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I’m from a region called Texoma. I have a very Texan accent if I drink enough, but I’m starting to mix the Texas and Minnesota idioms and accents. “Did y’all see dat? Fer cute!”

It depends on what you want to do with your degree and where you want to end up living after. Sports administration is all about the networking.

Every time I see OSU, I think Oklahoma State, so I'm glad there is a differentiation.

Southern Spice and Minnesota Nice: A Southern Girl in the North Country "If y'all ever ask me if you should move here, I say don't. It's not that I don't love the North, I really do. It's just that I moved up here to get away from y'all. For those that just need to come to the land of ice and snow, have I got a survival guide for you. So, put down your Coke (no really, it's pop here) and learn y'allselves something." You know, this could really work. I'm already cracking myself up and I love the combination of titles that y'all suggested.

I'd like some input from y'all English folk. If I were to write a super sarcastic "survival guide" book, which title would you use: Southern Girl in the North Country -or- Southern Spice and Minnesota Nice?

Nothing has really updated with UMN since the first round of applicants with university wide funding came out. I'm taking that as a decent sign, hoping and waiting.

U of M as in UMN (Minnesota) or Michigan? If it's the first, we've been talking about it in the shellacked thread and if you have any questions about Minneapolis, feel free to ask. Don't ask about living in St Paul. We don't cross back and forth over the River too much here.

There are some beautiful places up here for boarding and riding. Oh, and the U has amazing facilities and a great equine health program.

You never know. I've had coffee with my POI a few times and have been to consortium lectures and still haven't gotten a yes or no.

Maybe I should apply to work in recruiting for the U!

I love archaeology, but I don't have the scientific background for it. I've interned with an archaeologist stateside, but dealing with NAGPRA really turned me off the entire thing, but at least now I can say I have cataloged over 100k beads without my eyes bleeding. I actually had to look up what Sheffield was doing because I knew one of the universities in the region was doing Rothwell, I just couldn't remember which one. Latin would definitely be useful for a medievalist and then it depends on region. You would need something different north of the wall than you would in say, Wales or Germany or Scandinavia.

No rejection yet either. I'm less worried now than I was because I have a backup plan, but I still want to know. I feel like Jon Snow every time my parents call because all I can tell them is "I know nothing."

Sheffield is doing the Rothwell Charnel Chapel project! I'm actually a little jealous! That would be Latin. It's way south of the wall. I think England does their archaeology like the continent in that you choose the project you apply to before you go. Once you find that out, it would be a lot easier to know what languages (if any) from the time period you need.

No news is good news, right? Right?! I'm prepared to need one more cycle, but next cycle I will also apply to law school. I like that law schools is just a numbers game and my numbers are good. I took the LSAT last year for fun (it was free, the LAC gives out waivers like candy) and got a 174.

Then you would be happy to know I made tatertot hotdish for dinner tonight and bars for dessert.

i thought y’all would enjoy this as much as I do.

The UK required a six month quarantine. They are a rabies free island country.

“No, Dutch isn’t misspelled German” ”French is just lazy Italian” -said to the French prof as I decided to go a different (Germanic) route. She made me bitter ”You’re from Quebec. That’s not French!” ”Frisian and Afrikaans are different than Dutch. Here, let me give you a couple hundred year lesson on colonialism!”

Is going to depend on where your site is in England and what group was occupying the region and trading there in that time. Some regions, you may need Scots Gaelic, others may be Celtic or Norse. North of the wall archaeology is a lot different than south of the wall.

That feeling when you share a future blog post with a local prominent writer and their response is “that’s not a blog post; that’s the start of a book!”

Oh, and since y’all are literary people, I think you would enjoy the F Scott Fitzgerald tour. He grew up in St Paul and he and Zelda had a cabin in White Bear Lake.

I drive a Fiat 500. Front wheel drive. Manual. Mussolini (my car) has been a beast this winter. I do have to say that my saving grace is leggings under pants. I’m obsessed with fleece lined leggings.

You can’t be a real Minnesotan until you’ve done two things- fight a bear and dig your car out of the snow! For perspective on how I like the cold...today is 22 above and flurries. I’m heading to IKEA in shorts and a sweatshirt.

Everyone experiences winter in a different way. Any time the weatherman says the temp is going to be “above,” I’m outside. I work outside at least a few hours a day (sell cars). You just have to embrace it and tell your neighbor “well, it could be worse.” Minnesota Nice is like Southern nice on steroids. It’s passive aggressive. It’s fake nice, which works for me.

One more thing, and this is important for college students, Internet is CHEAP. I get 1gig download for $50 a month. Fiber is everywhere in the city. I’ll do a neighborhood breakdown later.