I've been silently watching results pour in for the past couple of weeks, and wanted to chime in to say something after seeing so much disappointment.
I was checking this board in much the same way five years ago. I ended up getting a lot of rejections and a couple of acceptances into really wonderful programs without the funding I had hoped for. At the time I was applying for a PhD, and walking away from the process, and not into a program, was heartbreaking.
I'm thankful now that I didn't go into a program then. As years have passed, I'm glad I didn't spend them getting a PhD, and instead lived a lot of life.
That being said, that life brought me to working at a University, and back to the results page, hoping I can make use of my tuition remission... So, here we are.