rsldonk

I've never seen one who isn't on the Adcom. I suppose they don't have to be, but doesn't seem like something that would normally happen.

With the Romanian aspect, have you maybe looked at a place with a good Slavic/East European Studies program? Washington would be a good place to look too.

Look at the schools, LSE, Oxford, and Cambridge are very well known and viewed as at least equal to the Ivy League, even here in the United States. You can find a job on this side of the pond with those credentials, but you have a lot harder time if you go to say the University of Leeds (which is a fine institution by the way).

Utah State, where I did my MA will let you in on a spring admit for a semester as a non-matriculated student for spring semester. They have a classics emphasis, but it's part of the history department. They only offer a terminal MA.

Bitte, ein Bit.

These are not the same as attending a foreign university full time to earn your degree. My .02 cents for this whole thing, it depends on what university you attend as to whether you can find a TT job in the US when you finish. Oxford, Cambridge, sure no problem, they are considered at least equal to the Ivy League in the US. Even to a lesser extent, St. Andrews, Sorbonne, Heidelburg, Bologne, are ok, people have hard of them at least. Charles University in Prague, despite it being one of the oldest universities in Europe, good luck getting a TT job in the US. That is not to say you won't get an excellent education in another country, you will. Its just that the US academic job market sucks and if the hiring committee hasn't heard of your university, they aren't going to take you seriously.

Not when I have archives not only in 3 different states, but 4 different countries.

Didn't Kenneth C. Davis do something like this?

This, above all else, will hurt you. As important, in some cases more so, as your GRE and your GPA are your Letters of Recommendation. If you haven't put out the effort, your writes will usually find a way to put something in about that, even if it's not blatant.

A lot of places that only offer a terminal Masters are not on the results page.

Do the evaluations have any weight when it comes to future funding and if so how much? And will that outweigh the recommendation of the professor you are grading for? Are you individually evaluated by the students, or is the professor the one who gets the evaluation? Who do you really answer to? I guess that depends on your department, but if you are a grading assistant, not actually teaching the class, evaluations go for the professor, and not you, but the professor evaluates your work. So that answers who you need to please. Also, expect bad evaluations from students you don't just hand an easy A.

Rejected. Well not my top choice, but it still sucks.

Yes, got to second the professor's personality bit. At the MA level, one of the professors in the department was such a perfectionist that my buddy who had him as an advisor ended up wasting an entire semester writing and rewriting his thesis proposal (that ended up being 22 pages and an almost complete argument itself) that he's now going to finish late because of it. While they all tap dance on your work, this guy is NEVER satisfied. Ever. No work is ever good enough for him.

Who cares if your students like you or not. That should have little bearing on how you do your job. My students hate that i don't accept late work. Do I really care? No. I put it in the syllabus, they were warned. Your job is to do what the professor wants, that's why it's called being the teaching assistant, not the student assistant.

We make time for what we want. I don't know how competitive you want to be, but there were always pick up games of ultimate frisbee going on in the afternoon. They competed for space on the play fields with the pick up games of cricket.