GreenePony

I still didn't have to talk to people, I submitted online and got a card in the mail. Of course that was at my parents where I knew and trusted all of our mail people. My current city is a black-hole when it comes to mail. My deposit for field school was "lost" for over a month thanks to USPS here and I almost lost my spot. I think phone calls are horrible and I wanted to cry when I saw my top choice notifies rejections by phone after the interview stage. I hate phones in general.

Our friend got his MDiv from Truett and has worked as an assistant/worship pastor for a smaller urban church and is now a youth pastor another. Your seminary/theological school should have some sort of job placement office to help. An option is to list your self as being available as a for-rent officiant for non-denom weddings. You'd be surprised how many brides are looking for a pastor of any sort because their parents/whoever is footing the bill insists on a Christian wedding but aren't affiliated with a church or are close to a pastor. Usually there's a listing in your city or you can get listed on the Knot and whatnot. It may not be every weekend but it's something. You can be as hands on or off as you want.

I don't know how we don't have those. My freshman year we had a guy yelling at us to repent whenever we left chapel* (he was from one of the more... offbeat churches in the area). It would seem right up his -or someone from that church's- alley. Not sure how finding Jesus requires you to drop out. Last I checked most protestant pastors have an undergrad degree as well as an MDiv or DDiv. * Baptist university so are required to attend two semesters of chapel. But no statement of faith needed so that's who he was screeching at, I guess.

Thanks! That's the sort of thing I was looking for when posting it here.

I've decided I don't. My undergrad notified me with an envelope filled with confetti and a window cling as well as a "CONGRATULATIONS" card. It was pretty awesome.

I received my first acceptance, yay! However, they want a response as soon as possible (have not received the official offer packet with the deadline yet) but the other programs will not be sending out results until next week and this may drag on until the end of March. My husband and I thought I should send an email to the address they requested saying basically, "Thank you for the opportunity but I cannot make a decision yet" and this is what I have come up with so far. Thoughts? "Program Person, I received your letter concerning the program yesterday and I very much appreciate the acceptance into the program. Unfortunately, I cannot yet make a decision concerning attendance as I am still waiting for program decisions, and some may be as late as April 1st. As this decision not only affects me but also my husband, we must weigh my options carefully. As soon as we have decided, I will email you immediately. Thank you for your understanding, Greene" (also, I'm an American and this is a UK program, should I use UK spelling? I think the only work it affects is 'program')

I ended up getting in to the program, so I'm going to subscribe to the "they wouldn't contact you just to later reject you" mindset.

Congrats! I got my first today too! My mom said I couldn't post until I called her, well I called her (after my husband) and she didn't pick up... her loss. I posted a picture of a quote stating my acceptance, after texting my friends who really wanted to know. (I also updated the survey but I don't think anyone was waiting for leicester)

I'll be 22 if I'm accepted this year. I don't think age has that much to do with my application, however at my top choice I noticed there's more individuals a couple years older. But there is very little I could do in museums without a masters. The market is being flooded with museum students because there are more and more programs (apparently they look good to have) and less jobs with the budget cuts so museums can have higher hiring criteria and can realistically require higher education.

My old dentist was insistent that I dug up dinosaurs when I said I was studying anthropology. I had to give up.

DH is whining about leaving Texas. It doesn't help that this winter is so mild.

I grew up near there There's also a Blue Bell I'm not sure why but we've come up with some strange names. A fun game freshman year was when my roommates and I would compared the pronunciation of place names near where we grew up. Beyond Blue Ball, Bird in Hand, Mount Joy etc there's Ephrata, Leola, Shamokin, Marietta, and Womelsdorf. And that's just within an hour and a half or so of my home town. Now I miss PA Dutch Country.

My husband is insistent that a PhD shouldn't take longer than 3-4 years. I laughed at him and told him to wait till I got to that stage and just see. (for the record he will never go for a PhD and his dad took 9 years so I'm not sure where he got that statistic.) "You're so precious! I'm sure you'll get in!" What adult wants to be called precious? Seriously? I know I'm short but I'm not a child.

Agreed! If only my hips/knees/ankles weren't that of an 80 year old woman I might join them... stupid genetics.

Don't lose hope! My husband failed a programming class (or more, I can't remember) and was accepted into a computer science grad program

There are good books out there on the subject Two I cited a lot in the paper: Burleigh, Michael. Sacred Causes: the Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War On Terror. 1st U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. NEW YORK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. And then they sited this one but I didn't use as much as I could: Matheson, Peter. Third Reich and the Christian Churches. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark Publishers, 1981. There are some others but I had to be choosey or else I would walk of out of the library with two dozen. If you search your university library for "nazi, hitler, church" you'll get a ton. The Brown Priests are interesting, they could easily be a paper by themselves.

I'm taking an extra class. I could get away with 6 credits but I'm taking another 4000 level to keep me occupied and I picked up a new long-term project at work. Now that the semester is actually picking up steam I'm a bit busier. I'm also being more crafty. I finished a pair of pants, re-hemmed a bunch of things, re-acquainted myself with power tools (DH is terrified), re-framing some things, and am now debating trying to prefect the printout to canvas transfer process.

No, but I got that email but am still waiting on the response. I hope the email is them not wanting to throw it out

^I really hope so, that's what happened to me at one program I tried to get ahead of that- I took the GRE just before the wedding and while my "new" name has all of the "old" name in it, there's an extra bit on the end that I knew was going to be confusing. I emailed all of the programs that wanted scores and said that my scores are under this name and should be connected with that name's file. All were very understanding, the worst was when the department secretary didn't get back to me right away and I neurotically played email tag with the graduate office to get stuff moved around. Supposedly they were going to match SSN any way but that just worried me too much. Now everything should be in the correct place. Hopefully.

I realized today that I should find out from all four programs with a decision or request for interview within the next 2-4 weeks (if not before). Just in time for my birthday, awesome, right?

I sent this to my friend who is also waiting. It's perfect! For those in the manic/neurotic phase of waiting, I would recommend some Django Rheinhart. If I can't sit still, I might as well as listen to music that really won't let me (Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, Django's Tiger, and Minor Swing especially)

You don't think it comes across as too Indiana Jones does it? It kind of reads like Raiders now, oh goodess... The sample was on the relationships of Church and State in Germany in the 1930s, focusing on the mid to late 30s. What Nazi Party Leaders were in what denomination, how the denominations reacted to the rise to power, how Hitler had a bit of a bizarre pantheistic theology (squished that into one paragraph for brevity's sake), that sort of thing.

How have I not heard about that? For weird town names- In Central PA there is Blue Ball, Paradise, Intercourse, and Bird in Hand.

Thanks guys! I'm just worried that it seems too diverse and not really focused. And my experience (as weird as it is) needs to overshadow my less than stellar GPA (it's not terrible but there's an F several semester back in an unrelated area that scares me and some meh/average grades in Geology and Hebrew).

"Good undergrad program, Good Experience, Decent to Excellent scores, Meh GPA, Excellent Recommendations, Speaks English, some Spanish and ... Biblical Hebrew? Moving on then, field research in ... Mormons and Saint Cults in Guatemala? And her writing sample is on Nazis? Um... She's just a little too weird for us. Next."