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See, that's much more helpful now that I went to Google and figured out that LCBO isa liquor store. =) Thanks for the tips. I'll watch out for urine-stained mailboxes when I'm apartment hunting.

By "crappy neighborhood" are we talking older houses or do we mean crackheads roaming the streets? The crime isn't that bad in Toronto, is it?

I would prepare a varied salvo of 9 schools you like. Pick a few for prestige, a few for the area, and a few because you know you can get in for sure. That way you'll have options.

I liked Jack Black's "Kathleen Turner Overdrive."

I hear Denver is a pretty good place for the younger crowd (18-40). I know the Av's rink is in Denver, so there must be some interest in the sport. Is it pretty easy to get a pickup game going? What about the night life? And the female situation? Better yet, since we're both Minnesotans, how does it differ from the Cities?

I would go naked - that way you're always in style.

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Statistics are for math geeks!

Anyone from Denver around here? I was wondering how tough it is to find affordable housing near the downtown CU campus.

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Welcome, K100. I think there's a thread started for Temple people over at the Meet & Greet section. Check it out.

Haha! It's kind of sad, really. My dream isn't to make a ton of money, or drive around in Italian sports cars; it's to have a nice big library in my house. One with bookshelves that match (and don't lean at twenty degree angles), and a whole bunch of good books. I've got the books area halfway covered, but the rest of it might be a few years.

I agree. It's all a matter of confidence. Students (of any age) are like dogs and bees - if they smell fear, they attack. I don't believe that women these days have it any tougher than the guys, unless they make it tougher on themselves. Yes, the profs of whom I spoke were from the 80s PhD pool, where there was likely more to deal with in matters of gender inequality. That might have influenced their teaching style, but I think some people are just better able to gain respect without the use of fear than others. =) Umm... I'm sort of a classicist-medievalist. I like early European intellectual history, the history of philosophy and science, and philosophy of history type stuff. As long as I can trace an idea back to a dead Greek or Roman, I'm happy.

This thread is dead, Jim!

Agreed, regarding our inability to convey tone very well over the net. I'm trying to be humorous, but at the same time there is a part of me that knows I would never trust someone who lies about something so trivial as age. And, as for blaming gender, that's a cop out. Women are fully capable of being in control of a classroom. In fact, the most authoritarian professors I had as an undergrad were female.

Yeah. Because education isn't based on a foundation of honesty and trust, huh? Why stop at your age? Why not tell them that the moon is made of green cheese and Cicero was a Persian harem girl? If you're going to lie to your students, you might as well make it entertaining.

Lying is an excellent way to earn their respect. In fact, I would tell them that I'm not really a TA, I'm an undercover FBI operative sent to the school to weed out the nasty pre-marital sex problem on our college campuses. That should impress them.

Someone was bitching about the mass-mailings in another forum. I think it was for rejection letters, though. They were whining about invasion of privacy and all that, as if someone knowing you got rejected to a certain school was privileged information. They'd likely figure it out when you weren't showing up in the fall, huh? Anyhoo, I don't think I applied to enough history programs. I have the feeling I'm going to end up in a humanities or classics program if I want a top school.

I still have 3 applications out. I wouldn't worry too much, but I agree that you should contact them if it was a January deadline. If it was a late deadline, like half of my apps, I wouldn't freak out yet.

I'm betting that those of us who were stupid enough to choose history as a profession are more likely to stick to it than those who chose disciplines that could one day lead to a job. Stupid is as Stupid does, and Stupid chooses what Stupid loves over what would make Stupid money. And that slight note of cynicism (if you noticed it - it was subtle) is just my practicality's death rattle, as it is smothered by my romanticism.

I trust the admissions process with my application like I trust Lindsay Lohan (or her boobs) to keep out of the tabloids.

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