Neist
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I thought I'd just restate the consensus that jobs will be rough moving into the future. In fact, if I wasn't getting an MLIS with my MA, I seriously doubt I would have pursued a graduate degree, or at least pursued one that demanded a reasonable amount of student loan debt, as my will.
That said, if you can go to graduate school without any or very little debt, I say go for it!
I may be in the minority, but I think it's important to follow your passions, as long as it doesn't detriment your economic well-being (i.e., being able to eat and live somewhat comfortably).
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On 7/30/2017 at 1:27 PM, rising_star said:
If they're digital, I'd keep them because there's no real cost to maintaining digital files of papers. I'd probably get rid of the hard copies unless there are comments on them you might find valuable (in which case I'd probably scan them).
This is exactly what I do. I recycle physical papers after scanning them to save their comments.
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I haven't written mine yet, but I'm predicting it to be 50-100, which is pretty par for my program.
It's going to be a little technical (the research it will be based off was very statistical in nature), so maybe it's a rather dense 50-100 pages, but, eh.
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Unfortunately, this question is almost impossible to answer. Some class requirements are probably stipulated by the ABA. However, the precise requirements beyond these mandates are probably up to the program/school in question. The only way you'll know for certain is to shop around for law schools and ask them. Luckily for you, attending law schools in recent years is a bit of a buyer's market (i.e., many law schools aren't getting enough students), so they'll likely answer any question you have enthusiastically.
My suspicion is that you might have to settle for a normal course load for your JD, then specialize in the philosophy of law in an LLM or SJD.
(For context, I worked at a law school for 10+ years)
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Started Ubik. What an odd book...
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16 hours ago, glycoprotein1 said:
At the moment I'm looking at Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Toronto, and McGill. I'm also considering Yale, Duke, Harvard, and Wisconsin, but I'm still recovering from the MCAT and really don't want to study for the GRE lol. I sure have! I love studying history, but I'm not sure if I want to commit the additional time for the PhD when I know I'd be just as content with a master's degree.
--Slightly off topic, a friend of mine is in the History of Science program at Oklahoma, you might just well know them!
I completely understand.
Also, did this person start the program last year? Given your location, I think I know who this person is, and if it is this person, I actually shared an office with them for a short period.
Small world!
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On 6/18/2017 at 2:47 PM, glycoprotein1 said:
Hi all,
I thought I would start a new thread since last year's was created about this time a year ago. (Amazing how fast a year flies by!!!)
A little introduction - I'm a longtime lurker with a few years of museum experience and several presentations under my belt. I'll be targeting MA programs in the history of medicine as well as MD programs.
I look forward to meeting everyone!
Interesting focus! Out of curiosity, what programs are you looking into? Have you considered a joint history of medicine and MD program? A few of those do exist, but I imagine finishing them would take ages.
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1 hour ago, nhhistorynut said:
Thanks for the ideas! I'm worried that I'll get there and try to get the convo started and I'll have 15 faces staring at me with nothing to say lol. So those activities sound like good ideas to me
This isn't precisely helpful for the upcoming Fall semester, but I suggest that you consider moderating an informal reading group. Depending on one's moderation style, a reading group can be quite similar to a discussion group.
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On 6/10/2017 at 2:22 PM, DGrayson said:
You might like Killer Germs by Barry and David Zimmerman. It's one of my favorite infectious disease books. Some of the other items on your reading list makes me think you might enjoy it!
Sounds really interesting! I'll definitely put it on the list.
I just finished Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch And The Discovery Of The Honeybee Language by Tania Munz. I attended a talk by her earlier this spring, and the book was on my list. Just got around to reading it.
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On 6/12/2017 at 6:49 PM, Aleh290 said:
I was offered 20.5K in direct subsidized loan for grad school. I was reading on the website that unsubsidized loans have accrued interest and I'm having trouble understanding what that means.
Normally, when an individual takes out a loan, said loan immediately begins to accrue interest. If you buy a car, this is generally what happens. And this is exactly what an unsubsidized loan is. An unsubsidized Stafford loan will immediately begin to accrue interest, even if you're still in graduate school.
