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Hey CREESies, has anyone else been given a deadline by which they have to accept or decline an offer of FLAS funding? Say, March 30th for example? This kind of throws a wrench in the works and I'm wondering if there's any hope of receiving an extension on that.

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I like the reviews that are typed in all caps but otherwise thoughtful. Like a really considerate person who doesn't realize (s)he's always shouting.

Congrats, ivan -- I know exactly what you mean. Good luck! edited to say: Thanks, lyoness!

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Wait listed today! Anyone plan on turning down his/her offer? I give a pretty mean e-highfive.

Yeah....короче, it's complicated and too much to get into here. But I haven't been offered funding at IU. The MA program is somewhere else! Mystery! Intrigue! (Okay, it's UNC, which is just too great not to share.) And thanks!

Congrats, impending! I will surely do so. Thanks, pelevinfan! Yeah, I was ready to be done with selection problems but it's still exciting. And I don't mind you asking: Duke Lit.

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anxious_aspirant and coffeeplease, thanks for some prompt and reasonable responses. The reason the deadline is so early, I think, is that the funding is not from the MA program itself but from an FLAS assistantship which is administered by the department of education and my feeling is that the program is beholden to the DoE's deadline. But I'm just guessing and will consider asking for an extension anyway (just in case). I just don't want to jeopardize anything at that program in case the PhD offer doesn't come through (especially because the DGS at the MA program is a POI for me -- don't want to sour a relationship from the get-go, you know?). I'm definitely going to write to the DGS at the PhD program for a timeline. And then I'm going to walk away from my computer.

I thought I was done: I'd only been accepted to one program with funding and thought I had an easy choice. The program is an MA in regional studies at a terrific school that's a great fit. But I was just notified I'm on a wait-list at a PhD program in Lit, one of my top choices and a place I'd potentially want to end up after finishing that MA program. Here's the tricky part: I have to accept or decline the offer of funding from the MA program by March 30th, obviously much earlier than many offers would come through for waitlisters. Any thoughts? I'm sure someone else has gone through this, maybe there's an earlier post I missed? Sorry for the grim tone. I was going to try to be funny but all those idiot feelings of uncertainty are flooding back. And I'd probably be more stupid than funny anyway.

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No one in particular, as idiotic as that sounds. There are very few institutions that offer beginning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the MA level so I just applied to a bunch that seemed appealing. I'm kind of a Slavics noob and naively hoped to go straight to a (comp) lit PhD but since I've been shut out it looks like I'll have a very welcome two-year opportunity to dig into BCS and Slavic lit before taking a second shot at PhD applications. But, to feebly answer your question, I'm pretty excited about Jenkins and Dzumhur. ...among others.

I should add the caveat that I'm only a hundred or so pages in. But...still. And there's a podcast?!

I love when someone speaks a word or phrase and their pronunciation betrays whether they heard it first without reading it or vice-versa. I first remember reading the word "determined," for example, on a text box in Duck Tales 2 on NES and pronounced it "DEE-ter-mind" for at least a year or two. No one knew what the hell I was talking about.

Yeah, 20th Century (post)socialist lit -- but really I just mean USSR and Balkan -- and collective memory, nationalism, etc. I'm sort of reformulating now that I know I'll be in a regional studies MA program and not a lit PhD so who knows where I'll be in two years. Have you two read Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate (Жизнь и Судьба)? Grossman, obviously, is a Soviet-Jewish writer and his Viktor Shtrum character seems to be him writing about becoming aware of his Jewish heritage by way of the events of WWII. Probably you both already knew this, I was just excited to have something germane to add to the conversation.