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  1. day_manderly
    With all due respect to Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Well, but that means that we can try talking ourselves into not worrying tomorrow. I dropped Harry Potter at the 5th book, because I remember it perfectly as well. Nerdiness truly runs deep on this forum. Your POI name situation doesn't seem embarrassing at all to me. Perhaps everybody is just too self-conscious. So happy for you and your interview. That is awesome! Let's hope good news keep on coming your way! I suggest a new routine for you: refresh your e-mail, google UNC Campus (or Chapel Hill weather, or Chapel Hill parks, etc.), rinse, repeat.
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    Wait, three-day? Why?.. Is tomorrow off too?..
  3. day_manderly
    Ok, so I've checked the Results page. Doesn't look like there is a clear pattern... 2016 - interview invites went out on the 21st of January. 2015 - January 15, 2014 - January 31st... Suspense, nail biting, omg...
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    Tell me about it... I need to sleep! (European time zone). Try reading a page-turner. I remember not being able to put The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo down a few years back, for example... Also, The Martian - the best read ever. Has some bad-ass problem-solving going on too. I've got my 'grad school' e-mail app installed on all my gadgets, and each time the phone/tablet buzzes with a n y e-mail - from the 'grad school' e-mail or from the regular one - I feel how my insides do a barrel roll... What do you mean 'backwards'? Gee, you've already got one interview up your sleeve, that must feel gooood.
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    I have just reread two of my SoPs, for my top choices. There is a typo in one, and the other one feels sooo dry, and overly academic... I guess I am in the freakout stage. How are you all doing?..
  6. day_manderly
    Guys, tomorrow is the Monday of the week when we will take our obsessing to the whole new level...
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    Congrats!!!
  8. day_manderly
    You just push the 'quote' button in my response.
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    How did you find out about it? E-mail?
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    47. Go dancing, as there is a good chance you have not done a lot of that, being nerds and all. 48. Decide on a signature sweater/shoes/perfume/dish. Research it. Make sure you know as much as you can about it. (I myself spent a day reading about classic perfumes, and now I can totally speak the language: 'aromatic' (as in the type of notes), 'oriental' (meaning a fragrance family), 'base notes', etc.
  11. day_manderly
    Don't worry, imposter syndrome is actually this special mark on the psyche of all future doctoral degree holders.
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    Wow, I am also rereading Harry Potter! It's a Christmas time tradition! I read the books prior to going to sleep, mostly. And I read Surviving, too. It's actually a bit anxiety-inducing, no?
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    Are you guys checking the university IT accounts compulsively? I keep looking at the 'Application ready for review' and wondering whether my schools will write 'Application under review' eventually, or maybe I will just learn that it was under review after I get some news into my mailbox.
  14. day_manderly
    I am reading Academic Freedom and the Modern University by John W. Boyer, and One Hundred Semesters by William Chase.
  15. day_manderly
    Same here. Got this e-mail, too.
  16. day_manderly
    Aha, maybe, it makes sense to re-read the last year thread! So silly of me not to have done it before.
  17. day_manderly
    Does UPenn do Skype interviews for international applicants?.. Does anybody know?
  18. day_manderly
    Just how wrong? Like, completely, absolutely wrong? Perhaps, dropping a professor a very-very short and very-very polite e-mail? Just saying 'I have applied to [their school], and I would love to work with you. My word processor ... I am just writing because I do not want you to get offended and assure you that this was not a mistake due to ignorance'. I'm not sure about this advice, it's just something I myself would consider doing.
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    Yes, that's sort of what I feel too, actually. I think I have an idea about the etiquette - I suppose the correct way would be to write, but write a really short note.
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    So I spoke, personally, to a few potential advisors - early in this app season, and then I have applied to their schools. Should I drop them an e-mail saying that I have indeed applied, like I was planning to? Is it a good idea (reminding of myself, making sure they pay attention to my app), or a bad one (bothering them too much, drawing unnecessary attention to myself)? I am wondering whether there is the proper etiquette. What do you think?
  21. day_manderly
    Goooood for you!
  22. day_manderly
    So I had to send this important document so that my top grad school could qualify my application for the review. It wasn't me sending, but the third party (soft of like ETS, but not quite), and they didn't specify that the Office of Admissions was the receiver. It's a FedEx delivery. Will the Office still get the document on time if the address just says 'The Graduate School X', without the concrete office name?
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    Yaaaay for obsessing! I still have 1 app to go... Can't wait to commence going nuts myself.
  24. day_manderly
    Skype?..
  25. day_manderly
    You can check the sample here or just look around if you are not sure... I think I had the file of my CV opened since like March, and I would add/change something regularly... Whoops, this thread is not about CVs. :/
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