Chiqui74

Just heard officially from William and Mary. They send a rejection letter in the mail.

Well, at this point I'm pretty sure I wouldn't accept Minnesota if they did offer, but it's nice to be able to cross it off the list for sure.

The Minnesota portal has changed from "Awaiting program decision" to "Decision made." Now I have to wait one business day for the decision ($10 says it's "Rejected") appears.

rotary phone

The library at my undergrad institution has quiet floors, whisper floors, and floors where you are allowed to talk normally. I always went to the quite floors because I simply cannot concentrate with noise around me. Of course, there was always some asshole on the stupid phone, or phones ringing loudly, or people just being generally loud. WTF? What part of QUIET floor wasn't clear? I'd always give them the evil eye if I could make eye contact. Of course, many floors were also no-food floors, but some people would still bring in entire messy meals to eat there. I've always been a stickler for rules, but this is about common courtesy! The campus is also supposed to be a smoke-free campus, but tell that to everyone who doesn't give a monkey's ass!

I'm interested in hearing from current graduate students who have young kids about what their experience has been like so far. If you are still a prospective student, do you have a game plan? I'm in the humanities, which is very reading and writing intensive, most of which I assume gets done at home since there is no lab for this. I need to come up with a way to make sure I budget my time effectively. I'm also somewhat concerned about how things are going to work out when it comes time for me to do archive work, which may not, and most likely will not be, in the same area where I'll be for school. Usually, people go away for months at a time, which I assume will also be the case with me, but I'd have to move my entire family just for that, and then back. This is a bit in the future still, but definitely something to think about.

Looks like UPenn, Virginia, and possibly Michigan will be open today. Hoping for (good) news for everyone!

muscle memory

WOW, revocations are terrible! I'd be pretty pissed too. At that point, they should have just sucked it up and admitted the people.

Thanks, HMD243!

Congrats, guys!

I'm obsessing over snow boots! I've never had to buy them and I'm told I NEED a pair for my NYC visit. There are so many choices! I actually ordered a pair that arrived today but they are hideously clunky and slightly big. I mean, is it really going to be bad enough this weekend that I'll NEED snow boots???

Do you guys watch Epic Rap Battles of History?

Congrats, tipmar!

No, everything I said still holds true.

I just noticed all the typos on this post. Eek. I was on my phone, but even so....

I didn't apply to Duke, but it looks like the Duke massacre has started.

I think it also helps if you go in with the mindset that there is life for a PhD outside of academia. I'm not hellbent on getting an academic job upon completion of a PhD. If would be great if I did, but I also love public history, I'd be interested in intelligence-based governemnt employment, etc.

Comic Sans! No, seriously, Times New Roman 12 points. For footnotes, I decrease the size to 10 points. I cannot stand foodnotes in bigger font!

I'm probably late on this but here goes anyway. I wouldn't call myself an expert on Chicago, but I'm fairly knowleadgable. I have never used parenthetical citations. To me, mixing up parenthetical citations with food/endnotes looks like a clash of styles. Pick one, I say. Since it's Chicago, pick foot/endnotes. The very few times I've cited the Bible, I still have done so in footnotes (which I prefer over end notes), and not full citations as, like telkanuru explained, it is not necessary. I think it looks neater.

An EdD is a professional degree (or at the very least not a research one), and it is my understadning that dissertations aren not usually requiered. Instead, you have to do a different king of project, a more applied one. I very briefly considered getting an EdD and that was the case for the programs I evaluated.

Me too. I mean, I'm already accepted ak she probably just wants to court me, and this particular program has been doing my a great job at that.

There are schools in my list that I know have already sent out their acceptances and are even notifiying them of the prospective student events, which means I am 99% sure I'm not in. Yet, I've only had one official rejection. I hate to be in limbo. If I'm rejected, fine, tell me. I'm a cold truth over warm, false hope kinda girl. Limbo sucks. And it hurts their feelings? Please! I guarantee it hurts mine more. I understand that there are more rejections than acceptances and thus it takes more time, but you only have to write one email and then have a secretary send it to the group with the recipents either BCCed or undisclosed. I know because I used to be a graduate admissions asistant while I was an undergrad. Unfortunately, this is just the way of the world. The winners always find out they win before the losers find out they lost, usually by process of elimination. Just beause it's the norm doesn't it mean it doesn't suck.

hit parade

It was probably tongue in cheek and she never actually mentioned having abortions in her SOP.