happygreengrass

Oooh, I missed a lot of happy dances in the past week (I have the teacher plague). Congrats to all the new acceptances!!!!

I am mentally tossing goodness in all directions

You are not alone in hollering madly; I danced up and down in a room that's essentially made of windows in the middle of a teaching day. Congratulations!!!!!!!!

Definitely! I'd be so excited to chat with/meet other gradcafe folks!

Thanks for your congratulations :-) I will be rooting for everyone still waiting for answers!!!

Hey there, I'm a current and future UB student, I'd be happy to do so if it's permissible (I haven't copied from the special collection, so I don't know how it's regulated). I should be up there in a week or so (I'm currently student teaching and don't go often), so PM me what you want and I'll try to snag you a photocopy.

I can't believe it; I was sure I was out of the running, but I just received my acceptance to UB. I want to jump up and down and blather ecstatically. I feel like the little engine that could. I've lost my command of the English language.

I'm assuming rejection from Buffalo, and I feel sort of like I'm going through the stages of grief: denial, anger, depression. I know it's incredibly silly; what did I expect on my first try with only one school?!?! I just don't know of anything other than scholarship that I love and do well that also leads to (miniscule) paychecks. Anyone else having a preemptive wallow?

Eep. Anyone else feeling irrationally impatient since we passed the 1st of February? I keep looking at the previous year's dates and wondering why there's so little activity right now. Then I fantasize about careers of academic hotness, and realistic alternatives like working at a used bookstore for $8 an hour. The inside of my brain looks like an indie web comic.

Maybe if I did this, I would feel better... and maybe not.

I'm running the probabilities (not my strong suit) as I see UB acceptances roll in...historically, it looks as though they send them out mostly in the first week of February, followed by a string of rejections and an occasional March or April in off the waitlist. So, it seems likely that if I haven't heard by the end of next week, I should be doing some drinking and banging my head on my desk. But...not until then...right?....right???

I took symbolic logic as a filler math course in undergraduate, and adored it. I was embarrassingly eager; apparently reading and arguing philosophy conditioned me to add so many qualifiers that most everything I said in class proved out as true. I say embarrassing because young-twenties-me was clueless to the fact that having your argument assigned as homework (work out a proof) is NOT a good way to make friends. *sigh* *dreams a little about patrons and professional philosophizing from some European hermitage, then goes back to refreshing the application status webpage*

Snow Crash would be fun to write a paper on! I fit Atwood's Oryx and Crake into my thesis, but the weird mythos/tech/environmental crossover in Snow Crash is super fun. "The deliverator is a type A driver with rabies"

Ooh...that's right up my alley! I do ecocritical theorizing/analysis of speculative fiction (particularly utopias and heterotopias). My writing sample for my MA application was on posthumanism, and my thesis was on...well...basically your area of interest. You should also go to Buffalo, and we can all have grad-student play dates. There are a couple of professors at UB who are fab for ecocrit...so excited/nerve-racked!!!

Rochester is only too far right now because my daughter is 11, and it's about 75 minutes. If I don't get in this year, I may apply to Rochester next year; they have a few speculative fiction people too (among them someone who specializes in Samuel Delany, who I adore...), which would be great fun! Yes let's both! We can rant about Donna Haraway (except the companion species title, too much saliva for me) and Catherine Hayles together It's all settled then; someone just needs to inform the admissions committee.