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From what I’ve seen, the do acceptances one week and rejections the following week. My application is strong, in my opinion, but I don’t know about the fit with the program. My GPA was closer to the 3.5 range because of some sciences and taking 10 years between my first failed attempt at undergrad and my last attempt. I also sent the wrong draft of my writing sample and had a few untranslated bits, but I’m hoping they see that it was an original translation of 17th Century Dutch.

I wish. My GPA wasn’t that high.

Freak out begins today. First person just posted on the survey that they got accepted to the program I applied to.

It's a regional in a military town. The average age of the student there is 28 and most are military, retired military, military spouses, or green-to-gold. It has one of the top 10 ROTC programs in the USA. However, most people are there for their BA/BS and leave. I'm in the humanities, so we don't have the same numbers as psych or the sciences.

Honestly, I went to a SLAC and my primary advisor wrote a total of one recommendation letter in 3 years. If I get into the one program I applied to, I will have to give a lot of credit to my writers. One was my advisor- I did an independent study/directed reading with him, he was the faculty advisor for many of my clubs, and I spent all four years in his office working on various projects. He is an alum of the program I am applying to. One was the department chair- I also worked closely with him and he was co-faculty advisor for clubs and I traveled with him to conferences. The third was the University President- I was Student Government Vice President my Junior Year and President my Senior Year, so I served on 15 university committees from Academic Appeals (actually did this one for four years) to President's Planning and Student Activities Funding and Faculty Senate as the student rep. Do you know how difficult it is to craft relationships like that in four years? I was on campus 14-16 hours a day, especially in my last 2 years. They will be able to tell the adcomm exactly what my strengths and weaknesses are. Will other people have this kind of letter writer? No. Many people would rather go to undergrad at a large state uni or an Ivy, but you aren't going to get the same relationships as at a SLAC. I graduated with 6 people in my program.

For the cold, I dress like they did in the 1700s- with a lot of layers. So, undergarments, then camisole and knee high socks, then undershirt and leggings, maybe one more pair of socks on top of this (wool), and then finally work/business attire (or jeans, sweater if I don't work that day). Then you can put on your strip-off layers: peacoat, gloves, hat. Boots are a must, especially if there will be snow. I prefer natural materials, so your mileage may vary. I'm a fan of wool, leather, and cotton because the worst thing you could do is sweat in synthetic materials and go out into the cold.

With ETS, I spent a grand total of $280 for applications. I applied to one school because of two reasons. I love the city and I couldn’t afford to apply to any more. I haven’t heard back yet, but historically, they release results mid-late January. If I get in, I’m happy that I live about 3 miles from campus and can bike there in the spring and summer.

Love Braudel. I read his history of the Mediterranean more often than I probably should (along with Hegel’s Philosophy of History).

You don't know what is going on with their life or how they got their money. Maybe they worked in undergrad. Maybe their parents do help. Maybe they have been saving for awhile. Maybe they have someone to split the bills with. I don't see how it is productive to spend time comparing yourself to them or judging them.

Vikings won! We have snow! It doesn’t get better than this today.

Judging by the past years on the survey, UMN should be sending acceptances this next week after MLK Day. I’m already nervous.

That makes me feel a little better. I love EME and would likely concentrate on the Mediterranean- so, Europe, Middle East, North Africa.

Just got invited to the Power Admins group on Facebook. I don’t know why that makes me happy. It’s an invite only group for admins of groups with over 20k members.

I don't get digital history. I also don't really do quantitative methods. I've done it for two classes- I used sabermetrics for my baseball history paper (of course) and I took a quantitative methods of political science course and applied Hofstede's Masculinity Index to worldwide parliamentary elections from 1900-2012. The poli sci class didn't help too much because the prof that taught it was a qualitative political scientist and had failed quant methods herself three times in undergrad. She got so frustrated with SPSS (which I do like) that she just told us that when we became real political scientists to just "hire a statistician" and forget about it.

You get back 11/12 generations on the British side and you start seeing Lords and Ladies on the list. I let my boyfriend know that because I come from aristocracy, he needs to treat me as such, haha. We're also related to Anne Hutchinson. Her sister is in our lineage. It's actually fun to see who you can be related to and track your family's movements through time. One of my mother's lines went from England to the Dutch Republic, landed here at Plymouth, then went to Virginia, Rhode Island, Maine, Alabama, Kansas, and finally Oklahoma. You know you hit the Puritan line when the names are Ichabod, Grace, Prudence, Patience, etc. I would eventually like to make a family migration map for my parents.

Some of the unis in the Netherlands do India. The Dutch held part of the area for a few hundred years. They had Bangladesh, Burma, Ceylon, and some regions of India. You would, however, likely need reading Dutch for the VOC archives (16th and 17th century Dutch, not modern).

It's working, just more challenging that the Brits, which is okay. There were some Hoffer then Haeffer and then Hooper, with a Haijer (Hayer) thrown in there (they also spent time in the low countries), etc.

It's the constant name changes when they arrived here that is what is difficult to track. Most of them arrived in 1848-1852 (which interests me a lot since I have written on the effects of German immigration post-unification on the Jacksonian Era). Since arriving, they have had 5 variations of the surname that I have seen so far and when I get back to Hesse or the Rhineland, the name is completely different. I had a different problem when I was looking into the iconoclasts in my family history on the British side. They were in Leiden and Rotterdam before coming to the Americas after they left England (very typical), but I know all the church records for the church they would have been baptized in was destroyed in WWII. It's a common problem for many Dutch historians. Rotterdam held the repository for the Dutch Reformed Church in the 16 and 1700s. I'm going to look at a sub to archion. I think it might be fun to delve into.

I wanted to add two more programs. The American University in Rome and Groningen. However, I cannot remember exactly the Dutch requirements for Groningen right now. Their program is new, but they are doing some great work in captive narratives and early modern exploration.

I’m working on my maternal lineage. I have my grandma’s direct line through her father all the way back to 1455 now. There are some minor Lords thrown in there, so that helps. We are also related to Anne Hutchinson through her sister and six people from the Mayflower. They were also the same lineage that helped settle Maine and established Rhode Island. My mother’s father’s side and both sides of my dad’s family are harder because they all came from the Rhineland, Hesse, and Prussia in the 1800s.

Found out that doing genealogy on ancestry is a good way to kill time during the waiting period. Also found out, to my frustration, that England kept much better records than any of the regions in Germany. Now, how to break it to my parents that their ancestors fought in the same battle in the Civil War- against each other...

^ This. I know that the uni I applied to has historically released acceptances on January 20 and rejections on February 6. That doesn't mean that I don't check a few times (okay, 20-30 times) a day.

The first question I was asked when I went to look at the department of the uni I applied to was “do you need to be a professor?” My answer was no and they liked that answer. The reply was “good, you probably won’t be one.”

Leiden. Vrij Uni Amsterdam. University of Amsterdam. Frije Berlin

I replaced it last year. It definitely made a difference.