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Wednesday September 21, 2005


I won’t steal his glory after he worked so hard on putting together his post about our relationship’s status – so … click on Nick’s blog if you want to get the insiders scoop on my trip to Milwaukee – let’s just say, he posted all the things I didn’t. =)


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15 Responses to “Wednesday September 21, 2005”

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    WatkinsTalkins Says:

    Yeah!

  2. 14
    bethanyhartman Says:

    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!!

  3. 13
    SuedeKnight Says:

    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. 12
    Carolyn1106 Says:

    Mabrouk, ya Esteer!!!

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    kathrynxa Says:

    Ester…good job.

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    lew829 Says:

    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.? 

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    sherylshearer Says:

    how sweet. what a story that you met through xanga. you two look cute together.

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    bullmeister Says:

    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!

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    presvlisa Says:

    Lovely!! You make an adorable couple! How exciting!!

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    tree25 Says:

    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…

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    walkalongside Says:

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

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    cute_chelsea Says:

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

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    yardenxanthe Says:

    Very cool!

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    basementdweller Says:

    Yay!  I love these kind of anouncements….thanks for the post!

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    free_by_grace Says:

    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.

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