VulpesZerda

Ouch, that sucks. I did that in the summer. But yeah I cut my hours back to just weekends to maintain my sanity. But I do two 10-hour shifts so it's not really helping! Haha! I can't wait to have a sit-down job, I work in retail. Though it's probably good to have an active job since I don't get much other exercise lol

Can I join? My job has made me dread the weekends for the past 7 years. I have like six bosses telling me to do different things. Real smart bunch I work with, too.

Done!

I know it's tempting but you can't. Talk about helping the grad students as much as you can. Maybe go on to say how you applied what you learned in class to that experience. But you shouldn't say anything about your own counseling experience influencing you choice, and you shouldn't say the words "I want to help people" - that would be two kisses of death!

Did yours get in? Mine went in at like 11pm. I hope I never have to be that annoying again.

When people say stuff like that it honestly fascinates me. I hope once I get deeper into social psychology I can study the process behind forming and really sticking to opinions, like that one, because it's so interesting (among other things)!

That was the case for me over the weekend when I was checking for those things. Checked again today and it was all set. Most likely case is that your schools have the stuff but haven't had time to enter it into your online account. Though it can be hard trusting the USPS and ETS. By the way, my letter (literally) was submitted at the 11th hour. I was shocked!

Y'all are lucky you're not three thousand miles away from your lagging letter writer! Fml Good luck to everyone, I'm sure this will work out just fine for us. It seems most programs are familiar with this situation and are okay with it.

My last letter is most likely not going to make it in tonight. I called the four programs today and each of them basically said it's fine but I'm psychotic and don't believe them hahaha. Why can't he just submit :'(

I'm joining in with the other anxious folks here on the forums re: a potentially late recommendation letter. This has been on my mind so much that I had some kind of nightmare about it last night, of course. The letter is written, but a lack of response on email for the past several weeks frightens me about whether or not the deadline will be met. At least I'm not alone!

Haha that's an awesome thought! They might not even notice that! Thanks to both of you guys, I knew GC people would make me feel better. My mom and SO both had no idea what to say to calm me down besides "that sucks"

Haha, good point! Thanks

Let's hope! Thank you so much for replying--it makes me feel a lot better. I know sometimes people contact admissions to change things, but this doesn't quite seem worth it, so I'll have to get over it. Oh well!

I'm in the same boat. I'm trying not to worry about it but it's hard. I think I will use the applications' reminder features today - have you tried that?. I just have a feeling my LOR writer is seeing family for Thanksgiving and won't get to it until this week (deadline is Monday)

I made an embarrassing mistake For one of my personal statements, I forgot to remove the word "Draft" from the top. I know it's not worth losing sleep over, but I just feel like it looks so sloppy like I didn't bother to read it over. Now I feel really dumb At least I didn't accidentally submit a draft...

I'm working on finalizing four of my applications today... Though I should be getting ready to leave for Thanksgiving dinner soon I think I will be ready to press those 'submit' buttons tomorrow! That would be four down, six to go. Last deadline is in January, but I want this all done before Christmas.

One of my letter writers primarily uses his gmail account so I sent the links there. Hopefully that works out for me and is not interpreted as strange. But for you, OP, I would be honest with your LOR writer. It's bad enough you had to write your own letter. He shouldn't have agreed if he can't commit the time to read and upload it. They might even be suspicious based on the writing style alone if he's not going to take the time to edit it.

Healthy snacking is actually good for your metabolism! So don't cut out snacking, just change it. Carrot sticks, an apple, or almonds are a few great choices if you're hungry between meals.

Not sure what I might do, either. One idea I have is to move nearby my top choice school and enroll in courses as a non-degree student. Can't hurt, right? Not sure what my source of income would be, though. My SO's income probably wouldn't support us both on its own. If I stay home I think I would go crazy - I already lived with my parents and sister through undergrad. So another option would be to move into the city and try to find a research job. Either way, I would reapply at least once more.

Thanks so much, all of that is so helpful. I spoke to someone from Yale's School of Public Health over the summer at a grad school fair and she told me it would be a waste of my money to apply without a master's. But I will gladly look at their website again. I'm not sure about Harvard because last time I looked at the website I saw conflicting info about prior degrees and work experience but I'll check that too, and maybe email someone. I know an excellent application would be necessary for admission without the master's, but I'm not even sure where I stand. Hopefully I have some chance! Thanks again.

I got both of your messages but I won't be able to look at them/send you mine until later this weekend (just so you know!)

Sure! PM me

Haha, yes, smiling and nodding is the solution. Today my eye doctor was asking me about my plans and I figured he'd get it. He did, but of course had to add in a comment about "It's too bad you won't make any money after all that schooling". Lololol thanks doc. Thanks so much! Luckily, after I cleaned up the data I found some pretty good stuff. Also, the absence of significance for some of my variables is pretty interesting.