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1 minute ago, Neist said:
i think any of us who haven't heard much are starting to get a bit antsy, but there's still plenty of time. Seems like February really is the turning point in timelines. If I don't hear anything over the next several weeks I'll be slightly more concerned.
I drink quite a bit of tea, or used to. It still bothers me now. I might go into some more soothing herbal blends. I love me some chamomile.
It's officially Februgatory now. I'm making it a thing, curtosy of The Interdisciplinarian.
And herbal blends sound good. Do tell us if it works.
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51 minutes ago, raaawr said:
hahaha! it's cool! I was laughing at myself too when I woke up again a few hours later. I was thinking to myself, "well, I don't care about you slenderman! I'm gonna turn on my ipad and ignore you." lol!
Lol. Ignore him and thank goodness that you don't have potential food poisoning one day before a preliminary interview.
2 hours ago, The Interdisciplinarian said:No word yesterday, thus I am in Day Two of what I have now termed Februgatory, the purgatory of February waiting on my acceptance or denial.
Oh my god! I love that term! Februgatory, i don't think Dante could have described it better.
2 hours ago, Neist said:Do you drink caffeine? I've been trying to avoid it of late. It's been making me a little too anxious.
In general, not necessarily because of applications.
Try tea! But not the lipton brand. See if you can get some black tea from an asian store. They have the best! It's so addicting!
2 minutes ago, Can-eh-dian said:Hey everyone,
January 15th deadline applicant here. I stumbled upon this forum because I realized something.. I'll admit, the stress of waiting is starting to set in! I guess this application means more to me than I led myself to believe.
I only applied to one school on top of it. Best of luck to all of you.
I'm with you in this. I submitted my application early, but due to some technical issue, no one started processing it until 5th Jan, so I think i've been put into the late batch (I hope so, at least) and I also only applied to one Grad school in the states. But a word of advice: DON'T EAT CHOCOLATE (long story)
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1 hour ago, haltheincandescent said:
Man, I knew I should have taken the Boston Psychoanalysis Institute up on their million and one GRE search service offers! I could already be interpreting these awesomely bizarre dreams.
That would be so cool! *.*
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43 minutes ago, raaawr said:
I think I'm having a bad case of application anxiety. lol. I woke up at 5:30am and I think I went on a hypnogogia hallucination cause I thought I saw a fuzzy, squiggly silhouette of a clown (I don't know why I know it's a clown, I just seem to know it) and slenderman watching me in my room. I turned on my ipad, hugged my dog and just hid under the covers until I fell asleep. lol! I was too afraid to stand up and turn on the light so I used my ipad as a light source.
Hahahahahaha. I'm sorry for laughing. But it's so good to know I'm not the only one whose anxiety is manifesting in wierd ways.
Boy, Freud would have a field day with us.
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Congratulations on everyone who got good news!
Puppy Update: My puppies are passed out in the front yard because they spent the whole night randomly playing. The WHOLE night. And one of them is leaning against my leg and nibbling my foot in it's sleep.
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19 hours ago, Kath! said:
Well, I don't see it hurting. Try and report back the results?
18 hours ago, Justwaitingforneuro said:I just came back. Got some chocolate here but maybe I should eat something real first. it is 2pm and I had an Ice tea today. I expect to hear back from the program I applied to this week, quite nervous.
16 hours ago, FoxAndChicken said:Hey wait! I can weigh in on this because I've read a bunch of the literature on philosophy of happiness!
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Basically the literature says that we can't really apply empirical data to happiness because we don't have a good idea of what it is. Any survey that purports to give data on happiness can be answered in ways that show contradictory motivations. (Example: ``Are you satisfied with your life?'' One could answer with ``no'' and still be quite happy, they just are the kind of person who strives to better themselves and sees satisfaction as a type of complacency. Welfare is probably not happiness for similar reasons.) Rational choice theory says you should do the things that you think will make you happy, though, so I fully support your decision to eat chocolate.
16 hours ago, raaawr said:speaking of chocolate, I've been eating white chocolate peppermint all day long. So basically my days are just me snuggled in bed with my dogs while watching netflix and eating chocolates. But according to results page, Parsons will be sending out invites soon. I'm getting nervous. :/
If anyone actually cares: do NOT eat chocolate. 1) I just ruined my diet
2) I over did it (even though I didn't eat that much, but it turns out my stomach can't handle it) and ended up vomiting this morning. YEAH?
I repeat: DON'T DO IT!
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10 hours ago, bioconfused said:
Hi everybody, Im a student from India, currently in my final and fourth year of my undergraduate degree in Biotechnology.
Vanderbilt - IGP
Hey @bioconfused, did you hear back from Vanderbilt yet?
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1 minute ago, Justwaitingforneuro said:
10 units of dark Swiss chocolate i.v. STAT!
