GeorgeC07
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7 hours ago, hopefulPhD2017 said:
Slackers!
Kidding. Wish I had your self-control, @GeorgeC07
I only use my institute's email server for the applications, and the main server already has a filter turning all looking-like-junk stuffs into spam box, so I don't bother checking that part. Yeah you should try reading something. It's been keeping my mind off those stuff for half a month now.
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Uh, not the spam box because my email account only considers commercial ads as junks. But I do check my email on a hourly basis, after finding out that the remaining schools usually send out results through emails. Still early though, I anticipate the results to come around mid February.
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I've read more books in the two weeks I got my kindle than last year, and now I'm wondering whether I have spent too much time reading stuffs not related to my research project.
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43 minutes ago, Miss J said:
According to the programs I have applied to, the decisions are normally only released around early to mid March (Masters of Forestry), so now I am still all chill.
Not sure whether I will still be chill when March comes XD
Check this forum everyday instead of the application portals, and you'll find this to be more interesting.
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16 hours ago, cmykrgb said:
Most of my application went to trash too, 9 out of 10 to be precise. The only interview I have have about 30% post interview acceptance rate, too so I can't even be relieved yet. So I totally get how you are feeling now.
Just keep waiting and good things will happen.
I was sure like you when I received no interview invitation for a whole month. And then I received an early admission to a program whose deadline is February 1st without hearing from them except an email telling me that they have received my application. So don't panic, the good news will come.
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16 hours ago, DBear said:
I'm pretty convinced that all my applications are in the trash already. The last two deadlines are on the 15th, though my application was done over a month ago. This probably means that the last two applications I submitted will join their brethren in application heaven...
I have found that the only thing that really helped keep my mind off things this past month was being immensely ill. Being busy with work, hanging out with friends, none of that really helped
Hope everyone is surviving.
Wonder if @clarwyn's family is still packed and ready to go without a destination still...
Don't be too stressed. It's normal to wait during this month. Results from previous years really help determine the time span of when the admissions will come. For my field it's from February to April, so I don't expect any news until early February. No sweat, just enjoy the spring festival.
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16 hours ago, wet gremlin said:
@GeorgeC07 Well, I'm glad to hear I misunderstood you. The first line distorted my reading of the rest. I'm lucky that my parents never nagged me about singledom. How long have you been at your current school? It took me a couple semesters to make friends at my final undergrad institution, but I was also an old bag.
I've been at my current institute for two years and a half. We spent the first year at another university for classes, and then returned to the institute for research. I do have a few classmates with whom I can whine about the mess at the lab over dinner, but I don't think we are close enough to share my thoughts on private matters. We probably won't stay in touch for long after we graduate this coming June.
I do have a few close friends going way back to high school and we've been helping each other with this and that over the years. One of them told me that he hopes we could meet in New York next Christmas, and we both are applying this season. I think having a friend on the same path really helps with my anxiety.
Hey you know what, I've been fat since I was like 12, but that didn't stop me from making friends with those amazing guys and girls. I did wonder why my ex agreed to date me in the first place coz I was no where near looking cute or handsome, and I didn't ask her in the three years together. I guess finding someone like her would be harder than losing weight, and CHECK that's what I'm gonna do this spring.
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1 hour ago, wet gremlin said:
@GeorgeC07, I'm not sure I understand. Are you intimating that people with partners don't experience persistent harrowing thoughts? I certainly apologize if I've misread your post, but if not, that's concerning for at least two reasons. One, it seems you're implying that we don't deserve understanding and care. Two, finding a partner does not cute depression, anxiety, or any other problem, and it sounds like you might be expecting it to do so.
I was single through big chunks of the loneliest and most isolated years of my life. I suffered chronic depression and anxiety since childhood. I experienced suicidal ideations and intent from the age of 10. Now I'm happily married to my partner of four years. And I still go through all of the above. It's hard work dealing with them, but if I hadn't started learning how, with professional help, several years before this relationship, getting here and realizing I still felt all these awful things might have killed me.
Your destructive thoughts are not about being single, and they will not go away when you find someone. You're worth the investment in self-care, single or otherwise. Regardless, I wish you the best.
Gee I was expecting a serious response like this. I mean I was kind of joking about my own becomings. I've always been optimistic about life, pessimistic about possible outcomes, and that's why I always hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I don't think being single bothers me, but I do wonder when my parents are gonna start to bug me because of it. I was rather lonely when I graduated from college. No friends at the new institute and no hope in finishing what the professor had planned for me. But eventually I got through it, and I guess confiding to a close friend really helps. And in recent months I discovered a new way to unload the anxiety--nothing can't be solved by some delicious foods(I try to simplify my life now).
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2 minutes ago, koutlilor said:
@GeorgeC07 I actually have no idea. I'm in anthropology, not engineering. But I also have been back at work at UT since January 2nd and it feels like no one has been back on campus yet...
