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Pro tip: Don't call administrative workers "cute little bimbos" when you are using your name for a screen name (with the same user image as your FB account, no less).

There may be a reason why your transcripts are getting "lost" so frequently.

two gems from my grandma:

"There's no point in you going to graduate school. We're in the end times. Jesus will be back before you're done applying!"

and

"Well, you don't know how God will provide. Maybe he'll send you a nice rich husband so you don't have to work!"

When I suggested, ever so gently, that I really was excited about getting a job in my field, and wouldn't be happy with a dude that made me stay home, she clarifiied: "No, he wouldn't *make* you stay home. You just wouldn't *have* to work."

I love my grandma dearly. It's just funny talking to another generation about what a woman should want out of life. :-)

oh! Also! As I was getting my philosophy undergrad, (with intention to study religion/Christianity in grad school) my grandma quoted some pretty hefty Scripture at me: "have nothing to do with hollow and deceptive philosophies!" No, Grandma, just because I'm studying Philosophy doesn't put me in the same category... Yes, Grandma, I'm still a Christian... Yes, Christians study Philosophy... heard
much about that Aquinas dude?

Funny story: I told my PI that I was rejected from a school and he replied "They are stupid anyway. I reject anyone from THEIR school! Retaliation."

I am glad to have a PI with a sense of humor. I hope I can find the same when (not if but when) I get into a PhD program.

keep it optimistic!

"I hate you! You ruined my life!"

Text message to me from a fellow PhD applicant, two hours after I told him about Grad Cafe--which is approximately how long it took him to become addicted to checking the Results page for new submissions. Welcome to the club!

Haha! People keep asking me that. That is definitely annoying. Trust me, when I get in...everyone will know!

(Day after you turn in applications)

"Any news yet?!?!"

Typical conversation with parents...

"Don't tell me they'll accept me! You don't know what you're talking about!"

2 minutes later...

"What do you mean, I'll have other options if they don't accept me? You don't believe in me?"

<bump> some else probably needs this tonight.

Learn to play the accordion.
Invent your own language.
Beat the world record at Minesweeper.
Try to kiss your elbow.
Get involved in a local Star Trek live action role play group.
Make Lazy College Senior memes (or live them).
Sew a quilt.

I'll come back later with some more serious ones.

I made this card for everyone! Happy Waiting!
http://some.ly/An23lH

if you are making this thread, it is too much. if you are responding to this thread, it is too much. fi you are reading this thread, it is too much.

Day 1, Monday


I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing.

Prepared for day 2.

People keep telling me, "You'll get in somewhere."

For some reason that just makes me more frustrated and doesn't comfort me at all.

So since I have no time to make a video about this. Plus there like a million videos about what "people say" on YouTube. Care to share what people have been saying to you? Just for humor folks

Committee member No. 1: Sooo.... he's an ***rchist...?

*intense laughter from everyone*


then....
*silence*

Commitee Member No. 2: Ms. [secretary], please have our people forward this application to the department of homeland security.



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I think it's happened.. I've finally snapped. I'm going to go check myself into a psychiatric hospital.....

I've already got my first rejection, so the waiting is taking on an even more important facet... I feel like I'm playing a game of survivor!

To balance out possibly getting rejected from another uni, I've just found out that I've been awarded a fellowship from the University of Bristol that will pay all my fees and give me a stipend. :D They only awarded five of these fellowships to international students, so I'm over the moon!

DH and I will finally adopt a dog. Nesting set in hard after the wedding and as long as we don't move to the UK, we're getting a dog. A friend even offered to care for it for the year if I do get into Leicester, she even wants us to get a dog.

I'll change my religion and try praying to a different god next time around.

My interview prep playlist (to keep my confidence up):

Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Miss Kittin - Kittin is High
Queen - We Will Rock You
DJ Tiesto - Walking on Clouds
Kerli - Walking on Air
Dan Bern - Tiger Woods
La Roux - Bulletproof
La Roux - In for the Kill (Let's Get Ravey Remix)
Origa - Rise

Then, if I end up actually doing well, it's gonna be Queen - We Are the Champions.

You're a braver soul than I. It's not that I'm superstitious, but there's something about this whole process that scares me, and I don't want to offend it.

I jumped a foot when I got an email from the University of Notre Dame. Then I realized it was announcing a sale from ND Press. Then I remembered that I didn't apply to Notre Dame...

I was at the airport, sipping on the most delicious glass of blackberry sangria, when I decided to check my email and found out that I had received my first acceptance. It was hard to tell what was making me giddier--the wine or the email!

Hi Lexicana. This is - well, I've been calling it round 3, but my fiance insists that it's round 2. You can read my story on my profile (and in several reiterations around this forum!), but in short: I've been trying to get into PhD programs since 2009, when I got 5 rejections and a "consolation MA". I took it anyway and earned my MA, and attempted the PhD again in 2011, going 0 for 7, including the very program where I earned the MA.

March-April 2011 was an extremely dark, dark time for me. I try not to think what may have happened if I didn't have such good friends and family helping me to keep the bigger picture in mind. Please, make sure that you keep your loved ones close even when you want to be left alone.

I know some people might turn up their noses at me because I got rejected so many times, but I choose to feel like a stone cold revenant, and I am very proud of my ability to be utterly flattened and yet try again. This time around I've only applied to two programs, although I have a third with a very late deadline ready just in case. I've been in face-to-face contact with POIs for months, some for nearly a year now, and done my utmost to craft the best, brightest, and most compelling application I could create. At the very least, my tenacity is a testament to my dedication.

I've been very busy with volunteer work, a job search, fitness, and other vital busywork. Idleness is the enemy around this time. I wish everyone the best of luck, particularly those of us with the stamina to undergo this process a second miserable time.