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SQUEE! Am I really slow for not knowing how to search for that??

To continue the two-day-long tradition of freaking you guys out, I think my anxiety is about to take over. I'm waiting on one of the schools that typically notifies pretty early. At least there's a significant time difference so I technically get the morning/afternoon off from being worried about it. This my brain knows that? Nope.

I didn't. I just indulge in my neuroses, understanding that they will go away in about 6 weeks when all this is over. It doesn't help that I deal with kids applying to college every day.

I second the love for The Country and the City. I used it in my master's thesis, too.

BTW forgot to mention this when I got the email (two weeks ago) but thought I'd post it now. "Thank you for your interest in our graduate program here at the University of Delaware. Our admissions committee has already begun the review process of all applications and will continue over the next several weeks. They plan to make decisions by early February and will then notify applicants." Also they think they'll have 2-3 spots for external PhDs.

Beckett's Trilogy seriously depressed me.

Can't seem to finish a book lately so reading a few things at once: Beloved, 1Q84, and The Language Instinct (Pinker).

Number 9, too! Not entirely sure how I feel about this...

Congrats!!! Being happy for strangers is somehow strangely distracting from my own impending doom. Though I'm not so sure I'd be this happy if it had been a school I'd applied to

Conrad has very little to do with Poland, artistically...I would say 20th-C. Brit. Lit.

And you wear glasses. Duh.

I would say post-colonial/modernism. Yay HoD! Great text.

I love Heart of Darkness! But then again I'm obsessed with turn-of-the-century lit Anyway, as for something I should have read but haven't... I've never read any Dickens. Oh no, I can see the pitchforks and torches from here...!!!

That's a bold move! I'm saying Northwestern, next Thursday (24th). Any particular reason you say Monday, HHEoS? Mine's a guess based on last year's notifications.

Thanks, guys! Just checked again and it was "completed" yesterday. I submitted on 12/3/2012. I guess it's just arbitrary!

But that's what makes it so funny!

My Penn app still says incomplete. EEK. Also, has anyone actually had UMD-CP receive their official transcripts? Both mine and my boyfriend's were "lost" somewhere on the way.

Fun fact: TSAR is known as F in the UK. (The Sun Also Rises is known as Fiesta in the UK).

Yeah there's a cross-school agreement that you can't ask an applicant to accept or decline an offer before April 15th.

The other day I started freaking out thinking: what if my recommenders wrote really mean things? Or said I was mediocre?! I basically panicked. This is really getting to me. Also I wondered if it was a mistake submitting four when the application said they'd accept up to four, though only three were required.

I know we've talked some about British grading on here, but how familiar do you think adcomms are with it? I saw one US school's conversion table say that 70+ was an A, 60-70 was a B, 50-60 was a C. To me this is way harsh (to use Clueless parlance). I would say 65-70 is an A-, 60-65 is a B/+, etc. I guess I'm just worried how my graduate grades will translate. Urgh.

Couldn't this be said of other top-tier schools? I've pointed this out before, but I'm pretty sure a lower GPA at a good school can be higher than a 4.0 at a lower-ranked school.

For Michigan you have to check on Wolverine access.

So glad there's another high school teacher wannabe on here! I was starting to think I was the only one...

Not for everyone