Severed Crossed Fingers

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Entry posted by ajayghale · February 25, 2016

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So, it's been a while since I last updated this. The main reason for this is that there is little to no news. The adjoining reason is that what news there is likely would only lead to a pretty depressing post.
I'll keep it as light and cheerful as I can manage.

Since last we met, I've been rejected, either tacitly or directly, from an additional four programs, leaving me with two that have yet to send any information: Georgia State University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. I'm not holding my breath that I'll get rejected from UMass-Amherst and then accepted to NYU, but stranger things have happened. I'm hoping that GSU sends me an acceptance, but since I've already been down this road before, I'm preparing for the worst (while, naturally, hoping for the best).

In order to move forward with my life (or at the very least make a lateral move) I'm applying to teach English abroad in Japan. My SO is doing it, I want to have some semblance of independence, and I like travel. It's win-win-win.

Going back to the constantly getting rejected from PhD programs bit, I understand that the admissions committees are busy and I am but a floating speck of dust in the cosmic scheme, but why wouldn't there be some system of feedback for these things? It seems like it would be simple enough to provide some pointers on where an applicant could improve their packet. "Did not attend Ivy League school for undergrad," or "You're kidding, right?" or even "Lack of formal academic training in Communication/Media Studies makes candidate unsuitable for program." As I've mentioned before, I have a lot working against me, so I'd like to know what it is that is keeping me out of the big leagues.

This is what I get for not being much of a planner, I suppose.

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Posted January 15, 2017

Apply, apply, apply. There are life equivalents for these kinds of formal goals, and places to put them, like on this blog. I'm in the same situation. But through hard work I've found alternate applications beside money and ambition to fill my emotional purgatory. Good or Bad I can move forward in life without the emotional guilt trip of completing something. To even say you've gone this far to pursue your education is an achievement in itself. All the best to you moving forward. May the road to your success be free of roadblocks.

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