spellbanisher

I was in a similar situation, and I chose the lecturer.

About 1850-1950. Probably most of the institutions that we would recognize as "modern" emerged during this period. Industrialization, urbanization, mass consumerism, the structure of global political economy, the preeminence of modern corporation, the welfare state, universal compulsory public education, internalism and globalism, the modern social sciences, time zones, electrification, mass media, etc.

Any luck?

History is not a synonym for the "past." The past is what happened. History is an interpretation of the past or an argument about it.

You will most likely have to pay state and federal income tax, but wages for jobs such as graduate teaching assisting are exempt from fica(social security and Medicare). A quick class search for NCSU indicates that it has discussion section (I guess the equivalent for computer science would the laboratory). You will likely lead laboratory sections of classes. For the students in your labs, you will grade papers and tests and hold office hours. At the UCs, a grad student typically leads three discussion sections of 15 students each. The grad student also grades their papers and exams. BTW, you will be able to find more pertinent information by emailing grad students at NCSU. Your university posts their email addresses here: https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/phds.php

Every time I take this test the result is different. First time intj, second time intp, third time a monkey's uncle.

Here is advice on applying from Eric Rauchway, who is a professor of history at UC Davis http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2007/12/03/do-thy-homework/ This advice implies that you should mention specific faculty, as you are applying to work with a particular person.

There is some more information at the Davis wikihttp://daviswiki.org/8th_and_Wake Rent includes water, sewer, and trash.

Just heard back from the leasing agent. She wrote

I don't talk to people. Maybe I should try it.

This is some information about graduate housing that i posted in the meet and greet thread

It would be easier for me to list stuff i have done. But anyways, i've never tweeted.

Only if I could hold it over her for the rest of our lives. SO: Honey, could you take out the trash? ME: I gave up my dreams for you! It would never work. She'd renege on the deal within a month.

I should add that for a limited time they are offering signing bonuses. For me, the leasing agent waived the $18 a month fee for the furnished room. I also got an email yesterday from my graduate coordinator saying that they were offering $100 off the first months rent for leases signed before June 1, although that might only be for those who come in with a referral.

You can request specific roommates when you sign the lease. The apartment application also has you list preferences, such as same or mixed gender apartments, which room you want (a,b,c,d configuration), and which floor you prefer. There might have been a few other things, but i pretty much had no preference. However, the application is not that extensive, so if you had any particular preferences you would have to ask the leasing office. Before I signed the lease the agent selected an apartment and room for me.

I'm guessing wifi is not provided if they are advertising that it is free in the lounge, but i've sent an email to the leasing agent for clarification.

Trader Joe's is at the university mall, which is in central Davis. The apartment complex is 0.4 miles from the university mall and 1.4 miles from the Davis campus. For anyone who didn't find their way to the website, here are the amenities It also has a study lounge with free wifi, conference rooms, community computers and printing, energy efficient appliances, and is located along the c bus line to the campus. When i was touring the complex, the leasing agent said that the walls had sound beams(or something like that) which disperse sound.

You people need more religion in your lives. Here are some words of wisdom from the reverend Donne. I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays, Her whom the country formed, and whom the town, Her who believes, and her who tries, Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you, and you, I can love any, so she be not true. Will no other vice content you? Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers? Or have you all old vices spent, and now would find out others? Or doth a fear that men are true torment you? O we are not, be not you so; Let me, and do you, twenty know. Rob me, but bind me not, and let me go. Must I, who came to travail thorough you, Grow your fixed subject, because you are true? Venus heard me sigh this song, And by love's sweetest part, variety, she swore, She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more. She went, examined, and returned ere long, And said, Alas! some two or three Poor heretics in love there be, Which think to ’stablish dangerous constancy. But I have told them, Since you will be true, You shall be true to them who are false to you.

Is Richard White retiring?

For anyone looking for housing, the new graduate housing complex is currently leasing rooms for 2014-2015. It is about $632 a month for unfurnished rooms, $650 for furnished. The signing fee is $200 plus a $25 application fee. The complex is about a 10-15 minute bike ride to the UC Davis campus and is located along the bus route. It is pretty close to Trader Joes as well. http://www.housing.ucdavis.edu/housing/apartments-8th-and-wake.asp

Typical class size in my grad classes for history ma was 10-15 students, with 6 being the smallest and 15 the largest.

Is it just Washington that isn't offering financial support or all three? Fit is the most important factor, but i wouldn't go to a program that didn't offer funding. Princeton is the most prestigious of the three and has more money to throw around. But as i just said, the most important factor will be to go a place where you can do your best work with an advisor who can effectively mentor you as well as go to bat for you after earning the PhD. I don't think anyone could really help you until you provide information on why you chose these three programs and what you want to do. What area if history are you interested in? Have you communicated with professors at any of these programs?

Were those colleagues who wrote you letters phds? That, in my uninformed opinion, might hurt you more than not mentioning a poi in your sop. If your Ma program doesn't require you to write a thesis, i don't see why they would expect you to talk about research interests or professors, as the MA is not necessarily a research degree. Still, as a perpetual pessimist, i'd say start preparing for the next cycle. It will help you not to obsess over this one.

I flipped through a GRE prep book the week of the test, which I took in 2010. Scored 680v (95%), 580q (29%), and 5.5 on the analytical writing.

Their website says they only admit 12-15 out of an average of 275-300 applications. That is about a 4-5 percent admit rate. Hard to imagine getting much more selective than that. Even if that is just the take rate, you would still be talking about an admit rate in the 7-10 percent range. I don't think any school strictly rates their apps from best to worst. They admit based on fit and demonstrated potential and other factors. If you don't get into a lower ranked program, it could be because they thought other students research interests were a better fit or the area/poi you applied to is already full.