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  1. FULLY FUNDED!!!!!!! Teaching assistantship and possibly a fellowship to top it off!

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    2. Ransom

      Ransom

      How did you find out? Did they contact you, or did you contact them?

    3. Argonaute

      Argonaute

      Congratulations! Cheers! :)

    4. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      Ransom - the English director of graduate studies emailed me to tell me and then they sent a letter from the department and another from the graduate school. (I'm sorry, I just noticed your question!!)

  2. What's on your mind?Nominated for a top university-wide fellowship! This day just keeps getting better and better....! :o) :o) :o)

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    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      I love you guys!! :o) Thanks for all the support!!!

    3. Kitkat

      Kitkat

      Well, you are just meant to go to grad school this year MM!

    4. lenz

      lenz

      Congrats! Look at you go!

  3. I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN OHMYFUCKING GOD(DESS)(E)(S) I ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!!!

  4. Completely over January. Can we just skip today and move on to the next month already?

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    2. wanderlust07

      wanderlust07

      But today is payday!

    3. MoJingly

      MoJingly

      Oh ok, just making sure ;)

    4. Langoustine

      Langoustine

      Yes! Helloooooooo February!

  5. YES!!! I've graduated from Mocha to Macchiato! It's the little things...! lol

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    2. beanbagchairs

      beanbagchairs

      hey you macchiato!!

    3. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      Is that macchiato, or sado-macchiato? lolol I'm thinking the former, given how much time I have spent obsessing over this forum and the results page!

    4. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      And YES, for those lurking to pounce on anything right now out of the sheer anxiety and stress levels, I know it's "masochistic" and not "macchiato". It's a joke! ;op

  6. Obsessively checking applyyourself = lesson in futility.... SIGH.

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    2. jcandy

      jcandy

      applyyourself is the worst, i don't even know where the decision letter is suppose to be found so I just click all over the place.

    3. fall-11

      fall-11

      I'm doing the same thing -- check email, check grad cafe, check status on app website, and then repeat ad infinitum.

    4. jcandy

      jcandy

      yes. all this checking. I just want one of my schools to respond. I don't think no reply is a good sign.

  7. I wonder WHY the Math and Science folks find out so much earlier than the rest of us...?

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    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      Nada - that does make sense, actually...

    3. Zouzax

      Zouzax

      ha! was just looking through the results page and thinking the same thing!

    4. John_Duble_E

      John_Duble_E

      It also doesn't hurt that for a lot the them the deadlines are often in early December.

  8. I don't have a lot of room to spare in that fine line between in and sane.

  9. Surprise! She's back for a limited time engagement...! :)

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    2. newms

      newms

      Hanging in there too. I'm looking forward to the end of the semester while trying not to get too stressed out with final projects and exams.

    3. fuzzylogician

      fuzzylogician

      Hey, welcome back!

    4. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      thank you! I just popped in to try to help the masses survive the application deadlines! ;op

  10. hmmmmm....Well, I might not get into a PhD program, but I DO know the words to the Star Spangled Banner....! Oooops.

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    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      I'm not reveling in her mistakes, I'm wallowing in my own self-proclaimed anxiety. But, as long as we are on the topic - she's sung the National Anthem countless times and she is a professional with fifteen years' experience, being paid ridiculously high sums of money to NOT blow it when the cameras are rolling and the mic is on. Nerves be darned - there was no excuse for what happened out there. It's the freaking national anthem. If she were covering someone else's so...

    3. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      If she were covering someone else's song, MAYBE it would be justifiable, but the national anthem? No excuse. I certainly feel badly for her, but I'm not going to make excuses for what happened out there, either.

    4. rolfsen

      rolfsen

      All I can say is... supposedly what we "so proudly" watched was "the twilight's last reaming." However you want to interpret that, it doesn't make the American Revolution sound like a tasteful affair.

  11. has returned to dispense advice and entertain all and sundry...! ;op

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    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      I'm hanging in there - just finished my first round of chemo last Friday. Currently working on my Chaucer chapter. :o)

    3. Strangefox

      Strangefox

      You are great! I really admire you. Never let anything bring you down, - do research, write papers, read books and then you can get through anything!

