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Who's the American that got into U of T's program? Anybody?

I'm moving into student housing and they'll want to meet all my professors. My mother wanted to come on the interview if I'd had an in-person one.

My parents want to come with me to dorm move in. I am going to be 27. Help.

I was told last year that all decisions had to be made by April 15th and that this has to do with the accreditation boards (or something like that). There are probably exceptions made but that seems to be fairly across-the-board.

Anyone know what's going on with Yale?

She says, and then finds the U of T waitlisted person on the results board: WHO GOT WAITLISTED FOR PHD? WHAT'S YOUR STORY?

Going back the past five years, U of T is all over the place on their notifications. Some years it's hella early and the PhDs hear first and other years it's hella late and the MAs hear first and the rejections don't go to the waitlist until May 29 (cough last year cough). It does make me feel better about not having heard yet though.

PoopCat I have to say that your name pleases me immensely, because at heart I am, have always been, and will always be a five year old.

Anybody heard from U of T's PhD program? Lucky MAs, BAH.

I just go up to them afterwards and say HI IM LIZZIE BORDEN AND I REALLY LOVED YOUR PAPER and then that usually starts it. Even if it's just a really brief interaction it's something. They're used to it, especially if they're super important or have been around for a long time (this is also what I do when speaking to musicians or performers or whatever, most people like compliments).

Ugh double posts, doing this on my phone is a pain and I can't delete.

I don't think it does delay necessarily because it happens this weekend pretty much every year and the adcomms know that.

It was exhausting this year. I live in Chicago so I worked as a projectionist and they covered my conference fees and paid me for my time, so if it's ever a convenient city for you I recommend that as a way to go for cheap. A lot of times they'll also offer some kind of funding for grad students to go especially if you're presenting. I couldn't have gone this year or last year if I hadn't worked at it for the fee waiver as It were, and the hundred bucks or so they pay at least covers food and books at the fair. Ugh typos freaking iPhone

So I, and I assume other people, spent a lot of time at CAA gladhanding and let's be honest brown nosing people whose papers were presented or chaired panels or who are generally Very Important Nerds. What is protocol for emailing them post-conference to reinforce your name in their mind or ask further questions? Does anyone else do this? I'm pretty proud of the sheer number of people I managed to meet and there are a few I want to cultivate further. A few also have given me new suggestions and validation and I want to thank them slash follow up on them- but also don't want to come across as a total eager beaver creep stalker groupie.

CAA has been such a good distraction from all of this- I've been so busy fangirling at scholars and ~networking that I've barely had a chance to stress about the next wave of decisions. That said, Yale is end of next week, early week after, according to the last few years, so goodie on waiting for that.

I got 17th percentile on my quant and as far as I know it's never been a problem- two of my schools didn't even ask for GRE scores.

It was the end of March and there hadn't been any rejections at all so I emailed just to get it over with. She was super nice about it, though.

Last year when I emailed someone to ask what was up, I got a very nice personal rejection from my POI...

Oh man, I made my mother email all our relatives when I got my first admit, so don't feel bad! We understand here!

Amen amen amen. I keep getting in the same fights but Medusa and Persephone and their post-classical interpretations in art are one of my areas of interest and it makes me FUME as a feminist to see them used as symbols based on utter falsehoods.

As long as you don't run the blog that keeps perpetuating the bullpucky revisionist versions of Medusa and Persephone, we're square, mon cher.

MedPOC has her share of significant problems, largely that she consistently applies current American race relations to 1) time periods she hasn't studied 2) time periods that aren't now in America, and also in that she frequently makes sweeping statements and refuses to make corrections when glaring, basic errors are pointed out by people whose specialties she's butting into, but I'm with you on the fact that in theory her tumblr at least illuminates the need for better scholarship (I'm like 90% sure it's a woman but correct me if I'm wrong). You touch on an incredibly important point here, m-ttl, about the "universal" or default being white and male. It's especially dangerous to maintain this attitude unconsciously while actively proclaiming an adherence to principles of diversity, because if the people making grand statements about inclusivity and the need for open dialogues and learning are still unwilling to recognize their internalized aggressions, they're not going to actually make any adjustments to their behaviour and the cycle will continue.

I'm really hungry so for a second I read Bellini as Blini and wondered why they were talking about pancakes. So if that's Harvard starting then, one hopes we might start hearing about Yale soonish.

Is anyone going to CAA this year?

Thanks, buddy! The big question now is funding because those decisions don't come down until later, aaaaaaaaaaaah. FINGERS CROSSED FOR YOU, TOO!