Nautiloid

Hate to bring back old threads, but I need some of these right now. Worse than rejection is having your toes removed with a cheese grater. Worse than that is having hot pokers thrust into your eyes. Worse still is being steam sterilized to death in a walk in autoclave. THERE. Well, rejection still sucks, but at least I have perspective, no matter how morbid.

If you call, I'd ask for more time. It's kinda against the "rules" (at least for PhD programs) to want decisions from students before the April 15th deadline. I don't know as much about MS programs so maybe I'm wrong here, but April 1st is kind of hitting below the belt for a PhD. I'd call and explain the situation to them. If they're worth the trouble, they'll be understanding. If not, I see no reason why you shouldn't accept and then decline later. Might also call your top choice and see if you can get a tentative decision from them.

Superfluid vacuum

Slashing prices.

My top 3 in conversational order: "Oh, it's good you're going for your masters." Actually, I'm applying to PhD programs. "How are you going to pay for 5 more years of school?!" Well, they're actually going to pay me to go for all 5 years. I won't be spending a dime. "Oh, well, I was planning on getting my PhD too sometime. Seems like it will be fun." Oh. Well, okay. Good luck with that then. (Unspoken thoughts: Yeah. Right. You just strap on your PhD helmet, squeeze down into a PhD cannon, and fire off into PhD-land, where PhDs grow on PhDrees.)

Office Space

Inferior form

From experience: Seafood food poising. Oh god the cramping and nausea.

Limit Breaker

Oh. Well, I think it's best if I decline in that case. I'm not sure my boyfriend would approve of me making our love line into a triangle. He's got issues with odd geometry. Good to know. I shall avoid being trapped with these people specifically for the sake of my sanity. should they ever magically appear as non-fictional characters, that is.

Should I be confused by this? I am confused by this. What are you offering and do you normally bite? Things worse than rejection: being bitten by kittythrones... I think.

On the bright side, at least you don't have to worry about maintaining the relationship while in grad school.

If it's any help, I have a friend who goes to Ohio State for a PhD in English (Focusing on poetry I think?). He really loves it there and it was his first choice of schools. Rejection sucks, but to be accepted anywhere at all shows that there are people out there that think you're ready for the rigors of their program. The way I see it, a PhD is a PhD. I'm while I'm not too familiar with Art History programs, I know in my field at least, graduate school is not your last chance to go to a prestigious school. One of my interviewers said it best I think: "It sucks being a graduate student at Harvard anyway, but if you want the name on your resume, there's always a postdoc." If you do good work, I don't think it matters so much where you go. You'll be recognized more for what you did while you were there. But then again, if the shoe doesn't fit, it's probably not a great idea to wear it for 5+ years. With tough decisions ahead for all of us, I wish you the best in making the one that's right for you.

Ex-boyfriend? If not, you're far more forgiving than I, which is admirable.

Whatever a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster feels like the next morning.

Easy Street

I thought this might be a fun way to look on the bright side of things, whether you've faced rejection or not. I'll start: Being attacked by Africanized bees.

Ugh. Not even work can keep my mind off this special kind of purgatory. March is quickly becoming my least favorite month.

Korean barbecue

Honey Bee

universal

mirror

Current students wave. Their red flags have me wary. Decisions will come.

Oh yes. A multitude of reasons.