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Medievalmaniac

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  1. Back to the ol' routine: stress, obsess, study...stress, obsess, study...stress, obsess, study: GRE Subject test in October!

  2. You make good points, and I think your post is helpful. I'm not posting in that particular topic any more because I think my posts have outlived their usefulness, and I don't like pissing contests...did what I did, based on advice given by my professor, who vetted both emails, gave advice based on my experience...moving on. But I'm glad you wrote what you did for another perspective...

  3. Your response in the MFA returning to school forum was great - thanks for a positive contribution! As a returning older student with a low undergrad GPA, I had to work twice as hard to prove myself - and I loved every minute of it, because when I went back it was for me, and I wanted it badly enough to go for broke. Trying for a PhD program w/a 4.0 MA now...we'll see!

  4. Your response in the MFA forum concerning returning to graduate school was incredibly honest, forthright, and kind-spirited. I wish everyone in this forum were as positive an energy as you appear to be! Thanks for a great contribution to the overall conversation in this forum.

  5. Soooooo.......? Any word yet on scores???

  6. hey, where are you heading next year again? You told me, but I forgot. :o(

  7. why are you taking a year off? I thought you got an admit?

  8. hehe, no, the eye rolling happened at my mom's house. sadly, they don't really understand or condone my medievalist tendencies, although they try to tolerate it as long as they can. ;op

  9. Hi, that's an interesting situation you're in w/the accept after the rejection! I'd love to hear the story! :o)

  10. Good luck on the GRE Subject test! I know you are taking it really soon. I hope you totally ace it!!! Go 750!!

  11. ahhh, I'm sorry about UVA. :o( I know you expected it, but it still sucks. Hang in there! We'll both go to grad school next year and be the English Department Old Hags. :o)

  12. Hello, I just wanted to stop by and thank you for your very kind words about my writing and such. If only the adcomms agreed with you! lol I'm still hopeful and stubborn, though, and certainly intend to see this through if I can. You're waiting for funding info - does that mean you're in somewhere? If so,congratulations!!

  13. Hey, have you heard anything further?

  14. case it doesn't work out funding wise at Catholic. I'm hopeful, though. I'd really love to work there.

  15. Nope, I've heard nothing from Penn State, lol - But I fully expect a rejection and would be shocked if it were otherwise. I can't afford Catholic without funding, so I'm deferring; they'll put me back in the fishbowl for financial awards next February. In the meantime, I'm retaking the GRE, taking GRE subject,& applying to a few other less pricy programs nearer to us in ...

  16. I noticed something while I was researching online classes...the two institutions we have bemoaned as being kind of hoity-toity ONLY offer grad level courses during the school day and NO classes online...talk about trying to maintain the Ivory Tower! ;op

  17. congratulations! You've had a great application year. I saw you do postcolonial theory - are you a Cohen fan?

  18. Yes...I don't think it is a mistake I was accepted there and haven't been anywhere else. I just have to wade through DHs crap...but man, I'm tired of fighting against all of the forces of the universe just for a shot at it, KWIM? Between the lovely assessment from UNC & this, I feel like crawling into a hole somewhere & screaming "LEAVE ME ALONE!" lol. SIGH.

  19. Did you hear anything yet from UVA? I got my rejection this morning. :o( Oh, well.

  20. hellooooooo! She was the editor of Arthuriana! She's a major Malorean.I was lucky enough to meet her @ a conference while I was working on my thesis, & she listened to me talk about it, & then about a week later I got an offprint of an article she had written on a similar subject in the mail - she knew I couldn't afford to buy the book it was in & was kind enough to ...

  21. HEY!! Waitlist isn't a "no"! And SMU means Bonnie Wheeler - awesome, awesome, awesome, I REALLY hope you get it!!! :o) :o) :o)

  22. who waitlisted you? At least you heard back semi-positively, yes? Good luck!!!

  23. Thank you! It was a blow, but I'm hanging in there...I still have an accept in hand and no other rejections thus far, plus on re-checking I find the same thing would be unlikely to happen at UVA b/c they don't look at transcripts that are over 10 years old...so, I'm still optimistic and hopeful. :o)

  24. Thank you so much for your support...I don't disagree with you, lol. But in the end, it is their decision to make, and in the end I think you're right - if they really are only about the bottom line, then I don't want to be there. I'm about the work. :o) I hope your results are better!!

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