hbeels

Ah! How I wish I had your goof fortune!
I sell suburbanite-rich-white-folks overpriced pastries and coffee. All with a dangerously superficial smile on my face and a precipitously balanced artificial interest and delight in the intricacies of my customers' lives.

Good times.

Although, it has become a little more bearable knowing that the end is in sight.

Ah! How I wish I had your goof fortune!
I sell suburbanite-rich-white-folks overpriced pastries and coffee. All with a dangerously superficial smile on my face and a precipitously balanced artificial interest and delight in the intricacies of my customers' lives.

Good times.

Although, it has become a little more bearable knowing that the end is in sight.

Oh man, this stuff drives me crazy. Some schools' sites it takes me a full half hour to find the information I'm looking for.

I'm almost starting to judge schools based on their websites.

American History
R_Escobar (20th century, American Indian),
crazedandinfused (antebellum, intellectual),
hopin'-n-prayin' (southern, religious),
stevemcn (transnational),
Simple Twist of Fate (early American),
zb642 (20th century, labor/working-class culture),
BCEmory08 (19th-20th century Catholicism, labor),
irvinchiva10 (20th century, immigration/immigration reform)
natsteel (early American political culture and intellectual history)
unforth (19th century US political and military history, US Civil War)
hbeels (colonial, early national, 19th century, transappalachain west, historical memory of these eras/areas)

European HistoryKelkel (Modern Germany, political),
goldielocks (Britain),
SapperDaddy (Eastern and Central Europe),
kotov (Modern Romania, Holocaust, labor),
RevolutionBlues (Modern Western Europe/France labor and leftist politics),
theregalrenegade (18th/19th cent British Empire/environment),
jrah822 (19th century Britain; emphasis on colonial relationship to India),
grlu0701 (Intellectual & cultural history,fin de siecle Germany and Italy),
naturalog (modern European [mostly German] intellectual and cultural/sexuality and gender/political radicalism),
runaway (Eastern/Central, memorialization & visual culture),
Sequi001 (Modern France, gender and sexuality, colonialism/imperialism)

African HistoryOseirus (precolonial/early colonial West Africa),
Singwaya18 (20th century East Africa),
Safferz (20th century Horn/Northeast Africa),
The People's Scholar (Spanish colonialim in Africa- i.e. middle/West Africa)
Jogatoronto (Psychiatry in early colonial West Africa)

Latin American HistoryCageFree (20th century, Southern Cone),
BH-history,
The People's Scholar (18th-19th century Colombia)
StrangeLight (20th century Central America)

East Asian Historyalleykat (Modern China),
kyjin (Pre-Modern Japan)

Near/Middle Eastern Historyuhohlemonster, (modern Israel, Iran, Palestine)
oswic (modern Egypt, gender)

Atlantic Worldsandyvanb

Global/World History
[*]cooperstreet (Cold War)


Jewish History
[*]uhohlemonster, (modern Israel)
[*]hopin'-n-'prayin,
[*]kotov (Holocaust),
[*]naturalog (sometimes modern European/Holocaust),
[*]runaway (memorialization & visual culture),
[*]ticklemepink (20th c. Germany/U.S)


Science/Technology/Environment
[*]shaxmaty1848 (Cold War)
[*]StrangeLight (environmental history, ecological distribution conflicts)


Social
[*]annieca (Cold War and Post-Cold War East and Central Europe)


Classical and Medieval
[*]Hogs of War (Monastic Studies and Conflicts in Authority)


Cultural
[*]StrangeLight (gender, race, ethnicity, and religion)
[*]hbeels (race/ethnicity, religious, masculinity/feminimity, print/literature)

Hear, hear. Plus, beef probably kills more trees than do books. I love beef as well. I'm not a very tree-friendly tree-hugger it appears. The stench of hypocrisy is surprisingly delicious.

I'm a little old school for kindle... I need something tangible to hold!
Buying the books that are intergral to my thesis/dissertation and the classics in my field is a no-brainer. I suppose I'm more concerned about the sources I don't think I'll be using much. Oh well. I'll likely end up buying most of them if only for fear I'll need them later.
That's a great point about the notes though, StrangeLight--I'd probably benefit from writing more out than scribbling in the margins.

mine was the opposite so if you need any inputs in lengthening it I am your BS king!

Me: I'd like to request xyz and I have some questions.
Them: You need to fill out the online form and submit it via e-mail.
Me: I've already filled out the form (here it is!), and on your website it says you can submit it in person.
Them: Sorry, you have to go send it via e-mail.
Me: If I send it via e-mail, who will receive it?
Them: I will receive it.
Me: Okay. And then you will print it?
Them: Yes.
Me: And then you'll be able to answer my questions?
Them: Yes.
Me: (holding out printed, complete form)...
Them: Sorry, but it needs to be done via e-mail.
Me: But I'm Right. Here.
Them: It has to be via e-mail.
Me: (grabs blackberry) I'll e-mail a copy to you right now. As I'm standing here. You'll have it within 5 seconds.
Them: Sorry. You have to go home and e-mail it to me (walks away).
Me: HEADDESK.
/end scene

Which school has more comfortable chairs in its library(ies)?

I get that a lot, actually. I don't really ming being a "career student" though. In fact, I really think it's great. I love reading, learning, arguing, and hanging out with other people who don't just put up with my history-dorkiness, but will engage in lively conversation about it. By continuing school, I'm not avoiding the "real world," I'm just involved in a different kind--preparing for a different kind of life.

Does she regret not finishing her degree? Is she stuck in a kind of "life rut" she can't get out of? Obviously, I don't know anything about her or her educational history, but I have generally found that when a person make comments like this, it is likely in response to his/her own issues (whether s/he is cognizant of that or not) rather than a critique of your plans and decisions.

What I personally find most difficult about these situations is not offending them. People tend to regard some graduate students/PhDs (and I find this most prevalent if continuining in the humanities...) as stuck-up and elitist.

Thanks for all the advice guys! For anyone who is interested, I mentioned it to my POI (he asked if I had ever been to the city before) and he was totally cool with it. He said I should have let him know earlier and he would have scheduled my return flight for later so I could spend an extra day with my boyfriend.

How about when you say, "I'm pursuing a PhD in American History."

They simply respond, "Oh."

As a female I get these two alot:
"Are you getting a divorce? "
"How are you going to manage having kids in grad school?" (Ugh, I'm not)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XViCOAu6UC0

I'm not even kidding- I got this one today:

"So you're getting a PhD in History? Do you want to be a professor or Indiana Jones?"

Both.

"when are you going to have babies?" [when are you going to die in a fire?]

For anyone considering the School of Hard Knocks and Bovine University (do any of you Millennials even get Simpsons jokes at this stage?) contact me

it kinda did