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Tabletop Joe

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  1. Broadly, I'm interested in the history of cultural production under Communism in Eastern Europe; specifically, I'm interested in the Czech, Polish, and Soviet film industries and in writer's unions.
  2. Anybody out there? I'm a History student specializing in East-Central Europe, starting fall of 2011. I'd love to meet some of my fellow Berkeley newbies, regardless of department. Anything anyone can tell me about the area beyond what's available in the City Guide forum would be appreciated, too...
  3. I'm in Modern Eastern European history. I will indeed be going to the visitors day (probably a good idea, since I've never actually been to the Bay Area.) I'm curious about the number of admits, too -- I stalked the Results Search here for a while, but only saw two responses under History pop up. Will you be at the visiting day?
  4. Any other UC Berkeley acceptances on here? I just got mine via email on the 9th and I'm super excited...congrats to all the acceptances thus far!
  5. N.Y.I.G., I don't really have an answer for you, but I wanted to pipe up and say I'm in pretty much the same boat. I graduate from a very strong undergraduate program that requires a two year thesis to graduate, got good grades, fulfilled the majority of my language requirements (3 years Czech, 2.5 years of Russian, 1 year intensive German for my historical interests), and want to do a PhD in a similar field as my undergraduate work. I know I'm focused, but I feel like the fact that I'm applying straight out of a BA, even a particularly work-focused one, would make PhD programs nervous or make me seem like a less competitive applicant. However, the actual constructive part of this post is: the advice I've gotten from my undergraduate advisers is essentially to demonstrate in my application that I have thought long and hard about this despite applying right out of a different program, and to illustrate in my application that I have a concrete idea of what I want to do and how this program fits into goals I first developed as an undergrad. So good luck! Let me know how it goes.
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