[ipad tips]

Macbook Pro:

 

writing: Scrivener, TextExpander

note-taking: nvALT, Evernote, Drafts, Audionote, Day One

database: DEVONthink Pro Office

stats: SPSS, etc.

mindmapping: Scapple, Mindnode Pro, iThoughtsX, MindManager, etc.

timeline: Aeon Timeline

RSS (for journals): ReadKit

scheduling: iStudiez Pro

project org.: TaskPaper

books: Calibre, iBooks

OCR: ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac

word-processing: Pages, Microsoft Word

presentation: Keynote, PowerPoint

referencing: Papers 2 (not 3), Sente 6, Zotero, Mendeley, Bookends, Endnote X7, etc.

[ipad tips]

pdf reading/annotating: PDF Expert 5, iAnnotate, iBooks (for epub)

note-taking: Evernote, Notesplus, Drafts, Audionote, Day One

scheduling: iStudiez Pro

scanning: Scanner Pro

word-processing: Pages, Microsoft Word for iPad

referencing: Papers 3/2, Mendeley, Endnote for iPad, etc.

[Michigan or Northwestern?]

relay Indiana, the overall training is better at Michigan and arguably Northwestern as well.

 

Given you are interested in China, as am I, it's unlikely that you would find someone at Northwestern who knows 'closely' about China (this is why I didn't apply though it is very strong in comparative-historical studies in which I'm interested).

 

As you also want a solid training in quantitative methods, Xie is your guy and potentially your advisor (it of course depends on your speciality). If you want to go back to qualitative research somehow, Steinmetz (his 'Devil's Handwriting' touched upon Qingdao) and Zubrzycki will suffice.

 

In short, Michigan.

 

My two pennies anyway...

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

I'll claim UC Irvine. Apparently some delays for non-US citizens. Good luck everyone!

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

I am sad. But congrads and thanks for confirming. One more thing: was it an official mail or personal mail from a faculty member? 

cheers, gretagarbo. It was from a faculty member whose name, however, was not in my SoP (not my POI).

[Applying for Fall 2014 Sociology?]

There is a Berkeley! oh god please be a spam. I can not take two rejections right now

I'll claim Berkeley. Financial packages are to be determined in next few weeks.

[schools on democratization & authoritarianism?]

hey guys,

I'm a foreign student. I guess it's a bit late to do researches for fall 12, but I just wanted to ask if anyone knows any schools that are well known for studies on authoritarianism and democratization in comparative politics? Based on my research, it seems that UCLA (Geddes), Chicago (Slater), Ohio State (Gunther, Kurtz, Shabad, Sisson), Stanford (Magaloni, McFaul), Cornell (Bunce, de Walle, Pepinsky), Harvard (Putnam, Ekiert, Ziblatt, Pharr) have scholars that do these topics. Did I miss any schools or people?