Tugboat Captain

I will be in the Applied Linguistics department. Have you visited Tempe at all? I've never been there but I have been reading up on city-data.com forums about where the good places might be. There might also be advantages to living in a complex as well. There are tons of options though, it's hard to tell which places are decent or not.

Is anyone else headed to Tempe this fall? I am looking for housing now, will be moving from San Francisco. I will have a car, but I would like to live close enough to walk to campus if possible. I am looking at some little houses in the Maple Ash area to the east of campus. I am not really a fan of living in huge apartment complexes.

Yes, it seems to be year to year. I expressed my concerns to my future advisor about the budget cuts at ASU, and he seemed cool about talking it over with me, which we are doing this weekend. I know there has been a lot of reorganization within a lot of the programs there, and from what I've heard there are even more cuts coming in 2010. I hope everything works out.

I'll be attending the Applied Linguistics program at ASU, with Paul Matsuda as my advisor. I'm really excited to work with him, and it sounds like there is a lot of freedom in the program. My interests lie somewhere between L1 comp and L2 comp like Matsuda...also ASU has a lot of people interested in bilingualism and language policy, which is good because I am interested in Generation 1.5 issues as well. I suppose I'll get used to the heat!

I e-mailed this morning asking for my status. I indicated that I would like to know my situaiton, because I have been accepted to two other schools and needed to give them an answer by today. Jill told me that there were not enough TA positions at the time, and later the website showed my application was denied. I suppose I could have just waited it out, or asked for an extension from my other schools. I just wanted to know straight up what the situation was. I am happy with where I am headed for the PhD, and honestly the way Purdue handled its admissions process was really off-putting anyway. I know they were shorter on funding this year (supposedly), but I would have preferred a rejection rather than being hung out to dry until April 15.

Are you doing your MFA in the English department? Just curious because I think I am on a waitlist at Purdue!

A friend of mine did that MA and ended up at UC-Berkeley for the PhD. I think what people are saying about finances is important, but if money is not the deciding issue then it might be a good idea to go to Dartmouth, and then reapply to other schools next year.

Uh oh. I wonder if they update the website when they send out letters...

Just to clarify, the e-mail I got from Jill Quirk was as a result of me asking her for more information. I don't think she sent out email as any kind of quasi-official mailing. I asked in an earlier post and would like to ask again...do you think asking a professor about the process would be a mistake?

I got that same e-mail. I have thought about e-mailing one of the professors there that I have talked with before and asking him for more information, but that might be a bad idea.

Thanks. Apparently they are still figuring out who will get the remaining spots at Purdue. Did you officially decline their offer? UBC looks like a great choice, I would love to live in BC.

I am mostly interested in second language writing, and both Purdue and ASU have well know specialists in the area. Paul Matsuda at ASU has a really great reputation in the field, and I think he is really the top scholar in the U.S. in this area. I applied to the PhD ESL concentration in the English Department at Purdue, where Tony Silva is. Did you apply to the Foreign Language and Literatures program?

I was accepted to the new Applied Linguistics program at ASU. I haven't heard from Purdue yet, which is probably not a good sign. I also was accepted at Northern Arizona University.

I've been accepted to the ASU Applied Linguistics PhD Program, with a very good funding package. Can anyone tell me about life in Tempe?