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LooseCannon said:
Yes, of course. We're cheaper (even with international fees) than most schools except your local state school.
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This is what I've had a hard time getting a straight answer on. Cost is important since I'll probably be paying entirely with student loans. How difficult is financial aid as an international student?

What sort of degree are you going for and what sort of experience do you want in university?
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Right now I'm looking at economics, but I want to at least minor in music. So a good music program and good music community is important. I just want to get away from home and get some new experiences. Not interested in "party schools" and that sort of thing.
 
The chapter of my PhD that I'm presently working on has 11.000 words so far. My entire BA thesis had 9.000. To think of how much I whined back then...
 
Perun said:
Oh, I'm writing it in English. Nobody would read it otherwise. :p
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Not so impressive then ... I had 2 senior theses in college (double major) ... each was approx 11K words. Thank God I was not 3 years older, otherwise I would have had to do it on a typewriter

One was on Irish Foreign Policy during WWII, how neutral countries in Europe interacted with the warring nations was of interest to me

the other on Nazi/Communist/Nationalist(DNVP) agriculture/land/agro-labor policy/Junker positions in and appeals during the elections (1923-1933)... in retrospect, I could have picked something better for this one. Fun stuff
 
When Google Maps gives you completely wrong directions to a place and you have to walk for kilometers in an area you're not familiar with. But then you realise you won't make it and miss your appointment altogether...such fuckups drive me more mad than they should.
 
bearfan said:
Not so impressive then ... I had 2 senior theses in college (double major) ... each was approx 11K words. Thank God I was not 3 years older, otherwise I would have had to do it on a typewriter
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Well, it's just one chapter. I could imagine the whole thing taking ten times the size.. though that would be a bit excessive.

bearfan said:
One was on Irish Foreign Policy during WWII, how neutral countries in Europe interacted with the warring nations was of interest to me
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The Irish policy in the war is actually pretty well described in this clip:

bearfan said:
the other on Nazi/Communist/Nationalist(DNVP) agriculture/land/agro-labor policy/Junker positions in and appeals during the elections (1923-1933)... in retrospect, I could have picked something better for this one. Fun stuff
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It sounds pretty interesting to me, to be honest. The economic aspects of Nazism and its rise are still very understated.
 
Perun said:
It sounds pretty interesting to me, to be honest. The economic aspects of Nazism and its rise are still very understated.
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It was .. but it was just hard to get material for it ... I zeroed in a lot on the Junker estates with the general gist being the communists were trying to break them up, the DNVP was very pro Junker, and the Nazis did some interesting tap dances between both positions with a goal of making Germany self sufficient for food after the blockades during WWI. The class was "Revolutions" and I always found it interesting how the Nazis combined nationalist tendencies, the whole Volkish movement, with a healthy layer of socialism and got that to work in at least a semi-coherent policy position. Not just on the Junker estates, but on a wide variety of policy positions, I used that as an example of how they tied very revolutionary positions and tradition during their campaigning. I mainly picked that area because I ran across some good material on Darre (ended up being the Reich Minster of Food and Agriculture) , who I centered a lot of this around.

It was also interesting when my son and I went to Berlin and met you, then drove to Gdansk that I got to see a lot of these places
 
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Anyway, after not shaving for a few weeks then going clean shaven, I've now gone nearly three months without shaving. May keep it until after the gig.
 
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