crazedandinfused

NYU is ruining my life

Thanks Oseirus! The more I reflect and step away from my nervousness about it, the better I feel. @ Fawlty (Faulty? What's wrong with him?!) It's up there where it says Results Survey. Type history in the search box and you'll get our results plus those of a million art historians. I know that question was directed at Oseirus but I wanted a chance to comment on the awesomeness of your name and channel Mrs. Richards - Mrs. Alice Richards.

Well, I just met my top-choice POI and it went really well - I think. I was a little nervous and sweaty (it's a million degrees outside!!!!), but our interests align and I think I made good comments and observations. I'm just scared that I was awkward. I was star-struck!!

Guys, I'm doing a campus visit and I'm passing so many archives that I've only wistfully dreamed about working in and I now realize that I WILL be doing research in them. This is most exhilarating!

It's becoming less and less likely that I will. I figured that if HogsOfWar was in my sub-field, maybe the 75% chance of me declining would help him. But we're literally worlds apart. Maybe it'll still help!

@ Hogs What's your sub-field?

So it looks like the NYU rejections are trickling out. Is there any rhyme or reason to how this process will unfold?

I actually met Chaim Topol when he was on his farewell tour in 2009. As if that isn't cool enough, I might be related to him (my great-grandmother was a Topol). We briefly discussed that possibility and I got his autograph on my playbill. Very cool guy. But with regards to the actual topic of the thread, it's going to be very difficult for me not to sign a contract when I'm doing my visits. I can be very impulsive, so no signing until I get home and discuss it with my better half.

I'm setting up my campus visits and it all just hit me. Not only am I going to meet Professor X and Professor Y, who are like frigging demi-gods vis a vis my interests, but they both want to meet me, and they want me to work with them. Sweet Jesus, this is amazing. There is some sliver of logic to this process, at least in my case, in the sense that I got rejected from the places where I applied for reasons beyond pure match (prestige, sweet place to live, etc..) and I'm in at the places that are a perfect fit. It's like some weird natural selection. I'm over the frigging moon.

Well then what in god's name am I supposed to do with all these books?! Sigaba, for some reason I never read your signature until just now. It's beautiful. I met a very-retired physicist today who said he had a seminar with Charles Beard. He's 89, so I guess it works out.

I think that if private universities are indeed scaling back their admissions (and I kind of saw a sub text in that article which suggested that this is in no way a broad or a deep trend) it's both a reaction to shrunken endowments and perhaps an anticipation of the depressed job market. The former is understandable in a practical sense. The latter is seemingly a reaction to a long-term trend of the job-market spiraling downward - a plunge in the demand for profs which has been driven by ever more hollowed-out state funding for the public and mixed universities who drive a huge proportion of the overall demand for faculty. And thanks for being welcoming of all political beliefs. I just don't know when I'm being too radical because in this political climate I feel like a darned Trotskyite.

I have to agree with TMP's adviser and be just a little more political because I have the benefit of dubious anonymity. It seems to me that trying to fix the problem of underemployment by lowering the supply of faculty members trained is totally back asswards. What would go a long way towards increasing our future job placements would be state governments no longer balancing their budgets on the back of universities (as they have done for three decades), allowing departments to hire more profs and actually continue expanding their grad programs. So, I don't blame departments for doing this. It's really the state legislatures and boneheaded governors who should have their heads examined (im looking right at you, Corbett!). Ok, that's my abbreviated screed. Please do tear me to bits for bringing (perhaps polemical) politics into this lovely, harmonious thread.

So is NYU really going to drag this out until April 14, 11:59 PM?

