Phonologist

I heard that linguistics is the most-dropped major at UCLA (or in the College of Letters and Science or whatever you call it there). Do you know if this is true?

The new episodes are great, but damn I still miss Charlie

I can see why UCSC responded the way they did. Linguistics isn't at all user-friendly; you'd be surprised how much background knowledge and understanding you need just to get through most Language papers. Even still, there's a big gap between understanding what's going on in a paper and understanding it well enough to be insightful about it. If you can clear that gap, then you may be capable of doing good research. Any grad program will want to see that you're somewhere towards the end of that sequence, or at least that you're clearly getting there.

Best response: pull your pants down and and hop around screaming.

A Jack & Water is the epitome of not-girly, as are beards. Edit: See above also

Jack & Water. Also, I have a beard.

I confirmed my visit today as well. I was waiting to see if they would let me leave early since I have an interview at Stanford the next day at 8 in the morning. I'll be leaving Baltimore around 5, so I guess I'll be missing out on the "festivities." My top choices are UCLA and MIT; wait-listed for funding at the former and still waiting on the latter. Edit: Did Barbara say anything about how many they were expecting to admit from those invited to the interview?

If I'm accepted by my top choice, I shall do a double happy dance. DOUBLE.

That's debatable - for the kind of phonology I'm interested in, MIT is on the cutting edge. In fact, I didn't even apply to UMass.

I had a pretty innocent crush on a professor from my alma mater. She was beautiful and one of the most genuinely awesome people I've ever met. Always smiling, funny, full of good advice and understanding... sigh. I mean, she didn't break my heart or anything, but I'll be quite the sad phonologist if I can't someday find a girl with at least a few of her qualities.

Congrats on the acceptances! I'm going to call it right now and say you're good for MIT as well - you've made it into the other top programs, and foreign students always do much better than American students at MIT in terms of getting accepted.

I'm probably going to be at the Hopkins interview. I think you're right about the scarcely overlapping research interests - I thought for sure they were going to toss my app because I wasn't enough of a "cognitive scientist," but I guess they really do support a wide range of interests. Of your options, capital.L, I would give Hopkins some serious consideration; of the schools you mentioned, Hopkins by far does the best job of sending their graduates to good jobs.

Updated - thanks!

Now that we've got our own sub-forum, let's get the ball rolling with some discussion and admissions results. As of 2/17: Acceptances/Interview invites/Wait-lists (An R indicates that these schools have informed applicants of rejections as well; P indicates that, based on historical data/other factors, you're probably rejected if you haven't heard anything). Brown Cornell - R CUNY Graduate Center Delaware Georgetown Harvard Johns Hopkins (cognitive science) - P Northwestern - P NYU Ohio State - R Rutgers Stanford - P SUNY Buffalo UC Berkeley - R UCLA - R UChicago - R UCSC - R UCSD - R UIUC UMass Amherst University of Arizona - R University of Connecticut University of Maryland - College Park - R University of Michigan - Ann Arbor University of Oregon UPenn - R UT Austin - R Yale - R Still Waiting MIT UNC - Chapel Hill UW Seattle more? The list above isn't complete, so let me know if you have any suggestions/revisions/additions, especially regarding the "P" and "R" annotations. You'll notice that I've included only pure linguistics/linguistically-oriented cog.sci. programs, because I'm afraid it'd get too unmanageable otherwise. Good luck to everyone!

I've tried out a lot of responses to this question, and I usually go with "linguistics is the study of people's ability to use language." Of course, this gives the wrong idea sometimes as well. I don't think there's any perfect one-line response.

Thegradcafe is by far the best of these sites. The others are a waste of time because not enough people go there for it to be of any use.

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Yeah, so many of us popped up! I suppose we could resurrect the linguistics thread from 2006 in The Menu > Humanities > Languages, but there's probably a more appropriate place for it. By the way, your list keeps getting fancier! (we've been talking on lj) Edit: I put in a request for a sub-forum on the comments forum for us.

That's why I love dads and why I started the thread. I don't know what it is, but so many people have dads that do funny things.

You don't want it.

You're exaggerating a bit. Though there are a lot of pricey apartments, you can easily find a room in a two bedroom apartment for $600-800 in a relatively nice area. $20,000 for nine months is more than enough; I've been living comfortably off of 17K for the whole YEAR.

Echoing the Songs: Ohia love. I've been listening to The Tigress lately - nine years later and still nearly perfect.

What's your dad like? Mine has been very supportive by paying for all of my application-related expenses. He also pretends to be interested when I call and prattle on about all this stuff for hours. He's always the first person I want to call whenever I hear anything from a school. My dad is awesome. Go Dad! You can also talk about your mom.

I brought my mom to my undergrad orientation when the vast majority didn't. I probably would have preferred that she didn't come, but I could tell it was really important to her for some reason. She was really happy to go, so I'm glad I took her. She made just as many friends as I did; people were asking about her when I got to campus in the fall! I'll echo the "take her but set boundaries" advice. I'm sure she won't be offended.