Hello friends!
I'm so excited to tell you all about the wonderful time I had visiting my new school's campus last week. My one year anniversary was Tuesday, and that night (after an incredible day together, of course), my husband and I left LA on a redeye for Newark. We were there for about four days, and it was... an incredible...
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So at this point, I am looking at three rejections, and still two unknowns. Out of those two unknowns, I am thinking that one is a definite rejection, and the other one I think is not looking that great either. Not necessarily impossible, in my cynical mind, but unlikely, mainly do to the fact that they take so few people.
But at this point it...
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Just finished a hilarious interview, and I really mean hilarious. When I first got the email from the POI of a school that I was already accepted to but had no funding yet, asking to chat, of course I was excited, who wouldn't be? So I immediately went off and prepared for the interview by reading the POIs personal webpage.... only to discover...
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So now that I've been accepted into both the schools I applied for (Still in shock), its time for me to figure everything else out - like how to get to school, how to pay for school, etc.
I went to a Seton Hall "Meet the Dean and Faculty" meeting, which was a big mistake. Since the beginning I was pretty set on going to UBC, but...
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Going into this process, and throughout this whole process, I think we all encounter obstacles and while these definitely are hard at certain points, they definitely have not been the hardest for me personally. For me, the hardest...
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So it was recently my mother's birthday. Like a good little offspring, I sent her a card and called her. My younger sibling, rebrobate that he is, forgot (or chose not to?), despite reminders from me and our dad. Alas. Now he's gone incommunicado and the current parental theory is that he's avoiding contact because he'd have to...
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Had an emotional roller coaster ride this week. Earlier in the week I went to visit a school at NY. While they spell out everything about how great the school is, the city and everything, it became an unachievable illusion as I received a rejection letter from that school. I have to be honest that I didn't see it coming, as I personally felt...
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I've said it before that this whole process is one big emotional roller coaster. One minute you think you will be accepted to many schools & the next you will not only be rejected from all your schools, but everyone will stop talking to you, and you will end up living in a box by the freeway (or something like that).
This week has been...
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So, like a good little nerd, I've mapped it out:
My happiness is on the y-axis, ascending from 0 (none) to 100 (most).
The time of day is on the x.
-- And the waiting game is a perfect quadratic equation.
I wake up and check my email, and when I see that I still have not heard from graduate schools, I start off my day at (0, 0). Never...
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(This is cross-posted from my wordpress blog, which is my main posting spot:
http://caridwen.wordpress.com/)
OK, here we go…. the
#JustOneMore movement. It’s here. It’s
time.
Time to let go of our fears and worries that we will never
be enough or
do enough.
Time to let go of that niggly feeling that we...
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I thought I would add some thoughts now that I have one semester left for my masters degree (hopefully two of them).
1. I am way dumber than I thought I was smart. Previous entries list my undergrad stats if you're interested. I have worked harder in the last sixteen months than I ever have, and have probably just begun to discover what...
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Hello GradCafe,
In this somewhat chilly afternoon, I am trying to produce some progress before I head home for thanksgiving. I haven't visited this site (and the blog) for a while, it's a good time to take a moment and write something.
After my journey with numerous rotations (let's say, more than 3, to remain anonymous on the...
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As so many students are right now, I'm biting my nails and gnashing my teeth over my possible GRE percentiles. I feel like waiting for them has triggered so many emotions! I've been reading the Grad Cafe forums multiple times a day trying to figure out what the ranges could possibly end up being. There have been times I've been...
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Hi everyone!
I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to all of you, and hope that I don't bore you too much; if nothing else, you can use my blog as a sleep aid!
My story: I'll be graduating from...
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So, just as I was finally recovering from the shock of the subject test and feeling good about my applications again (I found the most kick-ass source for my writing sample last night!), I had the most disappointing meeting with a professor I've had this entire application season. The only part of the meeting that was good was solidifying my...
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So far, the only PhD program I got into has been NYU's. I have offers for master's at Edinburgh, SOAS and Columbia, but they're all unfunded, while NYU's funding me for 5 years. I also got rejected at Yale's and Columbia's PhD programs, which means I'm only waiting on Cornell, where, as far as I can tell, I am...
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My application season can be broadly divided into two-applications sent between November and December (including those sent to the States) and applications sent January onwards. Nothing really came of any of my applications before January so I drastically changed...
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Today I spoke with the POI from one of my top choices, if not my top choice, by Skype. I would have loved to have heard right off the bat, 'We're going to accept you', while I feared that it would have been an inquisition that would determine whether or not I got accepted. Needless to say, I was nervous...
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I apologize to you all for being gone for a long time. It wasn't the application process that took me away. Rather, current project/s in my MS research have been taking up a lot of my time lately. Anyway, let me share with you how it has been so far.
I started the season with 7 applications (to 7 programs/schools, of course). Three were my...
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I was first rejected by my top choice school last year and so I went with my third choice at the time. I was pretty bummed about going there, but realized that they had more to offer than I realized. Fast forward to completing my first semester of grad school...
It sucks here! The ONLY Professor I wanted to work with has no funding now. ...
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