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Jul. 19th, 2010 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardHaving received a letter from my university that firmly instructed that as a rising junior, I must start thinking about life after graduation RIGHT NOW, I am looking at graduate schools again, just trying to build up a general list of universities that I can take to my departmental advisors and winnow down to an applicable list. Of course, the slightly difficult part is that I still have decided exactly what period I want to focus on, which becomes something of a problem as that happens to be the difference between a Ph.D program in Classical Studies and a Ph.D program in History. I'm looking specifically at schools that have programs in ancient history, which kind of bridges the gap by loosely covering Late Antiquity. I am favoring the programs where the classics department and the history department actually talk to each other.
General thoughts: I would prefer not to be in a major city (I am definitely not applying anywhere in New York City or Los Angeles), I don't really want to go to the Northeast because of the weather (although I could probably handle it; I am definitely going nowhere near the Midwest; my ancestors left Minnesota for a reason), I would kind of like to be closer to home, I don't really want to go abroad (just about the only place I would go would be the UK, but I want to be closer to home because of the travel time), I'd prefer a smaller school, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
So far on the list:
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
University of Washington - Seattle (I don't want to go to Seattle, but it's close to home)
Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts -- man, for some reason I really don't want to go to Harvard, though I doubt I'd get in)
*gloomily* Well, at least I chose a field that really narrows down the schools I can look at.
Huh. I appear to have picked up a slight shiver of distaste in regards to the Ivies, which is probably a result of going to a university where the students compare rejection letters from the Ivies. And we have more fun down in the South, anyway. I wish it wasn't frowned upon to do all your degrees at the same school, I wouldn't mind staying at Tulane another five or seven years.
General thoughts: I would prefer not to be in a major city (I am definitely not applying anywhere in New York City or Los Angeles), I don't really want to go to the Northeast because of the weather (although I could probably handle it; I am definitely going nowhere near the Midwest; my ancestors left Minnesota for a reason), I would kind of like to be closer to home, I don't really want to go abroad (just about the only place I would go would be the UK, but I want to be closer to home because of the travel time), I'd prefer a smaller school, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
So far on the list:
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
University of Washington - Seattle (I don't want to go to Seattle, but it's close to home)
Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts -- man, for some reason I really don't want to go to Harvard, though I doubt I'd get in)
*gloomily* Well, at least I chose a field that really narrows down the schools I can look at.
Huh. I appear to have picked up a slight shiver of distaste in regards to the Ivies, which is probably a result of going to a university where the students compare rejection letters from the Ivies. And we have more fun down in the South, anyway. I wish it wasn't frowned upon to do all your degrees at the same school, I wouldn't mind staying at Tulane another five or seven years.