NMLogan

Hey everyone! I'm bumping this thread up on the off chance that more PT applicants are on the forums now that we're approaching decisions time. Anyone reading anything interesting at the moment?

Congrats to everyone who's been hearing back! I guess the next week or so, things will start picking up? Fingers crossed for all y'all

I just went a bit crazy when Verso was having a sale a few weeks ago, so I have a lot of material! I really recommend Utopia or Bust, by Benjamin Kunkel, especially the introduction. I should say that I'm in the middle of a lull in my gap year, so I have lot of time at the moment. I just finished The Passion of Michel Foucault (Miller), This Changes Everything (Klein), and a whoooooole boatload of South African fiction, because I just got home from a few months working there. Richard Rive was the most notable obsession this time around. I loved all three of his books, Emergency, Emergency Continued, and Buckingham Palace District Six . Boyhood by JM Coetzee was extremely beautiful. I also tend to read a lot of South African legal history when I'm there, and this time it was a lot of Steve Biko, Neville Alexander, and a wonderful thinker named Premesh Lalu. I've got Simone Weil's The Need for Roots next to me, and I'm also trying to tackle Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari), but so far it's extreeeeemely hard. For fiction, once I finish the books I brought home from my trip, I really want to finally read The Brothers Karamozov. I love this thread!

Hello! I've been a lurker for a while, but I figured it was time to come forward. I'm applying this cycle to mostly political theory, but also a few rhetoric programs. My background is in jurisprudence and social and political thought. I've loved reading about your interests and application dramas over the last few months. It's going to be hard (in the best case scenario of acceptances, obviously!) to choose between the two. It may come down to a sense of belonging. For example, y'all use more gifs than the friends over in the political science forum, which I have to say is a major draw...

Hi everyone! I figured it was about time to join this waiting game, mutual admiration society, and (to a more limited extent, I hope!) pity party . I've applied to eight programs in political theory and one interdisciplinary humanities program. My background is in jurisprudence and social thought with some political and critical theory in there as well. My interests range pretty broadly (although they're organized around the same basic question). In grad school, I'm hoping to balance a sense of focus with even more richness and variety, and I'm pretty excited about the programs to which I am applying! ...but, at the moment, I'm stressed. Mid-feb can't come quickly enough! Congratulations to all of you on making it to this point!!! Pretty insane and wonderful to step back and think, woah, these are future colleagues!