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Sorry to hear it didn't go your way this year. The ND MTS is the most competitive I know of, and it's funded and then some. That is not a bad option IMHO. Seldom do people get in here without a two year master and something else, whether an MDiv, Fulbright, etc. It would also set you up pretty well in a year to apply to PhD's again, and ND especially since historically (though not recently) internal applicants do well.

I'm pretty far along in my academic career, but I feel like, at some point along the way, I've either forgotten or never properly learned how to use footnotes. By that I mean, when writing, do you write an entire paragraph out, and then go back and insert footnotes into the sentences that require them, do you stop after each sentence and put some kind of basic footnote before moving on to the next sentence, or do you stop at the end of a sentence before completing say, a paragraph or section of a paper, and fill out everything you'll need in that footnote? I'm in a field where footnotes can balloon into huge digressions and often demand a ton of different sources, but doing that I find really derails me when I'm trying to write. but I also find it immensely intimidating knowing that if I don't fill out the footnote then and there I'll have to go back at some later stage to flesh it out, might not remember what I wanted to put in the note, and so on. I'm having a really hard time writing lately, it's mostly in my head, but this is on of the things that I think is getting me hung up.

I thought my time of anxiety was over after I got my acceptance almost a month ago, but nope, I have to wait until March to hear if I'll receive standard funding or a better fellowship, apparently up to about twice as much...this is killing me. I know this is a first world problem if there ever was one, but it's hard to resist thinking about what I could do with the extra money!

This was back in 2010, but Vanderbilt bumped up my offer significantly when I told them I was accepted to other schools with more competitive funding.

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I give you my answer as the class clown (even in grad school): No! Even if you're funny, you have to consider that the people you're writing to might not have a sense of humor, or do, but after reading 50 apps are not in the mood. You might make one reader laugh, and leave the other 4 with a weird impression. You need to remember that this essay is in some sense a public document, given to an audience. I might joke with a professor in their office, but I wouldn't imagine trying out a joke on an audience of four or five of them at once.

A solid team, yes, but talk about a different dynamic, for better or worse, the're a huge discontinuity IMHO. Oh, Bovon was also there at that time, and I think Cohen had just been hired on. Anyway, in terms of doing Second Temple Judaism at the same time as NT+EC, can't beat Notre Dame, hope I land a spot first

Notre Dame, and Notre Dame. I considered giving Harvard a go again, but I think Notre Dame is my ideal program all around (except for the location of course). I was a student untimely born, had it been 20 years ago, with Stendahl, Koester, and Levenson, Harvard would have been a dream. Sooo, yeah, all my eggs in one basket. We'll see if that was a bad move. There were a couple international people there last year (Germany and UK)... they might have had to pay out of pocket the amount over Notre Dame's budget for the tickets, which was either 4 or 500 IIRC, but perhaps not. That's a very fair question to ask, so I wouldn't hesitate to email/call them to ask if you are invited to interview. Beyond that, I can't really say. I know there were a couple others that interviewed earlier, and perhaps they would let you Skype interview if you couldn't afford it? Though perhaps not since you are literally shuffled from faculty office to office 6 or so times... The Notre Dame adcomm met today, btw.

Don't sweat it. One of my Harvard professors was, himself, late for turning in my letter to Harvard! He was head of the ad-comm for I don't know how long, but he said rather nonchalantly not to worry about it.

As of yesterday ND hadn't looked at the apps, but my invite to interview was dated the 25th last year, so it will probably be a notification on Monday (27th).

Yeah, my Latin isn't up to par. I was hoping someone else would have done the work of organizing something like this. Fox's book of martyrs is the closest thing I've found, but it's challenging to sift through it academically. Yes, I did happen upon that dissertation, but I can't access the PDF. Here's the URL: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/3844 If you could email it to me somehow that would be amazing! EDIT: This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2nd-century_Christian_martyrs just turned up, it's a start

Musurillo is the standard edition, but he only includes ante-Nicene texts which he deems have a historical character. I'm as intersted in the legendary, non-historical variety from the early period, and I'm also not so hung up on them being pre-325 since I'm very interested in the Syrian martyrs which are a bit later mostly. Anyone know of any convenient place to find this? Of course on-line would be best for me.

