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Administratively Yours: Keep your personal info secure
For many of you starting MAPH also means moving to a new city, new bank, and a host of other new things. These days, that means new passwords and usernames for all kinds of things. That means it’s a...
View ArticleAdministratively Yours: A Pre-Quarter Checklist
Welcome to your MAPH year! As you all know, Core starts for us two weeks before most of the rest of campus digs into the fall quarter and things get seriously busy in Hyde Park. I know Core keeps...
View ArticleHumanities Workshops and the List of Lists (which, actually, is almost as...
As you begin making a provisional schedule of all the amazing and stimulating experiences you’re going to start racking up come this fall (provisional if for no other reason than that you can’t...
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The Internets
I have been reminded, today, of the trials and tribulations of finding some way onto the online when one is only just arrived into one’s own new space. If you know someone, or if you yourself are...
View ArticleEverybody’s talking about … Healthcare!
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time to discuss – Health-care! The University of Chicago’s health insurance, University Student Health Insurance Plan (U-SHIP), comes in two flavors: Basic and Prescription...
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Meeting with your faculty advisor
As many of you already know, you’ll be signing up to meet with your faculty advisor this week. Whether or not you develop a strong connection with this person, it is extremely helpful to sit down...
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Sick, Scared, or Upset? Know who to call.
Around the MAPH office, we all know the feeling of panic that’s likely to set in after your first less-than-stellar grade. And we’ll do our best to answer your questions about how MAPH works, from...
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From the New Mentors
Classics Quad in Summer…not a bad place to be Hey MAPHers! Just wanted to extend a hello from your friendly neighborhood Mentors. We are excited for your arrival to campus and look forward to opening...
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The MAPH Office
It may be of some interest to note… There is free coffee here at the MAPH Office, located at 1010 E 59th Street, Classics Room 117. Come, say hi, meet the MAPH mentors! We’re excited to meet all of...
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Hey! New Blood!
This is me! When I was five! The first one to accurately guess which one is me gets a prize! Hi everybody! Hilary suggested that I write an introductory blog post about myself, so that’s what this is I...
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Everything (seriously, everything) you want to know about MAPH Summer...
You know how we have been telling you all since Colloquium to use this year to think about your professional life, as well as your academic life? Well, this time we really mean it. Now that the bulk of...
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What You Need to Know About Convocation ’13
(This post is for those MAPHers graduating this quarter. For those of you taking more time—carry on!) Alright, so you’ve turned in your thesis. Congratu-freaking-lations! I don’t need to tell you just...
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Meet Your Mentors
Hey! We are your new mentors. We graduated from MAPH last month. Once everything gets started, we will be [a few of] the people you can go to for general advice. We will also help plan events for...
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Meet Your Staff
the MAPH office In addition to the mentors (who you met last time), there are two main denizens who haunt the MAPH office and will be there to answer your questions and help get you through the year....
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Getting Your Student ID
Now that you’ve gotten your CNet ID and email all set up, the next step in official student-dom is getting your ID card. Your student ID (called a UChicago card here) gives you access to the following...
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Making the Most of Campus Days 2013
On April 7th and 8th, the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) will be holding Campus Days for newly admitted students. Our goal is to show you as much of MAPH as we possibly can in two...
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Service Match Community Partner Profiles
Get access to all of Chicago! If you are interested in getting involved with the Hyde Park community while gaining skills and experiences that will doubtless be useful to you after MAPH, please be sure...
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First Weeks – Difficult, But, No, It’s Not the Apocalypse
You want me to do what?! Maybe it’s just because I’m reading Delaney’s Dhalgren, but all I can think about is the idea of a never-ending (post?-)apocalyptic time in which everything is confusing,...
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Herein lies a LONG but VERY USEFUL post on the mysterious, elusive thing...
Searching the word “professionalize” in Google images leads to some pretty abstract, random stuff: mountains, schoolchildren, businessy-looking people in suits, even cats. Professionalization can...
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Career Quiz! What Kind of Career would YOU Enjoy? (Alumni Panel 11/6 at 5:30)
I’m lost! What do I do with my degree in the Humanities? (Actually, a lot of different things.) Remember that post that was all like “professionalization is important y’all!!”? Well, it’s already time...
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