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Hi everyone. I've been lurking on this forum for years but for some reason I never made an account. I joined just now, however, to say a sentence I never thought I'd say. I, like many people, have applied to graduate school before. In 2011 I was rejected from eight MFAs and in 2012 I was rejected from eight English PhDs. I skipped a year of applying to focus on teaching high school (I had recently been hired part-time) and writing book reviews for a local paper. Last June, however, that private school laid me off. I spent the next seven months collecting unemployment and applying to every job I could find. This was about as rewarding and fruitful as my graduate school applications had been. Right after Christmas, a different private school hired me to teach English part-time. I was overjoyed, though the stipend was well below anything I could live on. Just the other day, however, I got word that I got into the SUNY Buffalo English PhD program with a Presidential Fellowship. I am still waiting to hear from seven other schools, but UB is extremely strong in my area of interest (psychoanalysis) and they have given me the best possible financial package. And I'll get dental insurance and healthcare. And I'll be able to afford an apartment. I am overjoyed. Just wanted to tell someone.