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melusine

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  1. lol - you guys are hilarious! I'm planning on not cutting my hair until I hear from schools (with hopefully an acceptance). I know it doesn't sound like much but my graduating photosession is coming up and my mom's been begging me to go to the hairdresser. My hair's pretty long and curly and I'm not the best at taking care of it. I can usually get it to behave but with all the stress this past season, my hair's on the verge of becoming one long dreadlock..
  2. I second solairne: definitely call just to be safe. On a side note, when I first saw the title of this thread, my sick brain read "Possessed Applications"... I now have the Exorcist theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
  3. Oh, wow, thank you for that! This is somewhat reassuring news, although I'm not sure how reliable it is for this year. I was in communication with the Yale program and they informed me that they will cut down the cohort size, so I can only imagine that going down from 6 admitted students would make it 4.. As for the 700 number, I was referring to the Columbia program, I quote: "The department typically receives around 700 applications per year". Their cohorts are bigger though, 18 last year, I think. So yes, my panic-stricken mind seems to have conflated the two. Thanks for making seem a little less bleak!
  4. I applied to 8. But I missed Harvard's supplementary materials deadline and got a snappy email saying they wouldn't be considering stuff received after, so really, I should say 7. I wish I could've applied to more but.. I don't know at this point. Part of me thinks it only takes one. The other part says that with odds of 700 apps for 4 spots, even with seven programs, I can pretty much make my (nonexistant) plan B a plan A..
  5. Some of other schools have already sent out their answers to people in my field. Schools I *almost* applied to. As for me... crickets. What kills me is that, judging from past year acceptances, I have this intensely paranoid feeling that someone, somewhere, is reading through my writing sample right now. And deciding my future. Seriously, this almost starting to feel like I'm waiting for some pyschic to finish reading their crystal ball. I wish they'd hurry up and tell me what they see!!!
  6. One of my profs last term is also a graduate from one of the schools I'm applying to and basically shared some really interesting info about their own application process to that school. Apart from the dreaded "I love literature/reading" thing, their SOP also mentioned a passion for word puzzles and work experience as a kayaking instructor. True story. Kind of made me feel better about my SOP, actually!
  7. I thought burying myself under a mountain of work (6 upper-level lit classes, 1 regular job, 1 RAship) would be enough of a protection from the craziness.. And here I am. 9:30 am on a Thursday, I'm up baking cookies/reading for class/doing research for work/exercising on my stepper/and checking, checking, checking. Damn the multiple tab option on Safari!!!!
  8. Exactly! When I tell people where it is that I'm applying, I generally get this condescending little eye-roll, followed by a ho-hum comment such as "All Ivies, huh? You think you're so smart/Little miss smartypants?" (true story, both).. And no one ever bothers to find out that the reason I'm applying there is that the advisors in those programs happen to be people I'm completely star-struck by (like I've been quoting their research in my papers since 1st year undergrad) !! Of course I want to apply to a program where Prof Awesome teaches, I've read 6 of his books!!! .. and yet everyone just kind of assumes I'm some annoying keener who's out there to make everyone else feel stupid.. Sorry if this a little OT, but I just get tired of having to justify my app choices.
  9. melusine

    Mad props

    lol! I'm using this!
  10. ugh- I wish could find this funny.. But my body hasn't been taking the stress well, just when I thought I'd had enough anxiety. And that's all I'll ever say about that.
  11. hmmm.. very smart, this! I once had a potential employer call me while I was on the treadmill at the gym. I thought it was someone else so I picked up.. Needless to say, that was one weird conversation.
  12. I don't think ticklemepink was being insensitive at all.. Fact is, from what I can tell, he/she doesn't have a child. So if people would see a pic of her holding a little baby and assume it was his/hers, they would, in fact, get the "wrong impression".
  13. I always thought that's what people call it to make the distinction with Penn State...? Then again, I have no clue.
  14. My thoughts exactly! lol
  15. Irene Cara's Fame! *I'm gonna live foreeeever!!*
  16. I just spent 15mins writing a detailed and coherent response. Then the forum crashed. humph!
  17. melusine

    Mad props

    Aw! Thanks for the cyber-love! *blush* I second all of the above (esp. jacib for starting this!) and would also like to nominate joro, who's been very supportive of many people on this forum, despite having to deal with a pretty horrible situation himself (the MIA Lor). *clap-clap* yay- this is like the gradcafe golden globes!
  18. Thanks! Best of luck to you and all our other literary/language dept. cousins! And yes, we actually are closed because of the games. I'm at UBC and our campus ice-rink and hockey arena will host some of the training and hockey events. I actually have no clue what's going to happen- I live on campus and from what I've been hearing, we're going to be pretty cut-off/paralyzed for most of the month.
  19. One big plus of living in Vancouver this year: everyone's too distracted with the Olympics to pester me much about my results coming in.. The negative being, of course, that if I get in somewhere awesome, the Olympics will undoubtedly steal my thunder! PS: to clarify (I tend to forget that people outside this city have yet to be hit with the Olympics tsunami lol), the 2010 games are pretty much taking up all the later part of February, and my university campus will be closed Feb 12 to March 1st. Just as I sit and wait by the phone..
  20. I used to be fairly optimistic.. But now that I keep seeing people freak out about being admitted to a place that accepts 10 apps out of 400, and I'm applying to places that have 4 spots for 600-700, I'm starting to wonder what possessed me to even bother applying.
  21. lol! sorry to intrude in the sociology thread, but this made me laugh so much.. I mean I've been fantasizing about sending a video-SOP à la Elle Woods since the beginning of this whole process! Just imagine the fabulousness- "... That's why you should vote for me, future academic of the class 2010!" *cue bikini-shot zoom-in*
  22. I wish I would've had more of a choice when picking a subfield.. But given that I'm applying to Comp Lit with the 3 languages I have (Eng/Fren/Russian), the timeframe I'll be working is pretty self evident: I mean something like a good third of Russian 19th century lit is actually in French (big giant chunks of War and Peace dialogue come to mind..), so it would've been really weird if I'd picked Medieval, although I do like medieval French lit quite a bit. Anyways, the programs I've applied to are both the best and the only ones to have a good group of profs/students and a long history of researchers specializing in just that time period/languages. It's probably both a good and a bad thing since everybody with my specific focus is most certainly applying there too and we're not that small a group.
  23. Can whoever has been posting all the fake results updates PLEASE STOP ALREADY??! seriously- you're messing with my mind here..
  24. I'm applying there for Comp Lit and haven't found a way to check status either.. If we all agree that this is the case, what's up with the latest results page entry of the stellar History applicant claiming to have been: "Denied for MA/Phd program. In shock. (Logged into website and saw status)." ???
  25. I dreamed I checked the results page and all my schools posted their acceptances and said that anyone who hadn't heard was a reject, and I hadn't heard anything. And then I woke up and didn't die.
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