thundersaber1985

I will be heading there in the fall for MA/PHD in anthropology

Hey everyone I recently graduated. 4yrs living in the Bend was a great experience, even despite the awful winters. I would be happy to answer anyone's questions, so feel free to reply or PM me. Some quick answers to questions I have seen so far. "Places for grad students to live. Can anyone recommend good restaurants and other fun things to do in South Bend? For example, local coffeehouses, brewpubs, and places to listen to live music (if there are any). Is there a decent Asian grocery in town? (I love cooking Chinese and Thai food, but unfortunately the really good ingredients are rarely found in mainstream grocery stores.)" Fisher Grad north east of campus is a nice area for people who want to stay close to campus, especially close to the library. A plus for the south bend winters. Other nice apartment complexes include Main Street Apartments (on Main Street) where you will find several restaurants and stores, in the popular area of Mishawaka, a few miles from campus and Castle Point Apartments in South Bend. Grape Rd, Douglas, and Main Street are where you will find most of the restaurants. There is an Asian market and great Thai restaurant (Siam Thai) right next to each other in Downtown South Bend on Main Street. Lulu's Cafe is a nice little coffehouse / bohemian lounge on Edison. Several great pubs include Corby's, Fiddler's Hearth and The Oyster Bar all in downtown SB. Fiddler's has live music every week, especially local Irish bands. A popular club, Club Fever has several music acts as well.

Hey All Just wondering if anyone has a recent list of rankings for anthropology programs, my friend (a fellow anthropologist) and I were discussing that rankings tend to favor strong cultural anthropology programs placing strong physical anthropology programs in lower rankings. My friend thinks this is true, however I'm still on the fence.

Well grantgreen, To answer your question I guess it doesn't matter if the notifications come earlier since I just heard a rejection today. I'm glad I heard one now instead of in april.

Congrats to whoever got in at CUNY, it is nice to know they are sending out notifications earlier than was posted for last year. Hopefully I hear from them soon.

Yea I got an e-mail saying my decision was on the website.... Rejection, bummer. I would check the website and see if your application status has changed if you havent already. Hope better luck for you letmein

Hey! Was it for Tulane? Because the same problem happened for me, except I had the right code the first time and received a letter from ETS confirming it had been sent to Tulane in Late Nov. I checked my application status a month later and they said I was still missing GRE scores. I called ETS and they said it was Tulane's fault for not opening the emailed GRE score, who just sends an email and no hard copy, but they sent out another email free of charge. I kept calling Tulane till they received the email. STUPID ETS

Yeah I just saw that on the results board too, just wondering who got accepted, congrats to whoever did

Hey All I just got accepted to Ohio State, man that lifts a huge weight off my back, hopefully I get some more good news in the next coming weeks.

Hey nervous They told me the same thing, I want to do bioarchaeology and forensics so they said that their PHD program would give the experience i need to make it in the field. For some reason lots of PHD programs have a bias against forensic anthropology but I think it is an emerging field that osteologist should look into. My top choice is anyone who gives me money, I like all the programs mostly because of the professors and their interests. I was going to apply to Florida but all my undergrad advisors told me not to, they said that people are really cutthroat there and it is not the friendliest work enivornment. Hopefully we will hear something soon and may end up fellow classmates.

Hey Nervouswreck I'm applying for osteology and forensics too, what schools are you applying to? Here is my list Arizona State Ohio State CUNY SUNY- Binghamton Tulane Missouri Michigan State Tennessee UC Santa Barbara Good luck with the waiting game