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  1. Michigan State TISM and COM are having their visiting weekends this weekend, for whoever was asking. They may still make offers to second-tier people later in the year, although that is not for sure based on available funding.
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    East Lansing, MI

    Lansing can definitely be a nice place to live. Check out the East Side of Lansing (west of 127 and Frandor, between Kalamazoo and Lake Lansing) for decent grad student housing/apts, or down around Forest Lane. If people do live in EL they tend to live in Okemos (tons of apts) or up north of Lake Lansing (Abbott/Chandler Rd). Its not too hard to get an apt, although short-term leases tend to be in kind of sketchy places (there is one on the south side near Lowes that is particularly gross, but I can't remember the name) As far as work for non-academic partners and summer jobs, opportunities can be tough to find, but they do exist. If you are willing to be open minded and work hard, you can do ok, as the cost of living is so reasonable. For example we did fine on grad student (me) + americorps (him) salary our first year in town, which would have been hard anywhere else. Good luck w/ your decision!
  3. Hey dischordinthegarden if you are talking about the twitter chat, don't let that depress you. Plenty of people get comm degrees and don't want to go into marketing or advertising. If you like media research try volunteering with a research team in your university, see if you can go to one of the conferences (ICA, NCA, AEJMC, or ECA because it's near you) and check out who is doing stuff you like. Read the journals and see who writes stuff that interests you. Its late now to apply for next year but that gives you plenty of time to prep. Find out what the programs where people you like are working would want in an applicant and try to get that experience or test scores. If you have high scores and research experience, you might be able to get funded for your MA (I did). The MA is also a good place to figure out if you a) like research and want to continue before taking the leap to a phd program. Most people I know in comm programs did one before applying to the phd program. Of course some people knew they wanted to go for the PhD at the onset, and for them applying directly to a PhD program (or one that incorporates a MA, like UCSB, or MSUs MA/PhD track) was a good option. I know people applying this year have already done all this, but I was totally clueless when I started looking for programs and doing everything listed above helped me out a ton. Good luck
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