will bounce it back and make them thing my e-mail address is no longer valid and just show up in September, no rejection = acceptance... right?!

Yeah, that is a tough one. Best of luck, and it certainly doesn't hurt to ask, and hopefully they will grant you a reimbursement!

Yeah, everything is supposed to be done by Thursday, but you never know. Hope it all clears up! I have a short trip next week to Atlanta, I'm hoping this is all cleared before I have to fly too!

Thanks! I have a pending interview (they will contact me to give me dates and arrange the flights), so that is very good! It is possible that I will even get a decision before the interview since the interview seems to do more with funding and some of the interdisciplinary centers on campus. I'm waiting for the next round of news, hopefully today!

Sounds like a fun dream!

Its almost the best time to go back to school. You have some experience in the work force, you know what its like out there and going to school can only help to hone those skills and when you go in to graduate school later in your life you are going to be a lot more serious about it then if you came straight from your undergrad studies.

snow flakes

It seems to be a trend nowadays to concentrate academics all in one go. This is actually (in my humble opinion, of course) more harmful than good. First, I think people need to get out and get experience in their field of choice after their undergraduate years. First off, you need to know if you like it. Second, you need to figure out what questions you want to ask. By the time most of us have finished our undergraduate we've been in school approximately 16 years of our lives. We're fed up, and ready to do something else, and we desperately lack "real world" experience. I think there is something about getting a couple years of experience and then going back into academia, if then! I am 7 years out of my undergrad and I am no longer in the same career that I was then. I am now switching gears, albeit a half gear, and changing my direction somewhat and honing it to something I am more interested in. This only came from experience and time in real work environments. What would have happened had I gone on to do an MA or PhD straight out of undergraduate studies? Well, I'd be stuck there now and maybe not very happy with my job and feel like I would need to change directions but probably feel like I've invested 8+ years in my education speciality and not want to walk away from it. Blah. One might even say that 30 is to young to start a PhD. My mom got her masters after she was 50... and why not??

I had a dream last week that my POI set up a conference call with himself, the department chair (who happened to be Severus Snape from Harry Potter) and me. In the end Snape didn't want to let me in unless I bribed him with $0.13. I refused. Seemed like a lot in the dream. The freaky part is, that very same day this POI e-mailed me to setup a call for that afternoon. Fortunately there was no involvement of Snape or the real department chair.

I have been wondering how to handle the situation where I have formed a friendship with a professor outside of academia. We have met and talked at conferences, and chatted many times in informal situations. Now where I am hoping to study under this professor, I am now challenged about how I should actually address him. Reverting to call him Dr so-and-so seems a bit cold and distant, but I would also like to show him the appropriate respect in the more formal situations. I suppose I will see how it goes in such situations should things turn out that way. I imagine I will revert to calling him Dr in the classroom environment, especially when addressing him in front of other students (unless they call him by his first name) and then in private or 1-on-1 situations, I will use more informal first name familiarity. Hopefully that will work!

clearly if you talking about moving from somewhere warm to somewhere prone to blizzards.... i'd rethink my applications!!! we're on blizzard watch here in Chicago... I'm hoping more than ever that I get accepted to UCSD! Enough of this crazy cold!

Congrats!!! Where to? place mat

I have an interview (pending) for UCSD, sometime next month (February). I have yet to get the details on that and I honestly don't know if this is normal for the anthro department. I am hoping to be working with a couple of the interdisciplinary centers on campus in addition to the normal PhD anthropological archaeology track, so it might be due to that. Historically I haven't seen any interviews for this program, but it is certainly possible that things are changing as well. Best of luck to everyone interviewing!

still waiting....

Well, it is a grad school application... what is a PhD dissertation without a colon, and what is a rejection letter without a semicolon?

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