Decisions, decisions...

So I don't really have anything interesting to say, but I was just tired of seeing that picture of Magnum P.I. everytime I opened the blog. :-) I spent the last two days in Ann Arbor for a recruitment weekend at the University of Michigan. Can you believe it is the first time I have ever been to Ann Arbor even though I grew up in Michigan? Wow--what a cool ethnic, cosmopolitan town! I feel like I discovered a side of Michigan that I never knew existed. They actually show foreign films and eat vegetarian Indian food! ha!
So I was there with four other recruits--they were from Harvard, University of Chicago, Berkely, and Andrews College in Michigan (a small seventh day adventist college) Whew! Thank goodness for the latter guy. :-) Just kidding--I held my own with the ivy league crowd. They were impressed of course when I bragged about my melungeon heritage...

I left feeling pretty confident that I'll get accepted--especially since the professor who is in my field of interest (Arabic language acquistion, applied linguistics) really seemed excited to work with me. He was a short, bald, jolly Palestinian guy who turned our 30 minute interview into two hours! but, i also just got word that i was accepted into the PhD program at Michigan State, so I'm really undecided at this point. Obviously U of M is more prestigious, but I'm not sure about the whole moving or commuting thing at this point, and also the PhD at Mich State would take 3 yrs, whereas at U of M, it would take 5 because I would end up doing a second masters. I really don't want to be an eternal student like another member of our family....