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No, I believe Ronell is just a dedicated scholar (check your PM).

I have seen the examined life-- I don't know, I hear mixed reviews. Namely, Ronell has quite a reputation of being a terrifying advisor (all sorts of stories of people having break downs and just overall craziness). In Cornell, I like Geoffe Waite quite a bit (check out his book on Nietzsche, really great/crazy stuff). Any thoughts on this? Contradicting accounts of my descriptions?

I applied to a number of German programs this year; here are the things I've heard: top 3 are (in no particular order) Yale, Princeton, and Chicago; Berkeley is good in view of the Rhetoric program (i.e. it is pretty theoretical); Indiana (Bloomington) may not have the name but is a very exciting program; WashU has a great reputation; not sure about Duke, UNC -- to this list I can add: Northwestern has a great German Program with Weber and Fenves; Minnesota has been regarded highly, though a bit lower than the aforementioned programs; NYU (with Ronell et al) is pretty much a continental philosophy department, which is rare; Hopkins has historically been at the forefront of things German in this country.

Just got the news as well! Congrats! Where will you be in Germany?

email; but from what I understand they are notoriously late. My fear is that the decision may come after Apr15th...

I didn't apply to columbia (a couple of schools nearby germ/complit), but I did apply for DAAD; do you know when we hear about it?