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If you are an international student applying to one of Emerson's graduate programs, please keep in mind that the final deadline for all international applications is May 1, 2009 (one week from today!). All of your application materials must be postmarked (sent) by this date in order to be considered for admission. The international deadline is slightly earlier than the domestic deadline because of the additional time needed to process I-20 forms and obtain visas.

If you have any questions about the requirements for international students, please visit our page for international applicants or email us. Best of luck!

When prospective students ask me how I made friends and adjusted to Emerson, I tell them to attend orientation. I met most of my close friends at Emerson on the day of International Student Orientation (scheduled for January 14 for international students starting school in Spring 2009). From there, I met their close friends, and their friends' friends, until I had a pretty substantial social circle. Orientation for graduate students entering Emerson in Spring 2009 will happen on January 15. See the schedule for complete details. I definitely recommend attending!

There seems to be a lot of speculation surrounding what matters most in a graduate application. I usually try not to be swayed by other people's opinions when it comes to competitive situations. I know it sounds like some misplaced loftiness, but it's actually a way of keeping focused and getting on with the work. I try to keep in mind that other applicants' opinions are a reflection of their experience and their experience only. Things may turn out to be drastically different for me or any other applicant. Who knows how I compare to the rest of the pile? And then of course there are always those characters who try to generate rumors just to make other people nervous. They overgeneralize like it is their job, use far too many superlatives, and usually apply their negative experience to everyone else in their circle. I have had to nod and smile at a lot of those people during my academic career!

Yesterday in class one of my fellow students mentioned that we only have two class meetings left in the semester. This came as a shock until I realized that Thanksgiving break eats up both of my classes in that week. Seeing an opportunity for a mid-semester get-away, I quickly checked out the Academic Calendar and realized that I have an extended one-week holiday during Thanksgiving. Woo-hoo! Let the planning begin. So, as my thesis proposal is due by the end of the semester, some of my break will have to involve getting work done (boo!). HOWEVER, the rest of the time I intend on visiting upstate New York.

Well, it's almost here. The Spring semester will be my last semester at Emerson. Registration for Spring classes is already looming over our heads and students are scurrying around like bargain hunters at a holiday sale, trying to figure out which classes they should take. I have to say, next semester's registration is not stressing me out that much. I've put in my time, gotten down to my final two classes, and now I'm looking forward to topping the program off with two classes that could prove to be the most challenging of any I have taken here. The first is Capstone, an application-oriented class which combines components of all courses taken so far.

The amount of college students that walk the streets of Boston may have suggested to you that this is a pizza and flip-flops sort of city. In fact, compared to my hometown, Boston is so compact that sometimes I feel like it's one giant campus being occupied by all those colleges. From September to May, the city swarms with so many students that you could probably design a game around how many students you see lugging around hardcover textbooks, sporting college logo-printed apparel and looking generally miserable around finals time. HOWEVER, do not let this studious-looking exterior con you into thinking that Boston's students are only about academics. When you do have time to put that textbook down, this city offers plenty of options for having fun, and it's definitely not all about pizza and flip-flops.