Ah it's been so long since I submitted the application to UT, and no news at all. They have the earliest deadline and it makes me wonder how many applicants on earth they have.
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@DrNuttyActually there're a few students with perfect GPAs. They even got top marks in exams that failed one third of all the students. But I'm way past the worrying-about-gpa stage, along with worrying about SOP, LOR and many other things. At this point I just let things slide. I've got tons of waiting ahead after all.
Keep up with the good work and good luck.
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1 hour ago, koutlilor said:
@GeorgeC07 I'm very confident that admissions committees are not made up of exclusively retired or emeriti professors. There also will probably be a senior graduate student or two on the committee and multiple current professors. Also, the POI you want to work with will have immense sway in the decision to admit you or not. If he/she/they wants to work with you, they will make sure you are admitted. Maybe that is not so in your field, but in the Liberal Arts/Social Sciences/Fine Arts, that is how the process works.
Yeah I found the decision making process quite puzzling. My friend at MIT told me what I posted above and suggested that I not bother contacting the professors in advance. And then other phd students told me to keep on with emailing the POIs even after submitting the applications. And then I found out that one school simply let the professors make the decisions and told me if one of them offers me GRA, I would be admitted. It seems that it's not just due to different fields, even the same programs at different schools have different mechanisms. But I don't bother myself with these anymore, I'm already so anxious.
BTW, do you know whether UT Austin have sent out their admissions? Then again, this question is more or less meaningless since different programs have different dates.
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@nixipixiI was going to comfort you at the first sentence and then I read the words "my dear husband". Okay, besides having been single for more than three years and having no clue when I'll finish my expertise, I really have nothing to worry about. I was fretting like you, whining about the anxiety and depression until two days ago when I checked the application website and found an admission. It's not the dream school but it's satisfying enough. So, now I only have to process my own destructive feelings of being single for so long, and frankly speaking, I don't think I have the courage to make it through this problem for another three years. Hope this helps.
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Don't ask anything then, just be yourself like usual. In many schools, the admission committee is made up of professor emeriti and retired tenure professors, since they know almost anything in their fields. Usually the professors who can recruit graduate students have little say in admitting which applicant, so even if you ask your POI, he or she probably can't give you any concrete response. But they know you've applied, and they know how good you are, so that's your advantage. Just be yourself, and don't appear to be pushy. It's gonna be fine if you just treat this group meeting just like previous meetings.
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1 hour ago, hopefulPhD2017 said:
I love a happy ending. Well done!
Thanks. Good luck with your applications!
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Okay I considered Chapel Hill last year and then I found out they don't have nuclear engineering program. In case you find yourself wondering when the decisions will be made all day, you can go to the result search and see when the first round of admissions came in the previous years. I found out about one of the schools I applied near the new year's eve, and yesterday I got my first result from that same school. What I hear from my friends in the US is that many schools have started to send out the first round of admissions, so go check it out. The good news may come as a surprise.
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@Brooke2016Same here, but I think it's more of a provisional thinking problem. Most of us didn't have the thought of applying to graduate schools when we were younger, but I guess few would think like this since there're so many factors and temptations working here. Now when I'm applying, I find myself competing among guys with much better GPAs, and when I was writing PS and SOPs, I kept wondering what my advantages over them were. Then I told myself what I had been telling myself since the fourth year of undergrad, "you can only seem to be effortless when you are sparing no effort". Yeah, I guess I'll try like hell in the following years.
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13 minutes ago, therisingpage said:
Congratulations!!
Thanks. Good luck with yours!
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2 hours ago, .letmeinplz// said:
See?
Thx haha!
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6 minutes ago, GreenEyedTrombonist said:
Congratulations!
Thanks. I'll post my result in the result section after I see the decision letter. Good luck to you all!!!
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1 hour ago, GeorgeC07 said:
Ahhhhhhhh the status on UTK has changed to decision made and the decision letter will be available in three days. I have a strange feeling that this is not good news. Gee I'm more anxious than before now.
Update
I see another description on the website saying "conditionally admitted and see the decision letter for the condition". Seems I got the first admission. Haha!
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2 minutes ago, .letmeinplz// said:
Or it could be great news, so there's that.
I didn't hear from them after submitting the application except a notification that they have received my application. I don't think they will admit a student without an interview, or maybe there's a small chance they will. Gosh I need food, like a lot. TOT
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Ahhhhhhhh the status on UTK has changed to decision made and the decision letter will be available in three days. I have a strange feeling that this is not good news. Gee I'm more anxious than before now.
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Nah I just get my hands glued to my kindle. But I can almost feel that something's coming soon, just don't know how much longer I have to wait.
How many times have you checked your spam box today?
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I'm packing for my vacation back at home, and one last thing I do before I leave my office is check the emails and this forum again. I mean these really get to me now. Bah I'm gonna enjoy my vacation and leave this behind for a while.