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Oh? And where exactly are they? What's their placement rate?

For the publication, talk to your adviser. Seriously. There are so many nuances here that any advice beyond the banal given here will be wrong. For the conference, the advice I have is banal, but common sense is apparently not common. So: methods that convey information well in a text do not always (or even usually) convey information well in a lecture. Do not simply edit an existing paper down. Rewrite it from scratch. Write shorter, clearer sentences. Under no circumstances should you give an extended quotation in another language (Middle English scholars, I'm looking at you). Translate everything. If a term in a foreign (i.e. not modern English) is important, give it and its translation and always refer to them as a pair, e.g. "Pietas, that is, piety, is a key virtue for Aeneas, and that pietas or piety is...". Always use proper names and avoid him/her/they, even when it reads as a bit clunky on the page. State your thesis, clearly, within your first 250 words. Find out your time limit and respect it. It is strictly impossible to get more than 2,500-3,000 words into 20 minutes at a decent reading pace, unless perhaps you write like you're talking about up goer five.

Never mind that, just think of the benefits when you go to Germany. In a few years, I'll be Doctor master (master bachelor) mister Telkanuru.

You should include personal information as it pertains directly to the development your research interests. Even then, remember that the development of your research interests are the center point of your story.

Looks like you've solved that there mystery your own self Although it wasn't so much the accusations of misogyny that bothered me so much as it was the actual misogyny.

That second thread is infuriating.

If the experience of this forum is any guide, you will probably have to go get an MA before you have a serious shot at a good program.

Not your question, I know, but this seems like a weird thing to have in your SOP. Also, if you only took Latin in HS, I would doubt the veracity of your statement.

At this point, I would assume she's trying to one-up you before your PI, because she's still doing it after you've let her know that it really annoys you. You have, directly or indirectly, let her know it really annoys you, right?

Yeah, it might sink you on some applications. Even without a mark on your transcript, explaining the F won't do you many favors, and not explaining it has its problems, too. Plus, if I see an F on a straight-A transcript, I can guess what happened. Maybe the adcom will care, maybe they won't. Nothing much you can do about it now, though. Your actions have consequences that you can't "make right". You just have to live with it.

This is now my favorite necrothread ever. So have you discovered ednotes yet?

Wait, there's another medievalist who uses LaTeX? Can we be best friends now?

It says "Theudericus rex francorum vir inlustris" right across the top, as clear as day; what's the problem?

IMO, in books, there is probably a trend towards end notes for works aimed at a general but still academic audience.. In journals, where most of the work really happens, not even a little.

Your final situation would be roughly about what mine is now, i.e. about $40k after your MA. I'm OK with it because I have a wife who has a real job, and my loans stay in remission (subsidized) while I'm in my PhD, so we can tackle them one at a time. I don't think having $40k in debt will give you problems that are substantially different from having $30k in debt.

Footnotes. Endnotes are irritating to read. And I generally advocate following the submission guidelines with respect to length. ???

Sounds like CP played you a bit. This, well, it happens a lot in academia. It happens a lot everywhere. Take it as a lesson and learn to play the game. Seratim: 1) This isn't going to be the last time your colleague gets a thing that you want. First, get over it. Then, confront the awkwardness head on, e.g. "Hey, things have felt a bit awkward ever since you got [job] that we were both trying for, and I just want to let you know that I'm really excited for you!" followed by grabbing a beer and talking about literally anything else. Seriously, don't bring it up ever again, even to a third party. 2) You were misled. You're still in a great program. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get on with it. 3 & 4) Look, people talk a lot about how a PhD really narrows your focus, but if we're perfectly honest, that only really applies to the three years you're writing your diss. Professors' interests grow and adapt, and they teach themselves new things all the time. You're at a good school; take a look at the CVs of the professors around you. You'll find that many of them have strayed over time. Cultivate your mental flexibility.

I only have (minimal) formal instruction in Spanish. You know what they say: learn two Romance languages, get the rest for free! I do still struggle with Portuguese, though.

I'm a medievalist. I really enjoy reading and translating Spanish poetry and Latin prose. I need Italian, French, and German for my professional work (mostly the former plus Latin), but I don't enjoy them nearly as much. If you know German, you can figure out Dutch enough to read it. I've been eyeing Greek and/or Arabic as languages which will open up new archives and make me more competitive on the job market.

This just came across my radar: http://captainawkward.com/2015/11/05/786-trouble-dealing-with-male-grad-students-who-take-up-all-the-air/ I'm not sure how great the given advice is. My own would vary based on how important the supervising professor is to your department and career, but my ideal solution would be to get another (white, male) grad student to use their privilege for good and shut Nigel down, e.g. "Nigel, Jane was making an interesting point; would you mind letting her finish?" Applicability dependent on ally availability, of course.

Half of my word count usually comes from my footnotes. I fill in my footnotes (or at least throw in a reference to what I want there using zotero) as I go along. It's a bit derailing, I agree, but I don't know a better solution. A lot of the time, digressions in my main text become footnote digressions as I edit.

As far as I know, she does not. Not sure I would want to be her advisee even if she did.

Not in my field. Publishing a bad paper in a crummy journal (which would be the most likely avenue for an undergraduate to publish) can easily haunt you on the job market. Plus, if you have a published article, it's probably going to be your writing sample. The committee will get to read it, which is worth far more than an obscure citation to some journal they've never heard of. The real benefits of submitting for publication to your application will be the reviewer's comments, not the final result.

Oh, sorry, that complicates things. Just another reason why Chicago Notes & Bib is superior to all other citation formats. If you have in-text cites, I'd just drop the reference to the intermediary.

In the humanities, it's generally considered polite to cite as "Bob Smith, ''Underwater Basketweaving", cited in Jaine Jones "Baskets Underwater", p. 111 n. 2". It doesn't take too much effort.