KeelyMK

Sleepinglessons do you know where you want to choose?

Funding info is in!! Omg I got an AMAZING package I'm over the moon about it! Lol. Hope you guys made out well too

Yay! Yeah I heard back about fellowship from UCLA today finally, so hopefully Berkeley's is as much or even more.... *shakes dollar signs out of eyes*. I'm really looking forward to meeting all of you soon. I had a talk with one of my fav professors Dan Blanton just now and he really makes me excited about maybe staying. Sigh, decisions.

I'll post here so as not to start a new thread. I'm coming down for visiting days Fri 3/8 - Tues 3/13. I'm getting a nice hotel on Saturday night with the money UCLA is paying for the visit, so if you're going to be in town that night any would like to come to the hotel party, PM me

Sam Rifkin said "end of the month" (Feb)so hopefully then :/ so anxious lol.

My professors who have been on adcomms said that the GRE is really not an important factor at all and certainly not a determining one. They said that the only reason for requiring it is that the schools get some sort of backend money from ETS. If the rest of your app checks out, even an an aberrantly low score should not put you out of the running - at least at the places I asked about and applied to. I scored in the 34th percentile :/

Woohoo Proflorax!!! All of California is doing the Harlem Shake in your honor. I wish I had a camera.

Yeah it's definitely true that what we've been talking about is prescriptive linguistics rather than descriptive anyway, which is just scientifically improper. There is no such thing as "grammatically correct" and the fact that we fight against the use of "they" strongly suggests that it's the more natural default pronoun in English. In the academic speech community, maybe "they" is going through its own ugly pubesent phase until it is eventually accepted for the awkward thing it is. Or it's also entirely plausible that we'll dump it and come up with something new and more efficient. Growing up I remember it was "incorrect" to use contractions, or to split a phrase with an m-dash or end a sentence with a preposition, but (I think partly due to the way internet and texting has pushed writing to "sound" more conversational) those things are both encouraged now if it makes the paper flow better. Que sera, sera.

out of upvotes but I've always done this and always will.

exactly. I usually wake up early and do all my homework in the morning so when I get home at like 6 I can just cozy up and get ready for bed lol.

I'm one of the oldest undergrads at school :/ I've really been looking forward to getting into grad school so that I don't feel so awkward and can be around more people closer to my age, even if they are way further along in their studies. So yay for 27. (my 28th birthday is also the last day of undergrad AND the day the new Star Trek comes out. I die.)

Woohoo congrats to the latest round of victors

lol. When I talked to one of my profs about getting in the other day I was like, "I'm just so afraid that one day they're going to discover me - everyone is going to find out I'm just a charlatan who dresses up words all pretty for money" etc And he's like, "yeah, we're always afraid of being found out too. That feeling never goes away". oh, great. good to know

omg. 8bit little man doing the charleston on top of a garden fountain just made my days. it made all of the days.

Can I ask why you think it sucks? Just genuinely curious and a little nervous now, because I've been thinking it was going to be fun and honestly not as difficult as people make it out to be. I'm coming straight from undergrad, and transferring to university has been a cake walk compared to community college while working full-time at backbreaking jobs from construction to retail to funeral director for <10/hr. Now I think of school AS my job (even though I still work part time), and it's ridiculous how easy the job has been. Obviously grad school is going to be much more challenging, but they're actually *paying* me to do it? I can't believe it. And paying me more than I've ever made at a job before at that, all just to read and write? Seems like a dream to me, or an over-the-top practical joke.

same.

my standard: venti black iced coffee, no sweetener, no room please. Just a big black coffee. That's all, thanks. (on a perhaps-abstractly-similar note, I've been nicknamed Lady Hemingway by 2 different friends unbeknownst to one another) Haven't read Absolom, but I'll def get on it. Current: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff Also: writing thesis on In Parenthesis, by David Jones - a poet who TS Eliot counted as one of only 4 important modern poets, along with Joyce, Pound, and himself. (maybe this says more about Eliot than it does of Jones, but Jones still should and *will* be in the canon eventually) Cheers.

. Really? Children's lit and modernism *totally* converge on the fronts of nonsense and experimental/invented language, which I gathered to be a pretty hot topic right now. I'm sorry he/she didn't feel that way, but I wouldn't be discouraged if it's a topic you're passionate about. From all the recent courses I see posted that have to do with children's lit (Seuss, HP, kid detective fiction) taught by very respected faculty, it seems like an up-and-coming field that if you examined/presented in an innovative way would be a great career move.

Classic acceptance freakout, bfat! Huge congrats!

yay it will be fun to meet you both! Good luck on your future decision-making, jazzy. you have some AMAZING choices already and more to come I'm sure.

of course! I'm so excited. Will I see you there?

LA. Combination of empirical and imaginary factors lol. Pretty much all of my friends are down there as well as the jobs I'd like to have (TV/entertainment related) so it's going to just make me a happier person all around, which in turn will make me a better scholar. To experimentally test the validity of my choice, I actually flipped a coin (heads: LA, tails: Berkeley) and it landed on tails - which wasn't the variable I was testing. The important part was that as soon as it landed on tails, my immediate thought wasn't "ok fine", it was "best 2 out of 3". Heart wins

Congrats to all the recent acceptances! If Ice Cube were on this forum, he'd say it was a good day.

I made my unofficial decision today. I'll have to sort out the details later, but my brain feels so much better already!