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feuervogel) wrote2013-07-26 09:12 pm
feuervogel) wrote2013-07-26 09:12 pm
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Blargh
So, Ben's brother gave me a copy of Soccernomics for Christmas, and I've finally cleared my reading slate enough to read it. I'm enjoying it a fair amount. There's a lot of statistical talk (in layman's terms, mostly) and asides like, regarding Manchester in 1876, "the city so miserable it inspired communism" or "Many people believe that Manchester United is evil. No one thinks they're boring." (paraphrased from memory)
There's this one problem. When I was thinking of applying to grad school, I wanted to write a thesis on integration and German football. This is making me want to write it again.
I REALLY REALLY don't want to do a PhD. Really really. Some places won't even accept terminal MA applicants, and the places that do don't necessarily offer funding. And there's no way in god's green hell that I'll be taking out loans for this.
So I'm back to square one and confused again.
Middlebury has a program that fits me (4 6-week summer sessions of 3 courses each), but their big papers aren't independent research projects; they're related to a course. (As far as I can tell. There's a course listing for Thesis, but I can't find anything about such a requirement on the site.) They don't require the GRE.
Georgetown and Maryland both have thesis options. Georgetown says they're "committed" to funding all graduate students; Maryland's funding is "highly competitive." Both require the GRE.
I DON'T KNOW, Y'ALL. Blargh. Stupid brain.
Not that I couldn't, like, do some research, outline a nonfiction book proposal, and shop it around... Come to think of it, I know enough people (via twitter) who are involved in real football journalism that I might be able to get a tip or two.
There's this one problem. When I was thinking of applying to grad school, I wanted to write a thesis on integration and German football. This is making me want to write it again.
I REALLY REALLY don't want to do a PhD. Really really. Some places won't even accept terminal MA applicants, and the places that do don't necessarily offer funding. And there's no way in god's green hell that I'll be taking out loans for this.
So I'm back to square one and confused again.
Middlebury has a program that fits me (4 6-week summer sessions of 3 courses each), but their big papers aren't independent research projects; they're related to a course. (As far as I can tell. There's a course listing for Thesis, but I can't find anything about such a requirement on the site.) They don't require the GRE.
Georgetown and Maryland both have thesis options. Georgetown says they're "committed" to funding all graduate students; Maryland's funding is "highly competitive." Both require the GRE.
I DON'T KNOW, Y'ALL. Blargh. Stupid brain.
Not that I couldn't, like, do some research, outline a nonfiction book proposal, and shop it around... Come to think of it, I know enough people (via twitter) who are involved in real football journalism that I might be able to get a tip or two.
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Now I need to look up how to make a non-fiction book proposal and find an agent for that. THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN FICTION WAT. I know you need a platform; I have several hundred non-bot followers on my football account, and I write occasionally for a group blog that gets a lot of hits. So I have kind of a platform, sort of. I know multiple football journalists on twitter, so they can help out.
But my brain is full of ideas! Aaaah!
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A brain full of ideas is very very good. No transcribed noises of terror from you! You have a platform (and really, half the advice-givers who go on about platform platform platform are overrated anyway) -- MUCH MORE of a platform than most of these people who start out do anyway.
This is all your fault ;)
Germany East & West
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Wirtschaftswunder
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Gastarbeiter
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The rise of German football
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Chapter Two: Who was the first?
Difficult: Germany used to include Prague, etc.
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Half-Germans or children of immigrants?
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History is hard
Chapter Three: Felix Magath
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Chapter Four: Mehmet Scholl
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Chapter Five: Team 2010
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Chapter Six: Mesut Özil
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Chapter Seven: Sami Khedira
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Chapter Eight: Changing culture
Citizenship laws 2000
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Multikulti has failed
Thilo Sarrazin
Weiss ist die Farbe
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Chapter Nine: Clubs in the Ruhrgebiet
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Chapter Ten: Clubs in Berlin
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Chapter Eleven: Fan culture
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Chapter Thirteen: Chapter Subtitle copy–3
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ETA: ooo I should talk about the women's team, too, though they don't get nearly as much attention as the men's team, even if they've just won their 6th straight European championship.
Re: This is all your fault ;)
*hides in deep shame over terrible work habits*
(I really can't help it, you know. If I see someone contemplating something that they clearly want to do and are completely capable of doing, I have to cheerlead. There is no reason not to. I think there might have been a geas placed on me in childhood or something. It's an actual compulsion. *pom poms*)
Re: This is all your fault ;)
I should finish the fiction thing I'm working on before I get too deeply sidelined in the nonfiction. Though parking in town is much easier now than once the students get back, and I get the feeling I'll need to spend a lot of time at the library for this...
(You think I'm capable of this XD Whee!)
Re: This is all your fault ;)