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Anywhere that's convenient to the Blue Line (or walking distance if you can afford living in West Loop).
The apartments you're finding for that cheap are usually either too far to walk to a CTA and/or in a 'bad' neighborhood. It seems like anywhere in the North side served by the Red or Brown line is pretty expensive and the areas in between those two trains are far less expensive.
I've seen these prices on Craig's list in Bridgeport, Pilsen and Logan Square. Some in Pilsen and LS were steps away from the CTA. To be honest, I've found the prices in Chicago very reasonable.
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Thank you both for the info.
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Hey guys,
I'm a new user to the forum, but used the results section heavily a couple of years ago and am using it again this year.
@Blurry, I went to UIC for grad school until 2010, and I lived in Bridgeport for a time. Bridgeport is a good place to live if you're not really into night life. My friend and I lived in a very affordable 2 bedroom apartment for $750/month. Granted, it was really small and it didn't look nice, but there are other places that are affordable and a lot nicer looking. Because it's not really the south side it's not dangerous. There are a good number of families that live around that area. You can take the train to UIC campus (you'll have to transfer once), or there's a number 8 bus I used to take that would take me right to the East Campus, and it took maybe 15-20 minutes.
Alternatively, you can live closer to campus. Right south of campus is called University Village, but those are nicer and pricier apartments probably into the thousands per month. Some undergrad students and grad students live there. There's also another neighborhood called Pilsen, which is close to UIC campus that is really affordable. It's a primarily Latino neighborhood, and most of the streets are safe 'cause there are alot of families (my friend's apartment once did get robbed, but that was because he lived on the ground floor and the door was very conspicuous).
Right now I live in Chinatown, which is also a great place to live: Close to trains, good restaurants, and rent is fairly cheap. The only caveat is you need to know someone to rent here: I tried living here about four years ago but couldn't get an apartment until I moved in with someone who already lived here.
@InquilineKea, it would be highly impractical to live in the suburbs and commute by train: There's one set of train systems that connect the city to the suburbs, and there's another set that connects the city to itself. As far as I know, there isn't a direct train from the suburbs to the UChicago area.
If you are not going to live in Hyde Park (but you want to live in the city nonetheless), you can drive or take the train/bus. If you take the train I think you'll still have to transfer to a bus that'll take you to campus (you can take the red or green line). There are buses that go directly down there, too, but I'm not so familiar with them.
Hope that helps!
Thanks. I've heard conflicting things abut Bridgeport: some say its unsafe; some say its great. I tend not to want to listen to the negative feedback since I come from a neighbourhood that people often protray negatively but that is quite safe and a great place to live. Are there better/worse areas of Bridgeport? Is it walkable?
Is pIlsen generally more expensive than Bridgeport?
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Most of the folks I know who go to UIC are Chicago natives, so they just live in whichever neighborhood they already like. It seems like it's pretty easy to commute to the UIC campus via the CTA, and if you live on the blue line, it'll be easy as pie. There may be some student neighborhoods around UIC, but I don't know 'em. What are your priorities for a neighborhood? Open spaces or urban density? Stuff for families to do or bars to go out to?
I will most likely be going with my girlfriend and night life isn't all that important to us. I'm thinking of proximity to Chicago's downtown, close to museums, cafes, restaurants, grocery stores, etc. Walkability is my priority, I guess, as well as being able to commute to UIC in 10-15 minutes or less. I prefer urban density.
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What are the best areas if one is going to UIC? How is Bridgeport?
I've also found apartments on craig'list that are well under 800$ in the chicago area, even 2 bedroom apartments in the 600$ range or 700+ square foot one bedrooms also in that price range.
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Hi everyone,
My girlfriend is finishing up her MLIS degree from McGill (specializing in Archival Studies) and I was wondering what the job prospects are for her in the United States, generally, and in Chicago more specifically. I just got into a school in Chicago and was wondering how feasible it would be for her to find employment there.
Thanks!
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Same here, NGrubb. The places I applied to had early-January deadlines and I don't expect to hear back until late February at the earliest, this wait is so stressful!
yeah... most of the Canadian schools I applied to only get back in mid-March
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A result has been posted from SUNY Albany, although from the comments it seems that the timing is unusual.
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Does anyone know if Canadian schools are slower than American schools in processing applications? I know that some Canadian schools told me not to expect any news until March, and this seemed a little late.
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Hi all,
I have a dilemma, I am applying for grad school for Fall 2012. I am schedule to go to two interview OHSU and ASU. I am having second thoughts about grad schools because I have a full time job and do not want to leave it. I know if I leave it, I will be throwing about 1/2 of my paychecks while in grad schools should I get accepted. I do not know if I will be accepted yet, but have interviews for these two schools so far. What should I do, should I go to interviews and wait to I get accepted to make a decision. How do people in Phd programs survived the financial burden?
