hensonkevin

Select My Space turned out to be a great website to look at housing!! Thanks for helping.

I've received an acceptance to UAB and am trying to decide if it's a place I would want to live around. I don't know where to look for housing that I can live at without having a car. I also was curious about the life around there. I like rock climbing and running and spending time outside but don't really know what the area has to offer for things like that. Is there anyone out there who can add some information to what people can expect from the area?

I'm so excited to finally be a part of this site, and even more excited to be find someone I can help perfectly! I'm finishing my last credit hour at Temple for my undergrad Neuroscience and have been involved with Dr Chein's lab for a long time and know several of the other researchers in the cog sci. program. So if there is someone you are interested in knowing about send me an email and maybe I can help out with any apprehension. The area around Temple isn't the nicest. To be honest when I lived off campus around the school every house on my block was robbed, and you'll hear of worse things happening. That being said, grad students DO NOT live around campus and being on campus is very safe. Mostly grad students live around the art museum area or northern liberties/fishtown, sometimes somewhere else in a much nicer place in the city where safety is pretty on par with most cities. You can get to and from campus by riding the subway, which drops you off right by the building where most of your classes will be. You can also take a bus or even bike ridding in from other areas is safe, it's just spending time milling around outside campus or living in north philly that's unsafe. We have a very nice school, and a really great cog sci. program. Safety concerns seem to scare some people away, but for grad students it's never really an issue. You'll only be around campus not in troublesome areas. Let me know if you have any other concerns.