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  1. Does anyone know anything about the "alt/" conference that they're holding this month? They mention that it would a good time to go visit.
  2. Does anyone have some good insider scoop on Northeastern? I just got in and feel like they'd be a good fit for me. Anyone had experience with their program/department?
  3. Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say.
  4. Yeah. I hate this waiting game. Turns out, people don't buy you pity drinks until you've actually been rejected.
  5. This is question for all of the people who've been through the whole application process before. Maybe this is a stupid question, but what do you think the odds are that my rejection from Brown was just a clever ruse? Do you think it's possible that the entire English department is gathering at my apartment right now for a surprise welcome party? Maybe they'll all be wearing little hats and throw streamers at me when I walk in the door, right? Do you think that's possible, or do you think that all of the surprise welcome parties have gone out for the year?
  6. Alright!!! I finally heard from a school! A rejection from Brown! Huzzah!
  7. Here are some other things we could fight about: Is the study of literature at risk of being consumed by an ever expanding definition of Cultural Studies? What would Roland Barthes think of 50 Shades of Gray? Do you think he would wink and use the term "jouissance" when describing it? Who has the most embarassing story about misprouncing Derrida's name? Hypertext fiction. Is it likely to become relevent? Who loves Oxford Comma's more than me? Should we regard Dixie Flatline's post death computer reemergance in "Neuromancer" as a being that has innate humanity? Should we care if Case releases him? Does it matter? Where did Huck Finn get that straw hat? Why is it that I always see "Kiss of the Spider Woman" on street corners where people are giving away books? Don't you think that Brecht would hate the fact that people take off their hats when they come to see his plays? Who was taller H.L. Mencken or Mr. Ed? What would happen if H.D. and R.L. Stein got together? Could Proust write a sentence so long that even he couldn't read it? Why isn't there a super hero called "Mr. Subaltern"?
  8. I think the direction this thread has taken proves that we're all ready for the world of academia.
  9. So, this is probably not going to sound very helpful, but I think the intellectual caliber of an MA is really what you make of it. An MA is a good time to start asking more complex questions and forming what you think is your specific point of view on literature. The classes that you take will allow you to really begin to enter into a critical dialogue with the texts that goes beyond what you did in your B.A. Getting an MA is really the thing to do if you know your passionate about doing this stuff, but your not quite sure specifically the specifics of that passion. You may enter the M.A. and get really amped up about Milton, or the Frankfurt School, or Science Fiction, or Cultural Studies, but through your classes you'll figure out what it is about these things that interests you and why. These things may change for you, but thats ok. You also start to figure out how you might be able to start contributing to the field. I say that it's really what you make of it because at my MA program, we had a mixture of people who were interested in using the MA as a step to a PHD, teachers who were looking to get a pay bump, and others who didn't really know what they were doing. The people who grew the most were the people who took the most risks and asked the most questions. They were the people who totally through themselves into classes and tried to figure out how each class somehow related to another.
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