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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:

 
 

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

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:

 
 

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

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:

 
 

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

I'm a 25-year-old grad student and just started my Ph.D. program back in August, which, as it's a humanities program, should take me at least six years to complete. Three months ago I started dating another grad student (age 26) in a completely different field (sciences) who only has one more calendar year to go before he completes his Ph.D.
 
Things are going really well and I'm starting to fall for him, but I'm becoming afraid about what will happen when he graduates. It's too early to tell whether we'll be at a level of love and commitment in a year that will make him willing to compromise to keep the relationship going (such as finding a job in the area, for example). He will have job options everywhere (he's already starting to be sought after by recruiters), but I feel that it's not yet my place to ask him to consider me in his future plans. In fact, he may end up making the job decision before he even completes his Ph.D., so the timeline could be shorter than a year.
 
The bottom line: I'm worried about falling in love and investing my time and energy in something that may have no future (and getting my heart broken). Because I am a Ph.D. student too, I know how important it is to pursue your dreams in your field of choice, and I'd hate to make the decision difficult for him if he found a job in his specialty field that's really far away (he is not planning on entering academia). On the other hand, if in six months I've become deeply in love with him (as seems possible right now), I want to be honest with him about my feelings and tell him that I would like to be a part of his life for the long term. 
 
Any advice on navigating this situation? Does anybody have successful stories about dating another grad student, especially one at a different place in their academic timeline? Any help is appreciated, as I'm new to grown-up dating.

Very first notification was an acceptance!!!! Considering the shut out that was my last application cycle, this is a huge relief!

DETOX WAS MY FAVOURITE QUEEN, I can't stop laughing at this!

This doesn't have much to do with anything application-wise, but I found out yesterday that I'll be getting an academic paper published. I've had lots of poetry published in the past bunch of years, but this will be my first academic paper, so I'm pretty happy about it. What's funny is that I sent it out for publication within around 48 hours of having written it. I was quite happy with how it turned out, so I'm particularly glad to see it get picked up by my school's journal of comparative humanities. It may not have the most cache, but hey...it's an academic publication!

When my phone alerts me of a new email:

 
When said email is a fake-out (reminder of deadline, receipt of transcript, etc.):

 
When I re-read my writing sample/SOP:

 
"It can't be that hard to get in somewhere, can it?"

 
When non-academics tell me to relax and smile:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Fully calling somebody out, but there was an acceptance to University of York (UK I'm assuming rather than Canadian) for English (PhD). Congrats to whoever it was!

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

Trying to contact the department at your school for transcripts:

 
Trying to contact your professor for LORs:

 
Trying to contact ETS about sending your GRE score reports:

What I keep telling myself:
 

 
And yet....
 

December 2–March ???

 
 
When I think about getting in to Stanford (or insert any other program with an acceptance rate below 10%):

 
And when I think about the reality of the situation:

 
 
When my advisor/boyfriend/friends tell me they know I'll get in somewhere and everything will be fine:

 
 
but I keep telling myself

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:

 
 

Fully calling somebody out, but there was an acceptance to University of York (UK I'm assuming rather than Canadian) for English (PhD). Congrats to whoever it was!

The three stages of checking my email/GradCafe results:
 
9 AM, with coffee:

 
3 PM, after coffee has worn off:

 
10 PM, when coffee is not an option:

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!