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Reisberg's Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind is a solid undergrad cognitive psychology text.

Haha, I'm the same way, except that I'll be moving to a city where the nearest Ikea is 6 hours away :cry: . Actually, I'm really torn about what to move. I have some awesome second-hand furniture that I have found and fixed up over the past few years. I wouldn't get much by selling it, but I do have some decent items (solid wood, handmade) that I'm sentimentally attached to. I also have a bunch of Ikea stuff that, while cheap, might not be so cheap to replace at my destination. I'm thinking I need to take the all or none approach when it comes to furniture - rent a van/upak/pod and take it all, or sell it all and take all my other stuff in my car. I'm torn because it will cost pretty much the same to move everything as it will to buy it again... and while I'm attached to my stuff and don't really want to have to replace *everything*, I also love furniture shopping.

I was going to say the same thing as ElusiveMuse. Not even so much for the idea that you might not get along with your main advisor, but that I think it's important to have other people around to potentially collaborate with, or at least to bounce ideas off of. And if there are more faculty with similar interests to your own, that likely translates into more grad students working on those topics too. In any case, you'll be in a much better position to make a decision after your visits, so don't stress now. As many of us have found, schools can be very different in person than they are on paper. Good luck!

I would go, but I would beg the director to find me housing with another graduate student (or, really, talk to my potential advisor and lab-mates and see if one of them could put me up). One thing I'm learning over and over is that none of these schools seem the same in person as on paper. I don't think it matters so much that you go on the same weekend as everyone else (though meeting people that will be part of your new cohort is always nice), but I think it is important to go and meet your potential advisor, other students, and really get a feel for the program.

I wouldn't want someone writing me a letter that didn't actually care about my future success.