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    Loric got a reaction from FeelGoodDoGood in Mentioning chronic illness/a peer connection in SOP?   
    You do realize for something to be a disability it has to disable you, right?
     
    As in, "illness i got over and am fine now" or "illness that i can live with and function at a totally normal level with treatment" is not even in the same league as a disability.
     
    Saying it's unfortunate that your life wasn't permanently changed to make you disabled - as in unable to function normally on a continuing and on going basis - is the epitome of everything that's wrong with the mindset this place fosters.
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    Loric got a reaction from Coaster in The sub-3.0 GPAs ACCEPTANCE thread   
    Just a note about SOP - it only helps if they read it. It can be one of the last things they do, if at all, at some programs.
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    Loric got a reaction from jjb919 in Philosophy Admissions are NOT random!   
    It's really not even that complicated..
     
    See? See?!?! Not everyone is "the best" - I wonder what "fit" you all would have said he was perfect for..
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    Loric got a reaction from jjb919 in Philosophy Admissions are NOT random!   
    You don't determine fit. The adcom does. Jeeze there's so much arrogance - "it's unknowable" oh but.. "we know this.."
     
    Make up your convoluted minds.
     
    Back to the skeleton: I didn't know about the skeleton bit. I was clever - I ASKED. I found out. I was even more clever and asked to be given a chance to show them my skeleton sketching abilities. If I had done nothing, not asked, not requested, not probed, not established a rapport with my admissions adviser.. why.. none of that would have happened and I would have likely been flat out rejected for my ignorance of the "skeleton criteria."
     
    But here we have a bunch of people assuming a bunch of things and saying it's all out of their hands in stead of even trying to do anything about it. Bunch of fatalist .. well, think consonance to finish that phrase. ("rhymes with mucktards").
     
    They've tested no theories, attempted nothing, tried no other means.. just assumed.. assumed.. assumed.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Ugh.. Just stop talking until you take a theater history class or at least google it.
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    Loric got a reaction from RockSniffer in The sub-3.0 GPAs ACCEPTANCE thread   
    Just a note about SOP - it only helps if they read it. It can be one of the last things they do, if at all, at some programs.
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    Loric got a reaction from zelliott in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Well that's part of the whole point of why I mentioned this.. You're going to run into very well educated people who might not share your beleifs, or rather, become very offended when you offhandedly remark about something that is not your area of expertise.
     
    Same SOP in front of a literature prof.. probably ok.. if it passes the theater history or script analysis professor (who are often recruited to read applications of the english dept, btw) you're going to royally piss them off.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    The Kings Men wrote/published the first folio. Otherwise all there was were the foul papers which were used to produce the cue scripting.
     
    What you read today as "Shakespeare" in literature is a complete fabrication. No such written thing existed when the plays were performed.. and they were created to be performed. Acting as if the literary analysis divorced from the performance has any validity is just academic masturbation.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'll hand you tubes of paint.
     
    Now go on, tell me how you know ALL ABOUT Picasso and Monet and Manet.
     
    C'mon, from the tubes of paint. Or better yet, an account of seeing their paintings in a museum from several centuries ago that tries to explain the experience to you. C'mon, tell me how you're an expert.
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    Loric got a reaction from menty in How Are You Coping With The Torture Of Waiting???   
    I think people drawn to the gradcafe are generally the more "test focused" individuals. They ended up here because they were studying for the 'test' of admission.
     
    The people who don't bother to study, have "ok" test scores, and may or may not end up in your next cohort are not here because they inherently don't have quite that many F's to give.
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    Loric got a reaction from Horb in Should I take the GRE a sixth time?   
    I fail to see how a degree that let you make all your decisions at home at your own pace while hiding under a security blanket, sipping herbal tea, and sniffing sachets of lavender benefitted you at all in becoming a professional of anything.
     
    Maybe a professional cat hoarder.
     
    In the other thread people are saying the idea of being medicated to get past the stress/anxiety isn't right. Well then what is? Either it's clinical and needs treatments or someone is just whining an awful lot over something they need to cowboy up and get over.
     
    The inability to get over it says, to me, that you don't have what it takes to make it in grad school.
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    Loric got a reaction from Horb in Should I take the GRE a sixth time?   
    You are presented with a task.
     
    There are many ways to complete the task, but your final score of how "well" you did the task is going to determine your future options. You know how the result will be measured and you know the factors that play into the final grade.
     
    If your undergraduate program did not prepare you well to deal with these sorts of situations and how to succeed at them, then it failed you.
     
