B. Blumenstrauss
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Wait wait wait!
My food would be cheese (Brie or Camembert would work perfectly) and the object for the hand would be a little dispenser of smoked salmon. With my new hand and my eternal supply of food I could organize nice little cocktails for my friends.
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Hi everyone, just thought I would post that I was selected for an interview at ISAW next week (February 4). So, ISAW is currently sending out requests. Someone else posted that they had received an interview request also, over in an Art History thread.
Question: should I identify ISAW with NYU Classics or not?
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I don't see why that would be held against you - it's not as if Brazil is the only country in which stuff like that happens, and regardless, while it is pretty depressing, it just makes your pursuit of intellectual freedom in an academic setting even more relevant.
You're right.
By the way, it's Argentina.
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Basically I am just frustrated with waiting. I'm not a naturally impatient person, but I hate not being able to make real plans for the year because I don't know where I'll be! Blah.
Well, what you can do is basically improve things that any program would welcome. For example, I am planning to improve my German and my Latin in the subsequent months. And for the coming weeks I have planned something to avoid frustration: I'll travel to the public library to end my thesis there. If I stay here at home, I'll live nervous and unproductive, hitting the F5 like a robot.
We can do this a little bit less stressing. We just have to try...
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That moment when the country you currently live in (China) decides it's a great time to block all the major VPNs and tighten up internet security to a ridiculous level . . . so now you can't access ANY department websites! And then you have to start harassing departments via email to make sure your documents have all arrived (and explaining, with just the right amount of pathos, that you live in a very restrictive country that hates intellectual freedom). So, so, so frustrating!
Oh, I know how you feel. Applicants from lousy countries, assemble!
My president "has suicided" a prosecutor that was investigating her and I fear that this event affects negatively my application. Ok, maybe my worries are too far fetched. But they are still here.
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When I looked at last year I saw that they generally sent out acceptances in February and rejections in March, all via email. One can hope that perhaps things are still being sent out.
Of course.
In fact, my policy is to hope until an e-mail with a rejection is sent (I am an empiricist). That's why I did not change my signature at all.
By the way, something that can help for future generations of classicists (?): Stanford's faculty particularly stressed the quality of my writing sample. My GRE grades are not fantastic (stupid math, stupid test, stupid ETS, stupid earplugs, stupid weird words, stupid essay about nonsense), but they did not care much. Ergo, if you have to decide between learning more math/words or polishing your WS, focus on the WS.
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Hope you guys get some good news! I saw that somebody else posted that they had an interview with Stanford on January 28th. So it looks increasingly like I won't get an offer from there either. Beatrice, I think you are waiting for a result from Stanford as well? If you don't mind my asking, how did your interview go?
In fact, I had two interviews. One with the "Greek side" and one with the "Latin side". I think both were almost perfect. However, since my profile is stronger in Greek, I found myself more comfortable on that interview.
The questions were standard: general presentation, why Stanford, background. I dedicated extra time to explain them that in my country the Classics degree and PhD are nonexistent: Classics is a branch of Literature here. So this explains why I come from Philosophy, why my transcript is not full of Classics' courses and why I am seeking to be a classicist. As a result, my interview was quite atypical.
But wait.
How can an interview go wrong? What symbols or attitudes can let you know that it all went the wrong way? Cause maybe I am here all happy and jumping around while I blew it all like a drunken princess.
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I see a Chicago and UCB posting on the results board! I was hoping for Chicago myself. Ah well!
Me too... but we must not give up! In fact, let's wait until the end of this day to give up (maybe they are calling one candidate at a time).
Chicago, come to us.
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All brains
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when you're in the middle of a skype interview and your dogs decide to start running everywhere and basically fighting to the death
(locks the cat in the other room)
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fancy ketchup
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walk fancy
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Just in case: folk music from my country sucks.
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You know what is great?
It is great to arrange a telephone conversation with a world-class scholar of your field only to discover that, when you pick up your phone, instead of hearing the tone needed to answer a phone call you hear a radio of folk music.
I love my third world problems.
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I talked to UofT - they've accepted about 15 people at this point for both the Ph.D. and M.A. programs.
Oh wow. Good to know: I'll re-focus my energies on other universities.
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That's great news Beatrice! You are one step closer than any of us, I would say. Were you the one who posted the result on the search page?
Are you applying to their Ancient Philosophy program, or something else? In any case, I didn't hear anything back and I am applying to their Department's Language and Literature program. So I guess I can take Stanford off my list too.
But I'm sure you'll do fine!
Yes, I was the one who posted and yes, I applied to the AP program, but I do not know if they send all the interview requests at the same time. Maybe they cover the fixed number of applicants one program at a time.
Omg Beatrice that's great!!! Don't freak out about the interview, be yourself and have questions to ask at the end. Also don't go on the boards too much and get freaked out about what you should or shouldn't say. You will do wonderfully and you will charm their socks off!!! Let us know how it goes!
Thank you!!! But being nervous + trying to think too much too fast + speaking in English will be quite a challenge for me.
I'll try hard not to appear as a stuttering Jennifer Lopez after a stroke.
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Stanford e-mailed me to arrange an interview.
I am terrified right now: ruining an interview sounds worse than being rejected, don't you think?
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All waiting and no play makes Beatrice an obsessive chart-maker.
Red: day of first rejection in 2014 -(Gradcafé results)- Green: day of first acceptance in 2014
Berkeley
17 Jan
3 Feb
Brown
7 Feb
17 Mar
UChicago
3 Feb
1 Mar
Harvard
26 Feb
8 Mar
NYU
14 Feb
6 Mar
Stanford
27 Jan
31 Jan
Texas at Austin -> Beware: sometimes they DO NOT send e-mail with rejection
31 Jan
19 Fed
UToronto
8 Feb
27 Feb
Yale
21 Feb
11 Mar
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smelly grandpa
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awkward uncle
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I do know someone else (who doesn't post on here) who also rec'd a message from Toronto today. So I am not sure if they're done sending everything out!
Baaawwwwwww
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awkward story
Fall 2015 applicants
in Classics
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Totally!
Mutant classicist with a social life. My dream.