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Anyone else heading to Iowa City this fall?

State Farm. My bank (Wells Fargo) actually had a thing where they would compare all the insurance options for me and tell me which was best. They didn't include SF in their analysis, but I called SF myself and they ended up being cheapest. Even so, if your bank offers this kind of option, it may be worth a shot.

You're probably right. :/ Better not to tempt myself, even.

I saw this on the History subforum and thought it seemed like a good idea. This should be more clear than the general Psych Fall 2014 applicants thread, and also allows for completely anonymous disclosure (unless you want to include your username). This will be helpful, I hope, for future psychology applicants to see what past students have been offered funding-wise at various schools and departments (and subfields) when choosing where to apply. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AleHkppLmYnIdDdlaTBEcXQzM1Z6RTM0enJJdVJLZnc#gid=0

I'm planning on a Macbook air with all the specs (including add-ons), as it will best fit my needs (and all my software is only Mac compatible). Wondering how it is for gaming, though? Anyone have experience running, say, Skyrim from Bootcamp on MB air?

Kerry Washington was in Django Unchained with Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz was in Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was on ep 107 of Larry King Live with Jim Carrey Brittney Snow, Lupita Nyong'o

I really, really don't like PBR. As for my feelings on hipsters: I'm not much of a fan if they're hipsters of the over-college-age sort, because I feel like that sort of "trying to be cool" vibe should end with graduation. But I'm also a person who was never particularly cool to begin with and is probably pretty boring tbh, so maybe I'm just bitter.

I'm 25, and I think I didn't grow up until I was 23 in terms of adult activities. At 23 I was on my own, paying 100% of my own bills with no parent bailouts ... which is something when you have a genetic disease that hospitalizes you frequently and really racks up the medical bills. But once I started paying my own bills, having to make my own budgets (and follow them!), care about my credit score, buy a car and auto insurance, etc., I started to feel like I was an actual adult. To an extent I'm still reliant on my parents for emotional support because I call them quite often, but that's mostly because we have been through a lot together and I see them as friends and allies in many ways. While for some people calling their parents daily = immature, for me it's not an object. In terms of emotional maturity, I think I grew up when I was 20 and had a really bad exacerbation of my genetic condition. I had to take years off of school after that and went through a lot of very difficult hospitalizations and 20 was about the point when I think I started to solidify my personality and become the kind of person I considered mature. This was not entirely due to the hospitalizations, tbf. But I think I started to piece things together more. I started not letting myself get away with flimsy excuses for my behavior; I took responsibility for myself and held myself accountable. tl;dr, I think self-responsibility is what makes someone mature. And there are two kinds of responsibility: the pragmatic kind (paying bills, etc.) and the emotional/psychological kind. They happen at different points for everyone. Believe me, I know plenty of people who are responsible with their bills, but I would never trust them with my heart. And just as many people who I trust to be honest and sincere and so on, but I'd never ask them to so much as water my plants for me. (edited to preserve anonymity; said genetic disease is rare enough to excuse me not specifying it)

I got a Macbook Pro 5 years ago and it is only just now nearing the end of its lifespan (I can hear the telltale click). I'm planning to get a 13 inch Macbook Air next, as my PI recommends it for portability and I plan to use an external HDD to offset the limited storage capacity. Otherwise I plan to max out the specs. I've heard good things about the longevity of the HDD on the newer Macbooks as well. I'd try a PC for financial reasons, but downsides are: all my software is Mac, and if I got a PC I'd spend 90% of my time playing Skyrim instead of being productive.

I haven't gotten less productive -- if anything, I've gotten more so -- but I definitely feel a bit stir-crazy. I'm ready to be an official graduate student, but I guess we still have to wait another 5.5-6 months!

I'll be working up until 20 days before grad school starts, but I'm hoping to go abroad during those 20 days, so hopefully it won't be too stressful.

$0 for undergrad. I don't think I'll need to take out loans for grad school, either. I did just pay off a $12000 debt of medical expenses, though.

Meyers-Briggs is pretty pseudoscientific, but I scored INTP when I took the official test. (Freshman year seminar made us take it. To this DAY I don't know why.) I always score INTP, strong INT, weak P/J when I take it now, too. My OCEAN traits are very high openness, very high conscientiousness, very low extraversion, low agreeableness, high neuroticism.

1) Go to Chicago 2) Write a lot of fiction while I still can 3) Go to Israel 4) Learn a new language

8 pages, 11 pt TNR font. Two years out from undergrad with pubs.

I'm in social psych, so I read all the APS journals in addition to Nature Neuroscience, JPSP, Psych Bulletin, Emotion, Science, and JDM. Those seem to cover the majority of my interests. I'll also read anything posted to the websites of PIs whose work I find particularly interesting.

25-50 a month. Partly because I'm working on two meta-analyses and partly because I'm trying to read all the articles my boss (I'm a lab manager right now) assigns to his grad seminar class. I'll also read any of the articles that show up in my email from journal subscriptions that have interesting abstracts.

Chopin, Liszt, and Bach for classical. Mongolian throat-singing also works pretty well for some reason. I enjoy it with Kant.

I'm pretty sure I know where I'll be going to for grad school, and sadly the Jewish life is likely to be damn slim. (I've only lived in one city with a Moishe House and it was so awesome. Wish I could do it again.) Any suggestions for finding Jewish community in small towns with vastly Protestant majority? I'm not super religious; I'm secular but the community aspect of Judaism is very important to me. Hillel is likely to be overrun by undergrads, though it's possible there's a grad student group I suppose.

I've been accepted, and I plan to stay after I start grad school to seek advice on the Officially Grads board as well as give advice to applicants. I might make an account over at the Chronicle's fora as well.

I religiously keep Moleskine notebooks for any research-related notes. I have about five of them filled up and sitting in my office right now. I used to care about pens until they kept getting stolen. Now I try not to get attached. Gnome Chomsky - I study in the shower. Print out materials, stick 'em inside a quart-sized ziploc bag, and press that against the wall of your shower and you're good to go.

UNC - Feb 7 Arizona State (behavioral neuroscience) Feb 7-8 Northwestern, Feb 7-8 IU Bloomington, Feb. 7-8 U Iowa - Feb 8-10 WUSTL, Feb 12-14 NYU Feb 14/21 Western Michigan Feb 14-15 West Virginia Feb 14-15 U Chicago 2/15-2/17 Cornell: 2/21-22 University of Washington, Feb 21-22 Rochester: 2/21 Auburn (experimental), Feb 21-22 U Mich, Feb 21-22 Rutgers, Feb 28 UC Merced: 2/28-3/1

I'll finish my current contract at my research job, and then I think I'll go on a trip to Israel. Maybe take an entire week off for my little sister's graduation (5 hr flight away) as well, instead of just a weekend. I'll only have a "summer" of 20 days, though, between the end date of my current job and the start of grad school, if I attend my top choice (which I've been accepted to, so, uh, yeah).

Accepted to my top choice! :D