SunshineLolipops

When it finally comes to the point that you have to start cutting whole paragraphs or sections of your paper, create a new document and cut and paste the removed sections into it. It's useful if you realize that you cut something that you actually needed, but mostly it's just to ease the pain of getting rid of writing that you agonized over.

Last rejection, see y'all in the funny papers

As a teacher, it would be cool if an encyclopedia or online textbook had hyperlinks to primary or secondary sources available online. I don't mean just a list of useful databases at the end of the reading. I mean that each mention of a name or event would be linked to all applicable and available primary sources and each major argument linked to the seminal texts on that topic within the field. In lieu of creating a whole new encyclopedia or textbook, having the ability to use an app that would recognize key people and events in the text of a webpage and provide those links when the cursor hovers over them would be a great tool for teachers and a way to facilitate students' use of primary sources. Kinda like a citation tool on steroids that doesn't require the to have cited sources and links to the documents themselves rather than just a citation . Basically this would be a way of getting the citation support and contextual information on topics in formats that are not heavily cited as journal articles are. It'd be particularly useful for when you find yourself lecturing outside your field or to give students a hand in exploring a new subject.

Submitted my full undergrad thesis (several POIs told me I should try to publish it), but I struck out with 14 schools over two years, so perhaps an excerpt would have been better.

Finally down to one last waitlist. Ready to be done.

That's brutal. I hope it ends soon for all of us.

Is anyone else still waiting?

One school I applied to hasn't gone to the waitlist yet because of budget issues (not a promising sign, I know). My only real hope there is that the delay has forced other waitlisted candidates to accept other offers. I'm guessing that the other program I'm still waitlisted at has already contacted someone higher on the list, and they've got a few days to decide. My fingers are crossed, but I'm already trying to move on

I'm no expert, but that sounds like better news than nothing.

I'm guessing so? I figure that an offer has probably gone out to someone a little higher on a waitlist, and I'm waiting for them to accept or reject the offer... that or bureaucratic incompetence. It could really go either way. I'm still waiting on two schools, but at this point I've already started looking for jobs.

@Quickmick I agree, it's a wonderful opportunity to network and make a great impression, but I promised the family back in the fall that this would be it.

@Calgacus I shot a few emails this morning and already one response/rejection. This is going to make the Society of Civil War Historians meeting in my hometown a bit awkward. The panelists are basically list of my POIs.

@TMP I'm not coming back to this at all once this is over. Second cycle, I got the message. At least it was 3-4 waitlists as opposed to a slate of outright rejections last cycle.

No news on the 15th, I guess this is the postgraduate admissions equivalent of ghosting.

So I'm still waiting to hear from three programs after April 15th. Any ideas on how the process works from here?

April 15th was a non-event for this guy... at least I can email programs without feeling improper now I guess.

Waitlisted at one school and complete silence from two others. There's technically still time, but this whole April 15th thing has been pretty anticlimactic.

In my applications, I've shifted from my MLitt concentration back to my BA focus, and I tried to focus in my SoPs on the broadening aspect of taking on a project that I will not pursue in PhD work, and on the skills that I was able to refine and bring back to my new interest. I hit two, or possibly four waitlists, and I'll let you know how that process worked out as soon as I know myself.... hopefully tonight.

So I was working under the assumption that there was at least a 90% chance that I would hear from at least one of three schools today. I realize that there's 2 1/2 hours to go, but this is a little ridiculous.

Well good luck with the rest!

4:16 pm on the 15th and still waiting on three schools... I guess that's better than getting three rejections in the morning?

Ohio State has a solid program. This site run by the Society of Military Historians is also helpful: http://www.smh-hq.org/grad/guide.html. @Sigaba could probably make some of the more informed recommendations. I would recommend thinking seriously about how your research interests in military history fit into the greater historiographical trends at the moment, particularly as it applies to landing a job, whether it's tenure track, DoD historian, or otherwise after you graduate.

Less than 24 hours of this madness left (at least in theory). Good luck to all of those making decisions and to everyone on the waitlist.

We've been friends for twenty years now, so yeah, I'm not kicking him to the curb. I only really see him once or twice a year these days, but it's disappointing to realize that his judgement is so amazingly bad despite his heart being in the right place. I certainly won't be sharing any details of my professional life with him any time soon (as in between now and the second coming) though...

Does anyone know what the etiquette is for offers given on the 15th? Do they expect a same-day response? I don't have my hopes up, but I don't want to be caught completely off guard by a good opportunity.