Deadinthewater
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. In the meantime I'll stalk Deadinthewater until he admits to being hopelessly in love with me.
Get a room you two
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It's official! I accepted my offer at PSU and I feel... weird. I expected to feel relieved and overwhelmingly happy--and I'm certainly relieved--but my stupid brain can't get over all the "what ifs." Also, it doesn't look like anyone else from this board is headed there this year. Sad.
I am still heavily considering PSU. It's between that and irvine; I won't have a chance to visit irvine, and I have heard only (2nd and 3rd- hand) negative things, but we will see how my communication with profs goes. I feel bad but I will most likely take this decision down to the proverbial wire.
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Hey I was accepted to irvine today
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I cant believe you posted that picture. I'm not wearing any pants!
Troll
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he really did steal my upvotes. He posted a picture of my cat
Don't listen to Fishbucket, the infamous troll. She's my cat, and I can prove it:
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Fish bucket just got a cat to prove how post human she really is
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Today I went to a coffee shop to get my usual, a coffee black to stay. I have an account with the shop because they don't take credit cards unless you're paying a lot, so every few months I charge it up with twenty or thirty dollars.
The girl behind the counter has very short hair, and she plays in a band that I have seen play around the town. I ordered my coffee (she knows it by heart, god bless her), and she asked if I wanted it on my account. I told her yes.
She asked me what I was reading. I asked her if she had ever heard of Lacan, and she said she had read him in some of her women's study courses.
I took out my credit card and she reminded me I was using my account, and then she opened her mouth, and I thought I hear a telephone ringing. The dog told me that my account was running low. I walked upstairs, into the basement.
Life is lonely here, humans.
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Spleens, Biscuits, Broccolis: A posthumanist perspective.
ETA:
"I, am a biscuit. I live in a town called Pillsbury."
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Tonight at the Madison Square Garden, fellow CUNY students Fishbucket and Tripwillis go toe-to-toe for eighteen rounds in the Rumble in the AntiHumanist Jungle.
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sorry, this biscuit is closed
Perhaps if there are no biscuits you could pass the University of California-Broccoli.
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Hi guys, hoping I'm not too late to toss my 2 cents into the biscuit.
Cabinfever, I unfortunately know nothing about any of the schools you have mentioned, but have you ever heard of the Princeton College or University of the California-Berkeley? If you decide to reapply in a second round, I believe that these programs have good reputations. You might consider looking into them.
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^ Edited at 11:48. You posted at 11:48. Or should I say 9:48. It was fate.
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Fair enough. But I'm still going to have some trouble figuring out which schools to apply to next go-around, since I don't want to just get in SOMEWHERE. I want to get into places I'd willingly attend.
Posted at 4:44, nice!
Doesn't quite make up for your goose-egg season, but it's a start.
ETA: I can say this because I know fishbucket very well personally and we are actually quite fond of one another. Or at least she is of me.
ETA x 2: It was 2:44 where you were. Just forget this whole post.
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You all just got the standard MAPH letter. There's a part in it that is customized to your individual applicant profile, and may mention faculty of interest to you, but other than that it's a standard letter. Definitely don't dismiss MAPH out of hand, though. Recent placement has been very, very impressive (both to PhD programs and non-academic positions). Plenty of discussions on this forum.
I was only trying to say that the letter reads a little awkwardly, that it's worth a laugh. Wasn't trying to say anything about the program itself.
It's just that it reminds me of a fiction writer from where I live. The other day while at a reading he presented his general form suicide letter, for people who are thinking about killing themselves but can't write:
"My relationship to this world was once symbiotic--but when? I cannot recall. When? It was a time when Desire burned bright above me like some distant star that I was climbing toward, and am now only floating away from, having passed it unnoticed like two ships in the night. I write to you now as a parasite; or is it the world itself? Yes, I have endured the pain of its cruelly indifferent hostility for too long. That is why I, (INSERT NAME HERE), am choosing to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them. I apologize to (INSERT PEOPLE YOU LIKE HERE); it was not you, it was simply my (INSERT FAILURES HERE)"
or something like that.
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Shut up fish bucket.
Yes, it was really dry and mechanized, and then all of a sudden they would reference my writing sample. "I very much enjoyed your admissions file, especially the part about Ranciere and aesthetics and interestingness."
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Anybody else get an eerily personalized email about UChicago's MAPH?
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Just got accepted to Penn State's MA from the waitlist. If you go to Penn Stare or an MA, do they pretty much expect you to get your PhD there? I know they have a high percentage of MA's continuing, but is this a free will arrangement? Or will I be tied down and force fed my PhD?
- practical cat, bfat, Two Espressos and 1 other
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I know that, despite the university's shortcomings in other areas, Nebraska's DH program is 100% no-nonsense, and it is the flagship field within the English program. (They tell me that) They are ranked very high. For English-related digital humanities, Matt Jockers and Stephen Ramsay are your guys.
That being said, I don't really care about digital humanities. Just trying to offer what (I think) I know
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I plan on being so drunk that no one will pay any attention to what I'm not wearing.
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i pride myself on my ability to identify people by writing style. it's my party trick. close reading ftw! if only identifying internet personas was transferrable (or monetizable) in any way.
DontHate and I are texting right now and she says you're adorable.
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Wegman's? Hmmm. Not so sure about this place.
No offense, but it doesn't seem like it can compete with the low prices and friendly service at the #1 best kept secret in my hometown:
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Hey FishBucket, I wanted to let you know that I have been reading Bruce Fink's Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and I am pretty sure you fall under "hysteric."
ETA: You may be a pervert. I haven't gotten to that section yet.
Final Decision Thread 2013
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