evilpeter

That's excellent to hear! Hope to see you at Chicago in the not so distant future.

Greetings! First time posting on Gradcafe. I'm an international student from Pakistan working on comparative British imperial history and colonial South Asia. I was admitted to the PhD program in History at the University of Chicago in early Februrary. Since it was my top choice, I accepted the offer in early March. I was rejected by my other three applications for a PhD ( Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton) and accepted into a fully funded MA at Georgetown. Obviously, it was too difficult to arrange for a visa (and too expensive) to attend the campus visit on time (History Day?) which happend this past weekend. I was wondering what the two gentlemen quoted below made of the event, if they attended? Specifically, how the departmental culture is, etc. A friend of mine who is reading for the MA at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UChicago says great things, but I guess that related more to CMES and NELC. Any and all thoughts would be appreciated on the campus visit. More generally, my question to all the fine folk here is this: Should I be worried about missing out on the chance to meet up with my POIs and how do I approach them about a lot of the issues people here have already thought of discussing at campus visits given that they havent asked to Skype because I couldnt make it to the campus visit? Between the offer and my acceptance, I heard from one of my POIs saying that he "sincrerely hopes" that I choose to come to Chicago. After accepting, I wrote to my other POI and a congratulatory sentence welcoming me to the department. I'm not really worried whether I made the right decision, the program is a great fit. Just curious, how to open up a more substantive line of communication if you cant visit or Skype? Both of my POIs are really big names in post-colonial and subaltern studies, so its probably nothing to worry over about not hearing from them at length during an active academic quarter. Thoughts?