She's got issues, and I'm gonna pay

[fellmama]

Tulane's website is back up.
My first 401 class is tomorrow night. It promises to be a three-hour exercise in tedium. Perhaps I will drink caffiene with dinner.
Schwa kicks ass, but singing bad songs makes Baby Jesus cry. It's a toss-up.
The semi-final list is comprised of 31 schools. Now I have to decide which ones I'm actually applying to. What think you, my peers?
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Indiana University, Bloomington
The Ohio State University
Oxford University
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Stanford University
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vanderbilt University
Yale University

Comments

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

Don't you have Sharp? It can't be all bad.

Also, what do Burgess and Nourse recommend? I think you should look closely at Pennsylvania though.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Nope, Dott and Lerman. The blandness dream team!
Dana's sort of useless from a history standpoint, and, frankly, so is Kyra. She hated grad school so much that it kind of bleeds over into her advice. She went to Penn, which makes me want not to go there. On the other hand, it's probably the best program in the country . . .

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

However, Dott went to Penn. Mybe that should tell you something.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Nah, Dott went to Pitt. But Pitt doesn't offer ancient history.

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought. There must be a misprint in the College catalog (or I misread it).

[princessrosered.livejournal.com]

Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky make baby jesus cry.
College park Maryland is a very pretty place, and about 20 min outside of downtown DC.

[smika.livejournal.com]

I realize that the point is not to pick these based on location, but given that I know pretty much bupkus about the history programs at any of these schools, I will just say that LA scares the crap out of me.

I am also looking at some of the schools on your list--wouldn't it be fun to go to grad school together?

My school's history page won't load at all, so I can't get to the grad studies link, but I will persevere and let you know when I know something more than "the document contains no data."

Lynn wants to hear from you!

[lizzytheamazon.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Go to UCLA! Then if I end up there for law school we can hang out! But then again, I am biased toward Southern California.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

What? No Oxford?

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Whoops. It was included in the number but not the name list for some reason. Fixed now.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

Good. I'm glad its still in the running!

someone else just going on location

[love-pirate.livejournal.com]

I'm very much biased towards Stanford and Oxford.
I like Berkeley too.
I'm jumping into the "LA scares me" boat but I might end up there as well.
Columbia scares me a little bit too.
Santa Barbara sounds like a great place, and everyone I've ever met from there has just been...NICE.
I've heard Phoenix is terrible, but people who live there like it.
Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa and Indiana don't sound especially exciting.
What bad songs do you have to sing? I don't think any of the a capella groups have been especially good about song selection lately...

[parksdh.livejournal.com]

Iowa is ugly.

http://students.whitman.edu/~parksdh/files/iowa.jpg

[hesperornis.livejournal.com]

I know little about ancient history (at least in human terms), but I have looked into a few of those schools myself as far as geo/paleo.

I have heard excellent things about UNC/Chapel Hill. I mean in terms of environment, not anything specific academically. It was at the top of my list until I learned that the primary bird guy there isn't accepting graduate students anymore.

I would recommend staying out of Kansas. Admittedly, Lawrence isn't as stupefyingly dull as Hays, but KU is the only school on your list that I've actually been to (excuse me, except for UW), and I didn't much care for it, overall. Chris came with, and he swore he just got an awful vibe from the place. Of course, I spent most of the day holed up with a bunch of dead birds in the museum.

If I were in your place, I would totally apply to Oxford just because, hey, it's Oxford. There's way more (recorded) ancient history in Europe, anyway. Or at least that is my understanding. :-)