To add on to this, I've done Middlebury and now live in Germany. With the scholarship I got to Middlebury (which are competitive), I paid something like $2-3,000 out of pocket. In Germany, in a city like Berlin, you can get by on $1,000 a month comfortably, and the universities can be free depending on which avenues you get into them, so adding in another $1,000 or so for a round trip ticket and the costs are comparable. Though, I did feel like I learned more and quicker at Middlebury because everything apart from the language was familiar.

There are no cut offs, but I think posing it in terms of "safe" scores, it's going to be 95% or above on the verbal and writing (honestly couldn't tell you about the quantitative, but I hope it doesn't matter too much), which matches the old standard of 700. 90% is seemingly not high enough; I recall a couple SBLs ago having a meeting with a potential advisor, who, when I told him I had a 640V (90% at the time), told me I should retake it.

thanks for the feedback guys, but if I could nitpick? Should I put [under review by JECS] (Journal of Early Christian Studies)? Normally, yeah, under review is good enough, but this is the premier journal...

I currently have a paper under review at JECS. It passed the first round and I'm resubmitting the edited version. Trouble is, of course, that I won't know if it's been accepted or not until after the application deadlines. Would it be a bad idea to list the name of the title of the article in my CV under "publications" while making it explicit somehow that it is under review? Should I for example, just put "(under review)" before the title? after the title? Should I include or exclude the name of the journal? I've published 4 dictionary articles and given a couple papers previously so this wouldn't stand awkwardly alone under a publications and presentations heading, but it might still stand awkwardly alone given that I've not published in peer-reviewed journals before. Thoughts?

I wouldn't say it's who your recommender "knows," that has kind of a corrupt connotation. It certainly does help, though, if the person you're applying to work with knows your recommender and respects/admires them, because that means their word (recommendation) would have all the more clout.

I wouldn't give so much credit to the ability of the GRE to produce consistent results -- you might want to take it again. In terms of percentile, I nearly doubled my verbal score without any additional practice.

I would think that co-writing the paper would be more important for the letter of reference you could get from the professor with whom you're writing the article than having a publication on your CV; something to consider. If you have a thing or two in a combined "presentations and publications" part of your CV already, the article probably wouldn't make that much of a difference, if any.

I just retook it a couple weeks ago. I had to retake it because my scores expired. I honestly only spent a couple weeks preparing, which broke down to a few long haul sessions reviewing math and cramming vocab for the last week. I used the princeton review's most recent book to study, and it seemed to work well. I don't know math very well at all, so that was my biggest concern, and there were actually some question types in the exam which the book didn't prepare me for so watch out! I also did the free exams on the ETS website, I would definitely recommend doing those because they'll help you get down the pacing. You didn't ask, but I'll post my scores anyway because I was practically jumping up and down in the testing center when I got them and this is one of the few places where people might actually care : V: 166 Q: 156 AW: 5.5

I finished the MTS at HDS in 2012. I wouldn't say that the years were extremely difficult, I would say they were extremely full. I was never doing anything I wasn't enjoying or wasn't interested in, and sure, I always had a few irons in the fire, but I like it that way. Hopefully your excitement about HDS and enthusiasm for your field will make the long hours enjoyable. As for the work load, as others have said, it depends on the professor, but you can often gauge it based on pre-reqs or at least the syllabus. You'll have to learn how to budget your time between social life and studying, no one will set your hours for you, but you'll figure out in the first semester what ratio you can expect. I never really encountered anyone grandstanding at HDS, if anything people were modest about their abilities.

Does anyone know when or how we get our Fulbright email addresses? I want to start contacting people but feel like I should be consistent with the email address I use, and the Fulbright one would be most appropriate.

I need to work out a strategy to accomplish this over the next year. German should be easy since I'll be in Germany, but as for the 3 ancient languages I'll need to be intentional. How do you keep polished?

I'm still waiting for their rejection letter, LOL!