In contrast, a subsidized loan doesn't begin to accrue interest during qualifying events. For example, subsidized loans do not accrue interest while one is still pursuing a degree.
Does that help? I admit I'm not always the clearest!
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On 6/10/2017 at 10:05 AM, MarineBluePsy said:
This is precisely the attitude I'm forcing myself to have about it instead of complaining about all the things that aren't working =) Now if the library would just hurry up and stock the books I want faster then I could really get my reading on.
Man, I'm going to rue the day if and when I leave academia. I love my well-stocked university library system. Even if they don't always have what I want, they have nearly always obtained what I need through interlibrary loans.
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6 hours ago, nhhistorynut said:
Me too. I sort of wish I could see them just to know what they said and to give myself a little confidence boost lol. I will say, though, that in my interview for the PhD program, the grad director specifically mentioned "exceptionally strong letters of recommendation." So it's safe to say they're important!
You might be able to see them by appealing to view your application records, but I'm unsure if letters of recommendation are included.
My writers were pretty much a blank slate in regards to what they wrote. That said, I'd be a little shocked if the letters were negative. One of my writers, a very well known historian in their field, is a critical grader and I managed to receive two high As in in both classes took from them. I hope I made an impression, given all the word I had to put into that course.
When you think about it, prep for graduate school begins the minute you begin your undergraduate. You're establishing impressions that will greatly aid your applications later on.
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On 6/1/2017 at 10:47 AM, a.n.d said:
Thought I'd post an update: I got off the funding wait-list at University of Tennessee, and will be attending this Fall!
My thoughts: Relief.
Congrats!
On 6/1/2017 at 0:15 PM, TMP said:Congrats to all of you and I wish you all the best in your journeys going forward! Please don't forget to come back in the fall to pass along your knowledge. It's the best way to thank other posters who have given you wisdom and guidance and a good practice for your academic career. To thank a mentor/professor/etc, you simply pay forward.
Yes, please come back! Grad Cafe is valuable because of the available pool of experience. Without returning folks, it cannot be sustained.
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My uGPA was 3.6, I think, and I believe that my GPA was 159/151, Verbal/Quant. I like to believe that I had relatively strong letters, but I never saw them, so who knows.
As to where I applied, I submitted applications to RPI STS, Cornell STS, Drexel STS, OU History of Science, and BGSU Popular Culture. I was accepted into the latter three schools. I wasn't too surprised about RPI or Cornell as RPI wasn't the best fit and Cornell is incredibly competitive. I think they took 3 people last year.
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It's already been emphasized, but I thought I'd throw my hat into the "keep reading" pool.
Read, read, read, and then read some more.
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Anyone reading anything interesting or fun this summer?
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21 hours ago, MarineBluePsy said:
A few trips planned, some pleasure reading, attending more social events, trying new recipes, shamelessly watching The Bachelorette, and purging things that I no longer want/need/use.
Sounds like a lovely summer break.
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2 hours ago, AP said:
There are a bunch of us the cycle to school so we had this issue of good backpack that looked professional and didn't kill our backs. I use a Northface bag that looks sober. A friend uses commuting waterproof bags and keeps a more serious bag in his office at school.
It's doubly difficult for me due to scoliosis. While it's not noticeable, one of my shoulders hangs slightly lower than the other (maybe half a centimeter). This issue causes backpacks to sit unevenly on my shoulders. It's super annoying.
I'm considering investing in a good sling bag. I've used messenger bags before, and in fact it's what I'm currently using, but I want to try something different.
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On 6/6/2017 at 4:21 AM, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said:
Saturday I'm heading off to Switzerland/Austria for a week-long vacation. I'm ashamed to admit I've never been out of the country but I'm excited to be fixing that
That sounds fun! Get to visit CERN while you're there?
