storiaitaliana

Just got accepted to the UConn MA -- no funding for MAs this year, but I'm still psyched as it was my first choice -- yay!

But don't you understand that words are EVERYTHING? Who cares what they are actually referring to! That is unimportant. What is important is how they make you feel. If they make you feel bad, that's enough -- they are evil and wrong!! Very enlightened.

A lot of brilliant academics have piss-poor social skills, and some of them are even piss-poor human beings. From what you're saying, this guy acts unprofessionally like this on a regular basis. Chances are that everyone else knows it, and they aren't looking down on you for what he says -- they are feeling sorry for you for having to deal with him. So, try to keep your pride in yourself and your self-worth, do the best work you know how, expect the advisor to be an ass and don't take it personally, get your MA and get out. Good luck -- I know it's hard to deal with people like this!

I read mine a few weeks back and felt like it was a totally shallow, facile document and I was stupid to even try to apply to these places...so I just didn't look at it again

I don't care so much about the PhD itself, I just need it to do what I want to do. I have other things I want to do too though, so if it doesn't work out (i.e. I do not get accepted anywhere or I get accepted somewhere without funding), there is still light at the end of the tunnel.

I heard that they notify their top choices first, then they go down the list of the second and third tier people after that. I think you get an early rejection if they weeded you out of consideration to begin with. I guess it is possible you could be denied entrance to all 10, depending on which 10 you applied to! But if they weren't all Yale and Harvard, and you have some 2nd and 3rd string colleges there too, there's got to be an acceptance out of all those 10! Hang in there!

There was only one in undergrad for me -- my American History professor. Cute, funny, brilliant, personable, admired his teaching style, dressed well -- if I weren't already with someone and if he wasn't married, I would have married him! As it is, I am just planning to name our first boy child after him -- haha!

Thanks for the notice, and thanks for providing this venue for us

Indiana University's History PhD has started contacting, and these people have received 5-year funding and/or a fellowship -- now I at least know I'm not on their first tier of candidates. If I'm going to be rejected,kinda wish they would get it over with :roll:

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I know!! I will miss being in the Italian department so much. I just don't want to spend my life analyzing literature, so I had to switch into History. Che peccato! What area of history are you wanting to study? [quote name="Louiselab

How great to hear! There are so few people who share this interest, it seems! I am interested in issues around the Risorgimento and Italian identity. I find it very interesting how a peninsula full of people so extremely identified with their region, even their own little towns, became a unified state. I think in a lot of ways, the whole unified-state-under-the-Lombards thing didn't really work out too well :roll: I'm also extremely interested in anti-mafia movements, like the Addiopizzo movement in Sicily, the work of Roberto Saviano, etc.

Be careful -- there is someone PMing people who say they are wearing blue underwear. I think this person may be from a country where any woman who talks about their underwear must be sexually available over PM.

That depends on your values.

Not time-wasting, but while you are doing nothing you might as well learn a new language: http://www.livemocha.com

Hey, I really am wearing blue underwear right now!

Yay!! Three more weeks and I will hear something! WOOO!!

Didn't you already get an answer on LJ?

Today I was listening to Ziggy Stardust.

I'm psyched for February, because that is when one of my schools has historically started notifying! WOO!

Anna Karenina is my favorite novel, and I just read the first 9 chapters to my husband on our recent road trip! Right now I'm reading I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane and A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan.

My situation is a bit different - I am going straight through, but I had a 15-year hiatus before I finished my BA. Soooo, it's not EXACTLY like I'm going straight from undergrad to grad, even though I technically am.

I know it's too late for LGrunner, but anyone interested in info about the Storrs area, I recommend doing a search on http://www.city-data.com/ -- lots of info there.

I graduated this past summer, attended an MA program this Fall that turned out to be wrong for me, and now I am just here....waiting. I really miss being at school, having an inspiring purpose, being around and interacting with people who are learning, etc. etc. But I know I have to wait until the end of August anyway, even if I get into the places I've applied to, so...grrrr. At least it will feel better to know where I will be going and that I will be getting back to the life I want to have for myself. I'm also home sick today, so I am especially bored and wishing I had something engaging to do!

Well, I'm sure you know better than me, since I just e-mailed, and you were actually over there! I'd just never had a professor sign his e-mail "Sincerely, Christopher" before! ETA: Although I have read that in UK academic culture, it is normal to call them by their first name: Here in the UK (and I suppose it's the same throughout Europe, and I know it's the same in Australia), "Professor" is actually a high ranking instructor, like a chair or a director. So a regular American "Professor" would not actually be called a Professor over here. But it seems as though first names are the norm here--a weird concept for Americans, but nothing out of the ordinary for Europeans. http://successfulacademic.typepad.com/s ... fesso.html