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ltr317

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  1. The CUNY Graduate Center has an excellent summer Latin/Greek Institute as well.
  2. I read Colley's "Britons" last year for my Modern Britain class. It was a great read! It's too bad if she is nearing retirement.
  3. They are bright and fun to drive. Both my previous and current 500s are like that, except the current one is more so, being an Abarth. They are both in arrest me red, so I stay a fair distance behind the speed lunatics.
  4. I seriously doubt if @msmith1381 was applying to English PhD programs with Albert Einstein and Weill Cornell on her list, but who knows for sure?
  5. My Fiat probably beats the Cobalt by a pound or less.
  6. I hear you. I was driving a Fiat Cinquecento (500, new version) in upstate NY on interstate 81 in a blinding snowstorm two winters ago when suddenly I felt the rear end coming around. It took all of my prior training in racing cars to keep from spinning and going off the highway and into a bunch of trees. Fishtailed several times but managed to stop before I went off the road. Oh, and I was too cheap to buy snow tires.
  7. I've experienced your attribution first-hand. Certainly with adjustment of instruction but not as much with grading--grade inflation is now almost universal. I earned a BA and master's degree (different majors) at an Ivy university earlier in life and am currently completing my history master's at a public university--for the much lower cost. I found professors expected more from students at the Ivy by teaching at a higher, more nuanced level, as well as requiring heavier reading lists and longer writing assignments.
  8. One of my professors earned his MA at Kentucky and his PhD at the University of South Carolina. His secondary field was Southern history, and he told me USC was stronger than UK in that area. That's just one assessment, so take it with a grain of salt.
  9. Thanks, that will be great. Etoile, who posts on this forum, is also a doctoral student at UConn.
  10. No, but I don't expect a decision for at least a few weeks. I'm primarily a nineteenth-century Americanist and UConn has a number of scholars who fit my research interests. I'm interested in working with Masten and Rilling formally and Wilbur informally since he's on phased retirement.
  11. Yes, an aphorism of English majors. Historians are also wordsmiths but as a group, we lack levity. I'm trying to change that by becoming the humorous historian, or happy historian.
  12. Congrats to @TheLearnedPig and @Qtf311 on your acceptances. Two thumbs up!
  13. I would keep that quiet. You may end up incarcerated at your namesake's panopticon of self-deprecation.
  14. I should hang out on this sub-forum more while I still have free time. You are a fun bunch! Especially the self-deprecating ones, which is close to my heart.
  15. That depends on the program. I also forgot to submit a prior transcript that was already reported on the transcript at the institution where I graduated. One school emailed and asked for the transcript, but several other schools I contacted told me that it wasn't necessary. If you're not sure, contact the other schools.
  16. For now. Unfortunately, the current administration is still in power.
  17. Thanks. I even have NYPL Marli privileges.
  18. That's an interesting list, especially Rebecca Solnit's book. It brings to mind that we as historians often get lost in research and thought. Thanks, I'm putting the book in my Amazon shopping cart.
  19. Well, that sucks! I remember spending an inordinate amount of time just editing and rewriting portions of one writing sample. Good luck!
  20. You claimed without justification that Wisconsin is not a top program due to a poor placement record. Your words: “Simply look at the placement record. It is just dishonest to suggest otherwise.” @TheHessianHistorian and I both provided our research to refute your claim, while your evidence is just named recognition, which means nothing. In replying to @gnossienne n.3 you ignored our findings and again made an unfounded opinion about Wisconsin’s placement record: “I simply believe that the placement record does not lie, and that although one should not go to Columbia, Harvard, or Princeton if they are not a good fit, the fact remains that those colleges have much better placement records across different fields than Wisconsin.” I welcome a healthy debate, but a value judgment without any evidentiary support is worthless. Talking to you is like talking to the wall, a useless exercise. Thanks ashiepoo72 for alerting me to the ignore user feature.
  21. @Kingsouth good luck with your applications.
  22. I totally disagree with your statement and think you're dishonest by making sweeping generalities. I researched about fifty history PhD programs in the past year when I was considering pursuing a doctorate, and the vast majority of the programs had at least one faculty member with a Wisconsin PhD. All these programs obviously had a high regard for Wisconsin grads to hire them, or the program has such diversity in different fields that grads are attractive employees. Either way, there are tons of Wisconsin history PhDs teaching all over the country. Again your opinion is without merit. Why should Cronon leave Wisconsin? He received his undergraduate degree from the university and he has an endowed chair. His entire career has been at the university.
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