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"Only a couple" of places for European history doesn't necessarily mean that World or African history won't be expanded. There could be overall cuts but also readjusted funds for new areas. We'll see I suppose.

Did Wisconsin get hit in the snowstorm too? Maybe that's it.

Last night I dreamed that I was all of a sudden really anxious about hearing back from schools. It was weird; in my waking life I have yet to enter the stage of anxiety that many folks here already have, but dream self was pretty upset about it all.

Do not forget the classics: Leia: I love you! Han Solo: I know.

Tell that to the rest of the world. No one hears the term "Ivy League" without associating it with excellent (read: blueblood) academics.

Congratulations, historyhopeful!

100,001 is actually even cooler, in my opinion.

Seconded. Sounds like the potential advisor said "hey, this applicant looks really good. It's a bad time for me, but you two colleagues, would you mind taking care of this person while I do my research and then I'll be the primary advisor when I come back?" Not only does this bode well for you, but it speaks to a really supportive atmosphere in the department. Lucky! So, you are in (unless the other professors don't help, so you should politely help convince them of how cool you are). Congratulations!

In high school my history teacher brought him up and we had a good class conversation about research ethics, etc. The most interesting part of the discussion was about whether librarians should buy the book at all - whether the importance of the scandal itself was enough to offset the author's profit/the unwitting trust of the library patrons. We decided that the best option was that they should keep it available for specific requests but off the shelf so uninformed patrons wouldn't think it was a factual account. Another solution would be a note on the scandal inserted into the book, I suppose.

Yeah, that's probably true for me too. It's like picking an orange M&M over a green M&M and then later believing that orange M&Ms are superior because, well, I made the right choice!

Oooh! I want to read this right now!

Life Sciences is a good place to start. But first! You should say what your research interests are (anthropology+botany? do tell) and give people some material from which to advise you. In general, it is a good idea to look at the research of scholars that you found particularly interesting and ask yourself if you want to do something like that, or something else over here. Poke around department websites - any will do since it seems you are just testing the waters at the moment - to familiarize yourself with what's out there and how things are done in different fields/departments. If you have a career services office at your university, go see if they have any books you can check out like "What do I do with a degree in X?" or "Careers for social justice people" or whatever. Those will have suggestions for career paths other than graduate school as well; if you don't have a strong passion for something specific to study, I would not recommend applying to grad school at this time. Good luck!

The people I have talked to about this say that either is fine.

As far as the content of my first book - psh, no idea. Like nasteel, I have a crazy vanity idea (which I will probably never do) on the history of property in the US. I like to muse about this because the topic has huge scope and would be a fascinating way to draw connections across all kinds of subfields. You have property as important to citizenship and politics (of course), and as central to philosophies such as libertarianism, etc. International relations from a perspective of land claims with Britain/Canada and Spain/Mexico, and later during nineteenth century conquest of the frontier and imperialism in the Pacific Rim/Latin America, could have a lot of fruitful discussion. Changing ideas of property put alongside changing relations with the many First Nations would be absolutely riveting. Women's property, women and children as property, women's rights and economic well-being, and describing women's lives through their property is another interesting area (I just read Ulrich's Good Wives, which I highly recommend ). Defining African Americans as persons/property is an obvious area. Legal property ownership and various moments in time when squatting is common/acceptable and the tensions between government crackdown and individual or community property control. Immigration and property ownership, especially in the west, and how that affects the incorporation of immigrants into the common national identity. Etc and so on and so forth. It would be a big book.

