MsBOOM

Submit! I had a professor turn hers in over a month late, and I still got in!

I've been so busy on winter vacation, that I often forget that I am waiting to hear back. And then I remember. And freak out.

HDS funding is year-by-year basis, so funding will not be hindered by you switching over. Funding is also based on need and academic merit (your first year grades will greatly affect funding), so as long as those two things are in the clear, then your funding will be great (should you be admitted). Honestly, from what my friends here at HDS have told me about the switch from MTS to MDIV, it seems pretty easy. They went in and request it and were granted it soon after. HDS is a very understanding place and the staff and faculty does a lot to accommodate students - so much to the point that I honestly think it's not a point for you to worry about right now.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YES!!!!!!!!! **EDIT** I think I had that dream because I watched two episodes of Sherlock before falling asleep, hahaha.

Turned my Georgetown application in and went to bed... had a dream I was a professor at Oxford. Da fuq?

From where? ...Oh. Ohhhh, I see what you did there. Hahahaha. **Edit, this is just me being delusional and exhausted while trying to be funny, btw. I wasn't being serious, hahaha**

NYU perhaps? University of California at Berkley. Columbia has a graduate program in Talmud and Jewish Studies. And there's always Yeshiva University.

Depends on what level you're talking about - Masters or PhD? Undergrad?

I have no plan B. I'm freeeeee fallllinnnnn'!!!! Just kidding. I'm going to apply the following year. If that doesn't work out, then thinking about joining the Air Force as a military chaplain (fiance is already in the Air Force - on his 12th year, so he's not quittin' any time soon) - it'll keep us together that way (military-wise, that is). If not, then I'm just gonna hit the ground runnin' and create the coolest NGO that the world has ever seen, and I will make the world a better place. HORRAH!

Thank you for that! I've decided to forgo retaking the GRE this year, but if I don't get into my dream program, it's something I'm definitely going to have to look into. Thanks again

Also, another thing that I will throw in the pot is that at HDS, people seem to be extremely humble and do not boast of good grades or being able to get the entire reading done. Nobody really knows who is getting what grade and nobody really acts like they deserve the best grade in the world. In all honesty, it seems like there are no two people with the exact same interests, so I guess that's another reason as to why there's no competing.

Current HDSer here. My first semester, I was extremely OCD about doing ALL of my readings (two classes which required a book a week each!), took intensive Arabic classes, worked 10+ hours in Divinity Hall, and also worked at the Pluralism Project as an intern. I felt like I never had time to do anything except to read and study, but I still managed to have a social life as well... and it was great. I guess with my second year, I settled in a little bit - I realized that I don't have to do ALL of the readings (and can just skim through some of them... but not all, of course!), got promoted to research associate at the PP (so I got drop my student assistant job), and Arabic comes a LITTLE easier to me. Nothing is SUPER hard to do, but you have to WORK hard. Nothing, and I mean nothing, has gotten me to the point to just give it all up, but that's probably because I absolutely love doing what I do here. In all honesty, the hardest thing I've ever done here at HDS is learn Arabic... now that is a real force to be reckoned with, haha.

Furtivemode, EXACTLY. They make it seem SO simple. It's so simple when they say just do "x, y, z", but when I'm at the computer writing my SOP, this is what my face looks like: O.O

I know we are all there while writing our SOP's. How does one tell if one is in this supposed balance? I cannot, for the life of me, figure it out. I sound too specific, but too general at the same time at the current moment. Alas, ironically, I feel like it's still not that balance. Ideas?

Lol, I tried being nice to you, but your comments about the entire board in general are overbearing.

I don't think it's so much as them wanting to be on the list as it is you just being an obnoxious twat. I'm sorry, but somebody had to say it.

I don't want my (future) school to be on that list. Not until I'm in, anyway. LESS COMPETITION, NAAAH MEAN? (Yes, yes I am greedy like that).

For the first part, I think it's pretty freakin' awesome that you take pictures of turtles. For the second part, I'm not going to bother even replying to that past this.

So. Much. Win.

Wait, are you hunting turtles? I like turtles. And so does he:

Somebody pass the popcorn.

Damn. That would've been perfect, as my fiance lives in Baltimore, and I was going to offer up his small apartment to people that needed a place to stay. Unfortunately, however, the Harvard Academic Calendar gods cursed me by making finals the weekend after Thanksgiving, so he's coming up here instead. Womp womp womp

CRAP. YOU'RE RIGHT! O.O

I don't think I've ever seen a verbal and/or physical fight between two (potential) religious studies scholars. Something tells me it might be somewhat hilarious, lol.