aje1988

I e-mailed the Director at UNC-Chapel Hill. Said that I should receive an e-mail from the Graduate School shortly. Can't help but to feel a bit defeated, though if I am indeed rejected I wish she would've just told me now. Haha.

Any word on UNC-Chapel Hill?

Hey everyone. Just thought I'd introduce myself and ask a few questions. I graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in the Spring of 2011 with degrees in History and Religious Studies (minor in Arabic). I wrote an honors thesis concerning desegregation of schools by busing in a city in Indiana in the 1970s, using a lot of primary sources (will be my writing sample after a bit of work, probably). I scored a 162 Verbal, 155 Math, and 4.5 on Analytical Writing. I graduated with a 3.86 GPA, with a 4.0 in Religious Studies and a damnable 3.94 in History. I also interned for a year at the IMH at IUB. I have a couple essay contests under my belt as well. My biggest difficulty - and what I'm seeking you for - is trying to narrow down a field of interest. My interests vary wildly. I'm very interested in the American South & its historical memory, the Nation of Islam and other New Religious Movements, the modern civil rights movement, Indiana History, and I have other areas of interest in Ancient Greece, historicity of the Old & New Testaments, ww2, and historical memory of more modern events (crm, 9/11, columbine, etc.). How did you guys figure out what you really wanted to study? I'm sorta stumped because I'm really interested in a lot of them, but obviously I need to narrow it down in order to begin the search for POIs, etc. Also, with my stated qualifications, do you think I would be able to obtain funding somewhere? (my most important question, lol)