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I'm feeling better today, although the weather isn't. It's gray and rainy and I hope that it clears up by 5 when I have to walk/bike to job #2 and definitely by 8 for my bike home. (I didn't bring a coat and only have a white t-shirt).
The meeting with my prof. yesterday about grad. school went well especially since he corrected several mistaken assumptions I had. First is that program is more important than specific person at this point because great programs have great people (both teachers and students) and that intellectual environment is critical. Secondly that my dissertation advisor doesn't need to have done work in my field, although it helps if their field is somewhat related. It's most important that they have an interest in learning about my field and working with my methodology. So bye bye Ohio. He actually suggested Harvard (which thrills Denis who would love to live in Cambridge/Boston), they didn't accept me before, hopefully I'm a more attractive candidate post-Williams. Stanford also came up because of a prof. whose just starting there. Who knows where we'll end up.
The meeting with my prof. yesterday about grad. school went well especially since he corrected several mistaken assumptions I had. First is that program is more important than specific person at this point because great programs have great people (both teachers and students) and that intellectual environment is critical. Secondly that my dissertation advisor doesn't need to have done work in my field, although it helps if their field is somewhat related. It's most important that they have an interest in learning about my field and working with my methodology. So bye bye Ohio. He actually suggested Harvard (which thrills Denis who would love to live in Cambridge/Boston), they didn't accept me before, hopefully I'm a more attractive candidate post-Williams. Stanford also came up because of a prof. whose just starting there. Who knows where we'll end up.
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Anyway, Amelia, I'm glad that talking to that professor was helpful. It sounds like you have a better understanding now of what to look for. It also seems to have opened up new possibilities that you had rejected based on previous assumptions. So that's all very cool. Good luck, and thanks so much for the advice that you left in my post the other day! And it you shouldn't apologize for it being long - my entry itself was a monster. I'm one of the most verbose people I know (except for
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