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TheMole

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    TheMole got a reaction from babyurbanist in Irvine, CA   
    There was a post elsewhere on this, but it seemed to be about UCSB, not UCI.

    So, anyone know anything about the OC/Irvine area? I'm scared of it being this commercial/superficial/rich-bitch wasteland where I won't be happy. I'm both a total geek and a bit of a hippie, and I need green around me, and lush green at that. None of this brownish-green crap. I like vibrant art and music scenes and coffee shops that have real local flavor, rather than Starbucks-style glitz.

    Thanks!
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    TheMole got a reaction from GreeneeB in Irvine, CA   
    There was a post elsewhere on this, but it seemed to be about UCSB, not UCI.

    So, anyone know anything about the OC/Irvine area? I'm scared of it being this commercial/superficial/rich-bitch wasteland where I won't be happy. I'm both a total geek and a bit of a hippie, and I need green around me, and lush green at that. None of this brownish-green crap. I like vibrant art and music scenes and coffee shops that have real local flavor, rather than Starbucks-style glitz.

    Thanks!
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    TheMole got a reaction from jakem in Irvine, CA   
    There was a post elsewhere on this, but it seemed to be about UCSB, not UCI.

    So, anyone know anything about the OC/Irvine area? I'm scared of it being this commercial/superficial/rich-bitch wasteland where I won't be happy. I'm both a total geek and a bit of a hippie, and I need green around me, and lush green at that. None of this brownish-green crap. I like vibrant art and music scenes and coffee shops that have real local flavor, rather than Starbucks-style glitz.

    Thanks!
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    TheMole got a reaction from nescafe in Fulbright 2011-2012   
    Didn't get it. for the second year in a row.

    The Spanish Fulbright Commission can officially go fuck itself.

    Best of luck to everyone who is still waiting to hear.
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    TheMole got a reaction from schatzie in Fulbright 2010-2011   
    Respectfully, I'm not sure if I entirely agree with that, at least inasmuch as my own discipline - History - is concerned. It is certainly true that the volume of information that one can gather during a year's time has increased exponentially thanks to new technology and that, conversely, the amount of time required to gather a specific amount of information (say, the amount necessary in 1959 to produce a dissertation) has decreased.

    However, standards within the discipline have not remained static either. Over the last few decades, there has been a clearly demonstrable increase in the "burden of proof" on the historian, in great part caused by recognition on the part of graduate committees, degree-granting institutions, and the field as a whole, that what a scholar can realistically accomplish in the course of researching and writing a dissertation has grown. The rise of Cultural History in the last few decades has only exacerbated this trend, as the enormously important and useful sub-discipline (I myself am a culturalist) nevertheless requires a density of evidence that elite political history and intellectual history have not, as a rule, demanded.

    Certainly, the only cases I know of involving individuals not in need of something resembling a year (9 months or so, if not more) to accomplish their research generally involve circumstances not related to technology: they are either Americanists working on subjects local to them, or, as in the case of one acquaintance, their sources are largely published accounts. It is absolutely true that for some folk, digitization can reduce the burden to travel; however, I don't think it the case, at least in History, that this is sufficiently generalizable to merit alteration of the Fulbright grant.
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