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Oct. 13th, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardSo this weekend I have resolved to actually do what I've been being told to do since sometime last year: e-mail the professors I'm interested in working with at the grad schools I'm interested in going to. Only I have no idea what to actually say in said e-mails. And many of y'all are in or have been in grad school! So -- help?
Dear Professor [X],
My name is Katrina [Surname] and I am currently in my final year at Tulane University, where I will graduate in May with a double major in Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Classical Studies. I am interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in [classics/history] at [university] because of [size/specialty/location/omgwtfbbqidk]. As an undergraduate my main interest has been in the intersection of the classical, medieval, and early modern worlds, specifically in early modern English literature (my senior honors thesis is on Edmund Spenser's use of Ovidian and Virgilian source in book three of The Faerie Queene); my other interests include military history and culture clash in the classical and medieval worlds, with a particular emphasis on the Punic Wars. [Or something else, for a medieval history program.] [And then how would I finish this heeeeeeeelp.]
Sincerely,
Katrina [Surname]
Tulane University 2012
Candidate for B.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Candidate for B.A. in Classical Studies
[uni e-mail]
[phone number]
Or am I totally off-base and it should look like something else?
Dear Professor [X],
My name is Katrina [Surname] and I am currently in my final year at Tulane University, where I will graduate in May with a double major in Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Classical Studies. I am interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in [classics/history] at [university] because of [size/specialty/location/omgwtfbbqidk]. As an undergraduate my main interest has been in the intersection of the classical, medieval, and early modern worlds, specifically in early modern English literature (my senior honors thesis is on Edmund Spenser's use of Ovidian and Virgilian source in book three of The Faerie Queene); my other interests include military history and culture clash in the classical and medieval worlds, with a particular emphasis on the Punic Wars. [Or something else, for a medieval history program.] [And then how would I finish this heeeeeeeelp.]
Sincerely,
Katrina [Surname]
Tulane University 2012
Candidate for B.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Candidate for B.A. in Classical Studies
[uni e-mail]
[phone number]
Or am I totally off-base and it should look like something else?
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Date: 2011-10-14 03:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 06:16 pm (UTC)*cough* The one I ended up sending (to one specific school) is down below, if that's of aid.