<p>Any grad students going to FSU on here? I'll be incoming this fall just wanted to chat see what everyone planned on doing, where they were living, if they were looking for part time jobs or anything etc. I'm still adamant about having a social life!</p>
<p>I am a parent. My D is dating a grad student. He lives off of Ocala in an apartment complex that is a little older, but QUIET and not a student ghetto type complex. Not many students, those who are are likely grad students. There are also married couples, older couples, and a few families. And the price is right. They have grad students friends who live all over the place. </p>
<p>It won’t take long to acclimate. You will learn quickly the hangouts. There are the bars that undergrads with fake ID’s frequent, and the ones who are 21 and older only, who scan ID’s and pretty much keep the younger crowd out. There are places with trivia night, etc. Of course fall will be all about football. But basketball and baseball are big draws as well. As a grad student you get free tickets just like undergrads. For $20, sign up as a student booster and you are guaranteed a football ticket and don’t have to go through the lottery. </p>
<p>If you are funded and get your tuition paid and a stipend in exchange for a TA or GA position, you likely can’t get a separate job, and they take this seriously. But if you are not in a funded major, there are jobs. [Student</a> Employment Job Listings - The Career Center - Linking Futures](<a href=“http://www.career.fsu.edu/sep/]Student”>http://www.career.fsu.edu/sep/) Employers looking for students often list with The Career Center, and during the second week of classes or so they ALWAYS have a job fair on campus.
You can sign up for their emails, or like the FSU Career Center page on facebook and they will list the job fair info for fall. </p>
<p>There is quite a bit going on at the Union weekly in the eveings. It is a good place to hang out some and meet other students. Check out First Fridays. First Friday of the month Tallahassee has a street fail at the Railroad Square Art Park. And downtown on the Fridays before games is hopping:Downtown Getdown.</p>
<p>What area of study?</p>
<p>My D1 is a med student and SIL1 is in a PhD program at Florida State. From what I can tell many grad students tend to be socially oriented with their peers in their respective departments.</p>
<p>Very similar to close knit professions outside academia. Social crossover tends to occur through spouses.</p>
<p>Many grad students live off campus, but still close enough to walk or bike if money is an issue (as it usually is).</p>
<p>Here ya go. [Fall</a> Part Time Job Fair - The Career Center - Linking Futures](<a href=“http://career.fsu.edu/expos/parttime/]Fall”>http://career.fsu.edu/expos/parttime/) Part time job fair.
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<p>I’m in the international affairs program. The program itself is interdisciplinary, so the classes I’ll be taking will actually be in the History, Political Science, Economics, etc. area, not its own seperate classes. I was wondering about the football tickets, and the apartments I found are actually off Ocala! I wasn’t offered a TA, so i will surely be looking for a job and trying to get involved with the university. IA is definitely not medical school, but I’m sure it will have its own challenges!</p>
<p>Ocala has some newer apartments that look well-kept from the road and it is still close enough to walk or bike to class. A downside for a grad student in such buildings would be the likely larger number of undergrads…who tend to act like undergrads. :)</p>
<p>Many grad students live on the east side of campus in the apartments near the law school and also apartments and houses east of North Monroe. Some with a family live in Alumni Village.</p>
<p>I don’t believe grad students get the discounted football tickets like undergrads. You may have to go to the ticket office ( [Florida</a> State University Official Athletic Site](<a href=“http://www.seminoles.com/]Florida”>http://www.seminoles.com/) ) and see what you can secure. One word of caution - get the tickets EARLY (like today!) They go fast. Expect a sellout plus for big games.</p>
<p>As an IA grad student it sounds like you can choose your social group as you work in different departments.</p>
<p>You can find a job on campus if you really hunt for it. It may be far afield of your area, however. As an undergrad I found work in the Institute of Molecular Biophysics while I studied accounting, for example. I also worked as a session employee in the Capitol (pretty neat clerk job) but those jobs are very competitive. During the summer I worked as a temporary fireman (advertised on the radio as a volunteer position, but was nicely paid) for the USDA in the National Forest (they train you, but it was very hard, hot, long unexpected hours, filthy work mopping up forest fires started by lightning waaay out in the middle of the forest. Think shovel, 50 lb. bladder bag on your back, rake and so on. Great experience however. Also found a job delivering flowers for a florist (watch the speeding around turns 
