Kaiwei
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@kotatsumuri @spicyramen Congrats, folks! Looking forward to hearing about your decisions! Also, on the topic of funding: if your offers have been made available, maybe via the web portals, and you still don't have your financial-aid info, I would call the financial-aid office at the school; they should be able to confirm what your package is. I had an official funding letter scanned and sent to me via email to confirm the amount of aid I would receive, without having to wait for the snail-mail packet. 加油！
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@kotatsumuri Congrats! That's wonderful news all around. Hoping you get funding
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Well, folks, this marks the end of my application cycle. I wanted to say thank you to everyone for the advice and commiseration during these stressful months. Gradcafe is such a valuable resource, and I hope to meet some of you in person in the future! 后会有期！ 加油！ P.S To RSEA admits: I spoke with financial aid, and they will be mailing the official offers tomorrow. See you guys in Cambridge!
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Haven't posted for a while because I've been really busy. But I've been admitted to RSEA as well!!! So excited!!!!
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Rejected from UWashington... Just glad to be moving this thing along! Four more to go
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@thesiswillbegreat Welcome and congrats on your Harvard admit! That is quite an accomplishment. As for history vs. area studies, I never realized that the history PhD would be more competitive in the job market, but it would make sense as you could apply for multiple positions across departments when looking for TT positions. This was something I found interesting, "Because of its demanding language requirements, the HEAL PhD takes about eight years to complete on average". Do most people complete this in under that requirement? Although I will probably apply for EALC when I go for PhD, the HEAL program looks great, and the curriculum seems quite comprehensive.
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Welcome, @BagelBabee! And, yes, congrats on your acceptance to Brown! That's a great accomplishment Another day of waiting, folks... I'm pretty excited for these next two months to be over and decisions made. I feel lucky to be accepted to multiple programs, but I still obsessively check my email for the other 5 programs I'm awaiting answers from. It will be nice to have all the admits in front of me, so I can make the final decision and begin planning for the major life shift I'm about to make.
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Thanks, @mxiongturquoise! Ronald Egan is an incredible scholar, and I would love to work with him! And I love the 對聯 as well! What programs did you apply to?? My friend, who just did their MA at Columbia, has been rejected to 4/5 programs. I thought the whole point of going to a top program was to make the transition into a good PhD easier... I'm 有点儿糊涂 right now ... Apparently getting rejected the first time applying to PhD programs is a common occurrence, though. That really stinks! @Naito Ugghh, the corporate ladder... I'm not sure I could handle it (even though I work at a large tech. company now). I'm sure something will work out. You're a smart fella! (Definitely a nut, though!) And congrats, @AnUglyBoringNerd! It seems like you have some amazing offers there (and across disciplines, too)! 加油！
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Thanks for the congrats, folks! And leave it to Harvard to break hearts on Valentine's day... 春节快乐！
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Accepted to Stanford's MA program! Received letter from POI!
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@Jules4663 Congrats! That's a great accomplishment! And their program seems wonderful as well! @mxiongturquoise Very cool stuff. I have read Yeats' Byzantium poems once or twice. Sounds like an amazing comparison with 桃花源記. I would be quite interested to read that paper!
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@Kongyiji 欢迎你来参加咱们的谈话！And congrats on your acceptance to UC Berkeley! I wasn't accepted to their program, but I do study Medieval Chinese Poetry, along with being a poet myself. I've been accepted to CU Boulder and might end up there for my masters, so maybe we'll cross paths at some point out west. @kotatsumuri It's great that you have an acceptance to University of Alberta! Must take a good bit of the pressure off. I'm still waiting to hear from six more programs and trying to avoid checking my email 100+ times a day... I went skiing yesterday, and the conditions were amazing--took my mind off applications for an entire day. What a treat! Will be tuning into the olympics this afternoon for added distraction. Curling anyone?? 加油⛽️！
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@chihiro Congrats on the admit!
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Congrats to everyone admitted to Berkeley! Just received a rejection from them last night... Onward and upward, folks!
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@kotatsumuri Congrats! Very happy for you Also, congratulations to all the folks with UChicago acceptances as well! And welcome to the folks who have joined this burgeoning discussion. I've been incognito lately due to an increased workload but have been happily following along. @mxiongturquoise I, too, am interested in Irish poetry, and other modernists! I've taken a big influence in my own poetry from W.B. Yates, and I hope to some day tie him into my study of poets in China (possibly pertaining to his infatuation with the Occult and the iconography derived from this!) I also am a big fan of Su Shi, I wrote my undergraduate thesis on subjectivity in his poetry. I haven't read 林語堂's biography, though! I'll have to add it to the list... 加油 everyone! And here is one of my favorite quatrains: 橫看成嶺側成峰，遠近高低各不同， 不識廬山真面目，只緣身在此山中。 蘇軾
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@NaitoBaron The series looks like a great way to gain more exposure to Classical Chinese! @Ouyang Welcome! Is your name derived from 歐陽修? I wrote a thesis on Su Shi, and the two were often at odds, especially with the promulgation of Ouyang's "New Policies". Ouyang's political musings are quite intriguing--I intend on reading more about him in the future!
