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"The Master's Degree. A student in the PhD program may obtain a Masters degree before completion of the PhD. To obtain an M.A., the student must meet the requirements of the Masters program." Also, have you tried this resource? http://sgsa.berkeley.edu/prospective-students/the-department/prospective-students-faq

This document answers your question about Cal on page 22 (digital) / page 19 (printed). FWIW, finding this document took less than thirty seconds. Maybe if you refine your search terms, you'll get the answers for other programs as well.

She sure is lucky to have a guy like you, "bro."

It depends upon the program and the department. Some departments won't care as long as you can do the work. Departments that value collegiality, especially smaller ones, may give additional consideration to someone who is going to be a good fit personality wise and pass on someone who clearly scoffs at the importance of interpersonal skills.

She must have an extraordinarily high opinion of you if she's going to take these kinds of risks to spend time with you. Why not prove you're worthy of such high esteem by finding ways to visit her at Cal rather than making her shoulder the burden?

Professors may be the preferred resource for answering questions of this nature, but as indicated in dozens of posts about inquires that don't receive replies. Out of curiosity, why the down vote?

As of 08/08/18, the history forum has over 40k posts. Please consider the advantages of using the BB's search button. https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/ and contributing to existing threads, especially the thread for the current application season, so that current and future users will have common points of reference Here's the thing. Academic historians distinguish themselves from other professions in the Ivory Tower in many ways, not the least of which are: Self-reliance; The ability to generate meaningful questions; and The ability to do research in support of answering those questions. FWIW, while there are ongoing conversations over generational sensibilities IRT work, training, and interpersonal relationships (the boomer/xer/millenial/z "debate"), for better and for worse, professional academic historians continue to do things the old way. This old way includes an unstated expectations that aspiring graduate students are going to do a significant, if not exhaustive, amount of self-motivated legwork before asking questions. ETA: If one reads extensively, one will come across "first time" posts by "long time lurkers" who share their elation at getting into Happy Land University with full funding and their appreciation for the wealth of information they found in existing threads. Is it just by accident that they get to where they want to go without starting new threads?

https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/?q=medieval&type=forums_topic&nodes=38

I wouldn't ask your office mates a question as a means to initiate a conversation on this topic unless you're willing to counter answers like "This is the way we've always done things," or "Stay in your lane, newbie." Instead, I'd ask an administrator in your department about the assignment of desk space in this office. Once you know the way things are supposed to be, then you can wait your turn until its time to have a desk or initiate conversations in which you lead your office mates to a "hotel" concept. If they prove stubborn, you can either go along to get along, kill them with kindness, or escalate the matter in ways that make initiate a renegotiation. As much as I'd like for you to raise a little hell, please keep in mind that ABDs are often an undervalued resource in a department. Your office mates may be acting like territorial dorks simply because they can, and they may also have invaluable information on preparing for qualifying exams and managing a dissertation proposal/prospectus process.

I recommend that you reconsider this approach because it can be read as follows. "Dear Professor B, you're not my first choice to work with, but you're close enough to what I want to do, so tell me more about what else you're working on, and how much money you have for me..."

Professors administering comprehensive/qualifying exams do as they see fit. Tail wagging the dog questions about the "average number of books" and how "other art history departments structure exams" are irrelevant. A better use of your time may center around figuring out tactics for learning what you need to learn from the books on your list and understanding types of questions your committee chair might ask. The answers to these questions are best answered in conversations with ABDs who have written for her and during meetings with her and thinking about the materials you already have (for example, her CV, her dissertation, as well as syllabi, exam questions, and reading lists from courses that she offers). You should also work on how you manage your exam-related stress. Meanwhile, make sure that you're staying on top of the paperwork you need to file to take your exams, and that you schedule your exam prudently.

A question and a comment. If a freeware/open source db goes side ways, will you have access to the same level of support that comes with an application for which you pay? If you're digitizing your materials, please consider the utility of having multiple backups (a flash drive, a cloud drive, an external drive) and the advantages of having hard copies of your most essential documents.

Stay the course and go to UC Davis. Double check on tuition remission for the summer quarter. You may not get stipend checks during the summer but you still may be able to take classes without being responsible for the costs.

Someone on the payroll of this BB.

Read the fine print of the agreement you signed. If there's no language about a continuing background check, you might put your concerns aside. If you're very concerned, I would avoid baiting people about their transgressions/faults. As James Gunn recently learned, people have a lot of time on their hands to go digging into the past.

Many, if not all, job applications require applicants to authorize a background check. Of late, the authorization allows for subsequent/ongoing background checks. If you're planning on being dishonest about this incident, don't be surprised if hiring authorities and HR staff don't see right through it. If you're asked a question that you have to answer, tell the truth.

I recommend that during your trip, you save the images to folders by location and/or date and/or archive. In each folder, have a readme.txt file in which you put basic information about the images in the folder. This information should include guidance on how to cite the materials in your writing. Later, use a program like Adobe Acrobat to combine the individual photos into PDF files. So if a letter you photographed had two pages and you took two images, you'd have a two-page PDF. Use the OCR function to turn the PDFs into searchable documents and use file =-> properties ==> description to add meta data to each file. Download and install a desktop search application like Copernic Desktop Search to index your files. IF the OCR function does its job and/or you're diligent in adding metadata, the PDFs can be stored in folders with fewer and fewer subfolders. The upfront costs of this recommendation will be the price of Acrobat (which may be discounted as you're a student), the price of the desktop search application (unless you're satisfied with a free application), the time to run the OCR, and the time to tag the files. For me, the benefit is this: on my laptop I have 58.5 k indexed items. It takes me less than 5 seconds to find the 74 files I need with the right search words. (The time of this search is without tagging PDFs with metadata.)

Please consider the utility of using the search function. Your question has been asked (and answered) before. https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/?&q=DUI&search_and_or=or https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/?q="background check"&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=or https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/?&q=misdemeanor&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy https://forum.thegradcafe.com/search/?q="criminal record"&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=or Best of luck on your continued sobriety and your efforts to secure admission to the graduate programs of your choice.

This exploration may be especially important if you "think like an engineer."

It's up to you where to start. What works for me is to identify a significant inflection point, drift back a year or two, and then start going forward while simultaneously working backwards from the present. Among other things, I'm looking for extended "state of the art" historiographical essays, roundtables, and extended reviews of significant works. I am paying attention to how my fields of interest are being represented overall. I am "reading selectively" which frequently means reading the footnotes carefully and skimming through the rest of an article and taking very deep dives into historiographical essays. I take very few notes, but I do print/photocopy physical copies and use post it notes to flag points I find noteworthy, insightful, controversial (at my most focused, I'm using four colors of postits with each color meaning something). But ultimately, it's up to you, through trial and error, to find the methods that work the best for you. (And also defining "what works" means.) A tip. If you're going through journals and you're feeling good about what you're doing and you're making progress and then all of sudden you want to take a nap, give some thought to having a quick nap. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768102/

This is a question best answered by those running the training session. Please do keep in mind that the answer you hear isn't actually the answer. Teaching is hard. Were I in your shoes, I'd find ways to maximize what ever "down" time you have during those two weeks. I would prioritize putting together a syllabus for your section, getting a running start on the course materials, and familiarizing yourself with the relevant on-campus resources. Teaching is hard.

Please keep in mind that being great at "A" is a different skill set than teaching someone else to be great at "A." It's likely that the level of support you're getting from your supervisor is what it is. Do what you can to develop relationships in your department so you can get the support you need. Make sure that these efforts don't run afoul of your supervisor's prerogatives and preferences. For example, having a fellow graduate student review your survey questions may not be as preferable as having a professor do it, but the potential political blowback could be less.

Unless the professor of philosophy wears dual hats and/or holds an endowed chair of More Awesome Than Sliced Bread, the scenario you propose is unlikely. It's more likely that a history department will approve of a professor of philosophy serving as the outside member of your qualifying and dissertation committees. In this scenario, she will supervise the work you do in the philosophy department, participate in your qualifying exams, and provide a level of guidance when it's time to write your dissertation.

Have you taken the opportunity to do research on this BB IRT any of the components of your path and experiences?

Not necessarily. OP may have attended a HBCU. If my reading of the tea leaves (user name, location, avatar) is correct, the question is sensible even though the preferred outcome is unlikely.