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Yay, congratulations Faulty! Good for you!

Another one of my schools, with no email for me. I'm dying here! I feel like my possibilities are dwindling. I wonder if there are professors who come here to read these threads and laugh at us?

Really? I see all those Evolutionary rejections, but I applied to cultural. I love this! I've had so many emails from my part time jobs, and several emails not intended for me - I've started cursing at them when I see that they aren't grad schools. My phone, too: "Hmm, 505? F@$k you local New Mexico number! If you're not in one of the cities I applied to programs in, I don't want to talk to you! Same goes for you Colorado telemarketers - f#$k off!"

NOTHING. NOTHING! It's driving me insane. I assume that Northwestern, Duke, Berkeley and Stanford are nos, and Oregon is a maybe. Harvard (joint Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology) and Boston University had mid-January deadlines, so that doesn't surprise me, but everyone else was an early or mid-December due date. Make up your minds and notify us already!!!

Thanks for enabling me! Yes cheese is also good. I'm New Mexican - all our food is drowning in melted cheese (and green chile). But wait, you're not in for the weird dreams about bathing people in mayo?!

In the dream, I was at an outdoor pool/spa complex with a friend, and my ex (who broke up with me in the worst way possible, but a long time ago, so I'm pretty over it) was also there. He REALLY wanted my friend, which is funny, because she is super taken, identifies as lesbian/queer and she would never, ever, in a million years, go for him. Even though neither of us had any interest in him, we were obsessing about what condiments he liked and whether or not to put mayonnaise in the pools he was going to get into. Personally, I hate mayonnaise, and bathing in warm mayo-water would probably make me puke. I think it's my subconscious' very weird and roundabout way of trying to get me to worry less about what programs think of me (like maybe if I don't get in, it's because they wouldn't be good for me). Or of letting me know that I've really crossed the line into crazyville.

I am also a full-fledged member of the crazypants club. I have a more than full-time job I hate, which right now mostly involves waiting for a higher entity to let us know about something I'm anticipating will be really painful and difficult. So...constant email and results survey refreshing, WEIRD dreams about bathing people in mayonnaise, World of Warcraft, and too much wine and chocolate...

No worries - I think we're all freaking out about everything application-related right now. But, I think people only say they've been admitted to an MA program if it's a terminal MA program. Anyway, congratulations!

Not gonna lie, I am jealous of all those admits and interviews, and even to a certain extent of the rejections, since I seem to have picked all the schools that take their sweet time deciding. BUT, I am also happy for you guys - congratulations! And good luck with the interviews!

I had a personal email waiting in my gmail when I woke up this morning (which hardly ever happens). Subject: Request for Interview.... From someone at NUI Galway (not a school I applied to) who had made a typo in the email address, thus emailing me instead of the rural Irish artist she was looking for, to interview for research purposes. ARGGGGHHHHHH!

And I thought MA acceptances were usually later than PhD, not earlier? They're saying it just to torture us!

Uggghhhh, you've got me checking my email and the results survey every 60 seconds for updates. Nothing yet. I'm going to be certifiably insane by the time this is all over.

Congratulations on the admittances, guys!

I agree with fuzzylogician - don't go crazy trying to tell them more about yourself, but a brief, professional email updating them on the papers is a good idea. As far as the bilingual thing - is there any way it's implied on your CV (like by jobs in another country)? If not, maybe try to find a quick, nonchalant way to work it into an email that is overall updating them about the papers. I feel like I've read advice on the forums and department websites along the lines of, 'don't call us, we'll call you, but do let us know if something important changes concerning your application.' Papers accepted to major conferences count. Good luck!

Thanks, smg, that's pretty much what I figured. But I am SO impatient!

ARGGGH! There were those few early University of Oregon acceptances, and now several rejections, but I haven't heard anything and my application still says pending (or whatever). What does it mean? I'm also having a hideous week at work, and seriously turning into this:

I totally do that. Except I have the tabbed inbox, which keeps my phone from dinging every time someone wants me to sign another petition or give them money, but means I DO have to click the gmail tab, because it doesn't show notifications if things end up the 'Updates' box, which is probably where a grad school form email would end up. And then I refresh the whole thing, just in case.

I am also a semi-professional belly dancer, and I left up my belly dance site, in my real name. It is actually related to the research I'm proposing, and the fact that I belly dance is mentioned in my SOP and my CV, but I worry sometimes that it will hurt my chances. But then I think, if they look down on that, it's not the kind of program I want to be in. And then I think I just want to get in. I agree - ughhhhhh!

Oh god, the suspense is killing me. I had a dream a few months ago, the contents of which I don't remember, but I woke up saying my POI's name (not in a creepy or sexy way), and at the time I took that as a good omen for admission. But these days, I cycle between "It's cool - I'll get several offers and have options" and "Everybody's going to think my proposed project is stupid and irrelevant, and nobody's going to want me anywhere, and I'll have to endure another year of public schools drudgery and apply again, and if I ever get in I'll be in my early 40s by the time I hit the academic job market, AHHHHHH!".

Thanks, guys - this is reassuring information! I want to share a thread I've been enjoying over on the 'Waiting It Out' board: Anxiety-ridden prospective doctoral students, unite!

I've been wondering EXACTLY the same things.

This is AWESOME!

This 100 million times. Even "a few people have gotten interviews at X, and I haven't heard anything, so I'm not getting in anywhere."

I did actually apply to Harvard (joint program with Middle Eastern Studies) and Boston University. So, maybe... Awesome - congratulations and good luck! Is this just for the Anthropology program (not the joint one I applied to)?

I thought I was the only crazy person looking at real estate rentals! I have an apartment all picked out for Northwestern, within walking distance of the anthropology building, and convenient to Trader Joe's, and they take cats. It's probably not healthy, but I can't seem to help myself.