just got into grad school

[Crixtala]

i took an anthropology class at UNCC... it was the only college course i ever enjoyed, but i didn't last long at any college i went to. can't remember who the professor was, but he was super passionate

[davos]

two years ago i decided to go back to school and earn a bachelors degree in anthropology, adding on to the BA i hold in history. it's been an insane two years, juggling classes with working 60 hours a week and raising a kid. a lengthy application process led to a letter in the mail this morning, an acceptance letter admitting me to the anthropology masters program at UNC Charlotte.

 

this is the thread where i brag about it. it's unbelievably exciting and i'm freaking pumped to be in charlotte a couple days a week.

 

Congrats and same here man.  Found out last week and sent the acceptance deposit in a few days ago to Denver. Ohh yea  

[Herbert The Love Bug]

All I know is you're one smart mother freaker. You gonna go far.

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[h0llywood]

Good for you and congrats. You were always one of the smartest huddlers here.

[PhillyB]

Awesome bro. I'm going back to finish my bachelors with a 40 Hr a week job and two kids. Wish me luck and give me some pointers.

 

you'll be fine. i took eight years of on-and-off semesters in school to get a history degree and absolutely bombed it, barely graduated, couldn't get anything done on time, had zero focus, blamed everything on working 20 hours a week (lol) while my other friends didn't have jobs… after i got my poo together and found out what i wanted to do in life i started the anthropology degree, four semesters of full-time hours, and so far i've aced everything, over a 4.0 GPA for everything taken since then, etc.

 

that's the difference between being motivated and not being motivated. i'm nailed this stuff because i actively want to learn and explore what i'm majoring in. the education itself is a platform for exploring questions that burn at me, so it's not something i have to do, it's something i'm incredibly eager to employ for my particular means. and so i've kept ahead of everyone in the classes while working sometimes 80-hour workweeks, literally writing papers one sentence at a time between slinging bottles and shaking cocktails.

 

so it doesn't seem like you need any pointers. the fact that you're going back in the first places shows motivation and a dedicated drive. you'll be fine, just want it badly enough and it'll be a piece of cake. good luck!

[Jackofalltrades]

both are human sciences, and as such they have a ton of overlap, but historically anthropology has always concerned itself with the "other" by attempting to understand things people do in different places. anthropology tends to study culture - the things people do, believe, wear, eat, think, contemporarily and historically - through the holistic lenses of biology, culture, language, and archaeology. social formations are only a fragment (granted a large one) of anthropology as a discipline, whereas sociology is wholly concerned with it. in that sense, sociology could be considered a subset of anthropology, which is a much larger umbrella.

I don't know what any of that means, but it sounds AWESOME!

Congrats!

[PhillyB]

I don't know what any of that means, but it sounds AWESOME!

Congrats!

 

a bit of a word salad there but i think you'd get it easily enough. more simply put, anthropology tends to more specifically look at very specific groups within a greater whole, whereas sociology tends to look more at larger elements, or categories. for instance, sociologists might studying "economic demographics in the trobriand islands" while anthropology might focus on "how horticultural garden plots regulate social organization among the vakutu trobrianders."

 

methods are different: anthropology is very concerned with objectively removing themselves from a situation and not causing change within the observed, whereas sociology tends to be more of an applied science, heavily using statistics, surveys, etc. to compile data which can be used to explain social phenomena. so among the trobrianders anthropologists would usually collect data by quietly observing and recording interactions, as well as some interviews for interpreting these observations more accurately, whereas sociologists may be more focused on raw data, collecting surveys, culling statistics, etc. to explain things.

 

i confess this is probably a different answer than a sociologist would give you - i've had little experience in that field other than an entry-level class - but that's my best shot.

[MadHatter]

Awesome bro. I'm going back to finish my bachelors with a 40 Hr a week job and two kids. Wish me luck and give me some pointers.

Good luck Saltman. You can definitely do it.

[MadHatter]

two years ago i decided to go back to school and earn a bachelors degree in anthropology, adding on to the BA i hold in history. it's been an insane two years, juggling classes with working 60 hours a week and raising a kid. a lengthy application process led to a letter in the mail this morning, an acceptance letter admitting me to the anthropology masters program at UNC Charlotte.

this is the thread where i brag about it. it's unbelievably exciting and i'm freaking pumped to be in charlotte a couple days a week.

Congrats Philly....should be an interesting and challenging ride.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Nice to see I'm not the only one with a history degree around here.

 

Congrats and good luck with grad school! 

[mav1234]

Congrats man!

[Mr. Scot]

Congrats Phil.

[ladypanther]

Congrats Philly B!!

 

Also, best wishes to all going to school.

[pstall]

congrats and now if you can just take that course on concise writing your time given back to you will be ten fold. :lol: