Weitz

Got it, second year applying. For what it's worth, I didn't even get an HM last year and was super friggin depressed. Don't let not getting an HM stop any of you from reapplying.

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fastlane down?

lol, my email came at 3:36 am last year. Gonna stay up a bit more I guess. More battlestar galactica

Sigh. Well, it's 3 AM. Nothing up yet.

Okay, so the "fastlane is down message" went up not too long ago- but it says it'll be down until 5AM eastern time. Does that mean I stay up until 5 AM? Or is there some sort of email that is sent out before then? I am a bit confused about the procedure from here.

Woe be us. Emailed my PI- the first round of acceptances were sent out, I'm in the next group. Don't know if there were official rejections sent out. Guess I'm going to put off the decision some more. Sigh.

As I understood it, tornadoes are not common in Lawrence. Lawrence is unusual from our stereotype of Kansas in one huge way- it's hilly. Tornadoes don't do well with hills, nor do they do well with the river. It tends to break them down. I think the last big one was 2003? But yeah, hail, it happens. And freezing rain, sleet, etc. I think of this more of a winter-thing than a tornado thing.

Talked with a few people, two of which I thought were def shoe ins. Apparently one of them had heard that nothing had gone out yet. I emailed Anna, but she never got back to me : / Is the word otherwise?

Just visited KU and their EEB program, and I thought Lawrence was pretty rad for its size. Keep in mind, I'm a Berkeley student and a SF native, so I can be quite critical about quality of life comparisons. Knowing that KU was smaller, I was still pleasantly surprised. Massachusetts street was awesome and there was decent food, book stores, music stores, and live music venue (live music, especially indie rock and folk seems like a big part of Lawrence, actually). I hear that w hen it's not freezing-ass cold outside, you get a lot of buskers (street musicians) outside. I absolutely *need* coffeeshops to be happy (I like to study in them), and there seemed to be plenty of non-starbucks coffeeshops. Even a nice, albeit not-so-great-for-studying, bar/coffee shop combo called the Bourgeois pig where they infused their own vodka and gin. Having Kansas City nearby seems pretty rad. My PI, who had been to both Berkeley and New York City says she and her husband will often drive there for specific things they can't get in Lawrence, and it isn't all that far away. I would say, yes, you do need a car. I'm going to be driving mine down from San Francisco. I'll also have a bike though, as I don't want to use my car unless weather is terrible or I'm getting groceries. Compared to Berkeley, KU seems to be a heaven for parking. There's no such thing as 2 hour residential parking, so you don't need a garage or a paid parking spot for your car. Be warned, if you have a fancy, expensive car, you'll probably want covered parking. Because of hale. As for parking on campus, it seemed pretty possible to me. You'd probably have to be smart about it- I hear parking on west campus and taking the pretty frequent bus is the best option. As for apartments, I absolutely detest modern apartment towers (both school owned and independent) in a small city like Lawrence, which has beautiful grand houses where they rent by the room or have subdivided them into studios. I'm looking at renting a room in a house or getting a one bedroom. Beware of land lords that have basically thrown up more walls and crammed their now-ruined houses with students. Look around for something nice. If your stipend is decent/you have some outside money/you're staying for at least 5 years, you should consider buying a house, putting down the ten percent, and paying the morgage and renting the spare room (s) to other students. It might make more sense. I want non-bio friends! New KU grads should get together

Turns out that, in despite of being inferior in terms of GPA and GRE, I did get into graduate school! I got into University of Kansas, with funding *and* nominated for a university-wide fellowship. I had to fly out for an interview for the fellowship and I find out about it on Friday. I interviewed at the Richard Gilder Graduate school three weeks ago, and I hadn't heard anything back. I was under the impression that I would find out within a week, at most, so I assumed I had neither been a first round accepted or a first round rejected applicant. I just found out (a week ago, really), that *no one* had heard anything. So now the decisions are back on, which kind of sucks since I began mentally committing myself to going to KU. It'll be rough if I get into both KU and RGGS. They are both great for what I want to do, just veeerrry different programs. Getting this fellowship I interviewed for will weigh heavily for KU if it happens. Any one else in a similar boat? Heard anything about the Richard Gilder graduate school?

Balls, Entomology, you're basically me but with better GRE and GPA. I knew it was bad when my friend introduced me to this website today. I'm more interested in paleoentomology than general systematics, which may work in favor of two of the schools I applied for. By any chance are you at Cornell with Bryan Danforth?