    4. Neuronista

      Neuronista

      heyyyyyy welcome back! Hope everything is going well :)

  12. "Who is the editor to whom this poem is dedicated?" Seriously? So long, 700....

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    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      Well, to be fair, in most anthologies this is not a footnote. But there are some anthologies that don't include this information, and a lot of professors who won't teach this poem to undergrads.

    3. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      My complaint is that the practice test was so misleading as regards the structure and format of questions and subject matter coverage. We should have spent all that time sleeping instead of studying the recommended materials, for all the good it did us.

    4. diehtc0ke

      diehtc0ke

      Completely agreed. There's really no reason why most of the actual tests floating about are from the 80s. I'm wondering why they keep this test so shrouded in mystery when so many programs don't put much stock in it's importance. At least that ordeal's over, right?

  13. Still Quiet on the Southern Front...Maybe today will be the day?

  14. Am I REALLY going to go another weekend with NOTHING? Really? This is so tragic. I mean, not end-of-the-world tragic, but definitely cry-into-your-bourbon tragic. Le Sigh.

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    2. Zouzax

      Zouzax

      same for me! ive decided to take control of my life again and stop waiting around for emails

    3. Langoustine
    4. newms

      newms

      :( Hang in there.
  15. Just ordered the GRE Workbook for Math. I AM GOING TO PASS THIS SECTION IF IT KILLS ME (and it might....)!

    1. booktobook

      booktobook

      I feel this way too! I'm 11 days away from my test and I still have a panic attack whenever I see a square root. Good luck!

    2. mudgean

      mudgean

      Is there a score you are trying to get? I heard that English lit applicants don't need to worry too much about the math.

    3. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      I just want to get into a program, and apparently the programs I'm looking at look at scores. Grrr. I've decided, though, not to take the GRE general again. I got a 6 on the AW, and a decent verbal - so f- it.I'm going to take the subject test and pray for a great score, and go from there.

  16. Dear Schools: It's Valentine's Day...how about showing me a little love, here?

  17. The #JustOneMore initiative- guaranteed to get you obsessing over something besides your acceptance letters, at least temporarily!:

    1. contretemps

      contretemps

      #justonemore hour of obsessing and lurking in gradcafe!! haha, kidding. ;)

    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      #JustOneMore hour of networking with your future co-grad students, fellow job hunters, and conference goers! - very worthwhile use of time! :o)

  18. Last week: No heat. this week: sick children. Coincidence? I think NOT...Please remove the Universal Kick Me sign off my back now! :o(

    1. newms

      newms

      :( Hang in there. I hope they get better soon!
    2. Medievalmaniac
  19. YES!!!! 400 Posts! Only a hundred more until I'm FINALLY out of "mocha"! lol

    1. Zouzax

      Zouzax

      lol i totally understand your excitement. i was so pumped to hit 'double shot'.

    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      I just don't like mochas, and I feel like I have been here forever! lolol

  20. T-minus three days to research extravaganza 2011( otherwise known as my break week!) ;op

  21. Can we create a separate results forum for the flamers to post away on? It's soooo annoying, (and also vaguely creepy), to be forced to read through their "results" to get to the real ones!

    1. Zouzax

      Zouzax

      agreed! so sick of it

    2. wanderlust07

      wanderlust07

      It's like Lord of the Flies out there...I find it dismally depressing.

  22. Anyone else not receiving responses to emails checking on completion of application submissions?

    1. eklavya

      eklavya

      one gradsec took 2 weeks to reply to my email, and literally, this is all she wrote: 'Okay'

      i was like WTF!? what do you call that?

    2. Medievalmaniac

      Medievalmaniac

      Last year, responses were much prompter...I'm hoping against hope that doesn't mean even MORE applications this year... *gulp*.

  23. @kroms: Good Luck! I hope you get a fantastic score!!

    1. Argonaute

      Argonaute

      Thanks! Unfortunately, I didn't fare well in the verbal section.

  24. My article passed the first review round! Off to double-blind peer review! WOOT!!

  25. Can I just snap a photograph of my bookshelves as my statement of purpose???

    1. yoshimoshi

      yoshimoshi

      innovative idea!

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