TeaOverCoffee

How I feel when I check my email and there isn't anything new:
 

 
How I feel about stress eating during the waiting process:
 

 
How I think my SOP sounds in hindsight:
 

 
 
 
OH GOD THIS IS FUN! 

I love .gifs. I am also exhausted of waiting for a decision that will most definitely affect the direction of the rest of my life.
 
So, let's make this a fun situation! Post any hilarious/funny/jokes .gifs (feel free to spam this many times) that adequately describe your feelings towards this waiting game or application season in general. This thread may well turn out to be just me repeatedly spamming myself over and over again, but you know what? I'm okay with that.
 
I'll start it off!!
 
Staring at my empty inbox:

 
Realizing my life is built around checking GradCafe for new daily results submitted:

 
"Won't you find out about your applications soon?":

 
Talking about future plans with anybody who will listen:

 
Actual future plans:

 
Surviving grad school:

 
 

I'd say you should wear fancy pants.
 
 
 
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(Sorry, low-hanging fruit )

Holy crapoly - just got accepted at Harvard with a VERY generous package! AGH this is the weirdest moment of my life. Harvard AND Yale AND Berkeley??? I know, I know, I'm insanely lucky - but my mother never graduated high school! I've live on 7.00 an hour for the better part of my adult life! WHAT IS THIS INSANITY????

Welcome fellow OSU waitlister, LCB. Join us in purgatory.
 

I'm another Ohio State waitlister! I'm a rhet/comp applicant.

Mostly Victorian novels and poetry, but long nineteenth century erotica. I'm into fringe fiction, like adventure and sensationalist fiction, and definitely gothic! What's your favorite gothic work? Yay for similar interests!

It's alright! I think all of us mass-rejectees have had our moments here. I know I sure have...

CONGRATS!!!!!
 

I applied to 7 PhD programs and one MA as a back up (UVM). They offer teaching fellowships so I thought it would be a solid plan b if I don't get into the other programs. I'm avoiding paying for grad school because my undergrad loans are so high. What programs did you apply to? How much importance did you put on funding and faculty (since having a POI isn't the same as a doctoral program)?

Ain't that the truth! I really appreciate Rice, Madison, and Northwestern for being so quick about their rejections. I'm downright looking forward to when my "implied" rejections can finally be converted to legitimate ones.

Frankly, I would just celebrate and not give it another thought. Getting into your top choice school is fantastic! If you've been accepted, they clearly like what you have to offer, and are willing to back that up with a long-term commitment. I wouldn't worry about whether other schools have rejected you.
 
To wit: I know I'm a solid candidate (and I truly say that without a hint of arrogance). I've been mostly shut out so far, barring a lesser offer to UMD. If it happens that I get a call from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc. tomorrow, I would be thrilled...and while I would be "surprised" in the sense that no one can ever count on an acceptance from anywhere, I wouldn't be surprised because I feel I'm not worthy of the honor or because a slew of other schools decided not to take me on.
 
It's a business, and it's mostly impersonal. Be happy that you've been accepted to your top choice, and feel confident that it was well earned!
 
 
ETA: Cross-posted with the two fine folks above.

I haven't been accepted anywhere yet *crosses fingers*, but I did talk to some alum from programs I applied and learned something from their experience. 
 
At the open house, she had suggested to freshen up my knowledge of my POIs work and talk with them about. She said it helped give her a feel for the professors and department. She also had a choice between two schools, and at one school, her top choice, she learned about some drama regarding her POIs, and that kinda turned her away from that school. In addition to the factors you mentioned, I hear a lot that you have to feel at home and supported in your program because that's how you thrive and endure the isolation that comes with the territory after course work.
 
I hope this helps.  

I'm about one rejection away from diving into a pint of Ben & Jerry's.
 
Then again, I'm also one acceptance away from diving into a pint of Ben & Jerry's, so it all balances out.

In at Tufts! Got a nice phone call from the DGS

To be honest, given the number of acceptances posted on the results board, I think they've probably already made all of their acceptance decisions. I'm not aware of the department's policy regarding waitlists, though. I wouldn't be surprised if those waitlisted are held in limbo until the department hears back from the grad school regarding fellowships for admits. The DGS told me that he will be informed of those details on Feb.16th. 

Yes, I'm thinking this will be a big week too... Perhaps tomorrow!
 
I would gladly make a bridge-jumping pact with you, but the only bridges near me are about thirty feet high at best. Maiming distance, not misery-elimination distance. Ah well. In hac spe vivo, as they say.

Not to overpost here but...that moment when you see an acceptance from your top choice program on the Results page and you've not received any emails yet from the school. Crippling anxiety is back, full on...

I received a rejection, too. Did yours explain why or just give a standard, "we were impressed with your application, but due to the increase in competative applicants this year, we were unable to offer you admittance"?
Keep us updated on what the doctor says! I hope all is well!

Whoever submitted the Columbia rejection with TLC lyrics, you have won my heart (or whatever is left of it after this whole damn waiting process).
 
 

Sorry for my uncharacteristically emo-esque posts earlier, folks. It seems that implied rejections for me a.) come in bunches, and b.) send me into an acute spiral of despair for a few hours. It's like drunk posting, but without the whimsy!
 
Anyhow, after a long chat with my advisor earlier, I'm feeling more upbeat. Still a little glum, but I'm trying to mentally adjust to the possibility of resorting to a plan B. I've never been much of a plan B kinda guy, and in my heart of hearts I never thought I would have to give serious thought to a plan B for this either...but so long as I can overcome the emotional toll of a complete shutout this year (and I have to remember that I still have eleven cords holding me above the snake pit...), I think I can rationally prepare for alternate options.
 
Part of me is tempted to take a GC hiatus, but more of me wants to fully go through the experience...which includes the joy of seeing some people I now consider friends get accepted to great places. I'll try to avoid posting in my more downtrodden moments, however.
 
P.S.: Zanmato--it's a deal!
 
P.P.S.: For what it's worth, I'm treating any mass acceptance wave that doesn't include me in its ranks as an "implied rejection." It may be an erroneous assumption, but it's an erroneous assumption I'll be more than happy to have corrected!

I love the person who posted the acceptance to Hogwarts.

I second that. I think this is more severe than childbirth.

Gotta say, I'm enjoying the super bitter, name-calling rejection posts on the results board. I'm not enjoying them in a malicious way but it's somehow amusing to me to see how vicious people get when they get rejected. I mean, if you really thought that way about the program, why did you apply in the first place?

Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day