DontHate

Part of my writing sample explains where this expression comes from. The shm- prefix in yiddish means "old fart"

I can offer a small sliver of insider info on my school (which will remain nameless): They have free laundry on campus. There is a lot of department in-fighting. If you don't get in, it may be because one member of the adcomm liked your app a little TOO much, therefore engendering hatred for you among his or her adversaries. That's all I've got.

I wish I weren't a total loser, and I didn't include all those booger-flavored scratch-and-sniff cards in all my apps. Also I wish I weren't so ugly!

That list covers almost everything important in English lit. --- or should I say, the most widely studied and canonical things in English lit.

I'm teaching the world to sing (and buying them all a coke)

I've read a few of the stories as the appeared in magazines, I personally prefer the old George Saunders. But any George Saunders is still excellent.

What schools are you waiting on?

my goodness that's a lot of marriage!

haha her last name is doody

I would like to 1. contest the truthiness of this statement (judging from the time you spend on this forum, I bet you feel stressed about the application process quite often, and 2. wonder about some other thinks I won't mention here.

Monogamy by Adam Phillips, In Praise of Athletic Beauty by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, L'Erotisme by Georges Bataille, The correspondence of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann For class: What Is Pastoralism?, a bunch of pastoral stuff, a bunch of Kafka, and Burning Darkness (an anthology of film criticism)

On the topic of things I hate: I HATE analytic philosophy. ICK

Should just be another week or two before the rest of the UCs start notifying...

Hey Octavia Butler Fan, I would suggest you take that department up on their offer. If your letter writers have already submitted letters for you, it would be next to no effort for them to submit more for you. DOOO IT!

You misread me: I'm all for disagreement. Some people on here don't seem able to tolerate a debate.

De nada. I'm here to help!

I also gotta say that I think it's ridiculous how you guys pile onto a person you don't agree with, as if it's totally abnormal for people to disagree. Academia is all about disagreement and debate! It's better to defend your opinion, instead of attacking another person for having a different one. And I have to say that if one's goal is to diminish anxiety, it does seem rather bad advice to recommend a repetitive, compulsive anxious behavior. Meditation and distraction seem more productive to that end. I'd like to add that I find it distracting (and thus relaxing) to be on gradcafe. This might partly be because my field is so different from English. Listening to you guys kvetch somehow makes me feel better. Also I rarely talk about admissions on here, it seems. Mostly about random other stuff.

Cuz poetry is just another word for alliteration?

I'm offended by your homo-normativity

I've heard mixed things about interdisciplinary degrees.

Shit's important to me! I want to be in academia for the long-haul, not just for 5-7 yrs. It has nothing to do with capitalism, it has to do with my life goals.

Does OSU publish stats about the job outcomes from that program? I'd like to look at them.

Congrats! What is "Comparative Studies"? And also (since hopefully you will be making a decision between this and other acceptances) what kind of hiring prospects do you have with a Comparative Studies PhD?

brofisting doesn't sound very good no matter what the scenario in which it's used.