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Email to check website! I'm bouncing around my apartment!

I just got into Brown!

Gosh darn it, Brown. Pull the trigger!

Chiqui, what's your subfield?

"You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day."

This does not seem as much an individual failing as a pedagogical one.

So if a given behavior is not accompanied by the screaming of misogynist slurs, the only solution is to ignore it? That is, frankly, nonsense. We call things "discrimination" when they fit into the general pattern of discrimination that we have observed (see the numerous articles linked in this thread). This does not mean that a person is consciously discriminating when they commit behavior that falls into that pattern, but it remains discrimination.

Always, always, always, call the police for an accident report.

I just lost a whole post for no good reason whatsoever, so this is going to be more terse than I originally intended. This is not tit for tat. You cannot balance the scales by adding inequality to one side as a counterweight to inequality on the other and achieve justice thereby. When someone provides an anecdote to illustrate how they felt injured, ignored, or discriminated against because of some inherent feature they happened to possess (race, sexual or gender identity), the correct response is not to provide a counter-anecdote which shows that you, too, have once been injured, ignored, or discriminated against. The correct response is to listen to that person's story and try to understand how their worldview differs from yours, why this might be the case, and how you might act in the future with their personal experience in mind.

I've had some experience with this. Here's what I've learned. If you want to be their student, be brilliant. There's no shortcuts for that. People in this position see themselves (rightly) as guiding and shaping their field, and you will need to fit into that plan. The adviser-advisee relationship is somewhat different. Here's some thoughts on how to negotiate it: First, make sure the person in question is good with students - this is not always the case - by asking other professors. Second, do not expect much face time. Outside of recurring class meetings, you may get half an hour every other week, sometimes only on Skype. Your adviser may not be in the country for several months. Plan these meetings. You will get more out of them, and your adviser will appreciate you taking his or her time constraints seriously. Third, email can be sporadic. Most of these sorts of professors will get a substantial dumping of email every day; my supervisor has told me it takes him about three to four hours to clear his inbox every morning. I also know several professors who WILL NOT answer email on weekends. One of them does not even have a computer at home. Leaving work at work is one of those ways to protect one's sanity. This leads to: fourth, get things to them well ahead of any deadline. You may need to give as much as a six month lead time for letters or a month for them to review a draft. Be explicit about why you are asking for their time, and why it is important that they give it. I have found that every month or so, I will get back the four or so items I requested feedback on in a chunk. This can be overwhelming if you don't plan for it. All in all, it's a substantially different relationship than that which you might have with a less well-known adviser, but that's not a bad thing.

I've live here 29 years; this is the worst winter I've seen.

Harvard is shut tomorrow because of snow.

Further reading (puts a lot of stuff that's been said here together): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/is-the-professor-bossy-or-brilliant-much-depends-on-gender.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0

...was their music... out of this world?

Neil Gaiman's new collection of short stories, Trigger Warning.

I believe so.

Relevant link: http://www.fastcompany.com/3034895/strong-female-lead/the-one-word-men-never-see-in-their-performance-reviews Extra credit reading: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/reasons-you-were-not-promoted-that-are-totally-unrelated-to-gender

Die größte Stille!

QGIS is pretty decent for what it is and, I think, close enough to be useful. But even something like WorldMap is a great tool to help beginners explore the way one needs to think about data when using GIS software. FWIW, I'm the managing editor of a sizable collaborative mapping project (see signature link), and a great portion of my time is spent teaching humanities students (and professors) to use GIS software.

Uh, QGIS? The WorldMap project? Also, the idea that ArcGIS is "pretty intuitive" made me snort my drink across my keyboard.

Parking @ BC isn't that great though, so keep that in mind. It's a bit of a balancing act - rents drop as you move away from T lines, but you need the T line to keep your commute possible. Also, what I pay for a 450sq ft. apt. 2 miles away from a T in Somerville would probably be about the equivalent of the monthly payments on a 250-300k mortgage.

"Logically, there is no reason why the English language could not perfectly well render the actuality of trench warfare: it is rich in terms like blood, terror, madness, shit, cruelty, murder, sell-out, pain and hoax, as well as phrases like legs blown off, intestines gushing over his hands, screaming all night, bleeding to death from the rectum, and the like. Logically, one supposes, there's no reason why a language devised by man should be inadequate to describe any of man's works." (184) I mean damn.

Despite what others have said here, I think with some hunting, you can probably pick up a decent/needs fixin' 2BR condo in Watertown or Camberville for your budget. You might also check Needham. Avoid proximity to the Red Line of the T if you want to avoid serious sticker-shock.

A lot of medieval stuff incorporates modern theory; check Smail, Daniel Lord. Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000; Brown, Warren, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, and Adam J. Kosto, eds. Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013; French, Katherine L. The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Also see much of the work of Amy Remensnyder, e.g. “Topographies of Memory: Center and Periphery in High Medieval France.” In Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography, edited by Gerd Althof, Johannes Fried, and Patrick Geary, 193–214. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington: German Historical Institute, 2002. A personal favorite of mine, and the best-written history book I've ever read is Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. I am assuming you've already read Clanchy, M. T. From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307. 3rd ed. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.