[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Thanks! It's my first choice school and I'm about to die of glee.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

First acceptance! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I am losing my mind. My email server isn't working and I'm sitting here freaking out waiting to learn my fate.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Congrats! Which Canadian school, for those of us poor wretches applying to multiple international schools?

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Has anyone heard what their application numbers were? Last year I remember they had an insane number of applications and there was a landslide of rejections all at once.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I'm pretty confident, I feel like they wouldn't have offered to read over and advise on my separate funding application that's due next week and offer back up plans if they weren't going to say yes?

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Interview for first choice school done and I'll know either way by tomorrow morning.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Already figured it out? What made you lose confidence?

 

I'd run into my probable advisor earlier that day and it was INCREDIBLY strained and awkward, and on top of that I wasn't that great a fit/personalities hadn't really meshed well. I wasn't upset, mostly I was annoyed that the rejection had taken so long when there'd already been several rounds of them.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I know I got my Northwestern rejection on Valentine's Day last year while I was at CAA. I'd already figured it out but it was a good excuse to order a ridiculous quantity of pizza and veg out for the evening.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I think I'm going to, both for feedback and because I don't want to have eavesdroppers since I'm doing it in a spare office at work. I'm about to lose my cottonpickin mind with waiting- it's got to be some kind of psychological torture to schedule an interview 5 weeks in advance for 5 days before funding applications are due.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

http://gawker.com/parents-let-their-kid-crawl-all-over-3-million-sculptu-1510658139?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow  Let us all join at once in disdain for these parents, to distract ourselves from the waiting.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

When doing a skype interview, do you guys wear headphones to prevent feedback?

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

 

I completely agree. I refuse to even look at the non-Art History acceptances. It's not fair everyone gets their information first!! 

 

 

Jerks with their efficient adcomms.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

This slow trickle of acceptances on the results board is driving me absolutely crazy even though none of them are schools I've applied to.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Wheee I finally heard back from the person I'm interviewing with at my first school and apparently it's going to be very informal, so I don't have to worry about having my whole dissertation planned out in advance after all!

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Waitingggggggg ugh ugh ugh.

 

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Ugh I hate the words "Documents Pending." I know that the admin has to go in and change everyone's over manually but waaaaaah it's been a month and everything's already marked as waived or received, I just want to see the little notification saying "Application under consideration."

[2014 Applicants -- what is your concentration?]

Broadly 19th C, mostly sculpture but also works on paper and gender and queer studies.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

 

though I just spotted a teeny spelling error in my writing sample.

 

One of my letter writers just pointed out that an SOP for one school that had another school's name in it so I wouldn't worry too much!

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Man, I can barely put Ikea stuff together, but Hitler already had phones, and wireless communication technology via the radio. Give him a solid Nokia and who knows what his top military minds could come up with.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

If Hitler gets his hands on technology from the 21st century, it shifts the technological timeline in his favor and his scientists could reverse engineer stuff out of it. It'd be like giving M16s to the conquistadors.

 

I may or may not have 1) watched too much sci fi as a kid and 2) spent too much time thinking about this.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

 

Please. If STEM folks have a time machine, don't you think they're also be able to supply us with armor that could fend off less effective weaponry? We have bullet proof vests -- I'm pretty sure I'd be safe against quite a few things. And if we get hurt, just go back to the present to fix it. The wonders of modern medicine and all that

 

Ah but what about changing the timeline, or dying before you make it back? All kinds of butterfly effect stuff could happen. Also, free lunches- what if Hitler gets a cellphone?

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I have to say if they've got a time machine Grad school apps are low on my list of things to see.

 

 

I'd be too worried about a Michael Crichton sort of scenario to go back in time to see things. No one likes getting stabbed.

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

I got a birthday card from my admissions advisor (who is on my adcom). Weirdest thing EVER. Handwritten too.

 

 

Duuuuuude. Weird. Good sign maybe?

[2014 Applications... waiting room.]

Does anyone want to join me in harassing the science people to see if they have a time machine so we can speed this whole process up?