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I just stumbled across this video and had to immediately subscribe. I’m starting a Master’s program for History in January and love seeing what a typical day is like!

Did you get full funding from your professor??

So glad I stumbled upon your channel. The esthetic of your shots not only validate the way I have been romanticizing Columbia/NYC but your content is exactly what I have been looking for. Finishing up my undergrad on the west coast and looking at several MFA/MLA programs on the west coast. Thanks for your insights on Columbia! Can't wait to binge the rest of your videos to soak up what you've shared.

Did you get full funding from your professor??

Exactly the content I want TH-cam to recommend me

More history book recommendations please!! Love all your videos

I'm back re watching some of these to get excited for the fall! I watched your videos all through application season andddd was finally accepted into my program with full funding :')

I enjoyed it. Blessed with a full ride -- including ALL expenses ...

love love love when you upload!!!! i'm currently applying to grad school in europe so your content is peak inspiration <3

your vlogs are so motivating!!

14:56 I can hear a cardinal outside of your window.❤

I like these kinds of videos because they let me experience studying at an American campus that I'll never have the ability to.

Love your series! What program are you in? I'm doing part-time MHA at Columbia alongside my full-time job as an RN at Mount Sinai. Starting to feel a little burnt our aka senioritis lol. I felt this in nursing school and continued anyway so I'm sure it will be fine. Still betting on the value that this program will bring for myself, the profession and the many lives who depend on quality healthcare ❤️

Loved this update :)

I hope all goes according to plan re: your French plans!

Wait a minute... Is that Clarice Lispector on your drawing-room bookshelf? I'm Brazilian, so I just get very happy when I see Brazilian authors on foreigner's shelves 😅

Loved the video! Keep up the energy!! I’m about to graduate from my MA program in Fashion Studies so I will greatly enjoy watching your vlogs next academic year!

Huzzah!

Welcome to another week at grad school! Out of curiosity, are you in grad school or thinking about it? 📚

Happy to help you connect the dots and bring your ideas to life 🙌

I somewhat empathize with your experiences, however, I’m a master’s candidate. Thanks for all of your insight and what you shared. My spring semester has also flown by, seemingly…. Our courage and ambition likely generates “imposter syndrome” in graduate school. Keep up the diligence and thank you again for your transparency, that is inadvertently encouraging. ✨🤗hugs! ✍🏽🖋📚📖📜

I felt intimidated by what was required for the course, one heavily loaded college semester. With my other obligations I had a crisis of faith ... I wanted to drop out and pare down my curriculum. I came to the professor for some unfathomable reason... he listened, nodded his cloud of white while he considered what I had relayed... he nudged me, shoulder to shoulder... gently urging me to stay, whispering, "It's not hard... there's just a lot of it." Now, you've given me four inviting titles I have never read! I'll start at the top... truly, this is just what I would like! Thank You!

* Hello Christina, Thank you for conveying a sense of your life as a grad student. Funny … when I was there microfiche was so cutting edge... unfortunately my tech savvy hasn’t progressed much since then - still trying to figure out this battery-operated pocket phone thing.😅 My daughter just finished a masters at Chapel Hill last year; it still seems that most every semester of grad school begins with 3 to 4 weeks of pummeling overwhelmedness… In retrospect, just keep showing up - you’re obviously bright and capable enough to be teaching this stuff some day if you so choose. Look forward to your next post, and thanks again! Soldier on, ~Spike 🥸 .

Oh I love this platform! Makes it so much easier to take notes!

"... I've been so impressed with the NYPL..." British Library: 'Hold my sherry...'😁

I AM A VISUAL THINKER TOO!!!!!

so... do you think we know the author in a way, ...... that is ...whether we can't get through the book for one reason or another ...or .... regardless of obvious or pressing reasons to show some restraint... we just can't resist the impulse until we've read the entirety.

Thanks so much for your insights! I received an offer for the masters you’re pursuing and weighing wether I should take it or not. Your views help me a lot

Thank you!

girrrl you gotta check in on that photos plant behind you. That little slice of nature is struggling! maybe a repot is needed bcs its roots are overgrown.

your points on MFA programs are so interesting! As a person who was considering something like this, I think you're right about the workshop aspects - this could be pretty disappointing for someone looking for more guidance. Good luck in London! I have a kind of love-hate relationship with this city but it is really fascinating and you can never get bored :)) Also where is your top from? the neckline is fantastic

No question... grad school is the right thing...and it could be that connections in the UK will be meaningful... in both the short and long term... what a delightful turn of events... I had no idea you would be spending a year in the UK...

