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AHHHHH SOOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!

I would be refreshing the portal constantly. Good luck to you and not going crazy in the next two days.

omg- what a tease. 48 hours is so long!

I am so holding out hope for you and crossing all my fingers/toes. I hope the Syracuse interview goes well!

Oh no! I’m so sorry. I’ve been really lucky with a department who understands this year.

Yikes! I teach Friday so when I told my students about my second acceptance, they asked if class was gonna be cancelled again. Hahahahaha

No, it's the same day as the UT Austin visit (and also Texas Tech, and at this point, I'm assuming every program I should get accepted to will have an event that weekend).

Not that anyone asked, but I want to speak to this too. Going for my MA, I picked the program closer to home because one of the reasons was that I wasn't sure I could be happy so far away from home. It ended up being the right decision, but at the next level, I'll definitely be farther from home. There is no question about that. When I told my mom about my first acceptance this year, the first thing she said was "That's really far from Virginia." It hurt the first thing she said wasn't that she was proud or congrats (that did come later, though). When I think about it from her view, though, I realize what this means: I was her first kid to leave, my sister (who finishes undergrad this year) will also be moving far, and her whole life she has worked to allow us to pursue these opportunities. It's hard for her to let us go. She's always supportive though, in the end, even if she constantly tries to guilt me into staying close to home. My 86 year old grandma doesn't quite understand what I'm doing, but she knows I'm in school and her motto is "education is #1," so she's always really happy and excited for me when I tell her I'll be getting a PhD. Being away from my grandparents is kind of scary to me, because everyday I think about how old my grandma is and how every time I visit my family could be the last substantial amount of time I spend with her (not to bring the mood down even more). My grandpa (on other side of family) is very concerned with the money. He's carefully looked over all my offers, asked someone he knows at a PhD program if they're "good," and given me his recommendations. It's a bit frustrating because it makes me feel like I matter less than the numbers, but I know he just wants to me to be okay. It's also quite frustrating that he doesn't take my opinion on "this is a good offer" or not because I'm not yet in a PhD program. I have been living off a graduate stipend for the past 1.5 years. He is, though, at the end of the day, really proud of me. So, I'd like to re-emphasize @renea's lovely point: your family will be proud of you. They might not understand your choice, but they'll get there. Explain why this is important to you. Explain why it matters. They may not listen at first (looking at you, mother-8), but they will.... eventually.

Congrats!

This is a very whiny thing to complain about, so pls tell me to shut up if need be but.... WHY HAVE ALL THE VISIT DAYS FOR THE PROGRAMS I'VE BEEN ACCEPTED TO BEEN ON THE SAME DAY? Like, what is it about the first weekend of March that makes every program want to have their visit day?

Congrats @maengret! I was accepted to Iowa State's RPC PhD!

Right? I feel like my advisor is friends with like 90% of these people anyway so I'm like.... pls be my friend too

I 100% have been doing the same with FB accounts lately. Some of them have some pretty lax privacy settings, she says in a way that is definitely NOT creepy.

Congrats!

Huh, that does feel really late. I'm sorry

When people ask me what it means to research rhetoric/writing/composition, I give them this: Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." What Aristotle never saw coming was the Internet, cell phones, and women talking about rhetoric. So I'm trying to figure out WTF is going on with all that.

I was terrified to start teaching because of these reasons. I was 22, short, and look like a child. But like @Wooshkuh points out, they pretty much respect you because you are their teacher. There’s a definite power difference there. They’re going to take you seriously because, honestly, they really don’t know anything anyway (they’re mostly 18!) i stressed about what to tell them to call me. I eventually settled on “call me what’s makes you comfortable,” because they’re going to do that anyway (lol). I always say it’s okay to use my first name, because I hate being Ms. 8, but students will call you Ms/Mr, Dr, professor, whatever. Some call me by my first name. If you ever wanna talk more about teaching for the first time, feel free to PM me! I love this stuff.

They’ll probably ask if you have any questions for them when all is said and done, so definitely think of some!

They're licking their wounds over the super bowl loss.

YAY! congrats!

Thank you! And thanks @bumbleblu! My best friend had some very choice things to say about cowboys

I've never been to Texas at all! I'm going to PM you shortly, haha.

Thank you @FreakyFoucault @unicornsarereal @Warelin @JustPoesieAlong! Right? I know they're probably competing for similar students, but.... come on......

Thank you! I'm somehow already out of reactions for the day...

I just got accepted to Texas Tech! Their visit day is the same as UT- Austin, though.