danwaterfield

It's unfortunate that religion and ignorance are being conflated as it is completely irrelevant to the argument. The principal might have just been caught off guard, otherwise what a basket-case, and they might even have an Ed. D. (if we are going to conflate arguments, let's throw doctorates under the bus)
 
Actually, one can say that Spanish is a modern version of Latin.

It's really just Patsy with some coconut halves.
 
I forgot to mention in my previous post that this is the sort of seminar which sees the most crossover from other disciplines, so the proper historians might actually be outnumbered.

Ended up getting a VC award at Cambridge (48 university wide scholarships, apparently out of thousands of candidates), waitlisted for funding at York (24/35 on the list, ha) and nothing whatsoever from Durham.
 
The most prestigious university gave me one of the rarest scholarships. The rest, nothing. Funding and grad apps are a lottery. 

Ended up getting a VC award at Cambridge (48 university wide scholarships, apparently out of thousands of candidates), waitlisted for funding at York (24/35 on the list, ha) and nothing whatsoever from Durham.
 
The most prestigious university gave me one of the rarest scholarships. The rest, nothing. Funding and grad apps are a lottery. 

Personally, I'm here for the Fonzie scheme.

I've decided to attend the University of Iowa in the fall.  My application season is completed and I couldn't be more excited. 

Hello everybody
 
I was accepted for a Master in Geneva. That's awesome! Well, not to much: Unfortunately, no Scholarship.
 
The problem is, i am running out of time and I only have two more options of Scholarships that would barely cover six months out of the two years, leaving a gap of financial need. I am applying to them but with little hope of being chosen. 
 
I thought about a loan, but the interest rates here in Brazil are extremely high these days. It is the latest and most dreadful option. It can easily reach more than 20% a year. And costs are about 50,000 dollars. 
 
I decided to try a crowdfunding and I want to know your opinions and hints about this mean of funding.
 
I am also leaving the link there if someone want to help me with donations. I would be extremely grateful Forever! Sharing it would be helpful too
 
 
https://www.youcaring.com/tuition-fundraiser/help-a-student-get-to-geneva/325442
 
Thanks in advance

I got into LSE with a studentship! Yay!

tldr
 
I was only good in history at school.

Say, does anybody know of any opportunities in or nearby Cambridge for non-students?  Especially opportunities within a medical environment (e.g. volunteering in a hospital), teaching (e.g. ESL teaching), or within the biological sciences?  I'm trying to find career-relevant professional development activities for my spouse.  Thanks!

Via my MA dissertation on 18c British Literature. I've always been interested in novels, then theory, and then slowly but surely interested in novels as historical documents. Thanks greenblatt in second year! 
 
I noticed that nobody had really worked on the topic of religion in the novels of Frances Burney before, despite lots of subtle references to English Catholicism and her pretty open mindedness towards the faith. Then when I was reading around, I noticed that there was a lot of evidence for toleration between English Catholics and their Protestant neighbours, especially at the tail end of the 18c. 
 
Despite this, there were still anti-Catholic riots, emancipation didn't pass till the 1820s... why? I'm arguing that there existed a split between cultural representations of Catholicism and everyday experience. The last decent social history of anti-catholicism was in '93, and models of English national identity in the long 18c still follow Colley's stringent protestantism. 

Yes - certainly at UG level I got the impression that most large areas had already been covered. So when I first noticed such large gaps in the record at MA, I doubted myself for a good long time. Also the shoddy thinking by one's fellow academics blows one away sometimes. There's always plenty up for contention. 

Yes - certainly at UG level I got the impression that most large areas had already been covered. So when I first noticed such large gaps in the record at MA, I doubted myself for a good long time. Also the shoddy thinking by one's fellow academics blows one away sometimes. There's always plenty up for contention. 

Via my MA dissertation on 18c British Literature. I've always been interested in novels, then theory, and then slowly but surely interested in novels as historical documents. Thanks greenblatt in second year! 
 
I noticed that nobody had really worked on the topic of religion in the novels of Frances Burney before, despite lots of subtle references to English Catholicism and her pretty open mindedness towards the faith. Then when I was reading around, I noticed that there was a lot of evidence for toleration between English Catholics and their Protestant neighbours, especially at the tail end of the 18c. 
 
Despite this, there were still anti-Catholic riots, emancipation didn't pass till the 1820s... why? I'm arguing that there existed a split between cultural representations of Catholicism and everyday experience. The last decent social history of anti-catholicism was in '93, and models of English national identity in the long 18c still follow Colley's stringent protestantism. 

Right, this is the other thing for me. No one has really written more than a few pages in a book or a short article in an obscure Romanian journal on my topic. There's plenty out there on property confiscation (which I had considered writing on) but nothing on forced labor, which I was interested in anyway, since it's a good place to analyze my real interest, the interaction between racial ideology and economic rationality. 

Let's try to go easy on the DGSes of the world, who have an awful lot going on at the moment. The admissions season does not mean that their current PhD students magically stop having needs (paperwork, defense scheduling, comps) that need attending to on top of applicants' paperwork. I can assure you that no one is deliberately prolonging your discomfort.
 
As far as what your application fee entitles you to: given how much effort the vast majority of applicants put into their materials, I know that most expect (and reasonably so) that the admissions committee members will read and consider them carefully. In my program, there are five of us, plus the DGS, on the committee. I try to spend at least 45 minutes, and usually closer to an hour, with each file. That means you're getting five or six hours of professors' time for about a hundred bucks. That's $15-20 an hour for professors' undivided attention. If you consider that most professors bill at an hourly rate several times that, it's a bargain.
 
(Not that we receive any money for reviewing files, of course, something most of us do happily. While the admissions fee seems hefty, it does buy you quite a bit of expertise.)

That is extremely unprofessional and inconsiderate of them (and other schools)... 

Just got accepted to Fordham's MA in medieval history. That's flattering, but I can't (and don't want to) go without funding. Oh well.

Thank you! Might still get AHRC funding on top of the vice-chancellor's award, apparently. Would make the choice between Cambridge and York a bit easier!

Confirmation I'll receive a full vice chancellor's scholarship from Cambridge for the History faculty.

Confirmation I'll receive a full vice chancellor's scholarship from Cambridge for the History faculty.

Congratulations Dan!  That sounds like an amazing package. 

Thank you! Might still get AHRC funding on top of the vice-chancellor's award, apparently. Would make the choice between Cambridge and York a bit easier!

Confirmation I'll receive a full vice chancellor's scholarship from Cambridge for the History faculty.