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  1. For what it's worth, my own experiences and contacts contradict your info. Regardless, Williams remains one of the few MA programs that funds a substantial number of its students. Also, Michael Holly hasn't left quite yet.
  2. Strange, I've heard otherwise. I've heard that more than a few students in recent classes have gotten extremely generous packages.
  3. i've recently been helping some high school students out with their composition skills. i think it helps to review the most basic formulaic approaches to argument construction before you take your GRE, i.e. the things you sort of graduated from when you started writing in a more sophisticated way. on one hand, it's easy to dismiss these really basic ways into essay-writing, but on the other, it gives (or at least gave me) a sense of my reader that i had taken for granted as i fell--head first; deeply--into the swamps of what we think of as academic prose. so, they ask for really basic, straightforward writing, with little room for nuance and playful thought. but i think one can revisit their habits to pander to the test and still get something out of it. (i know this doesn't help much, i also didn't do as well as i would have liked on the GRE's writing section).
  4. FAFSA has been baffling me, in some small way, for a little while. i applied for 2012-13, which i assumed would be what was required for aid for the programs i applied to. but about a week ago i got an email prompting me to submit a form for 2013-14. do i need to fill everything out again and essentially send a second FAFSA to my schools? or does the first suffice? i should probably ask someone from the [real, bureaucratic] powers that be, but i'd love any insight some of you, maybe with a bit more experience or savvy, could share
  5. hal, there's a wonderful point tucked into all that (bolded!!! thank you!!!) text: this forum is not a seminar.
  6. i'm so envious! i resolved to start doing pushups one day a few weeks ago, did some, then was so sore the next few days and realized that perhaps this isn't the time to become the like... rippling muscled man i dream to be
  7. this is very interesting. you gave a very full response, but i'm wondering what about art history, and the methodologies that for better or worse come with it, appeal to you? edit: are Northwestern and Chicago not brand name schools? do you know something i don't?
  8. hey there! i think many of us are in the same sort of simultaneously miserable and exciting boat, waiting to hear back from schools. this process--at least for me, and some others i know--does not lend itself well to healthy lifestyle choices. i guess i'd just put a topic forward to 1) fret about how awfully we're coping (that is, chain smoking, dinners consisting day after day of wonderbread, spray cheese and cheap wine) and 2) cover how we force ourselves to leave our laptops and take care of ourselves (nice walks, inspirations for distraction.) starting... i've noticed that my nutritional profile is totally limited to weird cheese puffs and discounted wine. when i don't have anything incredibly pressing, i just lie in bed, refreshing my email, errant facebook-chatting and rewatching old episodes of Daria. though! as of recently i've resolved to buy nicer (read: healthier!) things for myself, go out for walks, and get myself as far away from a computer for as long as possible, when possible. lentils! fresh-ish greens that can be found in winter! complicated culinary exercises (i have a sourdough culture, a week strong, just waiting to be made into amateur loaves)! sunlight! fresh air! sunlight. eager to hear about others' experiences. maybe i'm the only one coping often very poorly, sometimes passably.
  9. ah... alright. it was a bit worrying for me to see this being mentioned as if it were common knowledge. i was actually neurotically trolling around the NW website thinking i'd missed some crucial info. perhaps i still did?
  10. so many people applying to Toronto! add me to the list of 7 (now 8? 9?!)
  11. I hope it's alright to resuscitate a half-year old topic, but I was just wondering if anyone knows how common (or perhaps possible?) it is to start a language from scratch while beginning a PhD program? Is it more common to try to scramble into a reading class to pass the exam or do people manage to take a substantial year long introduction course alongside first year coursework? And I imagine it would depend on the program, but has anyone ever heard of an beginning student doubling up? Say... honing one language with which they have some basic, nascent familiarity and taking on a second fresh? Possible with summer study/travel or pretty much totally out of the question?
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