slawkenbergius

Congrats! Who knows, maybe I'll see you there!

And for those of you keeping score at home, Indiana was the school where my personal statement was like twice the length of what was "recommended" on the application (but not on the department's website), which I freaked out about over at LJ. Moral of the story is, don't sweat it.

Congrats to the OSU admit who just posted!

Just got a very nice acceptance letter from a professor at Indiana. I won't have to join the army, hooray!

Thanks! You're probably right. I'm getting so damn neurotic I can't even concentrate on my work.

Another JHU admit and I've heard nothing. Guess I'm screwed. Oh well

I'm applying for early modern and Imperial Russia, so I might have been your competitor. I've honestly got no clue if I even stand a chance, though. Did you get a sense of what their accepted/rejected numbers were? (Probably 8 out of 200, like Duke. Crazy.) I'm also applying to Princeton (top choice), Stanford, Harvard, Indiana, UCLA, and Georgetown. I'll post in this thread if I hear anything, but I suspect it might be a slaughter.

Wow, looks like JHU has started notifying people. I guess it's time to start worrying. Sorry about your rejection, whoever posted that! What were you applying for?

Can't pass up the definitive book--A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. It's amazing.

I'm reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and The Gaze of Orpheus by Maurice Blanchot. I'm a huge fan of the former and kind of lukewarm on the latter: Blanchot seems to have only one idea, which he repeats continuously in page after page of turgid prose. Yes, I'm a huge nerd.

I think you're dramatically overestimating the time you have available in grad school. Your dissertation is generally your first book, and that doesn't get published until several years after you get your PhD. Most people will be lucky if they can publish 3 articles during their grad school years. But the networking advantage never really ends. Someone from a top-10 program will always have a better chance at getting a job than someone from a top-50 school.

Who had that interview with Harvard? If you're around, could you post what it was like? Do history departments do interviews all of a sudden?