that goal about not crying in anyone's office: COMPLETE.

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GUYS. THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT DID NOT MAKE ME CRY AND OR MAKE ME FEEL INCOMPETENT. (Which is really impressive considering I went in there saying, "I don't know if I want to do medieval or early modern or what part of Europe, this is my second choice because I want to do ancient and the classics department thinks I'm not qualified to do anything. Also, I'm not a history major.")

He said that I have a really strong background in European history, and a background in classics and English lit won't hurt, and that having Latin and a little bit of Greek is obviously good, and I think this is the first time I've actually mentioned that I took high school German. And then we talked about programs and people in both medieval and early modern. He does not know much about programs in the UK, or at least he didn't mention it, but he said it would be really good to study medieval history in England.

FOR A CHANGE I FEEL LIKE I MIGHT ACTUALLY BE QUALIFIED TO GET INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL.

(I mean, I guess it might help if I narrowed down my interests to a time and a place, but HEY WHO CARES. A PROFESSOR SAID I WAS QUALIFIED.)