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Ozymandias Melancholia

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  1. Turned down PhD offers from IU-Bloomington and Boston University. Also took myself off the waitlist for Boston College's PhD program. Hope that helps!
  2. I attended last week and don't mind filling you in. PM me.
  3. While I generally agree with Swagato's response, there are, no doubt, exceptions. For instance, I went to small, no-name private university, and I (somehow) managed to get accepted into Brown. Not to mention I also had relatively low GRE scores.*shrugs shoulders*
  4. I imagine so. UChicago is sending out rejections/MAPH acceptances right now. Well, at least to me they did!
  5. It varies from school and surely depends on how much extra money the department is willing to expend. For instance, Brown pays for two nights at a nearby hotel and reimburses a portion of your transportation costs, which is determined by how many students attend.
  6. Thanks for the information! I assume, unfortunately, that they'll be rejections/acceptances to their MAPH program :/.
  7. EVERYONE, LIL JON DID AN AMA RIGHT NOW AND IT'S AMAZING. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1yxsgs/this_is_lil_jon_ama/
  8. Unfortunately 512 doesn't produce bottles or cans, only kegs. :/
  9. Currently, I've been really into St. Vincent's new album. I've also been revisiting some old Kanye, circa Late Registration, which is almost flawless.
  10. Thanks! Yeah, both caught me super off guard. I had just sat down at a bar to read when Indiana called.
  11. In at University of Indiana-Bloomington. They're shooting for a cohort of 10.
  12. In at Boston University! I just had the most pleasant phone call with the DGS. They're accepting 5, fully-funded candidates this year. Wait list notifications will be sent out within the next few days.
  13. Your research interests sound equally fascinating! The topic of your writing sample actually reminds me of a paper I wrote about the destabilization of identity and personality as precipitated by disparate, contradicting "voices" within the works of Byron and Wordsworth. While I didn't necessary incorporate Derrida into my discussion, but rather Bakhtin, I was certainly looking (and thinking) in the direction of deconstruction. My writing sample considered the indeterminate status of selfhood in Keats's poetry and letters, and how this complicates affect's transportation or the body's capacity to register an emotional experience. I also investigated Keats's anatomical and surgical training at Guy's Hospital, with a special emphasis on the space of the anatomy theater as an instantiation of the internal, presence/absence divide. It does seem we both represent this trend. What I find especially invigorating about current Romantic scholarship is how we don't necessarily dismiss nor ignore these "traditional theories," but rather re-contextualize them and re-interpret them based on these new theoretical avenues. For instance, Romanticists with a science bent are re-considering how the imagination was empirically understood within the various scientific disciplines in the 19th century to develop a more nuanced understanding of this mental capacity.
  14. Following the trend of threads dedicated to discussing shared areas of interest, I thought Romanticism deserved some representation! Discuss your interest/focus within this period, certain writers, theoretical trends, favorite scholars, anything! My current research interests involve the intersection of Romantic culture and the history of science, alongside recent theories of affect and philosophy of emotions.
  15. While this resolution applies to my pre-graduate school life, it nonetheless serves to better my time (and health) during my studies: I'm quitting smoking. Yikes.
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