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Where arrrrrrre you future Boilermakers? Counting the days until December...
Hi OneDay!
I apologize for my delay... Graduate school had me insanely busy for awhile.
I came from New England too! Where are you from? I had done my undergrad/worked 2 years in RI before coming here. Because it's like a 20 hour drive, I couldn't view any apartments/houses and wasn't too keen on trusting strangers. Sooo I went the apartment complex route. It's a company, so they can't be THAT bad, and several come furnished! Granted it's not much (couch, table, chairs, cabinets, washer/dryer, etc.), it's helpful when trying to make your life in a sedan!
I am living at The Lodge apartments. It's not too bad! 2 bedroom/2 full bath, $435/bed. Free cable, internet (it's awful, sooo awful), gym, pool, other perks! Check out apartmentratings.com or other sites that people rate their experiences (obviously take everything with a grain of salt).
Warning when moving here: 1 out of 3 cars is a pick-up truck, pork/beef is almost in every meal (good luck eating out as a vegetarian), and you'll never miss mountains/hills so much! But the weather is nicer! Winters are mild (don't listen to the "scary" stories), the sky is almost always beautiful, and the corn is really tasty.
Hope this helps!!
I'm currently doing my undergrad at Purdue and have lived in IN all my life. I was very grateful that there wasn't a supplemental, but I'm just anxiously waiting to hear back. So what are we, about a month away now?
Yep breenie! Me too. I have a countdown to "December 15th-ish". My husband already knows that the mail is off limits to him for the whole month of December.
I was creepin' on the interview invites thread from last year, and it looks like people got invitations around 12/18. Coincidentally, I'm done with finals right around then, so it'd be a wonderful moment to be done with finals and get that in the mail.
Sadly my finals started the day after I recieved my rejection letter last year in December - just a warning for those of you who will be taking finals - may be worth a few days of suspense over the difficulty of dealing with a rejection and continuing to be serious about studying for finals. If I could go back I think I would have given my husband the task of mail collection until finals were over.
~ 3 weeks and counting!!
Hey, just wanted to give everyone an update. Per Connie in admissions, we want an e-mail from Purdue. ;-) Rejections are apparently being snail mailed and interview invites are being e-mailed. Now my poor e-mail is going to blow up because I will be checking it every 5 seconds.
Oops, sorry. Letters will be "mailed mid-week next week", no specific times about e-mails, but I would imagine around the same time.
Mini-rant: I have finals this week and into a little of next week, and so I was going to have my roommate take the Purdue letter out of the mail so I didn't have to deal with it. Well, since we now know the invites are being emailed, I'd know even if she took it out of the mail. I've been kind of stressing about it, and worried I'll go bonkers if I have to deal with rejection during finals. :/ I talked to one of my friends about it, and she was like, "Well whatever just don't freak out about it."
Don't freak out about it? I only applied to 3 schools, so a rejection from a school this early in the game would really suck. :/ And Purdue isn't my #1 choice if I got into all three (for financial reasons, I love Indiana ), but I am not counting on getting in everywhere. Don't freak out about it? Pfffft.
I only applied to 4 school and Purdue is my 1st choice since it is in-state for me and I'm currently and undergrad here. I guess getting into Purdue, for me, doesn't really give me a lot of hope into getting into other schools...I feel like such a Debbie-Downer about myself lol. I get this weird mindset that I try to be opposite, but I always have the "what if" in the background if I don't get in, what I am going to do? I'm tired of my family, co-workers and friends saying I will get in...it's driving me nuts!
Okay, so it's after 5 P.M. "Purdue time" and nothing evil in the mail today. Sooo... I can stop refreshing my poor Blackberry and actually study. Does Tuesday technicall count as "mid-week"?