ipods

[helixaspersa]

I am thinking of buying an ipod - which one should I get? useful experiences/recommendations/thoughts? I have not had one before so this is all new; cheaper obviously better but I'm not particularly stingy about it, and happy to pay more if it's worth doing so.

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[eulistes]

So, when you commented over at A_A, I got all confused because there are a couple of different New Colleges in my life. Once I figured out which one you meant, it all made sense again! Am friending you since I'm a medievalist who does classical tradition and cultural history. Oh, and my mom used to make me eat porridge.

What were you doing at Harvard?

[helixaspersa]

Hi. I was a Knox Fellow in the graduate school immediately after finishing my first degree in Oxford (there are also Kennedy Fellows which are almost exactly the same). A bit like a Rhodes Fellowship in reverse I suppose (only happily for me without the bias towards sporting types!). It was a very cushy number actually, I could take whichever courses I fancied for a year all expenses paid. Very nice. I only did it for a year though I knew people who'd managed to extract whole PhDs from the Knox people once they'd started, and a second year at least was guaranteed. I knew I wanted to do my serious graduate work in Cambridge (England) though so came back. I'm guessing you were doing something not entirely different in Oxford - a masters? how did you find it?

[eulistes]

Ah yes! I was a Harlech Fellow at New College, so it's almost exactly the same thing. Could have stayed on for a master's, but wanted to get on with it, as you say, so came back to the States and got on with it.

I was back there (NC) last summer as a Visiting Fellow. Idyllic doesn't even begin to describe it. Their Visiting Fellows' Set has the biggest clawfooted bathtub I've ever seen in my life!

[eulistes]

As regards the year in Oxford-it was fantastic and just the right thing at the right time. I knew what I wanted to do in grad school (cultural history, essentially-my first degree was in medieval history and literature), but not how, as in, whether I wanted a faculty of English, Italian, Comp Lit, Medieval Studies, History, etc., etc. That year was immensely helpful for figuring all that out. In fact, the extended essay I wrote for my history tutor in Trinity term ended up turning into my dissertation.