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  • Birthday 08/27/1986

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    Buffalo, New York
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    Reading (really anything), dabbling at writing, cooking (usually for no less that 15 people if I want to really enjoy it), creating crafts, and SCA style reenactment.
  • Application Season
    2016 Fall
  • Program
    English PhD

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  1. Also, showing up directly at this professor's office hours unannounced could also be unwelcome simply because you are currently facing the end of semester shuffle.
  2. Depends on your relationship with that professor. If you've not spoken to him in years, perhaps a polite, professional email would be a good starting point. It might not even be a bad idea to include in the body of your email the class(es) you completed with him. If you've not v seen him in years, and haven't kept in contact, remind him why you would want him to write you a letter. Did you connect especially with him? Did your research mesh with his? Did he serve as a supervisor for you lab wise or teaching wise. It's important to reconnect!
  3. As I worked through my MA, I made sure to find time to see friends at least one a week, even if it was just to grab a cup of tea and a scone. You need reminders that there is life outside your department, research, classes, teaching load. I also made sure to meditate whenever I could, typically between my office hours and my own classes. And tea. Lots of it.
  4. I've had roommates of either gender and any sexuality (I'm female). Honestly, as long as you and the roommate(s) establish rules for yourselves-personal space, cleaning up, having guests over-life should be peachy regardless of genders.
  5. I have so many...I'm going with the first one I thought of. Mel Brooks History of the World, Part 1 The entire "Spanish Inquisition" sequence. It just makes me giggle.
  6. If you're worried about your letters of recommendation, start asking your recomenders now and let them know what schools you will be applying for. If they choose, they can start drafting their letters early, or they can simply have the information and wait until it is closer. Professors understand the application process, so they should be (in my experience anyway) okay being asked now and simplyv waiting until the season opens back up. I'm reapplying this coming year, for example, and I've already spoken to two of my recommendation writers for next year. Best of luck!
  7. Another strategy to use in order to prevent this from happening again is to take time before you start writing to create your works cited page. On that document, you not only put your citations, but you also work up the parentetical citations and just leave the page numbers blank. Having your citations in another document forces you to remember to continually cite, but this way you just have to copy and paste and add a page number. Super easy.
  8. Already getting ready to reapply. It's never too early, i suppose.

    1. msknight86
    2. microarray

      microarray

      at least you know what to do this time around!

  9. I don't know why I haven't used a mind map as a starting place before. I'm facing reapplying next season and I think this will help me reformulate my SOP into something a bit clearer and more coherent. Thanks for the idea!
  10. I'm going to echo others who have commented already. You need to own up to this ASAP. If you are given the chance to resubmit, be sure to cite everything exactly. If you are not given the chance to submit, which is completely possible, be gracious and understand that you made a mistake. Use the resources people have listed previously to make your life easier and be sure that this never happens again. Professors talk to one another within a department, and you don't want this kind of thing sticking with you reputation wise.
  11. I can sure try. A lot of people find ways to start email conversations with faculty they wish to work with. As a literature student, I wish that I would have been able to read more writing produced by the professors in wanted to work with. With that basis, I would have been able to better tailor my SOP to best fit the program that I wanted to work within. I really wish that I had emailed professors within the department or found places that they were speaking (lectures or conferences) so that I could have made a personal connection and thus maybe have a POI who would be willing to serve as an advisor for my research goals. I'm sorry, that was probably rambling...did that help to clarify at all?
  12. I'm not sure if this has been stated already, but... 1. Make sure your research topic is broad enough to give you a lot of choices but narrow enough to attract specific POIs. This is something I'll be working on for this coming application season. Also 2. Find ways to connect with your potential departments. I wish I would have done both of these things, as I feel they might have helped nudge me off a wait list and into acceptance.
  13. Fantastic :-) I think having others involved will keep me writing. I hope.
  14. Reading wise, I adore Young Adult literature (though I moonlight as a middle/high school English teacher when not frantically applying to grad school). Food wise, anything with chocolate in it is a surefire win. Though a good pastry sometimes can just make my day.
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