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Admin, I checked out the posts for MikeNTheNatti and SteveNSactown and they are all insulting bullshit like this, probably by the same person. Pull the plug!

Well, to Mike and Steve, I scored a 5.5 on my first try at the GRE (since that seems to matter to Steve at least) and I think you two are condescending and nasty. Plus you seem to be under the impression that ability is not only something that can be captured by a test, but that the GRE is the test that can measure it. The OP has probably moved beyond the accordion essay style we all learned in junior high, but scored relatively poorly because the GRE measures how well a writer can stick to a small number of formulas. If that's your idea of analytical skill then you probably shouldn't be on a career path that allows you to teach others. Please take your flamer masturbation elsewhere. Pathetic!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! That's great news!

Personally I never got the people who couldn't pull on a pair of jeans to go out. I definitely witnessed the creation of the leggings-as-pants craze at my university. Dressing up for anything formal is a definite must. I even dressed up for class presentations.

I have a question. I have heard (where I do not remember) that it is bad for female candidates to emphasize their interest in teaching because it makes them seem less serious, less rigorous, etc. Is this truly something women should avoid in interviews? Or what?

Congratulations nasteel! That's wonderful!

And writing the SOP is kind of like making conversation on a first date. You don't want to spill your guts on all your deep issues and insecurities, and depending on who you are on the date with, you tailor what you say to them. The goal is to get a second date, after all!

Does anyone remember a comedy where people being laid off have to stand outside the office in the parking lot, and the executives point at them through the glass wall to let them know whether they have a job? Was that from The Office?

Your badger sense is tingling.

I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to imply you yourself are a bigot - just that bigots are the ones who have made "homosexual" a disrespectful term. I am ashamed.

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Medical historians (these are US-centric and not particularly exhaustive): Margaret Humphreys, Duke, infectious diseases in the American South, 19th and 20th centuries Peter Ward, University of British Columbia, racism, gender, public policy in Canada, 19th century Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia, scientific research and its political influences, US public policy, rabies, 20th century The University of Wisconsin: Judith Walzer Leavitt, women, social history of medicine, childbirth and gynecology, infectious disease, 19th and 20th centuries Susan Lederer, history of medicine, media and medicine, medical ethics, 20th century Judith Houck, menopause, sexuality, history of women's health, race, 20th century See the whole list here A bunch at the University of Michigan as well: Howard Markel, immigration, US public health, late 19th and 20th centuries Alexandra Minna Stern, eugenics, public policy, genetic counseling, California, gender and sexuality, 20th century Joel D. Howell, US, healthcare choices, history of medicine, human experimentation, 20th century Nancy Rose Hunt, Africa (Congo-Zaire), women, infertility, abortion, birth, sexuality, colonialism, 20th century Regina Morantz-Sanchez, US, women, gender, the family, sexuality, women physicians, Jewish history, 19th and 20th century Martin Pernick, history of medicine, mass media and medicine, eugenics and other bioethical issues, 20th century Michelle McClellan, gender, addiction, public history, 20th century Here are a few outside of history whose work is still quite relevant and who may also assist in supervising history students depending on university policy: Gretchen Condran, Sociology Department at Temple University, mortality transition between the late 19th and 20th centuries especially in Philadelphia, infant mortality Werner Troesken, Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh, waterborne diseases, environmental toxins, race, 19th and 20th century US Dora Costa, Economics Department at UCLA, race, aging, war and disease, long-term population health trends Perhaps I will add to this later, but this is a start!

Yeah, the issue is whether you want to shell out more money to take the test. If you can't, then don't worry about your scores, but if this is something you want to do, it will give you a modest benefit, especially if you break 700.

Especially since it would be very incorrect to project modern understandings of sexuality onto the people of the past. What is most interesting to me is how fluid sexual choice can be. So "homosexual history" doesn't cut it at all, in addition to being a bit rude since bigots like to talk about the homosexual agenda and basically do their best to turn a descriptive term into a dehumanizing one.

Play Keep a Word, Drop a Word!

It can be relatively simple. Go to an art store or stationary store and buy a few sheets of nice patterned paper and premade blank cards. Paste the patterned paper in the card and a smaller blank piece of paper on top of it for you to write a short note on. You can also get ribbons, etc if you want to get really fancy. Here is a site that might give you some ideas.

I'm doing Mass Effect 2 as well! I'm on my fourth go through. I also play The Sims and Starcraft.

A friend of mine recently completed an internship with the National Park Service. She said that the Park Service is made up entirely of people who are nice but shy, leading to a lot of awkward silences at parties. So far I haven't encountered the dark side of academic awkwardness myself, namely rude/jerky people, but I'm sure that will change soon.

Well, I was secretly hoping to make the list!

I hope so - UBC is one of the schools I am most excited about!

I don't know what it is about people who can't be bothered to do anything for themselves. Seriously! Especially in a lab which is theoretically an interesting workplace with long-term potential. Reminds me of one of my co-workers at a pizza place I worked in a while back - she wanted to be told everything. Our last day of work together she still came up to me and said "Qbtacoma, what should I do?" It's a pizza place, idiot, at which you have worked for six months. Clean something, chop some veggies, wash some dishes, figure it out. I did not say this to her, however. I also heard of a student employee in my university accounting office who actually fell asleep, several times, at work. What the hell.

Handwritten cards which you have made yourself.

That's by Plan B too! I was going to apply to MLIS programs this year, then thought I'd apply to some history programs too, then said "fuck it" and went all out for history. However, I don't know if I want to sit around for another year doing what I'm doing now if I don't get in. I am considering going to teach English in Korea at a hagwon (or cram school) - I can make mad cash, if I manage to avoid the highly sketchy hagwon. I happen to know a couple people who got incredibly, massively screwed by their employer. Also I'm keeping an eye on the political tension in the region, but I figure that life can't stop just because Kim Jong Il decides to throw a hissy.

So this dude thinks that pedigree is more important than merit, huh? Ass. Speaking of oodles of Americanists, I wish that I had decided to be a history major way earlier than I did. I would have taken a lot more Latin America classes and would have done, well, almost everything differently. I feel like I got pigeonholed into US history by the existing system/not enough time to consider my options, and I suspect that a lot of other Americanists would also choose another geographic area if available. At my undergrad, we had a huge number of fabulous US and European professors, but only one East Asian historian and one Latin Americanist. There was not one class in any department devoted to Africa. It sucks. And when I get my degree I'm going to contribute to the imbalance of the system, or be out of a job. Gah!