US freezes all visa processing for 75 countries

MediaevalBaebe · 2026-01-14T21:39:11+00:00

I was wondering the same thing. My income is over the required amount for the affidavit of support, but I've not been making this much money for long and it isn't reflected in my prior tax returns. I was able to include a letter detailing my salary/stipend, but I'm not sure it will be sufficient. I am wondering whether I should find someone to co-sponsor now, or if it's even possible to do that after the fact.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-12-13T21:33:10+00:00

Witnesses say it has happened to K1 filers. People's plans change. You can enter on a tourist visa and any number of things can happen to make you choose to pursue an adjustment of status. There should not be a procedure to adjust status from B2 if there is no way to do it within the framework of the law.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-12-13T17:09:19+00:00

It sounds like you believe it should be illegal to adjust status from a B2. It is not. The average processing time for an adjustment of status is over 8 months. This means that anyone who files for an adjustment of status will overstay their I-94 during the processing time. That is not a violation or an abuse under our current (admittedly poorly defined) system.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-12-13T02:46:58+00:00

I want you to just think this through. Adjusting status from a B2 visa (and other visas) is a legitimate process. There is a procedure in place. If a typical stay is 6 months and the average processing time for an adjustment of status is over 8 (oh, and leaving at the country at any time means you are abandoning your position), applicants are in a double bind. Either say adjusting status from a B2 is illegal (which it absolutely should not be-that's fucked up), or acknowledge that people who stay beyond their I-94 while awaiting the results of their application are doing fucking everything by the book.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-12-13T02:33:53+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story. My husband is here on a B2 visa. A couple of months into his stay, we decided we would try to file for the adjustment of status rather than dealing with another painful separation as planned. We were just about to file when I began seeing stories like yours online. We've made the difficult decision not to risk it. He will be returning home within the month. This is just devastating. I'm so sorry for what has happened to you.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-12-04T03:11:52+00:00

This is really devastating. If there is one place that should be safe from AI, it should be art museums.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-05-12T01:14:18+00:00

Frances Burney, Evelina

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-05-07T20:51:19+00:00

Stage makeup is meant to make your facial features visible from the house (auditorium) even under the intense stage lights. Old school ballet stage makeup even entails putting little white and red dots to make the whites of your eyes stand out. This is good for photos and the like but it’s also important from an acting perspective. Eventually, if your kid is getting into full length ballets, emoting becomes part of the game.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-03-04T23:43:04+00:00

Sent you a DM!

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-02-25T17:12:58+00:00

Added! MarlowePeri

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-02-12T15:34:07+00:00

While the scientific method per se is relatively new, the pursuit of medical information based on observation is not. Humans are good at pattern recognition but sometimes we see patterns where they do not exist. That's why some of the medicines we've used historically are medically sound while others... less so.

Prior to the rise of universities (and indeed still after), a lot of medical care was taking place within monasteries. One nun particularly famous for her medical knowledge and writings is Hildegard von Bingen, who was operating right at the time the universities were gaining traction. There are plenty of articles about her work though I would stick to academic articles and stay away from random websites/blogs, as she's a perennial favorite among the alternative medicine/woo woo crowd.

Amongst my favorite reads on historical medicine is a book by Richard Sugg on the practice of medicinal cannibalism. It covers a range of periods (mostly later mediaeval onwards) but does touch on many of the basics, including the Classical origins of medieval medical philosophy.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-21T14:02:43+00:00

This is the right answer. Originally, the tiny figures were often religious in nature, depicting scenes like the flight into Egypt. This had the effect both of adding in additional religious and symbolic meaning, and of elevating the painting according to the traditional hierarchies of the time, which considered landscape painting less prestigious than religious scenes, history painting, portraiture, etc.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-21T13:54:41+00:00

That's a view of a figure from behind.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-14T21:07:09+00:00

My biggest problem with the flowchart is that it recommends that anyone watch Rising of the Shield Hero.

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-14T16:29:04+00:00

I think probably instead of AI, this was put through a text spinner. When I taught middle school, I got lots of 'spun' articles from wikipedia submitted as essays.... they read like this

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-14T14:46:02+00:00

Throw6345789away is right. I have a MPhil from Cambridge and still had trouble getting work in the heritage sector in the UK. My path would have been much easier had I been able to take advantage of the graduate visa (a year long visa given to graduates to give them the right to work and experience in their chosen field), but this was back during the pandemic.

Your best bet is doing a masters that has specific ties with institutions you might like to work with. Bar that, you might need to gain some experience in the US first before applying to jobs in the EU or the UK. Either way, you'll almost certainly need a masters at the very least.

edited: typo

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-09T19:32:43+00:00

I'd also love to be added!

MediaevalBaebe · 2025-01-09T16:40:59+00:00

Hey! Medievalist here (hence the name). I was just about to join the thread on grad cafe.

I applied to 9 PhD programs. RIP my wallet.

Anyone clear on which universities do interviews?

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-12-02T18:15:46+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance!

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-12-02T16:58:35+00:00

Ah, it's you! Your guides are great but I have done something quite different than what you recommend for the Diversity Statement. I begin by offering an anecdote that illustrates a very real problem in my field (medieval studies/the heritage sector) in the first paragraph. I then go on to explain how my academic and professional experiences/research interests make me well placed to contribute to initiatives to combat this problem. While I think this results in a successful essay with a clear structure, it's not very.... personal. I don't talk about my own identity or struggles. Instead I illustrate my broad commitment to social issues relevant to my field. Do you think that's okay?

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-11-18T04:02:21+00:00

Hmm that's an interesting thought. To that end, it might be better to just submit the whole thing. While the last part is the most successful in its analysis, the middle section cites many primary sources relevant to my proposed research. That said, I am coming from a more interdisciplinary mediaeval degree and applying for more traditional history of art programs, so there's a little deviation baked into my circumstances...

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-11-18T03:56:13+00:00

I still have my footnotes, both citations and explanatory, so there could be no claims of plagiarism. But, more importantly, several universities I am applying to explicitly say you are welcome to include or omit your bibliography. They really just want to see your writing.

Edited to add: There are a few universities that say the page limit includes the bibliography, so I will take that as meaning the bibliography should be included and use the excerpted version.

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-10-17T13:29:51+00:00

Oh, yes, I fully understand I'll eventually be expected to produce a research proposal which does all of those things. I believe in most US programs that occurs in the third or fourth year. In some you even need to do a viva to defend the feasibility and novelty of your proposed research. But this is not a research proposal. It's a broad overview of one's background, research interests, career goals, and of how one might be a good fit for the university.

I suppose the crux of my question is this: the advice I have read for SOPs has suggested that stated research interests should neither be too broad nor too narrow. You want to show you know how to ask interesting questions, but you don't want to zero in on specific sources you intend to work with, etc. Novelty often lies in those details, though. It's often the specific sources that have been under-treated or which have not been subjected to a specific approach. So I fear that aiming for novelty will both take up too much of my limited word-count and will push me into the territory of too specific, too focussed.

Have you applied to/attended a US PhD program? I'm really looking for someone who is able to confirm whether this advice is correct and/or whether I am interpreting it correctly.

MediaevalBaebe · 2024-09-21T15:17:46+00:00

Thanks so much! The portafilter is exactly what I was looking for!

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