Esther Brady Crawford - faintstarlite

WatkinsTalkins: Yeah!4 years ago

bethanyhartman: What a GREAT story! He is a lucky guy (I told him that). I can’t believe you didn’t share ANY of this before now!!4 years ago

SuedeKnight: In the words of Stella “yaaaaaaaaay!”

And in case anyone reading this hasn’t done so yet, check out my site for the real scoop on this story! :)

I should go into advertising.4 years ago

Carolyn1106: Mabrouk, ya Esteer!!!4 years ago

kathrynxa: Ester…good job.4 years ago

lew829:

I left this comment on Nick’s site and then realized midway through that I should be leaving it on your site … so I’ll copy it here.  I was commenting on  grad school at the UofC.  Univ. of chicago is notoriously hellish (and in my mind unethical) with regard to funding in classics and ancient near eastern studies.  If I recall correctly, their NE department crams ancient with modern and medieval into the same department.  At least regarding ancient near eastern whatnot, they notoriously do not fund their students and consequently have a high attrition rate in Hebrew Bible.  I am unsure if they fund their more modern near eastern students.  In Ancient whatnot last year, the fourth person on their admissions list (who came into Hopkins with me this year) got an 12 grand which was amazing for Uof C but still less than every other program to which he was admitted.  When I was admitted to UCLA and visited, I also spoke with an Egyptology student who only got 3 grand from UofC in stipend and when she visited them on their student days the other students told her she should be thrilled with three grand.  My undergrad mentor graduated from U. of Chicago in classics and she said that near eastern students entered the labyrinth of the program and the minotaur captured them never to relinquish them from projects like the Hittite dictionary.

I only learned to ask these hard hitting questions of grad schools toward the end of the process.  It is better to ask early blunt questions like rates of attrition, funding, and ability to get a job upon completion of the program.  Fortunately I had professors who alerted me to such issues.  But I should probably end this diatribe with a disclaimer.  I am only familiar with ancient near eastern whatnot and, even more specifically, Hebrew Bible.  But it can’t hurt to ask the questions in September as you decide to which programs you will apply.

BTW, what do you want to do with your degree?  Are you going for a masters or a combined Ma/Ph.D.? 

4 years ago

sherylshearer: how sweet. what a story that you met through xanga. you two look cute together.4 years ago

bullmeister: Hey wanna share some more of the pictures? I thought I was gonna get a CD of this goodness. :-P

Oh and what a lucky guy!4 years ago

presvlisa: Lovely!! You make an adorable couple! How exciting!!4 years ago

tree25:

You make a lovely couple :-) Now, to go start my “We Love Nick and Esther Together” facebook group…..;-)

And we gotta talk one of these days.  Maybe someday we’ll actually be online at the same time…

4 years ago

walkalongside: Super!  I like which one of the couple photos you chose to post today. :)  Very striking!4 years ago

cute_chelsea: WOOHOO…..i just read Nick’s post…sorry i havn’t called you back yet!!…i’ll try and call ya tonight :-)4 years ago

basementdweller: Yay!  I love these kind of anouncements….thanks for the post!4 years ago

yardenxanthe: Very cool!4 years ago

free_by_grace: Some of your previous blogs made me think you two might be interested in each other.  Hope the relationship goes well… sounds like you two have some similar passions and personalities.  Thanks for sharing about it.4 years ago