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Hey all, I'll be peacing out for the rest of the admissions process. Trying to keep sane. Good luck and congrats to those of you who will be getting in!!

Has anybody received interview info from Emory yet?

He actually reached out to me and offered. I should have asked him to begin with, but since he's not on my thesis committee, I didn't include him initially.

Update: everything is working out. My 4th letter writer came through for me and he's been uploading recs for me. He's heaven sent, honestly . Anyways, all my of my applications have been submitted!

Gosh, I was obviously half asleep when I wrote this. *Emails and *see Anyways, thanks for the emotional support!

It's all good. Emailed can get lost or be confusing. I'll just try to go to their offices in person later on today. I have to TA today, so i'm bound to seem somebody haha. I slept and i'm less worried now. Sometimes a lack of sleep (hey papers, i'm talking to you) leads to paranoia and and confusion. I'll just chug my coffee and pray it works out.

I know that we have a general interview forum, but I feel like there's something to be said for tips in a specific area of study. So, past applicants that got interviews, what did you do? How did it go? What were the main things they tried to learn about you?

At this point, I'm going to ask for letters from other people. I don't want to burn bridges, because I will be taking courses with all of my recommenders this spring. I'm going to chat with the head of my department and see if he is willing to help me out. It will be super last minute, and I fear that it may make my other recommenders look bad. :/ I'll send another email tonight. :/

Yeah. I've actually had a few programs email to say that they're missing letters. I had another program give me a deadline for when LOR's should be submitted. Another program wanted all the LOR's in by the deadline and my LOR's didn't respond to numerous emails reminding them to pleeeaaassseee upload the letters because if they don't then my app would be thrown out. No response and no submission. I'm actually really upset. If i'm doing everything I need to do, why can't they upload the same letter a few times?

Freaking out about LOR's again.

If you take a look at the results page, there was a person from a top 30 or so program that said that the adcom really appreciated the way that she spent time talking about the faculty, program and fit. Then again, it's a program that allows you to write 3 pages single-spaced for your SOP.

For the vast majority of programs i'm applying to, i've read a good sized amount of work by POI. How would you determine fit if you don't read their work? I actually removed a school from my list because although the POI states that he's an Africanist (ad the school labels him as such), he is actually anti-africanist (all of his work argues against that categorization...yet he's labeled as one). Makes no darn sense. I wouldn't have realized that if I hadn't read his work.

Don't let these applications eat you up. Submit your best stuff, but don't invest the entirety of your sanity on wether or not school X accepts you. There are so many factors that go into wether or not you'll be accepted. I would leave the application materials as they are @Yanaka

As many as my credit cards (and fee waivers) will cover lol. I'm like @piers_plowman, the more the merrier to ease any nerves I may have.

Better yet, what can I buy my LOR's? What are good gift ideas? Besides wine lol

new criticism. Simply put, it's a theory that emphasizes closely reading the text alone and that every text is self-contained.

It's okay. I can't do anything about it. I'm just going to do relax. I had somebody email me an hour or so ago saying they would do it....the deadline has passed and it was a place that needed it in on time. I contacted the department and they said they wouldn't penalize me (especially since my application was submitted over a week ago). I'm just going to chill and watch some netflix and eat a burger or something.

I'm just here to chat instead of losing my mind over applications.Maybe I should post this in the chat section lol. This season I heard people talk about looking for non-theory heavy departments. What in the world does that mean? How does one study literature without theory? Is that a thing? Wouldn't we just call that New Crit.? Are there people out there reading books without using theory? I think that i'm surprised only because I was taught to use theory starting in highschool and anything besides that doesn't exist in my mind anymore lol. I'm just here to ramble. Ramble with me. Enlighten me. Let's just talk about the stuff we love and ignore the applications that are out right now

I'm applying there and I did not receive this email.

I spoke to one writer in person and he brushed me off as he left his office. I'm so frustrated. This really isn't fair. I barely have money for applications, and to potentially not even have it reviewed because of zero LOR's being in is so darn upsetting. I'm trying. I'm putting in the work. I really am. I just need to get a chance by having these applications in front of the adcom.

I'm getting a bit nervous over here. I've done everything on my end, but 2/3 recommenders aren't responding to emails, haven't submitted a thing, and are totally unavailable. This really worries me, especially because one of my programs requires that letters be in by the deadline. :/ I've called their offices a few times today hoping to get ahold of them, sent weekly emails etc etc. It's a ghost town over here.

I'm legit excited that two people have understood my avi and name reference in the span of a few days.

I'm so glad that you figured out the reference! BlackRose from .hack was my favorite. I'm an Africanist/ afro-modernist, so we're not twins I guess. lol. Good luck with this season !!

Tip #1million Don't read your application materials once you've sent them off. You're bound to find an error or something that, in retrospect, you wish you had changed. Boohoo. You can't lol. Just shake it off . Don't freak out like I just did lol.

Are we secretly the same person? Why are we applying to similar programs and the same number of programs? haha I've only finished two apps. I'm really trying to personalize each one and it's taking so long.