RubyBright

If I spent a proportionate amount of time proofreading/checking my class assignments, there wouldn't be any questions about my acceptances.

I sincerely hope they can't.

Unfortunately, I'm using a school email account for my official correspondence.

Has anyone else sent an email to a POI that they obsessively checked for mistakes, only to find the mistake immediately after hitting send?

zero motivation

carpenter bee

I haven't been accepted anywhere yet, but I can think of at least three people likely to give this response if I am.

I think my goldfish might have a better attention span than I do right now.

How would you know? I'm sure you completely, totally forgot.

robin nest

I wonder if I will ever again look forward to Monday as much as I do now. I hope not.

Arhodg, I don't think that normally happens (though I don't know for sure). It's more likely that we just don't have accepts/rejects posting to the results, by whatever fluke.

sun hat

her secret

pine tree

Congrats, Eidda!

Thankfully, you're not being accepted based on your grasp of traditional womanhood... If you were, you'd be out of luck, since women didn't used to be very welcome in upper academia!

maple tree

Definitely the, "where are you going next year?" part; and then they rarely seem to understand why you don't know yet. As for your significant other... heh.

magnetic poles

I'm planning to send handwritten thank you notes as soon as I know what's what with acceptances and rejections. I worried about waiting that long, but I finally decided that it would let me write a much more meaningful message.

I completely agree with Angua. Definitely email the first professor and thank him for his time and consideration - if you manage to end up in the second lab, you don't want to alienate professors in the department before you even get there!

Often. Many schools have an earlier PhD deadline than MA, so they hit those applications first.

round brush

I agree with Sansao. In addition, I'm not sure your application would even need a final review if you were about to be rejected. It's more likely that they're just double-checking you meet university-wide requirements.