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Also, if you like cheap, delicious, fast mexican food, try Alberto's. Many locations in riverside. I highly recommend the Carne Asada Fries.

Are polls limited as far as options? There are quite a few non PGRs not listed.

If you're into Thai food at all, drive over to Redlands and hit up "Mu." It used to be called the Rama Garden. Great food. Not crazy expensive. Redlands is only a 15-20 minute shot from Riverside.

Congrats, Monadology! Riverside is a unique department. I think you'll fit in well. I wish I could be happy for myself about you declining Purdue, but our focuses are so different that I don't think it will matter

I just don't like rankings. I don't have a good argument against them... I'm just not fond.

Oxford?

Boooo! That sucks. I was really pulling for you.

I feel inclined to say that if a professor in the department contacted you to offer funding, then you've been accepted. Have you tried to contact this professor directly since receiving the offer of financial assistance? It seems to me that that would be the best course of action in terms of clearing up any confusion. Also... congrats on Purdue. I can't fully express how jealous I am of anyone and everyone who will be attending Purdue in the Fall...

It's like being trolled by Derrida...

He's already said, I believe, that he won't be doing the show in his old character.

I just saw this. Brilliant.

Cheers! Or, perhaps, Opa!

Um.... I'm gonna go with yes, although tentatively.

I saw an ad for his show the other day. I'm thinking it will be very funny.

I don't know how to feel about this. I'm confident he'll be wonderful. He's a comic genius, after all. But I love The Report. If anyone is a member of the Colbert Nation, then I am. Thoughts?

Didn't see this at first! Congrats! What a great department. You must be thrilled

Awesome! Really happy for you! Any chance for funding at all? Edit: Saw your answer an the other thread. Congrats on the funding package, too!

In my experience... you don't.

Thank Rick Perry for that.

Congrats!

Sarah Palin.

I wasn't aware that people did this in the US...?

Based on what you just described, I might recommend looking into places like Georgetown and Boston College as well. Georgetown, for instance, is a pretty diverse philosophical environment that includes people doing largely continental work, largely analytic work, as well as people doing work that is more difficult to classify in this way. Terry Pinkard, in particular, comes to mind. He does work on Hegel that reads like analytic philosophy in terms of the style of prose, but he's always reading Hegel through the lens of historicism and the like. BC seems compositionally similar to Georgetown, in my opinion.

I remember trying to read Honneth once. And... well... it wasn't terribly productive. Goodness he writes long sentences. Also, it seems to me (though I could be wrong) that McGill might still be the place to go, even though he's retired. I would think that he's had enough of an impact on the department that it might still be the place to go if one were interested in his work. I could be wrong.

That's a little surprising considering your success with some pretty high-profile PhD programs...