Squawker Posted March 19, 2010 Posted March 19, 2010 Sorry if there is already a thread on this, but I couldn't find one with the search option. It looks like I'll be heading to UofT next year for a history MA. Having never been to Toronto, and having lived in a tiny university town for the past 4 years, I have to say I am a bit daunted! It doesn't really help that there's so little information online/on the departmental website about the program and general student life. Anybody else out there planning to attend next year?
tukunjil Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Sorry if there is already a thread on this, but I couldn't find one with the search option. It looks like I'll be heading to UofT next year for a history MA. Having never been to Toronto, and having lived in a tiny university town for the past 4 years, I have to say I am a bit daunted! It doesn't really help that there's so little information online/on the departmental website about the program and general student life. Anybody else out there planning to attend next year? Toronto is a great city. St George campus is right at downtown. I went to that campus last year for my Master's. You will get EVERYTHING here!! The only problem is - Toronto is a very expensive city. Other than that - you will get a fantastic public transport system, a wide variety of ethnic foods, a great collect of resources at the UofT library, a very diverse population, and series of events happening both on and off campus.
tarski Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 (edited) I'll be heading there in September (well, maybe earlier). Haven't ever lived there, but I've visited frequently, so I'm not that worried. You can walk to most places, if you live in the right area. Edited March 21, 2010 by tarski
psycholinguist Posted March 30, 2010 Posted March 30, 2010 I'll be going as well! It's my top choice and I got in off the waitlist; I'm absolutely thrilled. I've never lived in Toronto either, but like tarski, I'm not too concerned since I've been there about a dozen times. So excited!
tarski Posted March 30, 2010 Posted March 30, 2010 (edited) I'll be going as well! It's my top choice and I got in off the waitlist; I'm absolutely thrilled. I've never lived in Toronto either, but like tarski, I'm not too concerned since I've been there about a dozen times. So excited! Yay, more Toronto people . Any yay linguistics. I'm going there for philosophy, but my undergrad is cog sci, and my (ug)thesis is supervised by a linguist (semantics). Edited March 30, 2010 by tarski
psycholinguist Posted March 30, 2010 Posted March 30, 2010 Yay, more Toronto people . Any yay linguistics. I'm going there for philosophy, but my undergrad is cog sci, and my (ug)thesis is supervised by a linguist (semantics). Ooh, cool! I minored in cog-sci as an undergrad, and that was a heck of a lot of fun. I did find that I didn't really want to do research in it, but I'm certainly intending to stay interested in it for a long time. * grins * I like philosophy as well (though I only ever managed to squeeze in one course in it during my undergrad years). What sorts of areas are you interested in? (And would philosophy of mind be amongst them, by any chance? * grins *)
tarski Posted March 30, 2010 Posted March 30, 2010 (edited) And would philosophy of mind be amongst them, by any chance? Pretty easy to guess . Mind and language, and stuff where they intersect (ie propositional attitudes). And various other things that are more along the lines of mind/psychology, like embodied mind. Yourself? Edited March 30, 2010 by tarski
psycholinguist Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 Pretty easy to guess . Mind and language, and stuff where they intersect (ie propositional attitudes). And various other things that are more along the lines of mind/psychology, like embodied mind. Yourself? Heh! Niftiness. My name is a bit misleading (or, more accurately, very out-of-date); I'm mostly aiming to study language-change. Very interested in recent syntactic/semantic shifts in English (and French, to some degree). Also into phonology and dialectology. And a bunch of disparate other things. w00t. Going to school in Canada again is going to be interesting. I grew up on this side of the border, but did my BA in the States.
peppermint.beatnik Posted April 2, 2010 Posted April 2, 2010 I'll be going as well! It's my top choice and I got in off the waitlist; I'm absolutely thrilled. I've never lived in Toronto either, but like tarski, I'm not too concerned since I've been there about a dozen times. So excited! I'm not here to meet and great (but I would like to offer congrats!) It's hard to round up Ph.D. people in my field to get an answer re: UofT, hence why I am posting here. I'm on wait-list in my program (since March 19th). I'm just wondering if anyone has a sense of how long the wait might be until I hear either way. I can't e-mail the grad admin assistant, again. They have been very helpful. I just don't want to be irritating. I don't know anything else about the wait-list, other than 1 person was accepted off the wait-list this past week (but, they may be on a different list since they are an international).
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