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Has anyone heard from Columbia Classics (not Classical Studies)? There haven't been any reported admits/rejects, and its getting late for them. Then again, Stanford ran like a week or two behind, so who knows.

Oh no, aesthetic discord. Congrats to anyone who got in at uChicago and Penn. Does anyone know if Penn releases all their acceptances at once, or if it's divided between the two graduate groups? Also, if anyone has any questions about uChicago / Hyde Park / the department, I'd be happy to answer, whether here or in a PM. I've been here for four years, so I have plenty of opinions about the place.

Nomothete, is your username a reference to the Cratylus? I'm doing my senior thesis on the Cratylus, as it happens. I've been dreaming of the day when another non-historian would emerge from the shadows of the forum. (edit: never mind, Bebutlittle does philology. My bad... :/ I have a cold, so you can't blame me. My friends and I are going to a French restaurant tonight and I plan to order nothing except this gourmet chicken noodle soup. I can't taste anything, anyway.) Speaking of food, I hope you're all aware of this blog: http://pass-the-garum.blogspot.com/

This link didn't work, but I wanted it to. Thanks! It's offered me quite a ride over the last nine months. Mostly, I just dread having to face the two or three hyper-pedantic high school Latin teachers who read my posts very carefully and point out any and all typos.

"Alternative suggestions.... Greco-Roman (though also a form of wrestling)" Haha, I love Jeffrey Henderson. His Aristophanes translations are excellent.

You guys--this threat just achieved 'hot' status. Congratulations! We're awesome!

I don't see that one... maybe it was deleted? (edit) Actually, I found it, but it's from 2012?

As someone who is hopefully a rising member of the Classical academy, let me state plainly that I haven't the slightest aesthetic affection for any of the popular 'sets' of Greek and Latin texts. The Green and Yellows look like they were modeled on two nicely mowed fields of bleached grass. The Bristol Classical press consistently chooses the cheapest possible graphic images for their editions, and the OCTs are motley array, the kind of family that you'd swear was just adopted. The Loeb library has a nice look, and I appreciate the small size, but their consistent coloring gives rise to the problem that lexjulia has just brought up! I'm guilty of the same mistake. Finally, I'll add that the new volumes that Oxford released are all the same sharp blue with gorgeous (yet illegibly fine) gold lettering. Also, I'll add that digital books are about to make all of these quibbles quite irrelevant. We're sitting less than 10 years from the day when readers can customize their Green and Yellow's to feature any shade of putrid grass that their minds could possible imagine. Just imagine a digital Loeb text in Times New Roman or Helvetica—reader's choice. We're on the brink!

Today I realized that my school now has a gmail.xschool.edu, and it's been forwarding all my school email to that account for a week (I found 125+ messages, some of them pretty important). There was nothing graduate school related in there, but it turns out it's now impossible to forward mail sent to that address. Ergo.. I now have two inboxes to check and recheck throughout the day, rather than just one.

This song is outrageous. I'm original from Green Bay, so I grew up in the shadow of Packermania. Glad to see Green and Yellow reappropriated to something more in line with my own interests. This reminds me of the time when I was an usher at the local movie theater, and I was chewed out by cornerback Al Harris after I told him to away (both of) his cellphones during a movie. Those weren't the days... Also, I hate the Green and Yellows because the glossy page material is impossible to annotate. Whenever we're assigned one for a class I borrow it from the library and just use a print out of the TLG.

The day is still young on the west coast... (I've had this thought every afternoon for the last 5-6 weekdays.)

I admit to checking application interfaces of late. I delete my history afterwards every time. Shame, shame, shame.

My little brother got into his top choice for undergrad today, which means I officially no longer have anyone IRL that shares my restless despair.

Especially on a Friday night. #mylife

I would say it's more common for smaller departments (like the CLST program) to stagger, because they can only realistically accept two or three candidates per year, so they can't have more than a handful of standing offers at any given time. Larger programs would survive a year with a higher admittance rate than they were planning on, but with limited funding, you've gotta be careful. I have no evidence to support this whatsoever. Just an educated guess.

Are we differentiating Classical Studies and Classics? Do they do so? I'm not aware of whether they have separate admissions committees. I believe they have separate directors. I suppose that means more spots to fill and more funding. PS. I'm pretty sure everyone was a long way over the edge long before your posted this.

I wouldn't say obsessively. The way I see it, the graduate schools will get to me before the graduate students get to the results page. I'm much more nervous about my inbox. In my case, historically, two of my top choices released their decisions within the next week. I'm not sleeping well. This is that 'darkest before the dawn' period in my life. Let's just hope it's not a red dawn... Theme of my weekend:

When I use the term classicist, people generally assume I study The Grapes of Wrath and Oliver Twist. Once, and only once, someone in my back-of-the-woods-but-famous-because-of-it's-football-team hometown thought that it meant I studied classic cars. In a related field of awkward, I take public transit to the grocery store, so when I have a book with me, I often leave it at the bottom of the shopping basket while I get my groceries, and then the Trader Joe's cashier pulls it out during the bagging process, and I have to explain what the Cratylus is. That's always fun.

Let's discuss what we call ourselves. In public. For instance, when someone asks you what you do, what do you tell them? I generally skip the word classicist, and say I study Greek and Latin. Sometimes, I drop the word philologist, because it seems to impress people because they have no idea what it means, or they think I'm a linguist, which is off the mark, but I wouldn't be ashamed to be a linguist.

I'm a Hellenist by trade, not by heart. No preference.

I'm not sure which division. I know she does history.

I saw the semantic space for that joke the second I hit post. Also, some good/bad news for y'all. A friend of my heard back from both UMich and Yale today. She had an interview/acceptance respectively. Congrats for her! (I didn't apply to either place, so this is just a general heads up to the rest of you.) It's starting...

None whatsoever. He's Plato's appendix, unless you're an aristocratic Athenian male, in which case he's full of arrogant chuckles. Seriously though, I only read him for the articles.

I'd like to make more headway on the oral features of Socratic dialogues. I'm interested how Plato and Xenophon use sound (repeated patterns, rhymes, clausulae, etc.) to draw their arguments, and how a vocal argument would factor into audience reception. I'm also excited by the possibility that we could further characterize Socratic characters orally. (i.e. do they have any catchphrases, or any consistent and distinctive speech patterns, and might this make them more 'historical' representations of their real-life counterparts) I would call my work a mix of history and phonology, though my knowledge of linguistics is still fairly nascent. How about everyone else? Hobby horses?