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@Benzene, congratulations on accepting your offer! Hopefully within the next few weeks I'll join you! Thanks to everyone else for responding and posting about hosing, it's the next thing that I'm looking to figure out. Do any of you have a good, reliable place to search for a roommate? I have been looking online at Craigslist for a bit but it still kind of weirds me out. Are there any other good ways to do this? I feel like housing options are almost unlimited but I'd like to try and live with someone else, at least for the first year. Thanks in advance!

I agree it seems strange that they would use Facebook to announce dates. Well of course now I've got to go and Like this page...

Ah that makes sense! Yeah, I saw Bryan when I visited, and ate at a place called the Lemon Drop (I think!) and it is indeed very small. Good place to go for a *very* quiet afternoon lol. I am definitely looking forward to big athletic events, i.e. football and basketball. I'm a huge sports fan and my undergrad school doesn't have a huge athletic program except for basketball so I'm really looking forward to that part of A&M. Have you started to scope out places to live yet?

I hear you about the housing prices! Coming from St. Louis, they do seem to good to be true. I visited last weekend and was impressed with campus. Funny that you say that about nightlife though... I assumed with all of the bars and undergrads around that the nightlife would be pretty vibrant! What have people told you about it?

I hate to jump in on this and make you feel worse but I agree with the above... Just got out of a +3 year long distance relationship and while I was always happy with the relationship, the distance really did us in (400 miles apart). It is just so hard to depend on someone to be there for you when they're not physically with you. And when you're really stressed out that unfortunately can manifest itself in the relationship via way of small fights, snippy comments, etc. It was a huge learning experience for me and I was very, very happy most of the time but I wouldn't recommend it to others to embark on

Anyone else accepted/going to TAMU in the Fall? Been accepted to Oceanography but interested in meeting any new graduate students! I've never been to Texas except to visit!

I knew the offer seemed too good to be true

Did any of you sign an official acceptance letter? I have not yet committed anywhere but the place that I'm considering has sent me an official letter with the exact financial aid offer they are making me. It's pretty much a contract and I feel safe with it, knowing the chairperson of the department has signed it, too. I have declined other schools who have not offered me anything by the way of financial aid. There's no way I'm taking out more loans than what I already have from undergrad, and I'm definitely not working full time in grad school

Amen. That would be a miracle!

I am just nervous that I like the school/advisor on first visit but that I'm wearing rose-colored glasses and things may be different once I'm actually attending the school next Fall. Only met two grad students in the department and I really liked both of them... but they're both leaving come August

Thanks everyone for this posting, I am wondering how to tell a school that didn't give me any money (thanks a bunch) that I'm basically sailing for greener pastures without sounding completely full of myself. Did anyone send an email/letter to grad students who showed you around the school when you went on a prospective visit? I really enjoyed speaking with them when I visited but I will not be attending... should I just leave it be?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Hunger Games. I can't see either movie until I've read the books!

Thanks for this topic. I am very involved as an undergrad at my school but I'm nervous about moving across the country by myself to a new university! Can anyone shed light on dating OUTSIDE your department? I just came out of a +3 year relationship and want to meet people in grad school, but I've always thought jumping into bed with someone in your same department is a bit of a bad idea?

Hi, this is my first post ever, but I was told the same thing by SUNY Buffalo and I'm guessing it means that the department/school does not currently have money to fund you. Maybe if you go there, in years down the road they will be able to assist you but I'm guessing that if they can't now that money is probably pretty tight in the program and it will be hard to get in the future! Hope this helps