On 6/6/2017 at 10:18 AM, hippyscientist said:Random question for you all, how is your workspace on campus set up? I'm really curious how it differs! Here, we have 4 or so PIs with their grad students sharing an office space. At any one time there could be 10 of us working here, but it's really quiet at the minute. It's kinda nice because we get lots of interaction with faculty who aren't our advisors so they all become kind of mentors.
6My department has a dedicated floor in an eleven story building, about a third of which are dedicated graduate student offices. Currently, I'm alone in an office; it's a two person office, but I have no office mate. We get a decent amount of interaction with others, too, but only if they hang around the department. Given the solitary nature of historical research, a good many of faculty members and graduate students study elsewhere. That said, there's definitely a common pool of people one can expect to find on the floor, and we're pretty friendly.
On 6/5/2017 at 7:09 PM, hippyscientist said:Oh wow, envious! Summer is crazy busy over here, I'm working on 7 different papers, of which 5 or 6 I am expected to be first author. Just got back from a 5 day vacation though which was fantastic! Hit the ground running tomorrow with data collection in the afternoon. I'd love to have a bit of a longer break but going to try to convince my advisor to let me work from home a bit (when I'm on writing). We have a HUGE conference in August, and another smaller one in September so lots of prepping for that stuff too. I passed my candidacy exams so officially a PhD candidate now, and got to deal with all the responsibilities that brings. It's weird to think we've got newbies starting in a few months, and that was us a year ago!
U Penn will be awesome! I'm actually looking at a lab there for a postdoc...yep looking at postdocs now. It never stops!
Sounds busy! Also, congrats on the exams!
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Anyone doing anything fun for the summer break?
I'm just doing a lot of reading. I'm going to a U. Penn. for a workshop later in the summer, but otherwise, my summer is relatively empty. Not sure what to do with myself!
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16 hours ago, abnumber5 said:
I am from Texas, but I visited Norman for the first time last week. The only questions I still had were about local medical services. I may need to travel to OKC for certain medical specialists, although I believe I saw 2 hospitals located in Norman?
You are correct. There are two hospitals in Norman. Also, depending on one's need for particular specialists, you may or may not be able to locate a provider in Norman. I've only rarely had to leave the city to look for health care providers, but I typically do not require highly specific specialists, either.
On 5/6/2017 at 8:43 PM, ellieotter said:All they need to know is to avoid Lindsey st., am I right? Just kidding..sort of
Haha. That's definitely true! But one could make the same argument for a lot of streets in Norman.
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On 4/25/2017 at 11:27 AM, telkanuru said:
Some advice for your summers:
Take at least 2-3 weeks (I would suggest the entire month of August) where you do no academic work whatsoever. No writing, no journals, no books. Travel, catch up on that novel you've been wanting to read, or binge on some Netflix. I know you're excited to get started and organized and are ready to go into it at a million miles an hour, but this is a marathon, and this summer is the last chance you'll have for that kind of vacation - forever, maybe. Enjoy it, and show up relaxed.
I'd like to second reading a novel. It's something relatively fun to do while also not getting out of the habit of reading. Personally, I'm going to read a few very, very large books during the summer because I'll never have time to read them during the semester. Two volume Darwin biography by Janet Browne here I come!
Yale's Phd in law vs just going to Yale for your JD?
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For the sake of discretion, I worked at a law school for 11 years. I don't hold a JD, but I'm relatively familiar with the law school world.
I'd go with option 2, but with a caveat. I'm sure that the paper value of a Yale degree will help you obtain a job, but a job won't be handed to you by any means. You might even have to practice for a few years. The school I worked for certainly wasn't the highest ranked law program in the states, but still, the faculty members were incredibly impressive. There's a lot of law school graduates out there, so the competition can be rough.
Law school acceptances are very much a numbers game, much like medical school. And this is even more true with Yale. I haven't checked the current US News Law School book, but the average LSAT for a Yale acceptance was around 173, if memory serves, and that's on top of an average 3.8-3.9 uGPA. It's a hard school to get into, and even if you do have those numbers, you'd likely get a full ride at many, many other very good law schools.
Something to think about.