Nikos Evangelos

Yes! Several.

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Viel Glück! (Bizarre: Won't post because my reply was too quick. Never saw a message like that before.)

They may not be required but they all say they do!

I get it too. As it says, all users will see this bizarroland message until the end of time. There is an additional page where you can use the ID they sent you after your application submission to log in and see a (confusing) statement on supplementary materials they received. Hope you got in. Still waiting for this one.

You should go ahead and use this opportunity to pose a legitimate question. They sent you the housing info, so why did they? Ask. My experience with writing to profs and programs and admissions dept. after applications have been 80+ percent good or neutral. Definitely helped get me into two places, and in other cases merely confirmed the inevitable. I do have the advantage of having applied to a lot of programs, which allows for experimentation. (No interventions in some cases, contacting gambits in others that paid off well for a couple.)

I hesitate to say which of my apps was easily the most annoying, hands-down, since it's still pending and this is my real face you see to the left. But DAMN, it was annoying. Half-meg limits on documents! Doesn't allow a CV (how am I supposed to describe 26 years of work experience without one, pray tell?) but expects individual fill-ins of each employer. Just picking the department was a 20-minute struggle (because rather than a standard drop-down it has a bizarre bug where the provided list keeps jumping before you can click your option). Also, a radio button I inadvertantly clicked could not be erased! This option was not offered. Instead it demanded that the rest of the entry be filled in, no matter what. Finally (on deadline day) I gave up and filled in a fake third undergraduate school called There Is No Third School. Berkeley featured the nicest application software. The rejection letter was also very polite.

If you've seen acceptances but no rejections from a given department on the results page, then it's probably only a matter of time before the axe falls. If you've seen acceptances and rejections, but you've received no notice after a couple of days, then you're probably in that painful, always hopeful limbo where you might be chosen as sloppy seconds, or thirds. But probably you will get screwed. Possibly right at the end when it will hurt the most. So it goes. This is killing me!!!

I already watched House of Cards. It's actually about as over the top, and humorless, as a Brazilian soap. Totally enjoyed. What now? ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHH!! OOOGA BOOGA OOGA!!!!!