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kurayamino
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I too have a personalized ex libris stamp I ordered from etsy.
It has my name and an image of one of my tattoos. I love it, but my ink is somewhat difficult to work with. If anyone has a recommendation for stamp ink that transfers well I'm all ears!Have you tried Ranger Archival ink? http://smile.amazon.com/Ranger-AIP-31468-Archival-Inkpad-Black/dp/B0056ETF8I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425523403&sr=8-1&keywords=archival+black+ink
it's indeed, archival, which means it won't damage the book and will be there forever. It's also quick drying, so smudge free!
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Also, there will be other GCers there (like me)!
And me!
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Rejected from Penn. That was my last school so now it's decision time.
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Yep, there will be no Hahhhvahd for me either!
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Congrats to the Oregon acceptances!
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Oh God, I thought it was dead.
My fault.. I resurrected it, but I felt that certain aspects weren't being fairly represented.
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Also, is it possible to visit both campuses? My adviser suggested that I trust my gut with these things if all else seemed equal or impossible to compare. Good luck!
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I hate to post twice in a row, but the Slate article has been really though provoking for me and my advisers. This is what one of my advisers had to say:
- National statistics are not predictive of a students success in getting into doctoral programs, nor of their success in building academic careers.
- Students who pursue doctoral studies who are minorities, first generation college students, and others with unusual perspectives and backgrounds, they will do better than national norms.
- Although going to a more prestigious doctoral program is obviously preferable when this is a choice, students who have attended less prestigious programs have often been satisfied and successful, and are pursuing meaningful work and fulfilling careers, sometimes at community colleges where their skills are desperately needed and their presence can be of incalculable value.
- Many students are resourceful and can surely figure out how to make good use of at PhD outside of academia if they find academia closed to them or if the academic options look unattractive.
- For those students who are children of parents who do not make $30,000 a year a $30,000 doctoral stipend with health insurance and many other attractive benefits can look pretty good to them.
- En route to the PhD, doctoral students will get a free MA, and even if they do not continue to finish the PhD, getting paid to complete a MA is a great deal.
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It might be worth mentioning to School B that you've received the Chancellor award at school A and the extra money is making it difficult to pick even though you feel very strongly about wanting to attend school B for all the reasons you listed above. Maybe doing this will help them find a little extra money for you?
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The PhD TT crisis is not just in the humanities: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/02/27/388443923/a-glut-of-ph-d-s-means-long-odds-of-getting-jobs
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This is an interesting idea. You can change the different settings to see what the rankings are and what the mixes between those things produce is sometimes telling: http://chronicle.com/article/Make-Your-Own-College-Rankings/151473/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Congratulations to all the new admits!
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Thanks for the reminder! I have updated with the information I have.
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Finally an official rejection from Chicago with recommendation to MAPH.
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everyone aggrees it's all connected And of course these are good points.
But sometimes reading this site I wish everyone would start every sentence that refers to a TT job or a PhD program acceptance or admission with "i know I'm privileged, but....."
By that token should we extrapolate and suggest that everyone who is on this website is privileged because we exist in a society that has Internet and allows for informed discussions? Should we carry the argument out to its farthest point until it becomes meaningless? The hierarchy of privilege is stratified, it is not black and white, all or none. Getting into a PhD program is A privilege, but I would hesitate to argue that all who get in ARE privileged. They are certainly not privileged in the same way or for even the same reason.
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Yes, I heard that unofficially through the grapevine, but there's always a chance that I'm completely wrong! It would be great if some good news is still to come, since I loved Penn myself
Ooh, interesting! Has anyone seen anything about waitlist notifications?Speak of the devil; just got an email that I've been recommended for the MAPH, but I'll remove myself from the running.Also, has anyone heard from UToronto?
Ahhh mine finally came.
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My Chicago went from implied to official today...
I wish mine would already :/
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I'm wondering if chicago has some sort of silent wait list or something.
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More rejections from chicago on the board, both to maph and otherwise and still nothing. It's driving me crazy lol.
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I'm in the exact same boat! The only two schools I got into are my absolute top choices-- and there are so many factors to consider! Hoping that campus visits will help spark that inner intuition.
My adviser suggested to visit and then trust my gut about which one to choose if all else seems equal. Good luck to you on your choice!
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Yay! I got into umich joint lit and women's studies!
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Congrats Empress on the additional money and to the Oregon acceptances!
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Drat. I was writing a long post, with links, etc., and CRASH! The gist was that I've felt increasingly skeptical about the panicked, fear-driven rhetoric around the job market. A caveat: the Ivies and other elite institutions are disproportionately represented in *every* field that requires at least a BA. Look at a list of Presidents and marvel at the percentage of Harvard and Yale grads. So, I'm not being Pollyanna here. I don't have any great interest in switching from what I do to the TT teaching world, anyway. But the articles I see on the subject are very anecdotal, with any data cited dealing with the current or recent job market... the ones the writers are facing, recently faced, or have seen diminishing during their working lives. So, lots of unexamined assumptions, based on personal experience... surprising in a profession that exists to examine assumptions and rely on published sources.
An analogue: my daughter's elementary school saw declining enrollments for 15-20 years, and so the local school board has found it difficult to face up to the fact that enrollments have actually been increasing for the last five years. I mean, they know, but they're not hiring more teachers, planning for adequate classroom space, etc.
I've thought for a while now that the boomers are glutting the TT job market, as they have for years, in this and other job markets. This 2011 article from TIAA-CREF (the nonprofit that manages retirement funds for many universities) confirms that many professors in their 60s (and there are a lot of them) have been putting off retirement. https://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/public/pdf/institute/research/trends_issues/ti_facultyretirement1211a.pdf That said, they have to retire some time. I decided to look into future prospects. And in fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which has no reason to pad the numbers) projects growth in our specific field through 2022: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_102.htm - scroll down to "English Language and Literature teachers, postsecondary." Not only that, but the percentage of growth (14.8) is almost half-again the total for all occupations (10.8). Since, by all accounts, there hasn't been a rush to hire English Language and Literature teachers, postsecondary, in recent years, there's every possibility that those boomer-profs *will* start retiring soon and need to be replaced, resulting in 14.8% or higher growth in the job market for English Language and Literature teachers, postsecondary. Which means us.
Happy to oblige.
Yeah, I agree that it sounds encouraging, but... it doesn't mean it'll open up TT positions. Schools have found that adjuncts can do a great job at filling all those gaps for one quarter the cost of a TT professor. Or, at my school they hire new faculty but they're now hired under "no advancement TT" meaning, they'll never rise above assistant prof pay, no matter how much they publish. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid I won't be.
Personalizing Books
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You're welcome! I try to use smile whenever I order from amazon to alleviate some of the guilt of not using a local bookstore.
It's funny, I actually just purchased personalized book stamps for my recommenders. I can't remember who was looking for a gift idea in the forum, but this was the one I went with.