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What grad schools should I be looking at if I want to study some sort of cultural history/gender studies/contemporary US politics/American Studies stuff? I know Rutgers and Yale have good programs, and Berkeley is supposedly good, too, but where else? Does anyone who reads this know anyone at those schools or in those fields? My goal is to do social history. I've been daydreaming about possible futures...I want to teach a class on AIDS, team-taught with a bio or public health person and I would do the sociohistorical literature part of it. I could do the bio/public health part, too, I guess, but team-teaching is fun. I want to research settlement houses and the politics of domesticity, and how women reclaiming gendered spaces there. I want to research how educational administrators understand their jobs, and how that has changed throughout time. I don't want this year, senior year, to be my last in school. I love school. Where do I want to be next? Scary thought. I'd love to be in Boston, but I'm not sure what schools there would have what I want. I want to use the Schlessinger Library at Radcliffe, but Radcliffe only has the Institute for Advanced Study, giving out fellowships for a year, not a grad school of its own. Anyway. Ideas? I'm pretty open geographically, though I'm not a big fan of the South.
I haven't posted in the longest time. Over a month. I guess that's not actually that long, but the time has gone by incredibly fast. It's been a wonderful summer.
I've been working hard on my thesis stuff, though I'm a little worried that all of it will fall apart because i have no hypothesis. I joined a rugby team (Beantown) thansk to a girl on the subway seeing my rugby t-shirt and asking if I played, then inviting me to join her team. Beantown is full of really big, really good players, most of whom play for national or regional teams. Yeah, not so much me. But it was fun; they put up with me. I leave for New York Wednesday night, stay with Ellen and interview Kevin Jennings for thesis stuff, and drive to Pittsburgh Friday night. Here's hoping I make it home alright that evening and don't have to stop somewhere in scary north-central PA.
I am tempted to tape record myself reading aloud hard vocab words and their definitions to listen to in the car. I am taking the GRE in a week and a half, and I am only about half as prepared as I'd like to be (good with the math, so-so on the verbal, haven't thought at all about the essays). I have the Princeton Review book, but have so much else I want to do besides study the flashcards I made. Luckily I am one of those rare and somewhat freakish people who actually enjoys standardized tests, so i'm kind of looking forward to it despite my nervousness.
Other than thinking about school stuff and the fact that this summer disappeared incredibly fast, life is good. Lots of silly movies--Legally Blonde 1 and 2, Sister Act 2, some queer stuff, some horse stuff for Paige, a trip to the Cape with Mom and Ellen (we stayed at a hostel in Truro, and it was wonderful. I would recommend it to all of you. by the way, small states are great. i love the beach), a trip to the Cape for rugby, a trip to Maine this past weekend. I have fallen in love with the dogs Paige petsits, especially the three-legged pit bull mix, Kona, whom we took with us to Maine. Maine was wonderful and light and fun--kayaking, lots of Scrabble (including one "enithng goz" game and one on a floating dock on the lake), roasting marshmallows, lots of great people I hadn't seen in a while or only just met there. Thank you, Lyndon, for organizing this and inviting Paige, Kona, and me. We all loved it.
Kona was crazy excited all weekend and then slept for the better part of two days as we drove home and then the next day. She's still just a puppy. She loves to lick elbows, ears, and feet. I don't mind at all.
I look forward to seeing some of you soon (I'll be at Wes for Webtech the 13th of August). Those of you I won't see then, or don't often see, I probably miss you if I know you well enough to miss you. That's an awful sentence, but I think it's reasonable. Tychia, are you out there? Weren't you going to call me, like, a month ago? I miss you.
I haven't posted in the longest time. Over a month. I guess that's not actually that long, but the time has gone by incredibly fast. It's been a wonderful summer.
I've been working hard on my thesis stuff, though I'm a little worried that all of it will fall apart because i have no hypothesis. I joined a rugby team (Beantown) thansk to a girl on the subway seeing my rugby t-shirt and asking if I played, then inviting me to join her team. Beantown is full of really big, really good players, most of whom play for national or regional teams. Yeah, not so much me. But it was fun; they put up with me. I leave for New York Wednesday night, stay with Ellen and interview Kevin Jennings for thesis stuff, and drive to Pittsburgh Friday night. Here's hoping I make it home alright that evening and don't have to stop somewhere in scary north-central PA.
I am tempted to tape record myself reading aloud hard vocab words and their definitions to listen to in the car. I am taking the GRE in a week and a half, and I am only about half as prepared as I'd like to be (good with the math, so-so on the verbal, haven't thought at all about the essays). I have the Princeton Review book, but have so much else I want to do besides study the flashcards I made. Luckily I am one of those rare and somewhat freakish people who actually enjoys standardized tests, so i'm kind of looking forward to it despite my nervousness.
Other than thinking about school stuff and the fact that this summer disappeared incredibly fast, life is good. Lots of silly movies--Legally Blonde 1 and 2, Sister Act 2, some queer stuff, some horse stuff for Paige, a trip to the Cape with Mom and Ellen (we stayed at a hostel in Truro, and it was wonderful. I would recommend it to all of you. by the way, small states are great. i love the beach), a trip to the Cape for rugby, a trip to Maine this past weekend. I have fallen in love with the dogs Paige petsits, especially the three-legged pit bull mix, Kona, whom we took with us to Maine. Maine was wonderful and light and fun--kayaking, lots of Scrabble (including one "enithng goz" game and one on a floating dock on the lake), roasting marshmallows, lots of great people I hadn't seen in a while or only just met there. Thank you, Lyndon, for organizing this and inviting Paige, Kona, and me. We all loved it.
Kona was crazy excited all weekend and then slept for the better part of two days as we drove home and then the next day. She's still just a puppy. She loves to lick elbows, ears, and feet. I don't mind at all.
I look forward to seeing some of you soon (I'll be at Wes for Webtech the 13th of August). Those of you I won't see then, or don't often see, I probably miss you if I know you well enough to miss you. That's an awful sentence, but I think it's reasonable. Tychia, are you out there? Weren't you going to call me, like, a month ago? I miss you.
