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I don't know how to feel about this. Congrats though!

Anyone claiming the UBC wait list????

On my way to visit the department at U of Cincinnati. If I can somehow manage to go two days without saying anything stupid and thereby making a horrible first impression, I will be impressed with myself.

Working with John Beatty and Margaret Schabas would be pretty boss. Plus... hello? Vanfuckingcouver!

I replied to my wait list notification at Saint Louis, and in the reply email it was mentioned that they've "admitted 5" as of now. Whether those 5 have been notified as of yet I don't know. It seems, though, that all decisions have been made.

Spaceballs played on Comedy Central tonight. That made my day better, all things considered.

Email at about 2:30 (central time)

I have one of the SLU wait lists. No idea if they've released acceptances or not.

Well, and a posed the question poorly. What I meant to get at was something like whether the probability of the event of getting in off of a waiting list is distinct from the sum of each of the cases in the disjunct. I think the answer is no, so the conditional probability of getting admitted from the wait list is just equal to the additive probability of getting admitted from the places one's been wait listed at. EDIT: Whatever the case, we be rockin' dem wait lists!

Does the conditional probability of getting admitted from a wait list increase with each wait list result, or is each instance of a wait list result discrete such that the total probability of being admitted is just the sum of each probabilistic value describing the likelihood of being admitted from each individual wait list?

Wait listed at Saint Louis University. Jesus Christ! (pun intended)

Under/over on UBC?

Also known as HFU (Harvard Fucking University)

I'm gonna go grade a bunch of undergraduate essays and hope that the universe rewards me for my diligence by sending me a new offer today.

All this news! I want new news...

If anyone has questions about LSU, he or she can feel free to message me (finishing up my 2nd year now).

I usually alternate between he and she in my academic writing. It seems weird to me to use one or the other exclusively, and the singular "they" still weirds me out (I'll come around, one day...).

Affirming the consequent.

Awesome! Now if UBC could jump on the Canadian-Schools-Sending-Acceptances bandwagon...

UBC!!!! WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!?

Anyone claiming Indiana HPS?

Basically, they already have a couple people doing the sort of thing I'm doing, and that ended up counting against me once they whittled it down to the last group of applications.

It was *fantastic*. Very congenial, but also rigorous. Like me and my co-presenter, there were a lot of peoplr with 70 to 80 percent finished projects, and so it felt very workshoppy. Lots of pointed, but friendly and constructive questions and suggestions. Also, the keynote lineup was amazing! Stathis Psillos, Anjan Chakravartty, Jutta Schickore, Betty Smokovitis, Helge Kragh, and Eric Scerri all gave talks. Great conference!

I noticed you've been admitted to the MA at IUPUI. I've been at a conference there hosted by Tim Lyons over the last few days, and if you're interested in phil science (don't know if you are), Tim Lyons is f***ing cool. Seriously great guy.

Saw someone just posted an acceptance to LSU. Feel free to message me if you have any questions, whoever you are!!!