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Any advice for transfer students from community college? Curious what extracurriculars/other than grades stuff you’re putting on your app, if you’re willing to share!

I’d probably feel more comfortable giving advice if I knew it was good advice– i.e., I don’t know if I’ve been accepted to the uni I applied to yet.

I think it really depends on the university. I was all geared up and ready to ask my supervisor at my current job, supervisors from volunteer work I’ve done, for letters of recommendation…then found out that for my transfer app, they don’t even accept letters of rec. It’s just transcripts, and personal statements.

From what I’ve heard; it’s best to apply as a transfer student once you’ve actually acquired your Associate’s/two-year degree. 

I guess my best advice I could think of would be to keep up the GPA as much as you can, and really give some thought to what it is you want to major in and why, and what you’d like to do in your future field of choice, what you’re passionate about and why– that’s generally what the’re asking for in the personal statements. Maybe take some notes when you’re brainstorming about this, so that you have somewhere to start from/a jumping off point for the statement when you do apply. 

Unpopular opinion: I actually.. enjoy using Tumblr? Comes w/ a ton of qualifications and survivorship’s bias, obviously, but I’ve met a lot of great ppl thru it who keep me on the site. (BTW my url is allegoriesinmediasres, w/ an s after “media”. Just noticed you’ve been tagging it as allegoriesinmediares and wanted to let you know!)

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

i’ve made a lot of good friends on here.

at the same time, i’m tired of people coming in out of left field on read-mores, doing stuff like reblogging things tagged ‘don’t r/b’, arguing in reblogs on posts you haven’t tagged and haven’t opened up for discussion…

it’s both too public and too private, i feel? there’s not a huge userbase, like…my experience is when i open topics up and WANT to have a discussion, i get nothing. when i make some off-the-cuff untagged comment, i get criticized and nitpicked and well-actuallyed for some reason (or many, lol).

most of all, i’m tired of being mocked for things i enjoy, or having remarks i said off-hand scrutinized.

i really do want to delete or archive sometimes…or maybe just make a vent blog and set it to private or smth, idk.

Do you know why Elizabeth didn’t get Hever Caste after Anne of Cleves died? From what I’ve gathered Mary I decided to gift it to some random knight in 1557, but that seems so incredibly petty, that I have to wonder if there wasn’t a reason for her not letting the Careys or Elizabeth get it. He could have gotten any random castle (and he did seem to get another one as well), but she decided to give him Hever.

Oh, I didn’t know about that. 

AOC had at first refused to attend Catholic Mass, along with Elizabeth, during the first part of Mary’s reign. Perhaps there was still some resentment there about that.

Elizabeth didn’t seem to try to get it back when she became Queen, tho, she left it to the son of Sir Edward Waldegrave:

“When Anne of Cleves died in 1557 the Hever estate reverted to the Crown. In that year Sir Edward Waldegrave, a member of Mary Tudor’s Council, had been appointed one of the Commissioners for the sale of Crown land and promptly assigned himself the Castle and estate of Hever. When the Catholic Queen Mary died and the Protestant Elizabeth I came to the throne, Sir Edward was deprived of his appointments and was arrested for allowing Mass to be celebrated in his house. Sir Edward was sent to the Tower of London and remained there until his death in 1561.

Edward’s son, Charles, had risen in the world with his father, becoming a Privy Councillor and Master of the Queen’s Horse. However, with the downfall of his father, Charles lost all his appointments and retired to Hever Castle with his wife Jeronyma. As a Catholic, he could play no further part in national affairs and so he spent time refurbishing the Castle.”

The Tudors, the White Queen, and Outlander.

The Tudors:

Heroes or villains, we’re all somewhere in between. The good do bad things and the bad are sometimes kind to their mothers. (Source: The Hour)

The White Queen

We are half-people. Ripped from the pages of some bizarre mythology, the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends. And which blights our every human transaction as brother, husband, sister, wife, mother. (Source: The Crown)

Outlander

Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed. (Source: The Tudors) 

Thomas Boleyn and 🗣️ + 📚? Thank you<3

“Thomas Boleyn became ambassador to France in January 1519, and it is possible that George spent some time in France as a child with his father when Thomas was on embassy.”

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“The Pope is governed by the Emperor, and the Italian divines will support his authority. They are dissatisfied with the Emperor’s conduct in Italy, for he has pleased his enemies, and done nothing for his friends. There is great dissension between the Spaniards and the Almains. If the Emperor should fall out with the French king, I think the former would seek to you. When I go to France I shall learn more. I keep with me Alexander, the messenger. Lyons, morrow of St. George’s Day.”

have you heard of the book “The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn” by Robin Maxwell? should it be avoided or is it good? or; what are your rec’s for anne fiction?

I’ve read excerpts of it and wasn’t terribly impressed, honestly– but then, I’m incredibly finicky when it comes to Tudor fiction.

Actually, my preference for fiction is 3rd person and I’ve yet to read a fiction book about Anne that I liked or loved in the 3rd person, altho I’ve read a few fics on AO3 that I have.

For YA, I still think ‘Doomed Queen Anne’ is the pinnacle. Apparently ‘Tarnish’ is good but I haven’t read it, so can’t speak to it.

As for 1st person narrations, “Je Anne Boleyn: Struck with the Dart of Love” by Sandra Vasoli I liked with a few qualms. If you want a series that has a good chunk of pages dedicated to the time before she returned to England in 1522, there is ‘La Petite Boulain’ by G. Lawrence, which is free on Kindle Unlimited. I like what I’ve read of it so far.