Today was my school's (Humanities and Social Sciences) "Postgraduate School Day," the occasion in which all the new postgraduate students are welcomed to their departments and the school. All of the new postgrads in the history department (around 40 of us) were welcomed by the department's postgraduate adviser this morning. Intrestingly, there are no new MPhil or PhD students in the group; all of us are either MA or MRes students, which I thought was interesting. Our programs range from "Straight History" (the instutitional nickname given to the MA in History to distinguish it from the specialized ones) to Medical History to Maritime History to History of War & Society to Naval History (my personal favorite).
After our welcome to our department, we were welcome by the dean of the school. Fast forwarding past his speech, which wasn't particulary memorable, I met one of Amanda's fellow Fulbright TAs from Germany. She's now in Islamic studies (I believe her research interest has something to do with German Turks). It's quite a small world!
After that, we had a departmental buffet, with more of the interesting sandwiches that I first encountered back at Link Weekend. During the course of this lunch, I found out who my personal tutor is. I'm acquainted with his work from Dr. Selesky's Military History class that I toook senior year, in which we read Why the Allies Won. His name is Richard Overy, and his research interests are air power, World War II, and Germany. Needless to say, while we don't completely overlap there, we do have a good bit in common to discuss.
Having this behind me, I feel much more ready to begin my classes on Tuesday. Hopefully, I'll still feel this ready on Tuesday night!
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