NOWAYNOHOW

As I was leaving work yesterday I put my sandwich wrapper in my purse and threw my keys in the trash.

1 more application in.  2 left. 

That sucks. 
 
My graduation date is on my unofficial transcripts.  Can you just make up a date?  Are they really going to double check?  Who gives a shit what day you graduated?
 
I'm so damn tired of apps, especially repeating stuff that's in my SOP and CV.   Why ask for an SOP and a CV if you want additional statements on work, research and what my shit looks and smells like. 

Anybody interested in materiality should take a peek at the literature archaeologists have been producing on the subject over the past 20 years. Ian Hodder's Entangled is a good starting point, but there are many others. This is a literature that's developed largely separate from parallel developments in cultural anthropology, so you may find some valuable points of comparison and different analytic angles. 

To add to these: The Social Construction of Technological Systems edited by Bijker, Pinch, and Hughes; Evocative Objects edited by Sherry Turkle;  and if you're interested in environmental history and STS Confluence by Sara Pritchard.

Really good Madonna joke. This whole process needs more jokes. We should put together a PhD application joke book. I got the Zizek joke book as a gift and it is A++.
 
What do dolphins write for their PhD applications?

A STATEMENT OF PORPOISE
 
My favorite STS texts are probably Langdon Winner (Whale and the Reactor), Annemarie Mol (The Body Multiple), Emily Martin (Bipolar Expeditions) and Natasha Schull (Addiction by Design).  But you should check out http://www.4sonline.org/resources/syllabi.

I see.  I was worried for a second I had fallen into the STS-lite camp without knowing it.  I don't know how folks forget about materiality.  Maybe they need more Madonna.
 
Do you have any fave STS texts?  Who should I be reading once I finish Haraway?  I need to play catch up since I've been out of the game for a few years.  I didnt even know STS existed during my undergrad. 

I think it's just the way some people take up certain scholars (say, Latour, Mol, Fleck, Kuhn) and sort of declare their work to fall into STS. I know I am especially conscious of this now, because I rely on Mol a lot. Obviously there is a lot more to STS - Helmreich, Popper, Merton, Pinch, Hacking, Clark, Wajcman etc etc. I think it is also the idea that STS in anthropology right now can sometimes neglect the hardware of technology (the material, conditions of production and development, values in design) in favor of digitality or media effects, etc. That's just how I interpreted the STS-lite criticism.

Masco's work is very cool. 
 
Can you elaborate on what they mean by "STS-lite"? 
 
Did anyone talk about "biocapital"?
 
I've neglected my microbes. I should eat more sauerkraut.

Guys, AAA is insane. I mean, it is awesome! I keep seeing POIs and not having real reasons to talk to them (though I have fabricated a few reasons in the name of introducing myself) and also there are just anthropologists everywhere. It is like your bookshelf came to life. It's Night at the Museum: That Weird Part of Your Library Where The Monographs Are. Of course, the presence of 'real' (with PhDs) anthropologists is just making my imposter syndrome worse! I feel like everyone knows I'm not REALLY an anthropologist (yet).
 
BIZARRE
The good news is that a very fancy POI and I are now planning a session for another conference so hay hay hay
 
This post has been brought to you by the bar at the Marriott at AAA.

Guys, AAA is insane. I mean, it is awesome! I keep seeing POIs and not having real reasons to talk to them (though I have fabricated a few reasons in the name of introducing myself) and also there are just anthropologists everywhere. It is like your bookshelf came to life. It's Night at the Museum: That Weird Part of Your Library Where The Monographs Are. Of course, the presence of 'real' (with PhDs) anthropologists is just making my imposter syndrome worse! I feel like everyone knows I'm not REALLY an anthropologist (yet).
 
BIZARRE
The good news is that a very fancy POI and I are now planning a session for another conference so hay hay hay
 
This post has been brought to you by the bar at the Marriott at AAA.

Thank you.

Because your saying that made me double check the Berkeley website and see that in the Anthro pages it says the application is due by midnight December 2nd...2013. On the main grad page, lo and behold, December 1st.

Just submittedy first 2 applications! Wheeeeheeeweeee.

Thanks! This is so helpful to know. I suppose it is a "cross that bridge when you come to it" scenario, but I'd still rather know now.

I'll need it. I just spent 45 minutes deciding which Thai place I'll be ordering delivery from in six hours. Clearly I am a master of task-management.

I submitted my first 3 over the last couple of days. I don't know what is more difficult - submitting them or not going over the materials obsessively afterwards!

I don't go to Amherst.
 
I could to UMASS-Boston. My program is funded.
 
If you don't get funding, don't go ... is my motto.

I'm not feeling great about it but I think those sweetheart funding deals are too few and far between to expect, particularly in bioarch. There just aren't enough programs and the ones with the best funding (looking at you Vanderbilt) are in places (looking at you The South) that I'm not willing to live.

From my understanding, which is limited, funding is not guaranteed and varies year to year, but there is some sort of structure in place. Looking at the results board it seems that most admits have been funded around 17 or 18 a year. Which isn't brilliant but I'd be fine with it. This is my third round of applications, so I find myself much less picky about funding.

I'm applying there too!

This is actually great advice, but it is also making me LOL a bit -- "No more than a sentence should be devoted to your undergraduate career...You are a Chicago graduate now" and "We will not jeopardize the the cachet MAPSS has achieved with the major social science doctoral programs across the country by appearing to support half-baked applications" and "This is, after all, Chicago."
 

I highly recommend Sabrina if you're into talking mechanical cat puppets from the 90s. 

Yikes! Just submitted my first application. One down, nine to go!

FYI, I only submitted early (early-ish) because I noticed my recommendation writers wouldn't get notifications until after I submitted. This was for UMass Amherst, so if you are applying there, here's your warning. Does anyone know of any other programs that have this weird feature?

Yikes! Just submitted my first application. One down, nine to go!

FYI, I only submitted early (early-ish) because I noticed my recommendation writers wouldn't get notifications until after I submitted. This was for UMass Amherst, so if you are applying there, here's your warning. Does anyone know of any other programs that have this weird feature?