La Vie En Rose for 2006 September 4

Spent this evening researching for phd programs by looking at staff research interests at various universities. I really want somewhere with someone good in gender, first world war, AND south-east europe (britain is a given, I think) but it looks like I'll only be able to get that in places like oxford, cambridge... maybe birkbeck. yale. I guess the whole thing with picking a topic no one's doing is that no one's doing it. A lot of the schools I looked at had one or two but not all three. I guess I'll just have to decide which is most important. I have to do all this early on because the application deadlines are soon for scholarships. The only real ones are the big name really competetive ones like Marshall & Fullbright. But, like everything else, someone has to get it, so why not me? After all, I'm doing a very original topic.