Have you ever taken a writing workshop course or considered pursuing an MFA? I am always so curious to hear others' thoughts when it comes to trying to find ways to get better at writing or any other creative medium ✍

Love your videos keep em coming :)

My whole inner dialogues are me trying to force myself to be better and more productive in something. Right now, for instance, I'm in a debate about if I should use my rest hours for "productive resting", which in my brain means to consume chill content that is also "intelligent" (like to only watch TH-cam in my second language, English). This pressure and the anxiety that comes from it is always a main theme in my existence 😅

I found your channel yesterday, and its quite informative. I just got accepted to the MA program in history at Georgetown, and these vids are helping fuel my enthusiasm for grad school, whilst diminishing the abject terror.

"Oh no, they don't have the blurb... that should be illegal." Lol, this is exactly how I feel. The Midwife's Tale sounds interesting. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before.

Hope you enjoy your reading.

This is my school! I just finished my MA in Religion at Union and the Burke was the library that I studied in! You're right- no one knows about it. It's like Columbia's best kept secret. I was talking with a prof at UChicago who got his PhD at Columbia and he said he went there all the time because the reading room is usually so empty and it's like you have it all to yourself :) And they were probably filming Law & Order. I got a lot of emails from the building when I lived there telling us about filming days. It usually happens during a break, but sometimes during a semester too.

There is nothing I love more than reading through collections of family letters and diaries in manuscript libraries. Especially fascinating are crosshatched letters-where a someone has handwritten in one direction and then turned the paper ninety degrees and written in that direction-then flipped the paper over and done the same thing. Sometimes this was done even on nearly-transparent onion-skin paper-especially in times when it was hard to acquire paper (such as the late 19th century US South). It is sometimes frustrating but always fascinating to puzzle these letters out. Both Heti and After Sappho are on my list. I had not thought about the similarities between the experience of reading this kind of experimental literature and the experience of facing a random archive box as we try to piece together a cohesive narrative about people’s lives.

Ah, love your vlogs! I’ve never done archival research, but it was so cool to hear about your experience.

This is my first video on your channel... may I ask is this archive available to writers...ie; historical fiction... screenplays... movie scripts etc? It seems like you have access to the original artifacts ... is one allowed to copy these or take a phone shot?

Oh wow, awesome video! I've added the Martin Guerre book to my wtr 🤓 I also love that you talked about articles as well as books 😍

I adored both The Midwife’s Tale and Martin Guerre when I read them in grad school (many years ago). As a social historian, I think both Davis and Ulrich opened new ways for me to approach my own research and writing. Harriet Jacobs is really powerful, too. I hope you enjoy them all as well. Thank you for your lovely channel!

City as an archive? Could not catch the name, but that class sounds so fascinating. Think I have to buy Harlem is Nowhere. Read Walking in Berlin last year for a class, by Franz Hessel, really enjoyed, might have to look at the Walter Benjamin Berlin book too. Most of the books I am reading this semester is somewhat theory heavy. A very good book I have on the curriculum this year is Floating coast, the environmental history of the Bering strait, very interesting and a bit brutal. A great history book I am also currently reading and forgive me if you recommended it on your channel( only remember someone online mentioning it) , One long night , A global history of concentration camps, it is both horrific and very well written.

Thank you for sharing! :) You said that this semester you aimed to buy used copies of all your books. Where did you get them in NYC?

Sharing with you a selection of history books I have been reading this semester 📚Which one do you want to read the most?

Love your vlog, Always wanted to go to Columbia, I imagine your readings are your very complicated at times, a lot of information packed in to do, at least I recall in my colloquium classes in my undergrad. Being a big reader myself I always find it fascinating understanding a lot of interesting parts of history. A lot of knowledge of APA, MLA, and Chicago style too for writing papers can be extremely cumbersome to say the least but I got through it.

if you come to the city, you need to have a plan.

How are you doing mrs Christina. Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American TH-cam channels. I sent comments to you before. I thought you are still university student at final year , but I surprised you are teaching assistant. It great . There are also young lady her name rachel , she prepares PhD in American literature , have channel. You and her seem you still in early 20s . American people are very creative and active . Good luck to you in all aspects of your life .