That's it, I need to go grocery shopping.
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1 minute ago, Kath! said:
Well, I don't see it hurting. Try and report back the results?
Got it! Yeah! More reinforcement!
I need as much as I can get seeing as this is probably the week that I will either have my heart broken by Vanderbilt or be freaking out about the up-coming interview.
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8 minutes ago, Justwaitingforneuro said:
Hmm... as a future doctor I can say it should rise you happiness level by 23% for each 10grams. (You should really not trust me with medical decisions yet...)
I'm going to consciously ignore the legitimacy of that statement and use it to reinforce my desire to have chocolate.
But one question: what if my happiness level is zero? O.o
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Just now, Justwaitingforneuro said:
Always dark chocolate. I don't like any other
Maybe I should eat chocolate... On a scale of 1-10, bow much would that help?
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33 minutes ago, Justwaitingforneuro said:
Oh, I had no idea, can not-Americans participate too? Isn't it kinda cruel to bake a cake you can't eat?
I think I'll bake a cake this week, chocolate-cherry, I mean, better than pressing F5 all the time right?
Make sure it's dark chocolate. You'll get a better kick
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14 hours ago, piglet33 said:
Just to update you on my "one of those" day: my phone decided it would have a tantrum while I was cooking dinner and just froze, wouldn't turn off, wouldn't factory reset, nada. But I let it drain out and now it works again.
But then things started to get better
I found a game I love on my ipad (well I found that I had an ipad which I'd conveniently forgotten about), and I'm under on my food today so I get to eat sweeties! And I found some whisky!!! So now I have a hot toddy and Lord of the Rings (book version). I also have a meeting with a professor who I really respect tomorrow as I sent him an email basically freaking out about the mean boy (for lack of a better phrase) and the professor is super concerned for me. So meeting tomorrow. Steps in the right direction! Thank you all for being so awesome!
Glad to hear that things are finally looking good for you!
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Should I be worried if I'm hearing a clock ticking in my head now that it's Feb?
That was a joke BTW, I'm not actually going crazy... *looks both ways and jumps under the blanket*
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Undergrad Institution: The only Liberal Arts university in Pakistan
Major(s): Biotechnology
Overall GPA: 3.69
Type of Student: International
GRE Scores (revised):
Q: 160 (78%)
V: 160 (85%)
W: 4.5TOEFL: 117 (30 in Reading and 29 in all others)
Research Experience: 1 summer project, 1 summer internship
Awards: Cum Laude, Outstading Leadership Award, Pioneer of on-campus EMS
Applying to Where: Vanderbilt University and New Zealand. So far, rejected from most New Zeay applications. Got a call back for a pre-interview for one at the University of Aukland.
Random Rambling: I'm probably going to get rejected so I'll give it another shot after doing an MPhil.
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4 minutes ago, piglet33 said:
I'm sorry that grad school application season is the time you get diagnosed. Ar least you have adorable puppies?!
This doodle dump is seriously making me feel better - I can't just pick one to share with you all so I'm sharing the album http://imgur.com/gallery/cTwOP(I should warn there's a slight NSFW watermelon one)
*cringe* Saw that one.
But thank you. It does help.
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It's so good to see such an amazing community. So, my story is that I was basically diagnoses with borderline sever depression (on D Burns' scale) a week after I had submitted my application.
Let's just say that obsessively checking my e mail and the results survey isn't helping.
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1 minute ago, piglet33 said:
That is such an adorably cute puppy!!!!!!! Puppies definitely help - I'm actually on reddit/r/aww right now!!
Exactly! I thank the heavens that my dog gave birth at the beginning of January.
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35 minutes ago, piglet33 said:
Okay today is going so badly. I just need a good old cry but I can't even cry. One of the guys on my course is being totally unprofessional and is now purposefully sabotaging me as well as making increasingly incendiary sexist comments. I found out about the sabotage today. So to make myself feel better I took my reading down to the coffee shop to treat myself to a chai latte. And the leak that's been pooling in the roof burst ALL over me and my laptop. So then my friend invited me over to her house to try and cheer me up and I found eczema on my legs which I only get when I'm really stressed. So I come home to climb into bed and forget about the world and end up throwing boiling water all over myself.
Seriously, all I need now is an email rejecting me from PSU.
Oh goodness piglet, I'm so sorry to hear about that. Here's a picture of a 2 week old puppy on a mountain of other puppies. I've realized that watching puppies helps.
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On 1/28/2016 at 9:40 PM, Ash04 said:
Does anyone know if Vanderbilt IGP has sent all the invitations or if they are still reviewing?
Did any international students get invitation from Vanderbilt? I saw one on the survey
Not yet. I'm am international student waiting for a reply. It looks like they are taking pretty long this year.
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Me too!