ashiepoo72 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 I'm getting business casual clothes for recruitment events, and some nicer casual clothes as well. Nothing too fancy. I like to be comfortable more than fashionable. If I end up moving somewhere cold, there'll be a much larger wardrobe upgrade involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I prohibited myself from buying books this year considering I'll probably have to ship them all cross-country at the end of the year I dread tallying up the cost of shipping all my books cross-country. I'm planning on pruning a lot of stuff, but it's SO hard for me to get rid of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fopdandyhomo Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 You can ship them media mail, which drastically reduces the costs but it's still going to be $150 or so if your library is anything like mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 At least $150. Plus, as I've mentioned elsethread, we're a two-academic household. I can't remember the last beginning of a semester that hasn't meant close to $1500 in Amazon purchases. Not to mention the fiction, the cookbooks, etc. We haven't moved in 12 years, which helps nothing. It's so easy to accumulate things when you've been sedentary for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsc Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 At least $150. Plus, as I've mentioned elsethread, we're a two-academic household. I can't remember the last beginning of a semester that hasn't meant close to $1500 in Amazon purchases. Not to mention the fiction, the cookbooks, etc. We haven't moved in 12 years, which helps nothing. It's so easy to accumulate things when you've been sedentary for so long. Not only do I have a million books, I also have a ton of crap in general. Every two weeks or so I just have this moment where I walk around my apartment in a half-daze wondering how on Earth I'm going to move all this stuff. Fianna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.rev Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I had an artist friend move from Chicago to Portland this year. She had tons of art supplies, panels (which are heavy), and books, she shipped them via Amtrak and said it was pretty cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I wish Amtrak ran through Vegas. It's insane that a city that exists pretty much solely because of the railroad no longer has consumer rail service. Anyone used PODs to move before? We're thinking of getting a quote from them if we decide to move any of our furniture or just mailing stuff if we don't. Anyone else in the fun position of having to move animals? That's the other big item we need to work out. The dog is driving with us. We're leaning towards flying the cats out. The idea of a 3 day drive with howling cats sounds less than appealing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiqui74 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I'm back from NYU. Oh my gosh, you guys, I got SO sick on the second day (Saturday)! I had to leave back to the hotel pretty much after I got to history department. With the exception of a few hours in the afternoon, I spent the whole day throwing up. I felt terrible to have to leave but I just couldn't even sit up straight at that point without considerable effort. I am so glad I had the foresight to stay Saturday night too and fly back home on Sunday because I can't imagine having had to fly so sick. Other than that, it was great. The people were great, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Oh no. I'm sorry to hear you got so sick. Glad you still had a good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayray11 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Anyone else in the fun position of having to move animals? That's the other big item we need to work out. The dog is driving with us. We're leaning towards flying the cats out. The idea of a 3 day drive with howling cats sounds less than appealing to me. I did this for my MA a year and a half ago, and will be again this summer. I have a 65lb labrador and did a 3-day drive from Boston to Miami. It can be done! Just plan lots of stops. Also, make sure to shop around well ahead of time for apartments/houses. I have found some entire areas (all of Miami) to be not at all pet friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brl254 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I am also interested in the flying cats out question. My wife and I are leaving NYC with two cats. If we land in Madison, we will just suck it up and take the felines (who do not get along) in our car. But we don't want to waste a cross country experience if we end up on the west coast. Does anyone have any experience or thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiqui74 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I am also interested in the flying cats out question. My wife and I are leaving NYC with two cats. If we land in Madison, we will just suck it up and take the felines (who do not get along) in our car. But we don't want to waste a cross country experience if we end up on the west coast. Does anyone have any experience or thoughts? Where in NYC do you live? As of right now, it looks like I'll go to NYU and I have SOOOO many questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brl254 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I live in the best neighborhood in New York - Inwood, Manhattan. I am biased, but it is great. I am happy to answer anyone's questions who are planning moves to NYC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr. t Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) I finally got my OSU offer letter this morning, and the contrast between it and the one I got for Brown is interesting. The Brown letter was very straightforward: Stipend total, summer award, health insurance, tuition waiver, research funds. The OSU letter stated my stipend as a monthly figure (so you have to multiply to get the total) and did not quantify anything else. In the hivemind's collective experience, which letter is more typical? Edited February 24, 2015 by telkanuru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 My letter from Kansas was very straightforward (this is also the only one I've received) but it laid out exactly what I'd be getting as a yearly figure as well as the associated responsibilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiqui74 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 My letter from NYU is very detailed and clear. My offer from URochester not so much. It's not even a letter, it's figures on a website. It doesn't specify much of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashiepoo72 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 MSU and Albany gave me yearly figures, plus stated stipend, insurance etc. Still waiting on the others, but I'd find a monthly figure strange, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I was looking around the Kansas website and they have a summer language program for African languages. My course of study may include a comparative aspect involving Africa. What do you think my chances are of asking for funding for this summer to take this intensive language program? Just a random thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Both my letter from Kansas and my letter from Illinois were very specific, as was my MA funding letter from UNLV when I was accepted. OSU seems more like an outlier, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Heimat - is Kansas a FLAS school? (I should know that...) FLAS stipends are usually pretty good and the rarer the desire to study the language you're asking for funding for, the easier it is to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 They do have a FLAS but I've missed the deadline (February 15) unfortunately. It will definitely be something I do next summer if I decide to go to Kansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Summer funding opportunities are definitely something that I want to bring up when I meet people at programs. Since I'm broadening out of a strictly Anglo-American focus, I'm going to need to pick up at least one other language. My French is a good start, and I could probably pass a French language comp, but I'm thinking of going for either Spanish or Portuguese as part of my PhD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 You know even since admittance I've broadened my context for my research (19th century German immigration broadly) and looked at potential locations for comparative study. Today I learned about some Wilhemine Germans being sent to the Ottoman empire around the turn of the 20th century. History is a rabbit hole to end all rabbit holes. cscruggs78 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fianna Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) Seriously. I started thinking about history grad school long, long ago when I was an undergrad and I was planning on being a European women's scholar. I wound up working in tech and went back to UNLV to get an MS in Management Information Systems. My last semester in that program, I wound up needed to pick up an extra grad-level class to keep my full-time status, and everything MIS was offering that semester, I'd already taken, so I picked up a class in History - a colloquium in American Slavery. I'd minored in American as an undergrad, and fell back in love with history, so I bailed on my plan to apply for IS PhD programs and did an MA in history, American, with a European minor. The last two semesters, I've been finishing off my European minor coursework and have had 2 really fantastic seminars in British and comparative imperialism, and another really amazing seminar in Native American history. I think when I read Kathleen DuVal's The Native Ground, it was pretty clear that what I was really interested in was borderlands and colonialism, not early American anglo history. It's really amazing what a fantastic professor and a really compelling monograph will do to your brain. Edited February 24, 2015 by Fianna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimat Historian Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Colonialism is fascinating! In my first attempt at a master's degree I worked on British settler colonialism in New Zealand/Australia. At that point I applied to PhD programs haphazardly and didn't get in anywhere. Then I did my masters and worked on a bunch of different stuff but did my capstone research project (non-thesis track) on German immigrants in Texas. It's also interesting how I've positioned myself as a scholar to the various departments i applied to. I reread my Colorado application and suddenly I'm a Germanist with ties to Africa. Isn't academia fun? Fianna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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