I sincerely suggest that you do the interviews and at least get a confirmed decision. Many people regret not doing their PhD and I think that it will be much more difficult to try and get back into graduate school later on. I do not think that financial woes should discourage you from attending graduate school; living on a graduate stipend is really not that bad.
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I'm at York as well and haven't heard anything yet. Can I safely assume you haven't either?
That's quite odd, I would contact your awards office.
I have been contacted by SSHRC today to confirm the receipt of my application for the Doctoral Award as well as the application number.
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Thanks. I was leaning that way as well, but etiquette in academia is not always obvious.
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I was wondering when you ought to tell you referees about the results of your applications. Should you notify them of every decision as soon as they come in? Is it better to wait until you've heard from every school?
Many thanks.
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It was mostly my upper division courses for my major/minor, and one graduate course in my major. My major GPA is 4.0.
If you are applying in the same field as your major, then I doubt the overall GPA will hinder your application. It may affect your chances of securing entrance fellowships, etc., outside the department, but I do not think it will hinder your chances of securing admission. Add to this that your better grades come from upper division courses; you should not have much to worry about. I think you are a competitive applicant.
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Just checked, their deadline was Dec 15th. They also say that they "start working on applications right away", they weren't kidding.
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Maybe they had an earlier deadline? I did not apply either.
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In addition to American Schools I applied to McGill, UofT, Calgary and UBC.
Best of luck to everyone.
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In philosophy (which is still generally, but not universally, considered a humanities) both the verbal and the quantitative score are given equal weight. It is not unusual in philosophy to see very high quantitative score, so a lower quant score would disadvantage you. However, I wanted to add, that these scores are interpreted differently depending what particular field you specialize in.
In analytic philosophy in general and logic, philosophy of mathematics, philof social sciences, general philof science, experimental philosophy etc., in particular, the quantitative score would be a more significant factor than it would be in continental philosophy. In fact, I imagine that in many fields in analytic philosophy the quantitative score would be more important than the verbal score.
In history, I also imagine that a historian of science or mathematics would need a high quantitative score not to raise any suspicion. So I would not say that the humanities do not care about the math component. In fact, someone specializing in logic within a philosophy department would have to show much more mathematical aptitude than nearly every social science (safe for economics where pure math skills are also important). Check this out: philosophy tends to outperfom most social sciences in quantitative and I think this makes sense given the demand for mathematical aptitude in analytic philosophy.
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I think only a spouse and children can be added as dependants and not adult siblings.
Be sure about this. There are clauses for qualifying relatives (usually) if they are living with the person in question and dependent on them. I would go through your sister's health plan in detail and ask about this.
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On 1/19/2012 at 10:49 PM, Javslavin said:
I'll throw my hat into the ring:
For PhD I've applied to:
Duke
UNC
Indiana
Arizona
UCSD
Colorado
WashU
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pittsburgh
CUNY
Rutgers
Harvard
MIT
And for MA:
Milwaukee
GSU
Wyoming
All for a concentration in Phil of cog sci/ Phil mind.
GREs: 166 verbal 156 quant and 5.5 analytic
GPA: 3.8
I'm with y'all! Wish me the best of luck and best to everyone else.
I recommend some good beer and good shows to make the time pass.
Best
Javs
That's a great list. Best of luck!
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Something along the lines of "thank you so much for the reply, the info was very useful. I went ahead and contacted the person you suggested." My first instinct is to be very formal in my emails, so I always appreciate others' input re tone.
I think this is fine. You genuinely want to send a thank you email, rather than asking whether you are obliged to do so. In this respect you are sincerely thanking the person. I am also quite nervous about etiquette and never know what is appropriate but mostly, when expressing thanks, the worry you probably have is that you come off 'brown-nosy'. There is no way to control the manner in which a professor interprets small things like this and there is no point, I think, in trying to control it. If you felt you should say thank you, then do it. I express my thanks for pretty much any small mundane thing but that's the way I was brought up.
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Yes, she'll be doing a post-doc.
Then she should have acces to some subsidized health insurance from the university; couldn't she simply add you as a dependant? (I'm not sure about this nor about the costs of doing so).
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2/13
I'm not optimistic.
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I tend to always send a thank you email, even for mundane things. Do you mean that you wish to send the professor a more elegant email than just the two words "thank you"?
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Thanks!
I waas looking at Logan square because of its proximity to the blue line. One can get to UIC by bus from Pilsen and Bridgeport.
How would one go about getting a rental agent? What do they ask for (money)?