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@anon1234567 I'm curious about publishing--do masters or PhD students ever get the opportunity to publish papers? Thus far I haven't heard of this happening but wondering if it does from time to time.
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@NaitoBaron Looks like a good compilation—especially for those interested in contemporary affairs. I'll definitely have to check out the essays by Dr. Xiaofei Tian and Dr. Stephen Owen, as I'm quite interested in their work. Dr. Tian is actually releasing her book, The Halberd at Red Cliff Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms on April 02 ( http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674977037). I'm quite excited to learn more about the Three Kingdoms. She claims of the Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms, "Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism." It's a must read for those interested in Classical Chinese lit. Right now I'm reading a compilation of essays by Paul K. Kroll entitled Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry http://www.brill.com/products/book/reading-medieval-chinese-poetry. I'm just finishing up his essay on a lesser known compilation of Tang Dynasty poets written by 殷璠 titled 河嶽英靈集. The essay is a nice acknowledgement of many poets that were not included in the 唐詩三百首. The compilation has articles written by some eminent scholars of pre-modern lit. (Ding Xiang Werner, Stephen Owen, Paul Kroll, and Ronald Egan). Survey: what's everyone reading? Also, whom do you folks deem as the top publishers of EALC scholarship? I'm presuming Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, etc... Any others? How is Brill?
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Welcome, @Riby! I will probably end up studying Japanese as a Chinese MA student (due to the abundance of scholarship on Chinese done in Japanese), but I secretly want to study Korean...
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Yes!! Congrats, Naito!!
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"but PhD is a "vocational" training, with many "petty rivalries, intellectual dead-ends, disillusions and disappointments, self-doubt and self-reproach", so the admission committee is more likely to admit someone who they think is well-prepared for the storms ahead." @NaitoBaron I can't tell you how many professors have admonished me about the dismal state of the academic job market (especially in the humanities!) It's almost like they're trying to dissuade me from going into this field. Several professors at different universities expressed similar pessimism and cynicism surrounding the path to a PhD. The other week, I sat down for a lunch with a few friends in Boston who are STEM graduate students visiting from the West (we even ate 小笼包和麻婆豆腐) and had quite a productive conversation on the matter. I figured out the only logical path for me right now is getting a PhD. I understand the job market is abysmal, but I'm not completing a PhD in Humanities to get a job--I'm continuing my studies in EALC because it's something that I love to do and it uniquely informs my creative process as a poet. I'm aspiring to complete a PhD because it was one of the only avenues that allows me to spend a bulk of my time reading and writing and sharing my enthusiasm for literature through teaching. And coming from a low-income family, I really have nothing to lose. I understand this a romantic ideal, and I'm neglecting to acknowledge the chance that I might not cut it in a scene filled with "petty rivalries, intellectual dead-ends, disillusions and disappointments, self-doubt and self-reproach," but I've already dealt with a lot of that stuff and any person (whether your an academic or a laborer) goes through these kinds of hardships. Furthermore, there are plenty of other job opportunities for EALC grads right now. One is not condemned to the academic job market. Just graduating with a BA in Chinese, I have found plentiful opportunities to use my language skills in education consulting and tutoring for Chinese nationals, and I'm sure these could be lucrative endeavors in the future. I guess these professors are trying to dissuade people who are on the fence about heading into graduate school, but for someone like me, it's the only career move that makes any sense. I think I have an adequate response next time someone cautions me in this vein
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Congratulations on all the interviews, folks! 加油！
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Visiting School- What to Wear?
Kaiwei replied to GreenEyedTrombonist's topic in Interviews and Visits
@GreenEyedTrombonist Hey, I live in MA and wanted to give you a heads up on the weather. It has been very warm the past two days (in the fifties!) and a lot of rain has fallen; consequently, most of the snow has melted away. With this being said, we could have more snow by the end of the month, so just keep an eye on the weather. Good luck with your meeting! -
That would be quite a startling question, @lordtiandao. Hopefully some of your research interests still align with their program! @NaitoBaron It's great that you are in communication with UPenn. It seems like a lot of the programs are interested in you; I have a feeling you will receive an amazing offer! Your interests sound great, @kotatsumuri! I took a classical Chinese course in Daoist and Buddhist literature my last year as an undergraduate and found it to be fascinating! I'm also looking forward to beginning my studies of Japanese when I start grad school. And Yellowstone/Tetons are on my bucket list of places to hike; hopefully I'll make it out there within the next few years! As for me, I haven't heard anything from anyone else yet. I still have seven other MA programs I applied to and am awaiting their replies. If anyone hears anything from Berkeley or Harvard, let me know! P.S. Quite glad to have such a productive EALC thread on gradcafe this year. It has helped me out tremendously through commiseration and advice. Hope to actually meet some of you folks in the future!
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Figured I would post for students attending school in Boulder for Fall '18. I was accepted to CU Boulder. I was offered a position as a TA and a small fellowship. I believe I should have around 15k per year. Anyone else in a similar position? Going to make a trip out to Boulder within the next month or two.
