Darth.Vegan

So congrats are in order for my partner who just got an acceptance from UNC. If you thought acceptance emails didn't come on the weekend you would be mistaken. Congrats my love! I'm super proud of you!!!!!! (and jealous at the same time! haha)

That sounds like very sound advice faculty, thanks. Assuming I get any visit days I will try to visit all of them.

I also really like the thought of having actual faculty members in sociology on the board. In so many cases we are just speculating based on things we have read from other potential applicants, an inside perspective is always welcome. There may be some concerns as to faculty members at potential graduate programs seeing how we behave, but the fact is we should always assume that is the case anyway. It doesn't make me uncomfortable knowing there are faculty members reading this board, while I may have acted poorly in certain instances on this forum or any other, it doesn't matter. Overall, I greatly appreciate your input and hope that you stick around.

I haven't played in about a year but Team Fortress 2 is free for download and a lot of fun if you like multiplayer fps games.

Haha sorry!

Damn phone keeps dinging with messages, every time I hear it I gasp just a little bit. Damn this stressful time, haha!

Every morning I wake up and hope for an acceptance email, dammit! Just one and I will be able to relax while waiting for the others. Being in Hawai'i that is actually a very likely scenario too. 5 hours behind the east coast

I have a similar problem. A friend of mine (not close at all) is working on her PhD from the Chicago school of professional psychology, while not an online Program is a total diploma mill with a similar format as described above. I have wanted to warn this person that their degree might not be worth the time or expense but I don't know how to broach the subject without sounding like a pretentious dick.

What a great post Socing HxC, thanks for the insight!

Now the bear hugging video I can get behind.

congrats!

I also want to apologize to everyone else for my part in participating in or encouraging negative discussions here. I appreciate this forum greatly and have developed some amazing friendships with people on here. I know this kind of stuff is common in online forums, but I see GradCafe as hopefully something different.

Let's get this out of the way, this is the last time you will get a response from me on this forum. First, if you're referring to the Black Bloc incidents in Oakland, it would be wise to have your facts straight before commenting. Black Bloc members in Oakland chose to engage in the controversial tactic of property destruction and economic sabotage. I am well aware that many activists are uncomfortable with said tactics and there is certainly space to debate their merits. However, It was Black Bloc activists who were physically assaulted by folks screaming about non-violence, not the other way around. This mischaracterization is indeed intentional I imagine. That said, I'm not having this discussion on here, nor am I going to continue it with you at all. If you are truly interested in this debate, might I suggest looking up the Crimethinc debate with Chris Hayes on YouTube. Three, is that all? let me just say that in terms of PM's regarding your behavior on this forum, I've lost count. You've managed to get in spats and offend at least half the posters here. There was in fact not a single argument that I saw in the sociology sub forum until you showed up (and i've been posting here for 3 years). You're beyond arrogant and condescending. The reason people take such offense to your posts is the fact that you take such a blazen approach to ripping the work of other scholars and people with far more experience and intellectual development than yourself. I am not on this forum to get in political debates, last I checked this forum was for folks interested in applying to grad school. I am also not interested in your attempt to repackage your libertarian beliefs with academic prose (akin to the repackaging of creationism into intelligent design). Let's get this straight, you don't know me. Comments on a spattering of YouTube videos (taken out of context no less) from 2-5 years ago, are not reflective of who a person is or their beliefs. Police shoot beanbags at people because police are violent. I'm guessing the Occupy Folks that got hit with a barrage of teargas and beanbags WHILE SLEEPING, must have been victims of "my actions" (whatever those were). I also don't see how my interest in video games or martial arts has any relevance whatsoever, but hey, those childish attacks say more about your character than mine. It's been a pleasure, I'm done.

I would just like to ask that we stop hijacking threads, it's not fair to the OP's or to the rest of the members of the forum. If certain individuals would like to PM me to discuss the merits of direct action, or my personal political views on issues such as a "diversity of tactics," whether I consider property destruction "violence," or whether or not I believe the state is a fundamentally violent institution, feel free. If I am in the mood to have such a discussion, I will choose to reply. Frankly, this forum really isn't the place for it. I come here to share in my experience with potential graduate applicants in sociology. Yes, I have somewhat radical political views and I am happy to discuss them with polite, interested individuals. While my views may inform to some extent my world view, they do not make up all of who I am as a person or as a researcher for that matter. My views are not all that outside of the realm of folks in academia, you can have similar discussions with Angela Davis, Judith Butler, David Graeber, Noam Chomsky or the various outspoken political activists that happen to work in and out of academic circles (and whose research may or may not be in any way related to their political views).

How these two haven't been banned yet is beyond me. On another note, I could just hide both users posts, but when I get called out in a thread I didn't even post in, I wanna know about it.

Yeah it is. I figured the January 11th deadline was the best one because if you make it the decision needs to be made in mid-march and I figured I would know most if not all of my acceptances and rejections by then. Some graduate programs will let you defer admissions to participate in TFA too.

Not sociology related, but I applied to Teach for America as a backup option and got invited to participate in the phone interview. I am excited and nervous at the same time!

Congrats. I was totally fine, not nervous at all and now I'm freaking out haha.

When I say that you sound like an economist to me, I am speaking in terms of worldview, not in terms of methodology or whatever way you seem to want to interpret what I am saying.

This.

Sorry but you do come off as smug sometimes. You've even had the audacity at times to imply that well known scholars (you know, people with PhD's) don't understand their own arguments. You're surely welcome to your opinion, and I was by no means suggesting that it is somehow less than valid. What I am saying is that decades of sociological research is largely in conflict with the points you're making. That's not to say that you're wrong, I honestly am not educated enough at this point to make that claim, but your assuredness of your own position is off putting to say the least. For someone who is disillusioned with economics and switching to sociology, you still sound very much like an economist to me.

Consider it friendly advice.

@Econsocio, Have fun in sociology programs, I think you're going to hit a harsh reality when you eventually get into one. I would say well over 90% of the discipline would be incredibly disillusioned with the argument you're making here. Your tidbit about the green revolution is even more hilarious to me. I have yet to meet a single environmental sociology scholar who thinks the green revolution had an overall beneficial result, and that includes faculty from all the top programs with such specialities.

This is just completely inaccurate. Particularly in sociology, many of the faculty members at top 10 programs I have spoken to prefer older applicants with life experience. I really think your age, especially at 29 would have zero negative implications.

I have 4 in, 3 to go until graduation. I have 15 total, but the rest have January deadlines and I will do them after graduation!