MVSCZAR

I have a beagle, too! Her name is Minerva Berkeley!

If this happened to me with Toronto, I'd cry so hard.

I'm getting lots of searches from cities where I've applied (or near where I've applied). Weird. Let's see if the theory holds true...

Good thing Jung isn't a psychologist, then. Right? Right?

You can always go ask BC for us.

There's a lot more going on today than I had anticipated.

Toronto is only technically Canada, but not actually Canada, right? I mean, they're in our sports leagues.

Congratulations! I just got got a call from a Pittsburgh number and got nervous and then remembered that I didn't even apply to Pittsburgh. It was a telemarketer.

Someone got into Pittsburgh? Congratulations, whoever you are.

So like... Did your supervisors tell you what they ask?

I haven't seen anyone else post about getting an interview offer, but they're gonna be on Wed and Thurs and they're going to chose on Friday. Fellowships will be decided the following Monday and we'll all know then. And fellowship recipients will be flown out March 4 or something. So, basically, I think there's a chance they haven't notified everyone.

Thanks! Do you happen to know how many people they tend to weed out during these interviews? I'm wondering how hard I'm gonna be grilled or if it's just to make sure I didn't totally lie and don't give off bad vibes.

Omg someone else say it so we can get another school!

True. I once mentioned him in a text message to a friend and he showed up and made it a group chat. He was all like, "Ew. You have continental cooties because you read Borges." And I was like, "It was just one time!!" I cant tell you guys more because he might sue me... It's true though...

So, since the holiday weekend has finally arrived and we can expect relative silence, anyone wanna try some philosophy gossip? In other words, anonymous people talking shit about Leiter? With enough force, we may actually summon him.

Lolol. This made me laugh pretty mothafuckaly.

Crossing everything for you! Went to the botanica and burning candles and shit!

Basically, "Dear mvsczar, Congrats for making it this far. We want to interview you. We're going to interview on these dates. Tell us when you're not available. And we'll let you know our decision soon thereafter." But it wasn't necessarily personalized, it just had my name at the top.

That was me. Very nervous...

ooooo. yeah, I was talking about Katie. How do you know you were rejected by Fordham? Did you get an email or letter or something?

You know what's funny, my Chicago rejection got sent to my "Promotions" inbox. Also, I'm signed up for a classics listserv and those people can't anything resembling a freaking sherd or hear someone mention a Trojan horse without it being worth mentioning to the listserv. So I made a separate folder for anything with the word "classics" since I was getting about 25 messages a day from them. And now, since I'm applying to programs in Ancient philosophy, some important emails have been sent to that folder instead. For example, apparently they had messaged me from the Toronto CPAMP and it got buried with a bunch of emails about how Lesbos is going to get a Noble Peace Prize or something. Like good for you, Lesbos, but you're seriously killing my mojo.

The admin is the person I've been most in contact with, so I would imagine that she would know the deal. But it's always possible that she's mistaken, especially if others are saying otherwise. The only other thing I've heard from SB (besides the informal acceptance, the formal acceptance, and the fellowship things) is that we're all gonna be hanging out some week in March. Where did you apply this cycle?

Bernie voice: "I'm just tired of the top 1% of all applicants getting more than 50% of the acceptances. This day and age, it is unacceptable."

Fingers crossed!

:/ There's still the waitlist, fwiw. And nobody else has posted an acceptance since Jan 23.