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Hi! I will soon be moving to Greensboro, North Carolina...I can't find very much information about the city and surrounding areas, especially things that grad students are concerned with. Anyone know of places that I should avoid (ie: loud, too many undergrads, unsafe, etc)? Or, conversely, anyone know of any great areas or apartments? I just need a place that is spacious and calm (unlike where I am now!) Cheap doesn't hurt either! Thanks in advance!

After seeing two flame wars this week in this forum, I decided to ask the interwebs about the person holding the lighter in both cases.
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Methinks your department chair gave you shitty advice. Thirty programs? No way. I think 10-12 is a reasonable amount. Then again, I'm only applying to 7-8 programs, but that's strictly for financial reasons.

Preparing for Fall 2013 damn near killed me. I wish you all the best at any rate! 

MY HUSBAND AND I WERE BOTH JUST ACCEPTED TO LSU WITH FULL FUNDING!!! I am BEYOND happy!!! We didn't think we would get in anywhere together!!!!!

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

Woooo! Got an email from Texas A&M. Still on the waiting list for PhD, but in for sure as MA. Funding info forthcoming.

In at Georgetown as well! Now waiting to hear about funding...

In at Georgetown!  The email said I'm a "strong candidate" for funding, but those offers won't go out until next week at the earliest.

Congrats recent admits! I can't believe it is March!

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

Woah. Just got admitted to Northeastern. Wow. Don't know what to say. 

This makes me very happy. I see all these people who are going to be younger than me WHEN THEY GRADUATE and I get all sad.

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? 

Right up until you made this post and spoiled the surprise... now, alas, they'll have all cleared out.

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? 

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? 

Congrats bluecheese! That's awesome!

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW that's amazing!!

Just accepted at Brown!!!!!!

Yeah, oof. I'm sorry, guys, but gradcafe 2013 crew is a complete shitshow. Some of you are cool. I hope your cohorts are cool. 

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"?