anxiousapplicant

Well, like my mother always says, that ship has sailed....

I'm a girl, but with all my stress induced skin problems I probably will have a beard before this semester is over.

I had a bit of an "ouch" reaction to that.... Is that an orthodox thing to do, does anyone know?

Doesn't it make you positively feel creepy though? I'm just so torn because it uses such beautiful writing to describe something so vile. I don't want to read articles on it until I finish it so I don't taint my own initial impression, though.

I haven't heard a peep, not even to tell me if my apps are complete, but that doesn't mean I want to kill everyone, unlike what some other people have said on this board that I am not going to directly name....

Never mind, I didn't see what thread this is in, I'm not a grad.

Thanks for the advice! They didn't mention postmarking, and judging by the results search, they don't get around to reviewing the files for some time. I am glad that they allowed you, curufinwe, to send your updated transcript. So I suppose one or two days won't matter, all else arriving on time. I guess I'm just having the obligatory freak out over everything. Thanks for the reassurance.

I applied to CUNY for poli sci Ph.D. today, which is the deadline. Apparently, they demand that you print out a signature page and mail it, which I wasn't expecting. Now my materials obviously won't reach them by the deadline. Do you think they'll be dicks about it and not review my application because my signature comes a little late? It's just that I got all my materials in on time, except for this one, because all the other apps had electronic signatures. I just wonder if anyone has any experience with CUNY. Thanks in advance.

Yep, same here.

Ha, I'm going to a school that is unknown which does physical therapy too, except we're probably not even good at that, either... So I know your pain!

Do you think there's a difference for male or female students? I'm an undergrad right now, so I'm not really in a relationship with my professors where I'm working with them. But that being said, I've noticed that male students get treated differently than me. To be honest, many professors treat me like the pet, so I am favored in some cases. All of mine are male. But the same professors always chat up the male students and never me. They always shake my boyfriend's hand after a conversation, but never mine. They know me better than him, but they always chat with him, not me. They treat me more like a teenaged daughter than an adult, which kind of irks me sometimes, although it never has had negative academic effects, since they expect more from me than others. Does this change in grad school, do you think?

No, one of them is a senior too. The truth is that my professor never really seemed to like me much despite my working for him. One time he yelled at me for being negative about something and I started crying, so he's been leery of saying anything to my face ever since then. But thanks for the vote of confidence.

I went back and read old posts of mine where I was loudly proclaiming that I would try over and over to get into grad school. Then I read the one in this thread and realized how pessimistic I've become. It's ruining every aspect of my life. I'm irritable and paranoid, my family hates me, my relationship with my boyfriend is strained almost to the breaking point, I can't muster the will to care about my school work, and now recently my professor whom I work for as research assistant hired two new work study students. In a department as tiny as ours (4 faculty) that's a big deal. I myself had started out as a work study student and was quickly promoted to research assistant. Apparently I failed at that if he needed to hire two new people to do simple tasks for me. He should have just told me I was fucking up. And he was the one who told me to shoot for the top schools when I didn't even want to in the first place. This development has really crushed me and made me question my ability to even finish college, let alone get into grad school.

I've basically come to terms with not being accepted to any grad school. I know this will change when I actually see that first rejection letter, but I'll get over it. I finally realized that I will never get into grad school, so I plan to enjoy myself after I graduate. Read books for my own enjoyment and enrichment, stop worrying about getting graded, take some art classes, get a job and a car... Life won't end in other words.

I'm reading Lolita for a literature class and it creeps me the hell out. I can only do about 10 pages at a time. On the one hand it's comedic and on the other hand incredibly tragic and revolting.

But that's just the problem cpaige and I are having! How can you be sure you have the right person? I mean, I don't have facebook so I don't know how it works. But just googling a name and getting the facebook account does not show any info about the person beyond their skanky pictures. There is nothing about me on google, I checked, so it isn't fair if people google my name and think some nasty slut is me when it isn't and judge me based on that.

I like "never" myself.

Why in god's name would I ever want to get a quick rejection insteading of having to wait for an acceptance? The two final outcomes are not even comparable in terms of the relief you might feel and what's at stake.

I'm probably going to have to wait until March to find out from most of my programs. I've become so paranoid and suspicious of everything. Here's an example. I was emailing a prof to send in his last 2 letters and he never got back to me. I thought he just didn't get the email. So when I was at work, I happened to see him in his office and asked if he would be there in 20 min after I was done. He said yes and when I went back, his door was closed. I thought he left on purpose and that he had been avoiding me all along. I was convinced he found out something about me that made him not want to complete the letters for me. So I started banging really hard on his door, and then he suddenly opened it, wide-eyed and clutching the phone to his chest. I must have looked insane. I was so mortified by it and realized at that point that I am going off the deep end. He still hasn't done the last two letters though, so maybe I'm not so crazy after all....

and there goes a fourth one. Supposedly they're making one offer a day, so by the deadline they'll have made almost all of them, if the charts I found make any indication. Is someone just playing a joke to torment someone else on this board?

I would loathe having to stay at some stranger's house though.

Oh, and I love Marx too, although I'm not a marxist.

My subfield is political theory/philosophy. My interests include but are not limited to Enlightenment and Continental philosophy, with a little ancient thrown in, specifically Kant, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Plato. I want to study topics such as the values of society, speculation regarding the ideal way to organize society and what role human nature plays in that. My interests often tend to veer off into non-political territory in philosophy, too.

Another Brown poli sci acceptance. I looked at data (from Brown http://gradschool.brown.edu/resources/datasocial_1222197286.pdf">http://gradschool.brown.edu/resources/datasocial_1222197286.pdf) saying in 2007 they made 7 offers and 4 matriculated. Can anyone really tell me they made over half of their offers, or at least 30% of their offers, before their non-rolling deadline? Can these admissions be real?

I'm a little suspicious because they don't seem to have rolling admissions for poli sci and they did not accept anyone this early before according to the results search at least