jonaki

fanks, daykid! it's night time where i am right now, and there's No Way i'm going to be able to sleep...

that's meee . hands still shaking in relief as i type. it's a mail from the department's graduate programme administrator, with a smaller message within from the department chair. here's hoping for more good news for everyone else!

i know. i shouldn't be so crabby, and it's unfair to expect otherwise, but rejections in generic mass emails sting all the more.

OOFYES. bring on the feels! i notice a uchicago rejection on the board, with the threat of more to follow. since someone posted an acceptance call from a poi some days ago, i'm guessing bad news is on the way...

congratulations for the chicago acceptance! anyone want to claim it and let on which subfield they are?

i've been biting my nails over unc chapel hill and berkeley. a handful of people seem to have gotten acceptances and rejections, but i haven't heard a peep.

i heard from my POI at chicago that offers are only going to start rolling in around the 15th-20th of february. *fingerscrossed* for everyone waiting on chicago!

just had my uchicago interview, and from my sense of the way this works, and from talking to anthropology grad students, they're mainly looking to confirm that the person behind the application didn't just cobble together a research idea, and that he or she can make intelligent small talk about it. the first question my POI asked how it was that i had come to conceptualize the project i want to work on the first place, and if i could sketch out an intellectual biography of how my thinking had developed across the years in the various institutions i have been a part of. the other broad topic that came up was what i was looking for in a grad school, and how uchicago would provide me the best resources to achieve my goals. it was a pretty relaxed chat, i didn't feel like i was being grilled or anything. while i have no idea how this will eventually turn out, my gut says that, having done some preparation in your head, sorting out ideas and goals etc, you should sit back and let your enthusiasm for research and grad school carry you through. good luck to everyone who has interviews coming up!

does uchicago do interviews for sociocultural anthropology too? when i had just started applying, and spoke to one current grad student there, he didn't indicate that interviews would be part of the gruel as well! maybe it just slipped his mind? or do interviews apply only for archeology candidates? nervous jitters...