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cinema_babe) wrote2013-04-08 03:22 pm
cinema_babe) wrote2013-04-08 03:22 pm
I Can Make The Official Announcement
So a few months ago, I had a list of 6 schools I was applying to for my PhD. I got into most of them and then I had to make a choice about where to go. It got down to two school and I picked one at the end of last week. I had to let the schools know first but now I can let everyone else in:
In September I begin school at Purdue University in Indiana. The program is top notch, #8 in the country, and area seems nice enough. Even though it's not New Jersey it seems like a decent place to spend the next few years. There are a few people who came from Rutgers there already so I won't be too homesick.
Today I am feeling slightly overwhelmed (okay, more than slightly overwhelmed) as I realize I have no idea what to do to relocate 800+ miles away, I guess I need to start by selling or giving away most all my shit. The only pieces of furniture I want to bring with me are my bed and my dresser, both of which I am deeply sentimentally attached to. Of course my books, clothes and dishes. I need to get rid of the stuff left in my storage (which is not much) and I want to sell my wedding dress (which is a glorious dress for any large bride. If you know someone, let me know).
I needs a crap load of money I don't have so this should be interesting. The picture below is the silent scream I'm making at this moment.
In September I begin school at Purdue University in Indiana. The program is top notch, #8 in the country, and area seems nice enough. Even though it's not New Jersey it seems like a decent place to spend the next few years. There are a few people who came from Rutgers there already so I won't be too homesick.
Today I am feeling slightly overwhelmed (okay, more than slightly overwhelmed) as I realize I have no idea what to do to relocate 800+ miles away, I guess I need to start by selling or giving away most all my shit. The only pieces of furniture I want to bring with me are my bed and my dresser, both of which I am deeply sentimentally attached to. Of course my books, clothes and dishes. I need to get rid of the stuff left in my storage (which is not much) and I want to sell my wedding dress (which is a glorious dress for any large bride. If you know someone, let me know).
I needs a crap load of money I don't have so this should be interesting. The picture below is the silent scream I'm making at this moment.
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Indiana should be a nice place to spend a few years, especially since you aren't dependent on the buzz of urban concentration like I am.
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I'm a stone cold Jersey Girl. it will be very hard to be away from the ocean (note to Midwesterners: The Great Lakes are not the ocean, get over it. That's not a beach, it's a lakeside). IT's also hella flat there, I mean *really* flat. But the area seems to be nice and it's college town and they are pretty similar no matter where you go.
But it's a great program, the people I met, both faculty and staff, were the kind of people I can work well with so I know I can do my time there.