tinapickles

I wonder if it works that way... Wouldn't it be lovely if it did!

My letter said something similar: I contacted the Graduate Director and he informed me that I'm "roughly fourth" on the waitlist... I have no idea if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Did anyone else apply to this program and if so, do you have any information? I received a letter informing me that I am wait listed (and high-ish on the wait list... I think?). Anyone already attending and have any info about the program in general they'd like to share? Thanks guys!

I'm right there with you on the fingernail thing.... as in "nails, what nails?" It's a truly disgusting manifestation of my neuroses.

So... probably safe to assume if you haven't received an email with glad tidings, you're not going to?

One rejection under my belt and an obsessive need to check status updates every five minutes. It's made packing to leave India for home... difficult.

I too was "denied" (a truly harsh way to put it!) but it's all good. They were low on my list.

Are you talking about the writer's conference/retreat? If so, in the "writerly" circles, it's very prestigious. A number of writers attend and go on to publish. It does have, as well, a young writer's component.

Just have to say...I enjoy the fact your profile pic is Archimedes.

So I've been feeling really... serene about this whole thing. I mean, I figured, hey, I did the needful and it's in the hands of the adcom now. Right? Umm.... yeah. Last night the nightmares started. The updated spreadsheet denoting all my rejections chases me around. What the what.

Right there with you, dudes/dudettes (and feeling punchy, apparently). I can't check my application status online either as I cannot, for the life of me, remember the login info--you have to call the help desk to reset the whole thing which just isn't possible for me here in India. *Sigh* I have an MFA, so I assume if accepted, I'm starting off at the MA level. My interests lie in transatlantic representations of the intersection of science/technology and gender identity during the late 19th C. early 20th C. (which is such a mouthful).

It just occurred to me that I need tax returns for a FAFSA? However, I don't/won't have them from 2010 as I didn't work... I spent the entire year in India with my SO living off of his dissertation funding. At a lost how THAT'S going to work...

I have a strong interest in sci-fi as well and did some research. The conclusion I ultimately reached (after talking to a handful of graduate students) was that you can "do" a project on sci-fi just about anywhere. I talked to, for example, a friend of a friend who is currently attending U-Mass Amherst for his PhD and his dissertation focuses on zombies as representations of societal construct of the other; another friend-of-a-friend is working on post-apocalyptic literature at Binghamton. I think its partly how you want to frame your work and what you want to work on. I searched through the professors at each place I was interested in to see not only what their interests were, but what they've published. A number of them were interested in sci-fi and had published BUT the program wasn't necessarily sci-fi oriented.