    If you cannot "pass" the GRE then I do worry about how you're going to handle graduate school. If has nothing to do with the content of the test. It has everything to do with an apparent inability to pass this particular test despite knowing it was coming for literally years.
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    Loric got a reaction from Horb in Should I take the GRE a sixth time?   
    Most people's GPA's and GRE's line up...
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    Loric got a reaction from Horb in Should I take the GRE a sixth time?   
    Is your high GPA at a big 10 enough to offset a poor showing on the GRE though..?
     
    If your goal was graduate study - or something beyond which requires graduate study - then your program and school failed you by not preparing you properly for what is a standard test expected of most students.
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    Loric got a reaction from gr8pumpkin in If I don't get accepted anywhere, I think I'll...   
    Get a rescue. That's how I got my cat, adopted after leaving my first grad school.
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    Loric got a reaction from themmases in hating grad school   
    Couple notes (mainly for the peanut gallery)..
     
    What a school advertises and promises can be vastly different from what actually happens. This includes funding and class availability and general "not being a total jerk" when it comes to advisers.
     
    I had an adviser who expected me to work until 3am on a project in his garage at his condo across town despite it being against every rule and regulation at my school (not to work past 11pm, not to work off site and in particular not at the faculty's home). Sometimes they are just raging pricks.
     
    A lot of this website is about wanting to get in, so if there's little bits of information that show up which clearly show that getting in is not a picnic, that it's not just hard classes but possibly impossible people and expectations, unfair treatment, and sometimes rampant abuse of the student and broken rules.. well.. people dreaming to get in don't want to see that and react adversely to the message and messenger.
     
    "I wouldn't quit."
     
    Yes you would, you'd quit when your adviser began to sexually harass you. You'd quit when arguments turned to shouting and then turned to throwing things. You'd quit when your health began to fail from stress. You'd quit when the faculty chose to ignore safety protocols and put your life in danger. You'd quit when ethics were treated like obstacles to funding. You'd quit when you were told to pass a student in your class, despite them obviously failing, because they were related to the dean.
     
    Sometimes.. no, often, life is not a cakewalk served up on a silver spoon. People do tend to suck and it's only a matter or making the best of what crap you're presented with - and sometimes the "best" is to leave.
     
    Let me know how confident you are that little problems can be glossed over and people are just too sensitive when you're read the riot act for being late because you were re-ended in route while the golden boy struts in even later than you (in the middle of your chewing out) and is praised for the tie he chose to wear.
     
    These things have not all happened to me (thank god) but they have happened to people in graduate school.
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    Loric got a reaction from DropTheBase in hating grad school   
    Couple notes (mainly for the peanut gallery)..
     
    What a school advertises and promises can be vastly different from what actually happens. This includes funding and class availability and general "not being a total jerk" when it comes to advisers.
     
    I had an adviser who expected me to work until 3am on a project in his garage at his condo across town despite it being against every rule and regulation at my school (not to work past 11pm, not to work off site and in particular not at the faculty's home). Sometimes they are just raging pricks.
     
    A lot of this website is about wanting to get in, so if there's little bits of information that show up which clearly show that getting in is not a picnic, that it's not just hard classes but possibly impossible people and expectations, unfair treatment, and sometimes rampant abuse of the student and broken rules.. well.. people dreaming to get in don't want to see that and react adversely to the message and messenger.
     
    "I wouldn't quit."
     
    Yes you would, you'd quit when your adviser began to sexually harass you. You'd quit when arguments turned to shouting and then turned to throwing things. You'd quit when your health began to fail from stress. You'd quit when the faculty chose to ignore safety protocols and put your life in danger. You'd quit when ethics were treated like obstacles to funding. You'd quit when you were told to pass a student in your class, despite them obviously failing, because they were related to the dean.
     
    Sometimes.. no, often, life is not a cakewalk served up on a silver spoon. People do tend to suck and it's only a matter or making the best of what crap you're presented with - and sometimes the "best" is to leave.
     
    Let me know how confident you are that little problems can be glossed over and people are just too sensitive when you're read the riot act for being late because you were re-ended in route while the golden boy struts in even later than you (in the middle of your chewing out) and is praised for the tie he chose to wear.
     
    These things have not all happened to me (thank god) but they have happened to people in graduate school.
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    Loric got a reaction from Pretty_Penny in hating grad school   
    Couple notes (mainly for the peanut gallery)..
     