PhD- History Arizona: dukelover50 Brown: Attia, Ganymede18 (partner), virmundi Cambridge: superfluousflo Columbia: Cpetersen, Safferz Harvard: Safferz Illinois-UC: Gene Parmesan, R_Escobar Illinois-Chicago: crazedandinfused Johns Hopkins: Pugsley87 Michigan State: Cranston Minnesota: remenis, WendyDarling Northwestern: Ganymede18 (partner), genesisy, goldielocks Nebraska: R_Escobar, grlu0701 NYU: Sequi001, uhohlemonster Ohio State: iamincontrolhere-haig, ticklemepink Oxford: alleykat Penn: Safferz, runner09, Pugsley87 Pitt: teachgrad Princeton: easybreesy9, maeisenb, Roxelana, Safferz Rutgers: goldielocks SUNY-Binghamton: alleykat SUNY-Buffalo: goldielocks, Veilside1, wikichic SUNY- Stonybrook: abacab44, always sunny, crazedandinfused Temple University: crazedandinfused, alleykat, superrockr1 Virginia: cupoftea_andasitdown UC- Berkeley: Astarabadi, CPetersen, telemaque UC- Davis: teachgrad UC- SB: virmundi University of Exeter: Lureynol University of Chicago: Attia, calamari19, Sequi001 University of Miami: sandyvanb UNC- CH: cupoftea_andasitdown USC: CPetersen, virmundi UT- Austin: emerald54 University of Washington: Gene Parmesan UW- Madison: Attia, emerald54, hopin’-n-prayin’, RevolutionBlues, sequi001, telemaque, ticklemepink Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL): taybaxter, goldielocks Yale: Agora, Safferz, telemaque, virmundi, zb642 PhD- Other Harvard (AmCiv): CPetersen Kansas (AMST): Gene Parmesan Purdue (AMST): Gene Parmesan SUNY- Buffalo (AMST): R_Escobar UC- Davis (Cultural Studies): genesisy UC- Irvine (Culture & Theory): genesisy UC- SB (Classics): Attia MA- History Cambridge: Lureynol Chicago: uhohlemonster Fordham: qbluecheers Indiana: GloFish Louisiana State: grlu0701 Miami U.: Kelkel Northern Illinois: Cranston Tel Aviv University: uhohlemonster Texas Tech: grlu0701 UMass-Amherst: crazedandinfused SUNY-Binghamton: Kelkel UT- Dallas: Kelkel West Virginia: grlu0701 William and Mary: historyguy12485

I arrived home last night to find a rejection letter from Harvard in my mailbox. I fully expected this and now I only have to wait for NYU......

Monster!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!

From an octegenarian Brazilian-German aristocrat: "Now that you are going to be a professor you can cut your hair."

Good POIs and the ability to reapply/apply for the first time to the Harvards, Yales and Columbias of the world. Although I am really souring on the idea of institutional prestige - especially since I now have the opportunity to work with a very prestigious scholar in my field. I think I'd have to be a fool to turn that down.....

Hello everybody! It's good to finally be in this thread. I was scared I'd never make it. Basically my quandary is this: I'm in at two PhD programs and one potentially funded MA. PhD program #1 has a really robust program with a POI whose scholarship is just friggin amazing and is a great match. PhD program #2's POI is a really, really well known scholar whose work is mind-blowingly fantastic (like, you can't put the book down) and is also a great match. But I feel like program #2 has less malleability; if my research interests were to change I wouldn't have the same flexibility I would have at program #1. Add my potentially funded MA to the mix and it all gets very loony. Any advice would be appreciated but I don't expect anyone to solve this for me. That's why I'm going to visit all three. But now I'm gonna try to get this water outta my ear.

Sorry to bump this but I feel like it must be addressed and I've been kayaking/swimming while trying to bring my grad-cafe use back to pre-December levels. Thank you everybody. I know I've been a melodramatic diva and I really, really do appreciate you guys tolerating and supporting me. That said, I know that my super-anxiety helped me put together an app that would get me in somewhere. So there is something to be said for neurosis and self-doubt if it makes one productive as a result. Now, to the decisions thread! Finally.

I just got a very nice rejection from William and Mary.

My status on the Temple website just changed to "University Acceptance." Wahooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Thank you everybody!!! I'm gonna try not to be my typically gushy and affective self, so I'm just gonna say that you all friggin rock.

Thanks everybody!!!!!! I really, really love SB's program and I'm just friggin elated. I'm just totally in love with my POI's scholarship so I couldn't be happier. @Hogs I seriously doubt that I'll take the UMass MA, so maybe that will help you!

Guys!!!!!!!!!! I'm in at Stony Brook and they're nominating me for a fellowship which will "enhance considerably the amount" of $ they are offering! I'm so stoked. I'm on the bus to the airport and I got an email from the DGS and started cackling and flailing about. I then apologized to everyone on the bus and they smiled at me. Super happy!! And congrats Twist of Fate!!!