), and installing two-way radios for a Motorola dealer (got to really know how to solder and wire electronics before hand). Motivated students always seem to find work.</p>
<p>Good luck! FSU and Tallahassee are beautiful places and we really enjoyed our time there.</p>
<p>I don’t think med students have much of a social life…they are really grinders.</p>
<p>Unless things change for Fall 2011, grad students get the same free tickets to all sporting events as undergrads. And if there is more demand than supply, grad students get 4 points in the lottery same as a senior. If you join the student boosters for $20 you do not have to resort to the lottery. They will be posting football info here soon [Student</a> Tickets](<a href=“http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/student.html]Student”>http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/student.html). Last year D’s BF did not pay for any tickets to football, basketball or baseball. Here was the set up for last year for football <a href=“http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/fsu-football-student-info.html[/url]”>http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/fsu-football-student-info.html</a> and <a href=“http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/fsu-football-student-info-faq.html[/url]”>http://www.seminoles.com/tickets/fsu-football-student-info-faq.html</a></p>
<p>D’s BF is off Ocala north of Tennessee a little past the typical student apartments but close enough to bike.</p>
<p>Thanks, Sunny, for the football ticket detail. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info! It looks like if I try hard enough I can make some money with a job out there. Ther firefighting gig looks like an awesome experience.</p>
<p>I looked at the football tickets site but I’m a bit confused? What do I do to get tickets? Just register online and wait for them to be emailed to me? Do I have to pay for them or anything? Whats the process like?</p>
<p>Wait for an email to all students about football tickets. They have not activated the set up for fall 2011. They are free. There are 16,000 student football tickets in the student area. In the last few years, the only time there were more student requests for tickets than tickets were a few big games like Miami or UF and then they used a lottery system. Things could change this year as the team has been doing well.</p>
<p>Two weeks before the game you will go online and request a free ticket. If there are more requests for tickets than tickets, they hold a lottery. You get an email you print up that is your ticket with a bar code. It is scanned so if you make a copy, only the FIRST PERSON who goes through gets in, SO DON"T MAKE COPIES unless you loose it. You have to show your student ID with the ticket, so you cannot resell you ticket for cash and they check. Another student can use it if you give it away, and if they show ID and no one catches the name difference. </p>
<p>If you join the student boosters for $20 for an entire year you were guaranteed a student ticket and did not have to wait for the lottery. You just would get an email and print your ticket. </p>
<p>Sit tight and student info will be posted usually by August 1st. The links above are for last year, but they give you an idea of what when on.</p>
<p>Hey Burge --the IA program is fairly large and social, so you should have a good head start in having a social life while you’re at FSU.</p>
<p>To meet people outside your program, also check out the FSU Grad Student Trivia Night at Corner Pocket Bar & Grill, every Monday at 7:30pm. Full disclosure: I’m the grad student who organized it. But ask around and you’ll hear that it’s one of the few ways people interact outside of their department.</p>
<p>Here’s the Facebook page. You can see the amazing championship belt:
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<p>Good luck your first semester!</p>
<p>I definitely recommend student boosters this season. It’s 25 though, unless they lowered the price from last year. Enthusiasm has never been higher for FSU football. The Oklahoma game is a guaranteed sellout, and this isn’t going to be like the Miami game of 2009, where they added 2,000 seats on the other side of Doak for students… those are all already gone!</p>
<p>And if things are still looking hot, the Miami ticket could be difficult to come by as well. Plus, I believe it also guarantees you the right to purchase tickets at face value for the FSU game at the Swamp.</p>
<p>Football season needs to get here!</p>
<p>Student Boosters is still $25 for one year or $90 for four.</p>