Babbling Dweeb

Same here. I'm guessing not for another week or 4 weeks, eek. I applied close to the deadline so I don't know what to think anymore. ...That being said, getting an email/letter on March 10th would be nice. Really nice. I chewed off the fingernails that had just started to grow back.

How are all of you holding up? Any news?

ghost writer

application fever

Good luck to you! With that attitude, I'm sure 2010 will be a good year for you. Take care!

Golden Child (Eddy Murphy anyone?)

Thanks for the offer...you telling me is enough. I saw that was posted in the results search by a few people (I'm 90% sure monkeefugg said she posted it once as well in there). I'm using March 10th as my "go by" date...but of course I still check 4 times a day Which program are you applying to?

The one I received early this morning was from messages@notification.embark.com -which was about the creative writing program (um...not my program). The only other email I received was from UnivAdm@newschool.edu saying my application had been marked as complete and ready for review. Did either of you apply online via Embark? And if so...are you checking the application status on their (NSSR) website? Just curious if either of you have any insight on your application preference going from "Not Entered" to "Accepted" or something to let you know it's worth checking http://www.newschool...n/appstatus.htm Added: (hit post too soon) monkeefugg -it's a tough call. I wouldn't read into it too much, but on the other hand I completely agree with you that it makes no sense how that email address was added into the mix. My only guess is that they have some admin people that review the contact information and maybe the email address on your resume was added during that time. Again, it still begs to question why they would enter anyone/everyone's email addresses when they ask you to provide a working one. Weird. For a long time I would get emails for undergrad programs at NSSR when I only ever requested information on one grad program. I used to think that was really weird as well.

Awesome! Congrats to you!

They got me this morning...almost died when I saw "NSSR Admissions" Thank you very much for your interest in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School....etc etc. I didn't apply to the creative writing program! ARGH!!

haha I love it! I finished my undergrad this December (I'm 32) and I had a few younger friends that would lovely call me "Dad". I liked to play the parent-child role up a bit at times. If I get into a masters program I'll be 34-35 before I could start my PhD...if my wife (currently fiancée) doesn't kill me first.

I just want to say thank you to all of you that shared your experiences and personal details about your life...it's really helpful to hear from all of you. My fiancée and I have talked about this a few times and we said that within 6 months of graduation (if I get accepted) we would see how things were looking and if we felt it was time or if based on work prospects, etc if we should wait a little longer. BUT that's just part of the "plan"...that's why I appreciate a lot of your comments. I'm not 100% on the kids bandwagon, she is. I'm not apposed to having kids, but I just want to make sure we're in some place that's stable enough (emotional, career, financial) I won't worry that I would fail as a parent. Thanks for giving me some hope that it's possible to do AND go to school (granted I want to wait until I'm finished, but mother nature works in funny ways).

I love this question for two reasons: 1) I often ask friends a similar question (if you could do anything with your life what would it be?). How many people do we know that feel lost in their career or in life? Many... 2) I completely changed my track more than once, but none ever so serious as the most recent change...BUT, I would not be the person I am today if I had just started in this direction from the beginning. I don't want to sound like a cheesy greeting card, but I really believe life AND education are about the journey. There is a really awesome computer algorithm often taught in basic programming classes and the analogy is often used in psychology as well, it goes something like this: Imagine yourself in a valley surrounded by hills that are covered in fog. Your goal is to climb to the highest point, but you can only move up, you can never climb down. How do you reach the highest peak? There isn't a "reasonable" answer other than to suggest you teleport around the grid at random until you calculate the highest point...but that's not the point. The point is to say that once you climb so far up one hill, it's a scary and difficult thing to try again. The hill is now familiar. (the long rambling story about me) From a young age it was clear that I loved to tinker with things and see how they worked, but I also loved building things...I had a drafting set when I was 8..blah blah blah. So I floated between mechanical engineering and architecture...worked as a drafting intern at 16 and 17. Then I switched to computers (networking/security) and stayed working in that field for the next 12 years. As an undergrad I was in either the computer science program or business computer program...and I was bored. I loved the business side, theory and basically any non-computer class because I felt like I was doing something. blah blah blah...I took 4 years off from school, continued working...blah blah blah. I went back to school during the summer of 2005 while still working full time in the computer industry and after retaking classes and adding in new one and taking on piles of homework, I started over and rebuilt both my academic and my career path. In December I graduated with one one of my professors liked to call a "schizophrenic" combination: BS Economics, BS Human Resource Management, minor International Management and minor in Management Information Systems. What the heck am I going to do with that? I'm interested in MA International Affairs and MA Economics (focus in development) because I want to take everything that I learned to help rebuild developing countries, infrastructure, maybe US municipalities and everything in between. I realized that it wasn't so much that I was good in any one subject, my only talent was in problem solving. I just learned how to apply it to engineering, computers, business, etc...I just needed to know "the syntax" to talk to the professionals in any one field and tell them how to come up with a solution. So I figured out that if I wanted to be happy and not feel lost, I just needed to learn just enough about almost everything I could handle. All that's left at that point is to find people who were stuck with something...and help them get unstuck.

