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HIGH FIVE. Um, sort of. We'll be in it together, at least

I'm secretly afraid people won't be so nice next year! I'm sure this is totally unfounded, though. Folks are nice here! (I agree about "unmasking", so to speak. Be nice if bumming around here could count as professional development/networking!)

Huge congratulations to all the Harvard admits (and all the Penn admits yesterday)!

Has anyone been accepted to Brandeis? All I've seen are waitlists. Could that mean the department is waiting for funding, and may not admit anyone?

Naturally! I'm not familiar with a lot of teams outside the Premier League--I picked up my allegiances back in the day during study abroad near Liverpool--but anyone who doesn't give me funny looks for my enjoyment of the sport...

There can never be enough fans of Premier League in the field, especially if it means that study buddies can cheerfully bicker about football with you. (I'm a Liverpool fan.)

UPVOTE UPVOTE UPVOTE Congratulations!!!!!!

Congrats to everyone wrapping up their cycles and making choices! How exciting! (And I just hope Penn sends their rejections shortly after the acceptances, this waiting game is killer.)

So slow that I'm actually forced to take care of my to-do list.

I don't think that's stupid! I think that, if you haven't had any contact with someone at the school, you can go ahead and fill out the form and leave it at that (unless you feel especially compelled to write to the DGS). If you have been talking to anyone in particular one-on-one, fill out the form and write a brief and gracious email thanking them for the offer and all their time/help, but you will be accepting an offer at [the school you are attending]. I don't think you even necessarily have to tell them where you're going to go, but that's the way I'd go about it.

Gosh, I hope not.

Now I can't recall if I sent them the 19 page sample or the 5 page sample...

Hey, movement from Syracuse? Is it just waitlists going out?

Hmm, if we aren't trying to correlate our RL fields to our magical ones, I suspect I'd be good at Charms, too. A little DADA wouldn't hurt, but I'd thrive in Hufflepuff

Meme generators! Endless fun to be had for the young and the restlessly-waiting. Tensions are high and I'm tired of jumping at email notifications. Wrap it up so the MA students can get their acceptances now!

It's quiet, and I think the waiting is getting to us. At least, it's getting to me.

That's... quite something, right there.

I just started planning mine and signed up for a bunch of good websites... and now I am getting blasted with emails from them and I want to scream. Why couldn't I have waited for my cycle to end to start up with this???

The first time I saw this, I cackled and said to one of my friends that someone is really bad at Microsoft mail merge!

I have a two-week streak of receiving rejections on Friday afternoon/evening. So, at the very least, I might reasonably expect that they will quickly dash them off before running out of the office to avoid the crush of sadly disappointed applicants.

Noooooooo--wait.

Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha. Yes. Whenever one of my programs moves, I feel this wash of adrenaline that doesn't go away. I think Maryland is all finished now, but as soon as rejections start going up there, I'll be an anxious mess. And at least Penn has been totally silent, so I can maintain hope that they'll do like Michigan and get it done in one day, to prevent me from hanging onto hope.

Aughhhh yes. Worst are the ones that come from universities, but the ones you didn't apply to that got your information from the GRE. Hate hate hate.

My condolences Rejections aren't even logical--if they were, you could prepare for it. I was fine for my first two rejections, but the third one sent me into a six-hour fit of self-pity on the couch. Then the next two were okay, if a bit stinging! It is weird.

Wow, thanks! I knew a good bit about the perception of UK programs in the US from prior experience, but I'm not sure anyone's ever said a word to me about Canadian programs, except to recommend one of them (McGill) to me, based on my research interests. There are relatively fewer programs in the US that deal heavily in those interests (compared to Canada or the UK--or probably a few other universities in Europe, but my only passable second language is German, and not strong enough to study in it). Not that there are none, but I get the impression that post-conflict and peace studies aren't as sexy to the field here in the US, so I've started to wonder if I shouldn't expand beyond US programs in order to secure the training I'd benefit most from. If I stay in the US, and I very likely will (previously mentioned personal ties), I may have to contort my research interests to get them to fit in a program that may have one or two people (at most) with any interest in my very specific topic.