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Thank you all for the advice. I let them know earlier today.

Thanks, that's a good point.

Ok, just wanted to make sure!

I definitely intend to let them know ASAP, and it hasn't even been 12 hours since I heard I got accepted so I haven't spent too much time dragging my feet. But they're the least fitting school for me out of the 7 schools I've heard some so far, so I definitely don't think it's fair to them to visit at their expense when chances are slim that I will go there. The only thing I'm hesitant about right now is that I don't know where I'm actually going for sure yet, so I don't have much detail to give them. Is it okay to be completely vague?

I'm trying to figure out exactly what to do about this. I'm to the point where I don't think I can handle visiting all of the schools I've been accepted to and I don't think it's necessarily fair to visit a school at their expense when they are towards the bottom of my list based on fit at this point. I'm concerned that my mind may change after visiting, but I'm also concerned that too much travel could affect the quality of my coursework and thesis right now. I'm just not sure how to go about this tactfully.

So I've seen some hate on here about sunglasses indoors. What if someone is extremely photosensitive to the point where any light makes them feel like their eyes are going to burst into flames? I've tried to bear it without wearing sunglasses but I had to constantly blink and that distracted my professor. It's not every day for me but it's enough days that people notice. It's a side effect either of my medicine or the condition I'm medicated for, not sure which. Is it really better to not show up than to wear sunglasses? I don't want to seem rude or offend someone.

I'm definitely considering it but I feel like I need to visit everywhere before I make a decision.

I go to USF for undergrad now and I'm used to worse public transportation than Tampa has. We didn't have even a single bus route where I grew up, so Tampa is pretty stellar by my standards. Finding parking on campus is definitely pretty bad, though. I usually just walk because the heat is really not that bad as long as you stay properly hydrated and it's only likely to be a half hour walk each way. I live right next to campus and I've never had any trouble with loud parties or anything like that. I was born and raised in Florida and I've never lived in another state or even seen snow so I guess my perspective is different. I am kind of looking forward to most likely leaving Florida for graduate school, but I will miss the weather here. As far as restaurants go, I'd recommend Tazza Cafe. It's very small but the food and the service are both excellent.

My fiance is willing to move wherever I decide to attend. He's not sure if he ever wants to go to grad school so he's going to start working and as far as we're both concerned, the most important thing is that we stay together. I feel very fortunate.

I mentioned it at some schools but not at others and have been accepted at schools where I mentioned it as well as schools where I didn't. In my case I was on a medication for a medical condition (where I'm not really functional at all without medication) and as my dose was increased it started to greatly affect my memory. It affected my class performance across the board but I didn't realize what was going on as I thought I was just doing poorly because the classes were harder. I was studying more than I ever had before but not retaining anything. It wasn't until it got to the point where I could only rarely remember my name and phone number and I started even forgetting words several times per sentence that my friends and SO started to get concerned and saw my neurologist to switch me to a different medication, which turns out works even better than the previous one at only about a third of the dose. I've achieved high grades in harder classes than the ones I was in at the time since. I didn't spend nearly this long explaining it in the SOPs where I did touch on it, but since I've been accepted everywhere I mentioned it, it at least didn't hold me back anywhere. But since I've also been accepted at schools where it wasn't mentioned it's also possible that the dip wasn't bad enough to keep me out anyway, so I don't really know what to conclude from that.

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I've posted each of my acceptances and have received an overwhelmingly positive response on each one (10-35 likes per status). I've never been anything but happy to see that distant friends from high school or even who I haven't seen since middle school got in somewhere as well.

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California Institute of Technology (Caltech): March 1-3 or March 22-24 Cornell: March 2-4 or March 30-April 1 Colorado State: Feb 17-19, March 9-11 Georgia Tech: March 15-17, April 5-7 Montana State: March 1-4 MIT: March 30-April 1 Northwestern University: March 8-10, 15-17, 29-31 Scripps: Feb 23-25 or March 1-3 Stanford: March 1, 8, 15 or 22 (may combine with a Friday visit to Berkeley) UC Berkeley: March 1-3, March 8-10, March 15-17 or March 22-24 UCI: March 2, 9, 16 UC LA: January 27, March 2 or March 23 U Chicago: February 16-18 or March 8-10 U Florida: February 17-19 or March 16-18 UIUC: Feb 17-18 or March 2-3 or March 23-24 or March 9-10 (Pchem) or March 30-31 (Pchem) UMich: February 2-5 UNC Chapel Hill: March 9-12 or March 30 - April 1 U Oregon: March 16-18 UPenn: March 16th-18th UT Southwestern (Interview): Feb 2-4 UVA: March 15th-16th University of Washington: March 9-10 Yale (General Chemistry): March 22-24

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