dog pound

Well yesterday i received a slightly relevant and irrelevant email... Short story (hang with me): I visited the school last year during this time, knowing it was a year before I would apply. Meet with admissions, sit in on a class, go on a tour, etc. On the tour I met the asst. director of the program who was quite literally going through applications with another director in his office. One of the girls on the tour joked about having him pull her file and "star" it...and he did. So I made a joke about how she should have baked him cookies or slipped him $20 and the director turned to me and said "What's your name?"; he offered to "star" my application as well and I explained that I wouldn't be able to apply until next year at the earliest. He gave me his business card and told me to email him when I did and he would gladly star my application. Now a year has passed and I feel like a weirdo emailing the guy...but I did. Just a quick one paragraph email to help recall the memory. He emailed me back yesterday to let me know he remembered the story and the deal...and he was pleased to hear that I applied. Now I want to email him and say "Now that we're good buddies, can you tell me if I got in yet?!?!!?"

I have a slightly similar thing that happens to me. Ever since I was 4 or 5 I would regularly look at the clock at 9:11 am or pm and I used to joke and say that it was to remind me how to dial 9-1-1 (since it was still fairly new in the 1980s). For a long time after 9/11/2001 when I looked at the clock and saw 9:11 I obviously thought about 9/11. One day my mother was talking about how terrible she felt for my grandparents...you see my grandmother's birthday is 9/11, so now every time I see 9:11 on the clock, or on 9/11, I just think of my grandmother and keep her in my thoughts. I figure it's all about the perception of the day and trying to make the best of it. Hopefully tomorrow brings you GOOD news, or at least a sunny day. Or, tell your friends that on 3/3 every year you expect them to take you out for dinner & drinks...guilt them into it sidenote: my grandfather is an avid science geek, lives in Florida and always watches the shuttle launches (you can see some of them from the back porch), his birthday is January 28th, the same day as the space shuttle Challenger accident.

Good point. Last night I had a dream that I got my letter and called the dept chair from my undergrad to meet me for coffee so he could open it. It was an acceptance letter and I was happy (obviously), etc etc. That's the first dream I had about getting a letter in the mail, I'm glad it was a happy dream Now let's see what March has in store!

I think I would have ______ed my pants if I got a second email from them. March 1st...if I wasn't obsession over the results page before, I will now.

Ditto ditto ditto... One school, but I was going to apply to 5 schools. I don't want to take a year off between undergrad and grad school, but I thought it might make sense to save some money right now while I have a nice steady income. At the last minute I decided I would apply to one school...the one I was the most interested in from a comfort standpoint (I met with admissions last feb, sat in on a class and met current and former students). I figured: if I'm going to wait a year anyway, why not "play the lotto" with one school right now? I hit send on my application on a Sunday night...and I ran to the mailbox the following Monday to see if I had anything in the mail. You know, on the off chance that someone was working in admissions late on a Sunday night and read my application and thought I was such a god fit they should drive 9 hours and deliver a letter. Needless to say, I'm excited and nervous....and I love it

So I've jumped 50 times today (once for every random email), checked the results pages 5 times and checked the school's websites 4 times... I'm not getting very much done at the office while I chew my fingers off. The fingernails were last week, this week it's the fingers. Sigh. On the positive side, I see a few of you (and others) have gotten a letter or two this week -some of them acceptances too. Congrats! I hopefully the rest of us won't need a topic "April is it!!!"

Just looked at your area of study...from the Grad Cafe results page, there were two entries like this: So I would say for your program it looks like the first letters might go out March 10th...giving 10 days for the mail, I'd say March 20th isn't too far off. I also saw in the results for Int. Affairs (my program) that there were a few entries in mid-March and the first week in April.

Ditto...March 26th I am presenting a paper and I have so much more work to do it's not funny anymore. Which is why I'm on the site...procrastinating more. Somehow I think my paper will write itself

What program are you applying for there? I applied there...and they are the ones that sent me the email this week that had me crap my pants before I realized it wasn't what I thought it was hahah.

Ditto ditto ditto. Looks like some scoop for NSSR says the first batch of letters goes out March 10th...I don't know if I can wait that long. I'm okay with getting rejection letter(s), but it's the waiting that's so rough for me. I'm usually a patient person with stuff like this, but with this, I'm sure my bloodpressure is higher while I sit and wait. Sigh. Cheers to March

BS Economics, minor Int. Management, BS Org Behavior, minor Info systems... applying to IR/IA programs to focus on policy and restructuring. Hopefully the background makes sense to admissions and I don't come off as schizophrenic