    What a school advertises and promises can be vastly different from what actually happens. This includes funding and class availability and general "not being a total jerk" when it comes to advisers.
     
    I had an adviser who expected me to work until 3am on a project in his garage at his condo across town despite it being against every rule and regulation at my school (not to work past 11pm, not to work off site and in particular not at the faculty's home). Sometimes they are just raging pricks.
     
    A lot of this website is about wanting to get in, so if there's little bits of information that show up which clearly show that getting in is not a picnic, that it's not just hard classes but possibly impossible people and expectations, unfair treatment, and sometimes rampant abuse of the student and broken rules.. well.. people dreaming to get in don't want to see that and react adversely to the message and messenger.
     
    "I wouldn't quit."
     
    Yes you would, you'd quit when your adviser began to sexually harass you. You'd quit when arguments turned to shouting and then turned to throwing things. You'd quit when your health began to fail from stress. You'd quit when the faculty chose to ignore safety protocols and put your life in danger. You'd quit when ethics were treated like obstacles to funding. You'd quit when you were told to pass a student in your class, despite them obviously failing, because they were related to the dean.
     
    Sometimes.. no, often, life is not a cakewalk served up on a silver spoon. People do tend to suck and it's only a matter or making the best of what crap you're presented with - and sometimes the "best" is to leave.
     
    Let me know how confident you are that little problems can be glossed over and people are just too sensitive when you're read the riot act for being late because you were re-ended in route while the golden boy struts in even later than you (in the middle of your chewing out) and is praised for the tie he chose to wear.
     
    These things have not all happened to me (thank god) but they have happened to people in graduate school.
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    Loric got a reaction from gellert in About gossiping   
    Not to mention EVERYONE thinks their coworkers are ruining their day at any given moment. Familiarity breeds contempt.
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    Loric got a reaction from vityaz in The sub-3.0 GPAs ACCEPTANCE thread   
    Just a note about SOP - it only helps if they read it. It can be one of the last things they do, if at all, at some programs.
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    Loric got a reaction from Cryolite in Finding a husband in graduate school.   
    If I wanted to call you a hobag I would. Directly, in front if your family, pastor, employer, first love and God himself. I do indeed lack that level of qualm and restraint.

    Don't aggrandize yourself thinking i've put that much effort into thinking up ways to backhanded insult you on the sly. If I wanted to insult, you'd know it.
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    Loric got a reaction from Cryolite in Will I get SHUT OUT of admissions?!   
    Your belief that it's "random" is stupid. I'm anticipating watching your rejection list grow.
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    Loric got a reaction from Cryolite in Philosophy Admissions are NOT random!   
    Seriously, why persist in the delusion that a failure to gain acceptance into a Philosophy program is in no way a reflection of yourself and your ability to put out a good application?
     
    Admissions are not random. They do not flip coins. They judge people and their applications based on whatever criteria they feel like, and yes, to an extent you cannot control that criteria, but being prepared and having a "good" application is a far cry from sitting around saying it's all "random" and that you'd statistically not be accepted (hello, they chose SOME people who weren't you, so obviously it's possible.)
     
    I'm not one to think not getting in makes you a bad person or anything, but I certainly believe that blaming everyone and everything else - at this point, the flip of a coin and fate - as being the reason for not getting in is just absurd and reflects perhaps the plethora of reasons you weren't accepted or wont be accepted in the first place.
     
    And perhaps if you, philosophy hopeful, accepted that a bad application will mean rejection much moreso than a good application (which while still possible, is significantly less statistically so) then MAYBE you can take the steps needed to solidify your having of a GOOD application and then stand a decent chance at garnering the admission you so crave.
     
    But no, instead sit around saying it's all random, there's no hope, and there's nothing you can do. Let me know how far that gets you. You may have done your best, and perhaps your best was not good enough. Welcome to the real world. There are no A's for effort here. Do better, be better, and you'll be seen as better. Want to get in? Have a better application. Make your best better than it is. That's the difference between in and out.
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    Loric got a reaction from zelliott in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Fine, if you go around insisting we view great music and orchestrations as visual art with dots on lines. Cuz that's what it is and what explains it, right?
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    Loric got a reaction from lyonessrampant in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Well that's part of the whole point of why I mentioned this.. You're going to run into very well educated people who might not share your beleifs, or rather, become very offended when you offhandedly remark about something that is not your area of expertise.
     
    Same SOP in front of a literature prof.. probably ok.. if it passes the theater history or script analysis professor (who are often recruited to read applications of the english dept, btw) you're going to royally piss them off.
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