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  1. I agree that you ought to make the most of your Irvine visit to really make sense of what you should do. Evaluate how well of a fit the department is for you (in terms of your subfield being respected, opportunities for individual research and publication, and faculty members who are enthusiastic in your work and would genuinely help you through grad school and beyond), and also explore the area beyond campus to determine whether you'd be able to live there. UCI has some good places around campus, such as an 'art-film' theatre, but once you hit Newport, Corona Del Mar and the other beach towns, you will start to encounter more of the stereotypical 'OC' attitudes. It's still prevalent as you head away from the coast, but people tend to be more covert about their wealth (as in, it's not as in-your-face as the coastal towns, by my perception). This said, I grew up in a city in Orange County, about 20 minutes away from Irvine. I was always the 'poor' kid among my friends, and I had to actually work a job to get money (shock!). For UG, I moved out to Chicago. If you want more of my perspective living in OC, Triangle, go ahead and PM or e-mail me.
  2. Looks like the second wave of rejections/acceptances went out tonight (midnight?).... and as my updated signature indicates, I didn't make the cut. :| Le sigh, two more schools to go. Come on... Virginia!
  3. So you became self-disciplined when you did not acquiesce to the established norm. 8)
  4. I'm hyper-sensitive about the title thing, too -- but only because I know some professors, regardless of signature, are hyper-sensitive about it themselves. I'm a fan of addressing them as Prof. Surname (especially in person) until I am corrected to do otherwise. I've had one situation where a professor insisted I call her by her first name; but I also had a professor who signed her e-mail "Prof. Surname" after I addressed her by her first name. I took that as a hint. It's better to be over-respectful than not respectful enough, especially when you're trying to woo potential advisors at an Open House.
  5. I'm 21, will barely be 22 when I start... As for jobs, I had a full-time hourly-wage job back in the day (associate manager at a movie theatre) and (poorly) salaried editorial positions on newspapers (copyeditor, editor-in-chief... I actually stressed in my personal statement that I'm trained first and foremost as a journalist, and that makes me a good sociologist). Sprinkle in some crap-not-real-jobs for good measure, like Starbucks. I also RA'd for a professor for free for the experience, but that wasn't anywhere near full-time. I considering taking a year off before grad school, but I am honestly so excited about researching my respective topic (conducting two studies on it now!). I applied only for schools I'd be really happy attending, the thought being if I didn't get in to any of those, I'd take a year and try again. I CANNOT wait for grad school. I did not expect 'senioritis' in any form to infest me, but here it is...
  6. Thanks for the good luck, Tiger. I honestly don't think we could go back to LD, esp. for all the years of a Ph.D. program. Having a significant other definitely complicates the already-complicated process/decision of grad school. Good luck to everyone!
  7. Undergrad thesis here; I'm a double-major in POLS and SOC, and I'm submitting separate -- but related -- theses to each dpt. I'm looking at how liberal and conservative Protestant groups define their American identity differently: is America the 'city on the hill' and God's Chosen Nation, do Americans have a moral/religious obligation to help other nations, etc.? I have a theory chapter, a content analysis, and an ethnography of a 'liberal' congregation in Chicago. But because the topic is so broad, I keep getting distracted on tangents: the most recent being public/private sphere theory by Michael Warner and Craig Calhoun, and Thomas Jefferson's 'wall of separation.' Oye vey! I honestly did not expect waiting on grad school results to be this consuming. I'm supposed to be so much further on this project than I actually am... Anyone have any 'focus' techniques? I just discovered gradcafe, and it's probably more a curse than a blessing that will just feed into my obsessive e-mail/website checking.
  8. My boyfriend of X-many years and I BOTH applied for Ph.D. programs that would start in the fall (different fields, though). It's a difficult equation to maximize our chances of remaining together while feeling like neither one of us is compromising in the education we'd receive. So this is what we did: we spent about a month doing personal research as to what programs are best in our respective (sub)fields, then we compared notes. Fortunately we had about five schools in common, and we called attention to some schools the other wouldn't have considered looking into otherwise (ie, I 'inspired' him to look into UVirginia). I ended up applying to seven, him eight. Some of our schools happen to be close enough to each other so that we'd still be able to live together, even if we don't get into the same program. Of course we're still hearing back, and we haven't been accepted to any of the same programs (yet!)... but we did get accepted to two schools that are close enough to each other that our relationship is no longer threatened! (BTW, we were long distance for the first year of UG... but it's a completely different commitment to do that for all of grad school... I know a current grad student in Chicago, though, whose fiance goes to school in Wisconsin...)
  9. Nope; I haven't heard anything either. (Been checking that online application like a hawk!) The posted results show some activity has already been happening... perhaps the decision comes in waves? But of course I'm over-analyzing the situation. Oye, the joys of grad applications.
  10. I'm currently an over-involved SOC undergrad at UIC -- the faculty and current grad students are awesome; some of the most genuine down-to-earth people I've ever met. The immigration mobilization project expands multiple soc sci disciplines, and there are so many ways to get involved in it in various levels of commitment (a few of my fellow UG friends are working on it). The department as a whole seems relaxed, yet underacknowledgely bright -- if that makes sense. Faculty are doing some great work, and I only wish UIC's reputation met the caliber of the sociological work being done there. I would have totally applied there for grad, but (a) I wanted to go somewhere different, and ( my interests do not correlate with the department's AT ALL. Feel free to shoot me general questions about the department/area/etc. -- bear in mind, though, that I experienced UIC as an undergrad.
  11. I didn't apply to USC, but UCSD accepted me via generic e-mail Thursday, Feb. 12. The recruitment day information e-mail came on Wednesday (2/18), and one of the two faculty members with whom I want to work called me yesterday (2/20) to talk about the program. Recruits are responsible for arranging their own travel for the "Open House" Mar. 11-12, but the department will reimburse travel costs up to a certain limit: $100 from SoCal, $150 from NorCal, $300 from out of state. Their decision may be coming in waves, but this is when I heard. Let me know if you have any UCSD-related questions!
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