In general, professional journals accept submissions at any time. They may have specific themes for which they may issue calls for papers but you shouldn't wait around for a theme that seems appropriate. You don't need anyone else's permission to submit to a journal (though in your cover letter you can say something like "Dr. X suggested I submit this article to your journal" if you feel like it). At least in history, many, many papers come from amateur historians submitting their work, so you certainly don't have to be in the system to submit! Here's how it works. You look at the journal submission guidelines and make absolutely sure that you follow all the formatting and word limit requirements. This will take a lot of editing time and is annoying, but essential Some journals still require multiple hard copies of papers in addition to digital submissions, so be aware of that. All the requirements for submission will be online or printed in the journal itself; you need to find these and use them. Do not annoy the editor by emailing questions about how to submit - everything will be explained elsewhere unless you want to do something really odd like submit an audio file or other media with your paper for some reason. (I would not recommend this, if possible). Include a cover letter with your submission - the letter format varies by field, so you should ask your professors what the standards are for that. You will not hear anything for a long while, up to six months sometimes. Eventually the editor will write back and you will get either a) a rejection, b ) rejection with invitation to revise and resubmit, or c) acceptance. The last option is very, very rare. The vast majorities of acceptances occurred after revision, so don't feel bad if that happens! The work will be peer reviewed before publication and you will need to revise based on the reviewer recommendations. After that the editor will guide you through the publication process. Good luck!

It sounds like what you are taking from this experience is a hard look at your writing style. That's exactly the right response. I'm sure the dean was impressed with your work, and he wanted to check to see what your reaction was when he mentioned the plagiarism due to sloppiness. Had you reacted defensively or otherwise than as you did (urging him to critically examine your work further, looking into it yourself), it would have put up red flags for him. Sounds to me like you did everything right, and that in the future you will be more careful, which is great. Don't worry too much - it's a positive learning experience!

! Every once in a while I'll talk to someone I've known for years and they'll say "Oh yeah, I did x important thing way back" or "Sure, I met Famous Person, we worked together" and I regret not having a tape recorder right then.

$4000 sounds about right; enough to move with a buffer. I recently moved with friends down the west coast. The moving company cost about $900, but they royally screwed us: we had to wait for three weeks after our move for our stuff to follow us because they were deceptive about company policy, about having a truck on our route in the first place, and our rights within the law. West Coast Moving and Storage: no! To buy cleaning supplies, jump-start the kitchen, etc we paid about $300. The first and last month's rent was another thousand.

I disagree with this; Santa Barbara is very doable without a car and is particularly bike-friendly. For one thing, there are prominent bike lanes on State/Hollister, the main thoroughfare through town, and bike lanes on pretty much all the streets. For another, drivers are used to bikes here and give them lots of space. True, grocery stores can be spread out of walking distance, but a bike with a basket plus a backpack should solve that problem if you are shopping for one or two people, once or twice a week. There is also a farmshare service which delivers local food to your door once a week, and I've found that easily provides all the fresh food needs for three people (http://plowtoporch.com/). The buses are frequent but often 5 or 10 minutes late as well. There are a few express buses which use the freeway and make it easy to get between downtown and the university.

For the first time ever I saved a fortune from a fortune cookie: "The best profit of future is the past." Of course I think it was intended as "prophet," but if I get in to grad school then hopefully I'll have some "profit" as well.

I have a question. Does anyone know how to make quinoa taste good? I have failed in most of my spicing attempts. The people for whom I am cooking do not like onion or fresh tomatoes so I feel my options are limited for delicious mix-ins.

I need to submit my undergrad thesis to a journal. I did that last summer but it got rejected, so I'm going to try a different one. I got distracted with grad school applications and preparing for a conference but now I have more time to do it.

Don't feel bad! They're going to admit more than 15 in the end because of course some people will accept elsewhere. Also, you could be just the last one they get to! Plus, you really do have a lot of options with all the schools to which you have applied. Don't worry!

I come to GradCafe like radagast and others for the information, procrastination, the conversation about the process, etc. I enjoy hearing news other people are getting because it is similar to benevolent gossip in real life. Checking for news doesn't make me anxious or rile me up, though I don't see why anyone else should care that it did. I don't know anyone else personally who is going through the process and cares about it like I do, which is why I like the forum. I think people should just give up caring about being right all the time. People are going to give advice that others don't take, people are going to disagree, and I don't really see the point of arguing about it all, especially when the real issue isn't the advice itself or the disagreement but rather the rude way in which those things are conveyed.