skylarking

I hope so! I'm gonna email them next week and thank them again for talking to me and see if there's anything I can do to affect my chances for next year. I'm still a little upset I didn't get in, but I'm glad I at least got that feedback and validation that my project is interesting. And to be fair, I have chosen basically the most difficult country in the world to study.

That sucks that we both struck out Thanks for the support, Forsaken and sarab. I'm actually excited about my potential internship/job, but it's still a major bummer after such a great conversation and a POI who was really interested in my research. I'm hoping good things for those of us still waiting to find out if they got in anywhere.

I had a really great conversation with my poi at Wisconsin last week aaaaand I still got rejected. Maybe they lost out in the meeting; who knows. Either way, it's looking like it's back to Asia with me!

Came to post basically this exact thing. I high-fived my friend when I saw. They were confused at my exuberance over being rejected.

That's incredible! Congratulations!!

Congratulations! Difficult decision time Sure you'll choose wisely

Three, as well: Columbia. Wisconsin, UBC. Expecting a rejection from the former, cautiously optimistic about the second, completely unsure about the third. I know Madison is next week. Columbia has to be soon (right? RIGHT?) and UBC is historically next week.

That sucks hardcore, dude, I'm sorry

Knitting and watching lots of Netflix has been pretty therapeutic for me. Of course, I would still get distracted every few minutes or when my email would ding, but it was better than just sitting and trying to read the entire internet. Now I'm having to throw myself full-stop into writing this seminar paper, which is also helpfully distracting. Of course, now that I'm past the post-good call with POI euphoria, it's back to nervousness. At least I only have about a week to wait.

Curious about this, too. I'm expecting a rejection, myself.

Thank you both! ;_; I'm super stoked after the talk, and even if it goes nowhere, it's good validation. Still wishing good things for everyone else still waiting to hear back. Things were grim for a hot minute there but there is hope!

Just got off the phone with one of my POI. Things are suddenly looking up!

Wake in the morning Email comes from POI Commence heart attack

I can't offer much more advice than what's been offered. I will say that if you're going abroad and it's possible, rent a cell phone. I've had a cell phone (or a portable wi-fi device) every time I've gone abroad in the past few years and it's been absolutely invaluable. I've been able to meet up with friends, use the internet to figure out where I should be going or what train I need to take. And knowing that I have it in case something does happen has added a great peace of mind. It was so nerve-wracking travelling alone at first, but getting over the initial feelings of judgment ("Oh god, everyone's gonna know I'm alone!") and worrying I wouldn't have as much fun if I wasn't with others, I found that it was actually way more enjoyable. I met so many more people by myself, and got to do everything at my own pace. Do your research, know the language, trust your instincts. That's really all you need for a successful trip.

OK, sorry for the double post, but I broke down and called Madison. All acceptances and rejections have not gone out yet. Final decisions should be by the end of next week. I realize now I could have asked about the status of my application whoooops

♪ So tired / tired of waiting / tired of waiting for U(W-Madison) ♪

I felt the same with them! If they weren't such a good fit I might have seriously reconsidered it. I hope we both hear good news soon! It's that time of year. It has to be over soon. This can't continue through Spring Break. I refuse to be at Disneyland or on the beach back home worrying if I'm going to be getting into PhD.

Well, I am on the opposite side of the continent, but yeah. I've gotten mail from Japan and Korea faster than this tiny little letter. I hear that. Especially considering international postage. Still not as bad as having had to send all my materials in to UBC. Still blows, though.

Wind shakes the barley A series of rejections Shakes my hopes and dreams 春が来る 新しい経験 も来てるよ (Spring comes New experiences Are also coming) 花のよう 先生の前に 揺れる僕 (Like a flower Before my professor I am shaking) あ、むしゃむしゃ ストレスの所為 デブになる (Oh, munch munch Because of stress I am getting fat) 大問題 やる気が飛んだ 戻ってくれ! (This is a huge problem My motivation has flown away Come back!) 懐かしい 川柳を書く 逢いたくて (This takes me back Writing senryuu I miss you guys) How my friends used to Procrastinate our homework Was writing senryuu Blank Word document Stares like Derrida's kitty Turn the gaze away

Yeah, mine says that, too. I would hope it means something good but I'm not expecting a good result from Columbia so maybe I'm just reading it too negatively.

I wish I were. It took about a week for it to get to me. In my experience, acceptances go out via email and rejections via post. Your mileage may vary, but that's how it worked for a friend and I.

No, you're right, they send things via mail. A friend who applied to a different department and I both got our rejections in the post.

I can't speak to the second, but that was basically my game plan for my first year of my MA. It was presented by my undergrad advisors as, it's a shite solution but it gets your foot in the door. I did manage to score funding that paid for all but a couple hundred dollars, which was great. Actually, that's how most people in my program got by first year: loans first year, then TA-ship/RA-ship/job or funding. It's conceivable, but obviously a much less-than-ideal situation.

Came here to say this. We use his history book because we pretty much have to (Carter Eckert's is so much better and I wish we'd used that) and the way he writes about Japan is so questionable. It's not that what he says is entirely wrong, it's that it's not entirely right and horribly biased. I know people (and this rings true for me, also) who have deliberately avoided Chicago because of Bruce Cumings. I would take Nancy Abelmann over Bruce Cumings any and every day of the week. Cumings was trained under Palais (like all my advisors and pretty much everybody in the field) but honestly, I don't think you'd get a great deal out of Cumings. Eckert is a totally different story and if I were still doing historical anth, I would absolutely have gone for Harvard (again). You're absolutely free to disagree, of course, but there are such better historians and anthropologists of Korea out there.

I went to a small state school in the mountain west with a PhD program in Soc but not Anth. Two professors (one of whom was my Soc advisor) got their PhDs at Iowa (http://www.sociology.uiowa.edu/newsoc/stories/iowahist.htm in case anyone is unfamiliar with the Iowa school). Another went to Indiana. Two went to Penn State (top 5 in demography). One of our Anth professors got his PhD at Chicago. My Anth advisor got her PhD at Michigan and then taught at Chicago before coming to teach at my uni. We're not a great school for social sciences, but people know the people with whom I studied and that's helped me make more contacts across academia.