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Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. The support and love here is incredible. Hearing about your stories, thoughts, and advice, is both inspiring and humbling. It puts my situation into perspective, and I feel that there's never such a thing as hopeless. Reading your posts made me rethink my self-pitying, woe-is-me attitude, and I feel that I needed this. I'm going to take some time off and rethink my life goals and desires, and maybe some day I'll look back on this and say - as cliche as it is - it's for the best. I appreciate every single reply, and my heart sincerely goes out to those who are in the same boat as me. Thank you all for your compassion and wisdom.

Hi everyone, After doing some searches in the forums, I know that some people have already asked about being rejected everywhere...but I couldn't find any specific for English programs. I haven't gotten the official letters yet from some schools, but I know I've been rejected from looking at the results board. It's been very devastating, and I'm still figuring out how to break the news to people. I don't know how I'll be able to handle the embarrassment, especially since everyone said they believed in me. I was wondering if anyone had any advice about moving forward. I think I might reapply, but the wounds are still too fresh for that right now. I'm not employed at the moment, and I don't know what kind of jobs are available for someone like me, who's just been so focused on academics and has no real-life internship/job experience. I've already starting mentally preparing myself for grad school, and now that I'm in this position, I almost feel like I'm having an existential crisis.