not ready for prime-time

Made it official last week: I will be attending the University of Kansas for my MA. Is it weird that after all the e-mails sent and the websites checked off the decision still didn't actually feel final until I filled out the Google doc? Regardless, congrats to those who have made their decision and good luck to those still pondering!

Got Kansas and Mizzou MA packages up. Not sure if KU's PhD funding is any different but I get the feeling it isn't.

Or remote locations. The Appalachian mountains in NC have the best breweries in the state (opinion) so I think the connection here is: Locations in which people spend an inordinate amount of time indoors either due to inclement weather or boredom are best for brewing (and then enjoying) beer. Now that we've heard from the Northeast, Oregon, Colorado, California, Michigan, and NC, are we missing any? Any good brewing going on in Austin? The Southwest?

Yes. It's high time we had a beer symposium. I'd say since so many of our literary heroes (both real and fictional) drank themselves to death we should do this in their honor. Hemingway Hefe-weisen anyone? How about a Beckett Bock? Yoknapatawpha IPA?

I'm in the 29-going-to-be-30-when-I-start brigade. I'm not sure whether or not there's age discrimination in this process but one of my recommenders from my MDiv program did ask how old I was and hinted that ad comms do take that into consideration. I inquired further and she said she had heard of some programs who have an unspoken, magic age for applying. Too young and you're seen as too immature, too old and you're set in your academic ways. I haven't experienced this or heard anything like it so hopefully that's just a vicious rumor. On another (potentially more important) note, should we start a separate Star Trek poll? I vote TNG.

Now we just have to wait on the folks heading to Boulder and the ones from the Pacific NW to join the conversation and we can have an all-out nation-wide Brew-off!

And congratulations to all the new acceptances and wait lists today!

Totally concur with this. Just moved away from NC after 7 years and I am definitely missing the wide array of excellent choices around the state! (As a midwesterner at heart, though, the east coast BBQ does leave something to be desired...just saying.)

Can't. Stop. Gatsbying...

Had to travel for work over the weekend so I couldn't post but I'm in at KU! I'm dedicating this week to freaking out before beginning the task of deciding whether I should commute to the supposedly "higher" ranked school that's 2 hours away or the better fit that's 45 min. After getting shutout a couple of years ago I'm relishing having to make these decisions!

I applied for the MA and I didn't even get word that I was in until yesterday so they're definitely staggering things a little.

Congrats!

Crickets for me. That can't be a good sign...anyone else?

Mostly 20th Century American Lit with some Southern studies flavor thrown in. Faulkner, Hemingway, Updike, O'Connor, Vonnegut, the usuals suspects. And since I'm coming from an MDiv program I definitely always look for ways to add a little religion and literature to the mix! When I looked at the board today and saw a couple of KU English posts up there my heart almost stopped - but then I saw the Creative Writing emphasis and I relaxed again. The wait is definitely getting to me!

Here you go Trip - this is just a Tribute: