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Yeah, it will be really cool to meet him in person! At UCLA, I'm hoping to work with Panagia and perhaps Dienstag. There are lots of strong faculty there! How about you?

*tapes phone to hand*. Congratulations, that's awesome!!

Nice to meet you, theoristo, and glad the cycle is treating you well! I hope we hear from UCLA officially over the next few days...should be sometime next week, at least. I'm also looking for programs that take questions of race seriously; my own focus is on South African legal theory and culture. Good luck with it all!

I think that choosing an advisor has a lot to do with whether or not the personal and power dynamic feels right, so I can't say for sure. But Patchen Markell is the thinker who first drew me to Chicago because of this work on Arendt. I'm eager to meet Linda Zerilli, Sankar Muthu, Jennifer Pitts, and Robert Pippin. How about you?

Yep, I received an email about a month ago, but I'm not really at the point where my language skills would allow me to make good use of it. I do read and speak in french, but that's not funded. My more eclectic language interest, afrikaans, isn't included. I'm not sure if there's another funded language that will end up being useful for my research. Better to leave it for the more-worthy, such as yourself

Congratulations!!! How cool to have an interview (which I find nerve-wracking a lot of the time) yield immediate good news!

When you unexpectedly get an rejection from a program that normally doesn't release results until March: When people try to be supportive during the waiting period by asking you what Plan B is if the PhD doesn't happen: When you think you've got it all under control (until you don't): Just. Want. One. Acceptance. : When you remember that results aren't going to roll in until after the weekend after a long week of waiting: And finally, GC, when someone needs a little extra love:

Apply for it as quickly as you can! If a department has a sense that some of your funding will come from a set source, especially one outside the department, they may be more enthusiastic. Get it out of your hands, into theirs, and spare yourself any sense that you could have done more when all is said and done! You got this

Thanks very much!

I got a short, very nice note from the GSA over email with a longer letter attached in PDF from the Dept. Chair at around 11 EST this morning. Best of luck to all of you!

This thread is making me teary-eyed guys. Glad I ended up on GC--better late than never! CONGRATS to everyone. Ya'll are wicked smart and impressive!!!!!! Since we're sharing good news, I just got accepted at Chicago for political theory, and I'm so eager to see how the application fares at the rhetoric programs I applied to

Thank you for such a sincere message! I'm thrilled. I hope for the same for you.

In at Chicago! My first decision and acceptance Good luck to everyone waiting to hear.

"Political theory? Are you thinking of running for office some day?"

Interesting! I have to assume you're reading a lot of Strauss? Who are the thinkers that you love? And yeah, I had been avoiding reading theory, but then the Weil caught my eye. Initially for a totally superficial reason, actually. It's called The Need For Roots (as in--culture, a past, the shared world, etc) but some troll-ish publisher made the cover art carrots! As in, root vegetables. I thought that was so bizarrely funny.

Maybe Evgeny55 has an insider scoop, but in years past it was early-ish in the first week of February, so you never know. I'm waiting on them too! Good luck and try not to die

Well, I won't hold you to it But thanks for this tidbit...

This really is such a kind, lovely group of people! It's so amazing to step back from this one month of stress and anxiety to think, woah, these are future colleagues!! I hope that Berkeley Rhetoric notifies soon. I just want to know, whichever way it goes. *fingers crossed*

As good a time as any to bring this back http://academictimgunn.tumblr.com/

Congrats to you and all the other admits today! I ran out of upvotes, but I'm sending a virtual thumbs-up nonetheless

Maybe we'll get Chicago next week as well?

Nice to meet you . Yes, I did a lot of work in undergraduate on Arendt, and she'll certainly remain a topic of interest, but I'm also interested in topics in critical theory, neoliberal legal theory, and the history of modern political thought, especially german and italian thought. I also have an overarching interest in traditions of intellectual activism, and the question of the relation between theory and practice more broadly. Without outing myself too much, my proposal for applications had to do with the construction and exhaustion of political desire. I hope some program decisions start rolling in soon for both of us! And I'm currently reading "The Need for Roots" by Simone Weil and "Utopia or Bust" by Benjamin Kunkle.

Thanks for your perspective; this is great advice. As for the thinking behind the language acquisition, it definitely has to do with my research path. Teaching is nice because it allows ample time to focus on independent research and writing, as well as ongoing work in collaboration with undergraduate professors, while also having a bit of breathing room (which, I must admit, across the board rejections would definitely render necessary!) I'm applying for theory, and so the masters in this case would be in post-colonial theory and humanities, which again has much to do with my research path!

I suppose plan B is to do some kind of (childcare/teaching) work abroad and try to pick up a new language if possible. I have worked in Cape Town in the past, and have affiliations with one of the university centers, so I could imagine applying for a last-minute masters degree there if possible, which would actually be totally wonderful in its own right. Does anyone else find it entirely impossible to think about at this point???