Riotbeard

I don't know about College Park but I am moving to New Orleans and have apartment searched in cities. I would advise going in person if you have an worries about safety. In New Orleans and where I went to undergrad, the type of neighborhood (safetynesswise) you live in can change from block to block, so I always found visiting fruitful for those reasons.

No clue. Sounds fishy, if you have another offer, I would take it, but that is me.

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It doesn't seem strange if you are really close, but I can't really evaluate your position. I have some profs from undergrad that I would ask to do that, but I am comfortable in those relationships.

It sounds wierd to me too, but with sciences as I understand it, you tend to start on pre-existing research projects with a professor, and this is often where funding comes from. Correct me if I am wrong, but the sciences work different from humanities like us!

IMO, I would go with the edited book. Good relationship builder plus you have got an in it looks like, and the more you publish the easier it is to be seriously considered with each new essay as I understand, so if you have stuff in the pipeline then... Plus, if this a good publishing house and editor it should the same prestige as an equal journal. Also you could send it out to ten+ journals and some assholes readers could end up dogging it for bs reasons. My first attempt at publication garnered incredibly ignorant reader responses, but I have since had other interests in this essay after backburnering it. I also think I submitted to the wrong venue. If this seems like a sure thing, I would not take the risk of shopping out after you already have a good offer at a good venue.

I am leaving my job a month and half early to have a last harrah, and be in a wedding and see all my best friends before moving to the deepest corner of the South, but then again, I am not being asked to come to do early research .

Well most jobs don't get the summer off... Even as an academic, you have to get your research done during the summer or teach summer school.

You'll have plenty of summers when you are retired. Going seems like the smart career move...

This is probably a shameless moment to brag, but I am going to a grad school that has replaced Comps with a portfolio defense (I believe Duke was the first to go to this system). What other schools are doing this? Is anybody else going to one? How do people who have are in these programs already feel about it?

No contest Ohio State. UVA has been having financial troubles for a while, so I wouldn't want to go on the assumption that the funding would come through, plus those programs are comparably ranked, if you had a great reception at OSU (and you like OSU more), you should go there.

<br /><br /><br /> I have been in the suburbs for the last year myself, so I can't wait to change from commuting in a car to on a bike (I am not excited about the obstical courses they call roads down there, but you know). I am going to craiglist/ visit. I only live 5 1/2 hours a way so it's not that huge of drive. I will probably set up some place to look at the week before I come down to actually look at them. It does not look like there are many listings yet for August when I plan to move in.

<br /><br /><br /> If your funding is attached to your advisor then you may not have much choice, but if not, wait a while and feel out the department for the first semester. If you think you can change advisor smoothly go for it, but academia is an apprentiship field and if you alienate your advisor and the department, you are screwed.

<br /><br /><br /> i am partial to If Chins could Kill personally, but both are great.

Yeah, haha. My friend who went to Pitt told me stories of the post superbowl riots.

<br /><br /><br /> When I was on a waitlist (I removed my name and comitted, well, look at my signature), the DGS there didn't make it seem like would hear anything till 15th at the soonest, and seems like a lot of people have turned down offers elsewhere. So buck up kiddos. Either way there is always next year. This was my second try and intervening year gave me time to strengthen my app.

<br /><br /><br /> That time came and went in the mid 90s.

<br /><br /><br /> I have been out of the game for a year, so I kind of miss reading history and have had my fill of random reading, but if were going straight in from undergrad, I might be less inclined.

If I were moving to Atlanta, I would move to East Atlanta generally or the areas near little five points, including stuff off Ponce De Leon and McFarland. Cabbage town is great, cheap, but a little dangerous.

<br /><br /><br /> Yeah I think that month before my felloship kicks in is gonna cut my savings in half...

I thought this might be interesting. What books have you been told by Profs or personal inclination etc. that you have to read before history grad school? For me: These are have to's for examples of the great theory and historical writing not for my field: Carlo Ginzburg The Cheese and the Worm (this is what I am reading when it's delivered) Foucault Discipline and Punish (Read most of it for a paper as an undergrad) Focus Specific George Fredrickson The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny 1817-1914 (Just finished this. It was written at the End of the Civil Rights movement, and ends with an amazing call to action. Very Moving!) Lacy K Ford Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2009) Tim Lockley Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South (2007, This is for my specific research interests)

I am no fan formality personally, so I love having a drink with a prof. As an undergrad, I was on a first name basis with most of my English profs, and the English Club went to happy hour unnofficially regularly with the caveat that if you were underage you did not drink. I was a bit more professional with my history professors, but even them, we went out to lunch and coffee etc. to discuss papers. These people all remain professional contacts, when I go back to my undergrad town, I always get a beer or lunch with profs. Last time I visited I saw more professors than "friends" (but a lot had moved). I also went to a beer festival with a professor, and maybe embarrassed myself (you go to five hour high grav festival and not get tanked). I think that informality allows for a more close advisor relationship, and when people wrote my letters, they were able to speak about me personally and professionally. This is very true in an office also. My advisor at my PhD program commented that your letters helped you a lot because it was clear they really knew you (Of the four Americanists were I am going, I was only non-ivy league type person...). That level of comradery (sp?) can really help with professional networking, because so much of your professional impression is also personal chemistry (not romantic obviously). When the English Dept was recruiting a new prof, I was on the student committee thing, and there was one guy who was an amazing professor (he gave the best fake lecture) but was kind of a overprofessional dick, and he did not get hired because he did not fit with the cohort. I would view that informality as beneficial as long as it doesn't move from informal to innappropriate (which does not include getting hammered...).

Working my full time job till about a week before august (I graduated 09), Then I am moving August 1st, but going to DC for a week of August to be in a Wedding and visit my friend and his fiance getting married, before I am immobalized by intense workload and economic limitations of a grad stipend. Then I am going to spend two weeks getting acclamated to New Orleans before school starts in September. Also my Advisor and I are going to start working on getting a paper I have ready to send out for publication.