Tez92

Where are you all planning on staying?

I will be in DC for most of the summer doing an internship with a non profit organization. I also plan to read the autobiography of the person my graduate fellowship is named after.

Please let me know if you accept. I'm from Georgia and have gone to school in SC so I too will need help getting around as well.

I'm curious about the religious experience among gay, black men. I am curious as to how their lived experiences problematize christian theology and other religious ideologies. Also, I'm curious as to how the church as a social institution can facilitate positive and negative effects on black, gay men. My current undergraduate research in studying how gay, young black men interprete scripture and how that interpretation influences their sexual orientation.

I thought it would be good to connect with other people going to Boston Univeristy in the fall of 2015. I'll be in the School of Theology.

I vote Columbia for basically the reasons everyone else said.

I got accepted into VDS with 75% tuition.

Will be 23 in the fall

It's Monday everyone. My new favorite day of the week.

Oh wow. I'll be checking my email every minute of that hour.

Where did you hear that from?

So the snow storms in areas where I am applying for grad school has caused schools to close. This further delays the admissions process. That is all.

It should be illegal for schools that you have applied to to email you crap that don't have ANYTHING to do with admissions. EVERYTIME I see the schools in my inbox I get happy and than realize it's a pointless email.

I think is this first time in my life I have actually looked forward to Mondays.

I would like to preface this by saying I am a first generation college student, so the whole grad school thing is a bit new to most people in my family. (I love them immensely and know that they ultimately mean well) Aunt: What are you planning to do after you graduate? Me: I plan on going to school for a masters. Aunt: So wait, you are going back to school? Me: Pretty much! Aunt: If you are going BACK to school, what's the point of graduating from the one you are at? Me: "......" {lost for words}

Oh. Well that makes sense. I was so nervous and just basically accepted my fate of being denied.

I applied to Duke for the MDiv program by the priority deadline and havn't heard anything. Oh noooooo!!!

I'm waiting to hear back from Duke Divinity and BU school of Theology. I applied to both the first week in January to meet the priority deadline. So, I guess I'll continue to wait.

I got into Candler as well.

I heard back from Candler. Let's just say, it was good news.

Well it happened to me again today. I got an email that said: "Dear Applicant, Congratulations again on...... submitting your application to XYZ Theological Seminary." To make matters worst. I shared with my colleagues how it was cruel for XYZ to send me that fake out email and no one understood why.

XYZ Divinity School almost gave me a heart attack this morning. They sent an email and had me thinking it's an admissions decisions, when it's just an invitation for applicants who are interested in pastoring while in seminary to come to this informational session. I was so annoyed. How are you going to invite me I am event before I know if im even accepted. What if I go to the event and that just so happens to be the day I'm denied? Huh? Answer that question XYZ Divinity.

I was just telling someone that a play-by-play page would be PERFECT!!!

Thank you greatly. I certainly will message you.

As I sit and wait to hear back from graduate programs that I have applied to, I figured as a way to pass the time I should start looking into things to do over the summer. While I was in undergraduate school there were many research opportunities I participated in, but they were usually for non graduating students. What are you all planning on doing/or did the summer right before you started your graduate program? What advice would you give someone? Should they just find a job and save up their money? Should they take a break from academics to rest their mind? Respond as you will like.