dr. t

If these issues are coming up now, what's going to happen when you're on the job market?

I am interested in examining the old topos of monastic isolation in the context of the Church reform movements in northern France and the Low Countries during the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. As with you, where I get in will probably determine the precise when, where, and what.

As a medievalist, this is quite a relief

About the status of your app? I would resist the temptation.

Girlscoutcookies, who is your POI, if you don't mind the question?

This is the same time they started notifications last year - the Friday before the last week of January. Like Berkeley, OSU does two waves.

Like everything else you have to use, it's the worst solution except for all the others.

To be fair, is there a humanities program worth attending that doesn't have a reject rate of at least 90%?

http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/ ?

Nah, just me eyeballing it back in Dec., but if you look at acceptances only, you'll see what I mean. It does look like they decided to send out earlier starting in 2013 though.

R is literally Hitler, so that may be a blessing in disguise.

...or you could try "History -art [school name]"

Berkeley does two waves - Last week of January, then third week of February.

I just posted elsewhere that I missed a call from a Chicago area code (I'm applying to UChicago), and it was a telemarketer. My heartrate still hasn't come down.

Continue to work on getting older.

I am applying to UChicago. I just got a phone call from a number with a Chicago area code. It was a telemarketer.

"It is sometimes a mistake to climb, it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt... [When you climb and fall,] sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." - Neil Gaiman, "Fear of Falling," Sandman #29

I also disagree with this premise. There are now many studies floating around that show that most R1 universities are mainly staffed by PhDs from R1 universities.

This article may or may not be relevant: http://www.fastcompany.com/3034895/strong-female-lead/the-one-word-men-never-see-in-their-performance-reviews

Nope. http://2015.hci.international/

According to previous years' reports, Brown usually makes notifications in the second week of February. The probably don't count the 2 weeks of winter break in that total.

It seems to depend on the program. IIRC, private schools tend to present you with the funding offer with your acceptance, while state schools tend to have an added bureaucratic step, so it may come later. Usually stipends are per semester, but I believe sometimes they can be weekly/biweekly. Again, it depends on the programs. Many schools will pull your funding if they find out you've been working on the side.

I was 27 when I started my MA.