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The big key is low, indirect, heat for a long time. By indirect heat, I mean, you don't want the flame to be directly under the meat. I have a smoker with a good firebox that's ducted to give the smoke to my main cooking chamber. For ribs, I keep the temp about 200 degrees for about 4 hours or so, but check it with a meat thermometer. one good way to tell is if the meat shrinks on the bones about 3/4" if it was cut flush with the bone before cooking. As for wood, soak it in water before you put it on the coals. Wet wood smolders and smokes, dry wood burns, so you don't get the smoke and flavor. Make sure you use a hardwood, hickory, cherry, mesquite, apple, alder. Don't use pine, you will make your food inedible if you do. As for rubs and sauce, I don't share that, it's proprietary information. If you're just getting started, Famous Dave's Rib Rub (most grocery stores around here carry it) is ok to start with, and really great on pork chops.

Depends on what fields you're talking about. I don't think that researching in mechanical engineering is going to help you in history, but sociology and history would help each other.

I understand about the time requirements, but Texas has a lot of VA hospitals. Could he transfer to a straight military hospital? Ft. Hood is not too far from Austin, about an hour and a half. Ft. Sam Houston is in San Antonio and about the same distance in the other direction. Plenty of places where you could live somewhere in the middle. Not sure the rules, but there is a lot of stuff in both areas.

Or UT-Austin?

That's the problem with UCLA, there's little in the way of affordable housing around Westwood.

Include what is required, no more, no less.

This is part of why I am not applying to UCLA, even though Stephen Aron would be the ideal professor for me to work with.

I know that and I own it. I'm not perfect nor do I claim to be.

Just being honest and not trying to sound perfect, since I'm not. Whenever I was around Roma, I would watch my wallet closer, and that came from the experience of not doing it. I know it sounds bad, I feel bad about it. But it is what it is. If you've been a victim of crime, you just don't trust people the same after.

Yes, I had some good and bad experiences with the Roma. I lived in Usti nad Labem when the wall was under discussion that would separate the white Czechs from the Roma (1998-1999) and in Ostrava in 2000. They certainly get treated horribly, but after I had three attempts from Roma to pick my pocket, among other issues, you just can't help but think that maybe there is some validity to the stereotypes. I know that's probably not fair, but I never had the same sort of incidents with white Czechs. Maybe I just never met the right Roma or something. I know it's really hard for them to find honest work, so that sort of does skew the view of them, since they aren't trusted. It's a difficult situation. Do you speak the Roma language?

I would send her an email and find out. Probably would have been a good idea before you ever sent in your application, it may have saved you whatever Princeton's application fee is.

I have this on a shot glass. Now this I really find interesting. When I lived in the Czech Republic, I knew many Roma (and I have a very mixed opinion about them). Are there any programs that look at the Roma as a group?

Not sure about the rules, but when in doubt, ask.

I understand that, if you were a procrastinator, you would probably not be here in the first place. Yes the waiting is driving all of us nuts, but working in the business world right now, unless there is the completely perfect position that opens up right now and needs to be filled immediately, the jobs will still be out there in 6 weeks. The waiting game sucks, but in 6 weeks you'll know your results for grad school, and based on that, you will know which direction to go.

Really interesting. I've heard it's very hard to get into this if you aren't Native American yourself. Not sure how true that is.

Why rush? You should know application results in like 6 or 8 weeks. Are you out of money right now? If so, there are plenty of high turnover type jobs around (they suck, but for just a couple of months, who cares?) that you can get until you know what your application status is.

how long do you have? 15 to 20 minutes? Figure 2 minutes per page. Make sure you go slow. Practice delivering it before you actually do it. Good luck.

You're only an addict if you're going to meetings.

nothing says rock bottom like snorting a line of coke off a hooker's backside.

I think they have lost enough faculty now that they are under their cap, but I haven't kept up on what's going on since I finished.

AHA, I did my first year, not my second year of grad school. Most of these memberships have a student rate, it's usually around $35 or so. While I did join AHA for one year, I have remained a member of WHA (Western History Association) because the host institution for their journal was where I did my MA and I had an editing internship there for a semester and I've gone to their annual conference twice. I am a member of the Western Social Science Association and presented a paper at their conference last year and have been accepted this year. Since most of what I did at the MA level was dealing with Czech history, I joined AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), but since I'm pretty much going to be shifting to straight Western US, I will probably be dropping that. By way of explanation, Utah State, where I did my MA has a really interesting archive of Czech historical documents and stuff, but no Eastern Europeanist (they had one the year before I got there but he left and has not been permanently replaced as yet due to a hiring freeze). They are very strong in Western US history, being the host institution of the Western Historical Quarterly, so most of my coursework is in Western US. I actually found that some of the discourse in Borderland Studies applied to my work with Czech and German ethnic identities and so I made that sor tof work together. Now at the PhD level I want to go fully into Western US and so that's why I am dropping the Slavic Studies stuff and have always had the Western.

I don't think it means you're low, I think it means that he wants you there and he knows that the upcoming funding battle is going to be particularly bitter and is giving you a way to double your chances of getting in and getting funding. This is more about him trying to short circuit the departmental politics in order to get the student he is interested in. Actually pretty cool of him to do this.

Depends on what you want to do. I like doing papers on pages. I have a Mac anyway, so it's nice to be able to take the iPad and not have to take my laptop. Also, you may want to avoid Angry Birds if you don't want to waste hours of time.

The other that I didn't say before was that they probably want to bring in as many students as they can, and if they can get you to take the MA slot and get funded there, they can get you in and also someone else. Honestly, i think that it's a pretty good option that you should strongly consider.

My bet would be that they like your application, but couldn't fund you, but you fit well with what they do. They have the other program, and you would probably be a shoe in to get in there, so apply there, that way they can still admit you, not have to fund you through the history department, and when it comes to it, you have an inside track to upgrade to their doctoral program since you're already there, already known to the faculty and adcom. Not a bad deal all things considered. Not to mention, if you want to go some other direction, you'll at least have the MA to show for it.