ashiepoo72 Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 I'm on "vacation" too. On my way to the Nixon library archives...wait, vacations are when you go outside your city of residence right? Heimat Historian 1
wacyeah Posted June 28, 2015 Posted June 28, 2015 my vacation to my home country Japan is almost at the end too as Im leavin to Hawaii in about a week! Gambaosaka1 1
Heimat Historian Posted June 29, 2015 Posted June 29, 2015 I at least scheduled a brief stop in the Florentine archives before the week I'm spending on a sailboat in the Tyrrhenian Sea Please see my above comment. dr. t 1
Averroes MD Posted July 6, 2015 Posted July 6, 2015 Landed an apartment. Moving up from 1BR to 3BR for essentially the same rent. Goodbye, Boston housing market, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Â Going to Brown? (Congrats!)
Chiqui74 Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Hello, guys! We've been in NYC for a little over two weeks now. We leased at an apartment and are waiting for the movers to bring our stuff, which could take a while. I can't decide if I want the fall semester to hurry up and get here or if I want the summer to last forever. Heimat Historian 1
ToomuchLes Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Im with you, Chiqui74. I am very excited to start grad school, but also quite nervous  I will be moving to IN in 29 days aaaahhhh
wacyeah Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 I'm already on campus of univ Hawaii now and settin up parking permit and employment form
maelia8 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 My two new first-year grad student roommates are arriving in just three weeks! I am going to make the apartment so clean and nice and pretty for them when they get here, I hope they like it I would have loved to have someone waiting for me with a nice lovely place all ready for me to move in to, so I hope I can pay it forward and make their move enjoyable. Heimat Historian, xolo and mvlchicago 3
Heimat Historian Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 That's great Maelia! Â I'm sure they'll appreciate it. Â 29 days until I leave for Iowa!
ToomuchLes Posted July 10, 2015 Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) Heres an exclusive extract of Harper Lee's book, "Go Set A Watchman": http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2015/jul/10/go-set-a-watchman-read-the-first-chapter Narrated by Reese Witherspoon  Im hoping Amazon will deliver the book on release day. Edited July 10, 2015 by LeventeL
IvanBezdomnii Posted July 11, 2015 Posted July 11, 2015 Not excited. It's just the rejected first draft of Mockingbird. It was found by an auctioneer years before it was supposedly rediscovered.
Klonoa Posted July 12, 2015 Posted July 12, 2015 Hello. Â I will be attending Illinois State University this Fall 2015 semester, studying American History. I am very nervous to the point I feel like crying, lol. Heimat Historian 1
danwaterfield Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 Absolutely ****ing terrified and also can't wait. Not looking forward to the rent though, my SO will be earning, but only a teacher's salary and bedrooms in Cambridge can go for £1k a month.Â
Gambaosaka1 Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Got my visa approved! Can't wait for this to start already. Heimat Historian and Chiqui74 2
Heimat Historian Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 I have 2 days (after today) left at work, I am a week away from moving up to Iowa, and a month way from orientation. It's happening! Gambaosaka1 1
Chiqui74 Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 I registered for the GSAS orientation a couple of days ago. No word from the department in a long time! Heimat Historian and Gambaosaka1 2
ashiepoo72 Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 My house looks like it threw up boxes everywhere. Packing blows. Less than 2 weeks til D-Day for me, guys! I hope your packing adventures are going more smoothly than mine.
Klonoa Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 My house looks like it threw up boxes everywhere. Packing blows. Less than 2 weeks til D-Day for me, guys! I hope your packing adventures are going more smoothly than mine. I'm starting from scratch, so I'm still buying furniture. It has been a very expensive process, but the Lord and my family has truly been there with me providing great support. jayray11 1
wacyeah Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 I know how the packin, shipping, and settling in sucks too. I had to switch to HI driver' license, HI state plate for my car, and then goin lots of places to get furniture and stationery. But they all worth doin for me to start the program though
ToomuchLes Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 11 days for me ... and I haven't really started packing yet *horror music*  I'm also still deciding if I should bring my doggie with me Decisions, decisions, decisions.
stillalivetui Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 11 days for me ... and I haven't really started packing yet *horror music*  I'm also still deciding if I should bring my doggie with me Decisions, decisions, decisions.  Probably the hardest decision was leaving my dog with my mom while I was at IU, but we were both better for it. I was gone nearly all of the time with my GAship, classes, doing work at various locations, and generally hanging with my cohort.  You really have to think what's best for you and your pup.Â
Klonoa Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 To prep for grad school, has anyone been reading any assigned readings for the coming semester or reading other texts to prep for the coming semester?
ashiepoo72 Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 I emailed my profs asking for the reading lists so I can buy the books. I get books used online so sometimes it takes awhile for them to arrive. Other than that I've been catching up on newsmagazines and rereading books I won't have a chance to read when I'm knee-deep in the PhD program. I'm working on Isabel Hull's Absolute Destruction now, then on to Walter Johnson's Soul by Soul and William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis, my 3 favorite books. I've also been gathering primary sources for a potential second-year research project. I found a wealth of material that I'm excited to start poring over once I move. I'll have about 1.5 months before classes start to do that I'm not doing any specific reading to prep for grad school...I feel my MA gave me enough of an introduction that I won't die the first week of class. I have been editing papers for friends to keep my writing skills sharp and will probably start reading course materials when I get the reading list. My motto right now is not to stress much about what's to come before I have reason to. I know I'm qualified, prepared and work my butt off. I have to say, this is a much better frame of mind than when I started the MA! Klonoa 1
Klonoa Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 I have already ordered a few books, but I haven't skimmed through them and probably won't either. I don't know if my undergrad has prepped me well enough, and will not know until the semester starts. I am have been reading a couple of history texts, but reading academically and leisurely are totally two different things, and right now I'm reading leisurely. I'm tired of stressing myself out about starting grad school, and just want my mind to relax. Due to stressing I have started to see a few gray hairs. Not cool for someone my age.
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