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As my husband would say: Princeton doesn't matter.
 
(Completely kidding, its a great program and congrats again to all.)

How'd you do yesterday? Still waiting on responses?

No data signal on Metro, either, so I'm going to be refreshing my email as soon as I get above ground again, and then under the table at a meeting tonight...

Chococommunism?! No ma'am/sir, if you deliberately construe a cry for choquality and justice as chocommunism, what does that make you?
 
Chocolate McCarthy!

Nay! Merely an advocate for the utilitarian distribution of chocolate and the champion of chocovidualism! Call it ChoCarthyism! Call it whatever you like, but give me (my very specific preferred) chocolate or give me death!

That's Chocommunism and I won't have anything to do with it!

Of course. So do I, except a few small things...

To be honest, if I do get accepted anywhere...I'm not so worried about my productivity as much as finding a mic to drop in front of my boss and walking out.
 
Edit: I have a perfectly lovely job.

Congratulations!

I've only heard from one, and I'm still chomping at the bit waiting to get answers. I have now thoroughly convinced myself that I'm getting rejected everywhere and have started my spreadsheet for Fall 2015 applications. I'm not sure this is healthy. Chocolate, booze, and self-pity, however, are totally healthy!
 
 
Semi-annual Cheap Chocolate Day is something you don't stop celebrating, even long after the days of the undergraduate budget. It's a solid win for everyone! I might even indulge in a fancy chocolate sampler that doesn't have the gross buttercreams in it!

Buttercream chocolates are my life.

I've only heard from one, and I'm still chomping at the bit waiting to get answers. I have now thoroughly convinced myself that I'm getting rejected everywhere and have started my spreadsheet for Fall 2015 applications. I'm not sure this is healthy. Chocolate, booze, and self-pity, however, are totally healthy!
 
 
Semi-annual Cheap Chocolate Day is something you don't stop celebrating, even long after the days of the undergraduate budget. It's a solid win for everyone! I might even indulge in a fancy chocolate sampler that doesn't have the gross buttercreams in it!

Heartily fourthed! (Or fifthed?) I don't care if this is an emotionally difficult week, I will binge on raspberry hershey kisses and bourbon and watch romcoms to soothe the disappointment, but at least it'll be over!

Heartily fourthed! (Or fifthed?) I don't care if this is an emotionally difficult week, I will binge on raspberry hershey kisses and bourbon and watch romcoms to soothe the disappointment, but at least it'll be over!

Any historical data to suggest that departments might send decisions at COB today so they can flee the office immediately before we can recover enough to send questions?

Congrats to the University of Washington admit!!! Enjoy your weekend!

I heartily agree. I have job applications floating around to maneuver into another position in my field, I'm afraid to sign another lease on an apartment in case I have to break it, and even if I don't get in anywhere, I have to make decisions about this stuff! I think we all would like to know what is happening to us in six months. So, with that in mind, maybe it's not totally irrational to be anxiously checking all the time!

I'm irrationally devastated every time I hear my phone's email "bing" and its something from work instead of my gmail.
 
Then, whenever my gmail is the cause of the "bing," I'm irrationally angry at whoever/whatever is emailing me because it is never a school.

@cautiously_BOSS: congrats!

Good luck!

No, you go.

I just want to know where I'll be in 6 months. I. Just. Want. To. Know.

Hello fellow DC-er. I say stay strong and don't overestimate the veracity of thegradcafe responses. For all the information sharing, we have little knowledge where in the process of finalizing decisions most of these schools are. So just wait for a confirmation. That will be the only sure thing. The rest is just conjecture. And not even testable conjecture. ;-)