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March and more waiting ...

Posted by Kitkat, in updates, Application season 02 March 2012 · 263 views

I would like to say that I am happy for all of those who have already gotten acceptances. I don't begrudge you at all, I am more jealous then anything. I, like so many other people like cokohlik , in her recent blog post, am in that wonderful/horrible land of limbo. I am still at one rejection, and four unknowns out of the schools that I applied to....

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And now the waiting game

Posted by Kitkat, in Uncategorized, updates, Application season 13 January 2012 · 127 views

So now my applications are all submitted, letters are in, transcripts are in. And it is time to begin waiting.This whole process was a bit trying. Mainly because one of my prof's who was writing me letters submitted them all late, which stressed me out to no end. My whole thing was that while I was grateful that he was doing it in the first place, I d...

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Stress

Posted by Kitkat, in updates 27 July 2011 · 97 views

So now I am starting to get a bad case of pre-application nerves and worries. I've been working on my SoP and should have a first draft done by the end of this weekend, after several run thoughs of my own. I'm retaking the GRE on the advice of profs in the department. I keep thinking that I should be doing so much more. And then recently to top off that I...

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Updates

Posted by Kitkat, in updates, About Me 09 July 2011 · 96 views

it looks like I will be retaking the GRE this fall after all. I talked to a few people in my department, including the head of the department, and they think that it would be best to get my quant scores up higher, if I want to give myself a chance at the top tier schools, which I do. I am going to attempt to do the new GRE, and at the beginning of the fal...

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