Phonologist
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The new episodes are great, but damn I still miss Charlie
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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.
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Best response: pull your pants down and and hop around screaming.
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I'm trying to parse how those things could possibly be related and failing horribly.
A Jack & Water is the epitome of not-girly, as are beards.
Edit: See above also
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Jack & Water. Also, I have a beard.
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I just called Hopkins Cognitive Science to confirm my attendance at the interview day, and I found out that 13 people were invited, though apparently around 11 will be attending. Also, the events are expected to last from 8:30 in the morning to 6:00 in the evening, and then there are the "festivities" at the home of one of the current grad students. All candidates will be very well fed, it sounds, so I wouldn't worry about the long hours.
The secretary said that the whole thing was rather informal, though it seems like we'll be having lots of interviews, both in the morning and in the afternoon. Which professors did those of you attending request to meet? And Phonologist, you're iffy on coming to the JHU visit day? How come? What would be your top-choice programs, if I might ask?
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?
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If I'm accepted by my top choice, I shall do a double happy dance. DOUBLE.
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paigemont said:
IMO, UMass is easily the best choice over MIT. It certainly has stronger phonology, psycholing, etc...
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.
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That's 'cause the guys are too embarrassed to admit it.
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.
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Hello fellow linguists!! congrats on the new forum, it's much needed to reduce (at least my) anxiety.
I mostly do formal semantics and am also interested in its interface with syntax and pragmatics.
My interim results:
Accepted to -- UCLA, NYU, UMass (just heard a couple of hours ago, yay!!)
Interviews with -- UPenn, UCSC, Brown. Those three are probably my worst fits so I've contacted all three schools to let them know I have received better offers so they can stop considering me. I'm guessing from the interviews that UCSC planned on admitting me, UPenn and Brown maybe not so much...
Still waiting -- MIT, Rutgers.
I'm hoping to attend the Open House at UCLA and NYU so maybe I'll meet some of you there!
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.
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Any insight into how these interviews are conducted, or perhaps, into what their purpose really is? Or maybe we can figure out how many people will be at the Hopkins interview - it seems that in such a diverse department, those invited will scarcely overlap in research interests. But that may just be my impression.
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.
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In addition to the schools listed under your "still waiting" list, I'm still waiting for anything from UT-Austin, University of AZ, University of WA, and UNC-Chapel Hill. It's surprising to me that University of Oregon sent an acceptance to someone already; their deadline was only 2/1. Also, I haven't gotten my *official* rejection from UCSC yet; I've only interviewed with the faculty member whom I was hoping would advise me, and she told me that I'd need some further training before they could agree to accept me.
Updated - thanks!
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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!
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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.
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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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spontaneous outbursts of IPA symbols
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De-lurking to say: perhaps we linguists should just request a subconference of our own? Seems like there's enough of us that would benefit from it.
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.
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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.
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I never had that American college experience I see in all the movies.
You don't want it.
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Depends on how far you're willing to commute and how many people you're willing to live with. As you probably know from a minute's research, the Bay Area has one of the highest costs of living in the country (probably world). However, it's also extremely varied, and with BART you can commute from a very wide range of areas. If you live in Concord/PH/WC area it's a fairly short commute and you can rent rooms for $650-900. If that doesn't sound like a bargain to you, the Bay Area is probably not a good idea. Berkeley itself, at least the areas you can walk safely through at night, is more like $1000-1250 (again, this is rooms, not apartments). It's possible to find stellar deals anywhere, of course, but if they're properly advertised, you'll be looking at stiff competetion for them.
If you post areas in Concord/PH/WC I can tell you if they're decent or not. I know the neighborhoods here like the back of my hand. Berkeley itself I'm not as familiar with on a detailed scale.
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.
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Echoing the Songs: Ohia love. I've been listening to The Tigress lately - nine years later and still nearly perfect.
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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.
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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.
You're a linguist? So how many languages do you speak?
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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?