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I'm gearing up for round 2 this year. Super excited, I have a whole team of recommenders (all have a habit of checking and reading email!), a senior thesis, and straight As in history my senior year, plus some work experience and graduate history classes, and a GRE score that's 100 points than last year. bring it on bitches, I love applications. I keep telling myself, the 2nd time around it should be a lot easier.

Ummm... because that's how NYU works? haha... I know nyu undergrads who go into debt $100,000+ and as graduation approaches the hysteria is growing... A lot of the people in the history Ma program though are teachers and their schools cover the tuition or at least a significant part of it.

Do you know any information on it? I started getting confused because when I called about it to have my application for the phd just moved over, she started asking me questions about what my full time work schedule will be...? is it mostly for people working full time?

If it makes you feel better, there's a good chance your GRE scores will never get there....

i have actually been encouraged by many to not work with a woman. I've had then for advisors before, and I have to say I prefer the male profs. on average the men have been more easygoing, all around pleasant, and not as serious as the ladies. one female prof is currently being a passive agressive nasty person with me now. Although some male profs, i recently found out, have been telling undergrads in the dept not to take her classes because she is a "femnazi".

Does anyone know anything about San Francisco State? I went to san francisco about 8 years ago, and so remember almost nothing about except it was july and cold and i loved that... The only thing i know about san francisco state in particular is what i know from research on 60s campus movements and that students bombed/set on fire parts of the school... yeah. I'm just curious where it is/what kind of neighborhood, cheap/expensive area to live, easy to get with mass transit... i'm from nyc, so i'd rather walk or take a bus/train, and don't have a driver's license. I would be there for an MA in history if i ended up going, so without any funding and preferably would like to live off what i can make working. I'm trying to limit debt as much as possible. After some politician talked about it on the news, I tried eating on the food stamp allowance of $3 a meal and i did it for over a month, so i can definitely eat/live on a budget. I do need access to good bagels and cream cheese, though.

I know someone who does that and she is in the Education department, not history, although I think she does "interdisciplinary" work in the history department too.

Whatever they are calling that place today, their response was "uuuuuh, what? you can do that, really? 'cause that would be totally awesome if you could." aah how i'll miss it... but if i call enough different people, maybe i'll get forwarded to someone who actually knows...? merci beaucoup!

I don't know if anyone would know the answer to this but i'm curious... Is there anything like the LSAC for history? For those of you unfamiliar, LSAC does the law school applications online and you can mail them a copy of your transcript and all the letters of of recommendation. They keep them in a file/database, and then you just request for them to be sent with your LSAT scores to law schools as you apply so you don't have to remind profs to send more copies/hunt them down to ask them to send more copies and three items get sent out together. they keep them for five years, but if you pay to renew the account they'll keep them longer. Someone told me it's possible to have your undergrad school put them in a file for you so you don't have to track down the prof a year from now to get them to send it in the event that they're on sabbatical or left or something else that professors are likely to do... i go to nyu, and so finding out this information would take months and my profs are just completely clueless about such issues. or what day of the week it is. or my name.

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cosa voi studiate? io volevo studiare la Storia degli stati uniti ma sto pensando di cambiare un po' e studiare l'italiano in particolare il cinema dei fascisti.

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it's not a problem. it's not the first time someone hasn't agreed with me, and most certainly not the last. and the ketchup is most integral to the decision making process, as is the age of aquarius influence.

aaaaah PolythenePam! I'm sorry i just love any beatles reference... I second the cordon bleu... I would love to be a pastry chef, personally. I currently suffer from francophobia, so i'd prefer a german/italian pastry style, but i've given this some thought... My top 10 plan Bs are the following: 1. Be Barbra Streisand. 2. Disney Character. preferably Goofy if I'm tall enough. 3. CIA Agent. I was watching 3 days of the condor this weekend, and Robert Redford's job as a reader for codes seemed like fun... til they killed everyone. but before that it looked good. 4. Person who stands in washington square park and tells everyone how much time they have til the next round of classes starts. it's filled now, but i figure the guy's got to go on vacation sometime. or even the guard who yells "make room for a friend" 5. NYPD traffic unit. you get a three wheeler, and the power to give tickets... sounds awesome to me. 6. Jessica Fletcher. I would be willing to live in a small new england town and solve murders. Ability to solve campus murders has to be a plus, right? 7. Mechanic so I could restore old cars. preferably 50s-early 60s cadillacs. 8. Record Store clerk. Employee discount + Rare Beatles Section= happiness. 9. someone on CSI or Law and Order. The people are generally better looking on CSI, so I would probably have to be on Law and Order. and if 1-9 don't pan out... 9 and 1/2. the person on the kashi commercial who goes around looking for food that's healthy and tastes great for you. that looks like fun. 10. Apply for a MA program in history. Sure it's #10, but it's a possibility if being barbra streisand doesn't work out.

for cheap housing in the nyc area I know no one likes to hear this, because they'd rather live in a borough than nj buuuuut... Jersey City is on the up and up, especially if you go to NYU the path train takes you right to 14th st and 6th ave, so it's a viable housing option and takes as long as many parts of brooklyn or queens. I know, I know, no one wants to live in jersey...

my intent wasn't to get the conversation off track, but i used the issue of free speech as an analogy, to point out that what applies for one group should apply for everyone. I don't think the government has a right to police the ideas of anyone because they don't agree with them. the government has a history of disagreeing with a lot of people, among them civil rights workers and communists. I am also not a neo nazi. a marxist maybe, but not a neo nazi. I think Minnesotan put what I was attempting to say much more eloquently and adequately. Either way, sorry for the tangent. that said, I think admissions committees generally assess what side of the bed they got up on that morning, right means a good day for anyone with a GPA ending in an odd number, left means those with even numbers, and if the moon is in the seventh house, and jupiter aligns with mars, and on the way to the office the radio plays three different Simon and Garfunkel songs (preferably Cecilia, I am a Rock and sounds of silence), this particular faculty member in question will collect the applications of those wishing to work with him/her with GPAs ending in the appropriate number, shuffle them, pile them face down on their desk, call in their favorite and least current grad students. Each student will select one paper from the pile. the paper selected by the least favorite is rejected, and the one selected by the favorite accepted. A neutral third person, possibly an administrator, is called in to select a third paper which will be placed on the waitlist.To come off the waitlist, the sun must be at its zenith, with a full moon that evening, and the faculty member in question must watch one episode of CSI in each city, all in the same evening. If your name matches the name of one of the murdered people, or they watch the episode of Murder, She Wrote with George Clooney, you will be accepted off the waitlist. They also must eat a dinner containing ketchup in some form and have cocoa before bed.

oh never mind.

Maybe they're just being careful and checking it twice? I mean, that is Santa's method for dealing with lists. at least you could rely on a decision on the 25th.

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I used to commute from central jersey and it does get tiring after awhile... Good luck! I think you'll be accepted, though, and don't need the luck!

Yeah, we live in midtown so it's not so bad. While I'd love to live to on my own, I'd rather save the money... after NYU, though, CUNY tuition is so cheap I think I might be able to swing it if I got a decent paying job... I hope.

This morning... around 9:45.