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Thanks for the update! Any information concerning when we'll get out of the shit-creek of waiting is a relief. Where did you hear about this, and is there a way to milk your source for more info?

I'm pretty shocked at the 5% too....

From the looks of the Results page, it won't be too long before we start hearing from Northwestern. I know a few people applied there, and it's one of my top choices. There's not much to say at the moment, but please share any relevant information! I really want this month to be over with

Ugggh, you guys! I was dying when I saw this thread get started, I thought people are starting to get admitted! The next 2 weeks will be such utter torture, and I hope we all make it through in one piece.

I personally would like to have children after I get my Ph.D. All my life, I've just never been much of a multi-tasker, and having that degree and having children are two things I don't want to line up next to each other to prioritize each day, I'd like to get one more or less out of the way before the other one happens. Why not have children and then have my degree? Well, it takes a lot longer to raise a child than to finish a Ph.D, and I don't want to have to readjust my brain to research-and-learning mode after years of mommy-mode. Kudos to the ladies who can do everything at once, but I won't risk failing at both by taking on them together. Just my $0.02

Kanye West - "Good Life" I'll be dancing around my room to this, if I get into one of seven schools I applied for. Oh, and also Fort Minor's "Remember the Name", the number one song used for badass martial arts showreels on Youtube. This song makes me want to throw on a wifebeater and giant bling and yell "F^ck yeah!!" out my window.

The Result Search page loads sooooooo slowly in China. Sigh, this will either teach me patience or drive me off the deep end

My consolation probably involves picking a city I like in China, moving there, and teaching English, so I can hoard some money in anticipation of my inevitable return to the battle for an acceptance into a Ph.D program. That was a confusing sentence, wasn't it? Well, the main part is that I will get away from my super-over-protective family and live somewhere else Oh, and a less grandiose consolation would be splurging on some unnamed photography equipment, maybe a good lens.

I love the UCB! I wonder if they still have free shows on Sundays

I majored in Visual Arts and English as an undergrad, and took a handful of Sociology classes, probably could've minored in it if I was willing to do an extra semester.

someone could make a business out of cryogenically freezing people through their anxiety-ridden waiting periods and make a cool mint off it, I know I'd happily participate

I found this article utterly charming, and very informative. You always need an edge to get ahead and get noticed, it's the same if you're a puppy at the pound wanting to be taken home, a diamond ring behind the jewelry counter, or someone trying to be picked by a Ph.D program.

Hot damn this is early. Congrats!

Everyone is so damn special, and reading all of your posts make things like Synaesthesia seem more real (and more amazing) to me. Here's what I came up with for myself: I'm have some benign hyperflexibility, which means I'm super bendy without any training. For example, I can do full splits, bend my body backwards into a doughnut, and twist my wrists 360˚ etc. The downside is that my joints are really loose, and I'm more at-risk for dislocations. I've gone to 4 different elementary schools in 4 different cities. I can remember melodies from music really well, but could never remember lyrics at all.

Actually, what annoys me most is that as a Chinese-American, it's likely that I will be paid over 30% less than a white English teacher with the same credentials here in China. It's awful to be discriminated against in my homeland for being Chinese, and more than just a little ironic. But perhaps this is just more stuff for me to investigate when I finally get into that Ph.D program.

Hahaha, this is the cutest thing I've ever heard of!

No matter what discipline we're shooting for, we're all trying to explain things for a living. Personally, it kills me to partake in this admission process, which has little rhyme or reason. It sure would be nice to have some entity to pray to, right about now (but even if I were religious, I don't think I could look at God as a wish-granting genie...) Reading this forum makes me feel less alone, even though people aren't always being nice.

Napoleonic complex

Yeah, I'm working on an online TEFL/TESOL course this month to prepare for the job search I'll probably partake in come spring. Teaching English in a foreign country pays better than food-services, but it eats your soul in a similar way.

Harvard got 268 applicants this year

This topic would make such an amazing piece of investigative journalism.

I stared at this text box for way too long because I couldn't think of anything comical to say....this is to say, my application is completely unremarkable and BORING. Alas.

Currently, I'm interning at the English edition of a 2nd rate Chinese news magazine. I only get paid when they toss me some commission translation work, as all my copy-editing is unpaid. On the side I do free-lance proofreading and translation gigs when I can find them. I'll be getting my TEFL/TESOL certification this month so I can start looking for part-time teaching jobs around Beijing. The downside of this is that because I'm not white, I'll be paid around 30% less than the white teachers with the same credentials. Hurray, racial discrimination in my hometown!

seduction

For light reading I giggled my way through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, and then plowed my way through The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Both pretty fun readings, though I must say The Historian began dragging when our heroes closed in on Dracula, and revealed him to be a silly fop with a librarian fettish.