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Yes, you could say they're...moving things along...keeping the momentum up in the thread...

"They don't use the entire coffee bean to get all the rich flavor of coffee, but we do use the entire human liver!"

LOTTA FLAVOR IN THAT GLASS, WYATT.

Every prune connoisseur should watch this: www.dailymotion.com/video/x466mte

Do you find you're partial to Metamucil at this stage, or Fibercon?

You're in the Literature scholar area, not that it matters, but as a Lit person with a BA in psych: I'm sorry, I know you must be disappointed. Psychology programs are so competitive. I remember many moons ago (2007) talking with one of my professors about applying for clinical psych grad programs, and hearing about how hard they are to get into. If you need any talk about what you can do with the UG psych degree, feel free to shoot me a message.

I think Wyatt Terps' estimate is in line with my own MA work. The short answer is "a lot." It honestly depends on the class, but overall, I always found the writing to be the most time-consuming, not the reading that was the basis for the writing.

Oh, when I told my mother I was applying for my PhD, she first asked me why anyone would want to do that, then dissolved into tears and told me a woman's only noble purpose in life was childbirth. When I'm not thinking about cognitive poetics, I'm mostly wondering if I'm adopted.

The librarian at the university I work for very seriously cautioned me against my PhD because I couldn't have babies then. Welcome to the Bizarroland for 21st Century Women.

I was laughing so hard at this...this whole discussion seems to be the theme of my my week. I had a guy on Twitter say he couldn't believe I'm an adjunct prof because I look too young. Like he wasn't accusing me of lying. I used this exact scene with a message that says, "What do you think happens the day women hit 30? Their faces melt off like the Nazis looking at the Ark of the Covenant?"

In all fairness, you applied to virtually the most difficult and competitive programs. I admire your moxie. A waitlist at Princeton is very respectable.

I received my rejection from Fordham last night. I felt relieved.

I don't know your personal circumstances, but I'd go straight into the PhD if it were me. When I did my MA, it was because my undergraduate work was in an entirely different field. There would've been no way I would have ever gotten into a PhD program for English. If they're taking you, that means you've demonstrated your preparedness, not only through your GREs, SOP, and writing sample, but also from your undergraduate work. If your undergraduate preparation lacks in any area, they will likely request that you take additional courses to address that. In short, I don't see any academic/professional benefits to your doing the MA first, but you may have personal concerns that make matters more complicated.

I love this.

Bunch of foxes over here in the English department. We should put a calendar together.

Hahaha! All right! Thanks!

Please don't take this as being condescending, but I have to giggle at this a little. I'm 31 years old and I'm about to start my PhD. I got married when I was 27. It may be that in your community, people get married much younger, but virtually none of my Master's cohort was married or even in a serious relationship, and most were your age or a bit older (I was 26 when I started). The age at first marriage in the United States has been steadily increasing for a couple of decades or more. There will be plenty of people left in the dating pool, and what's better: they will likely be academics like yourself. That's the circle you're going to be moving in for the next five years. There will be plenty of opportunities to meet someone. Within your cohort, at the library, at conferences, special interest groups, in the community. You can decide for yourself whether I'm washed-up in the looks department. hahahaha

No, no, no need to be sorry. I try to be very zen about all of this. I've done all I can in terms of the application and whether they choose to extend me an offer is out of my hands. Fordham is very selective due to their funding structure, so I considered it one of my reach-schools. However, as Tom Petty says, "The waiting is the hardest part!" They'll get around to telling me no eventually

Congratulations! One of my dearest friends is in her first year of that program and she loves it. I saw this morning and it was like balm to my soul; I was so afraid that someone was going to be like, "Oops, we sent that out on accident!" Meanwhile, I'm seeing all kinds of wait listing from Fordham and no PhD acceptances. Out of curiosity, do they wait list their cohort until they have an idea of available funding and then take them off the wait list? I did a search for trends in years past and didn't really find anything.

Louise, you treasure.

All right, who got into Fordham?

Hopefully they'll start spreading the news soon. Ugh, I did make that joke.

Are you the most recent UMASS acceptance? If so, did you get an actual acceptance letter? Please give us details because the rest of us all got emails about assistantships, but not formal offers/acceptance notification.

I am pretty sure that everyone who received that email (there appears to be 5 of us) has been accepted. What DGS was trying to tell me is that there's a procedure to this, I guess, so she wasn't at liberty to tell me outright that I had been accepted, but she sounded very positive on the phone and was laughing a lot with me. I have a feeling that if it had been sent in error, she likely wouldn't have responded with such levity. The email explicitly congratulates me on being admitted to the graduate program, so if it does turn out to be an error, my plan is to drive up to Amherst and stand outside the English department with a giant stereo over my head playing "In Your Eyes," à la John Cusack in Say Anything.

I believe the implication was, "You'll hear something this week."