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I joined Draft expecting to endure drama to get more information. Maybe I'm just skimming for information but I don't pick up on too much tension in the group; however, emotions are certainly high. Most people just seem to have different ways of 'web-coping' and this calm environment certainly suits me better than Draft, that's for sure!

yeah i think michigan is over unfortunately. wasn't one of my top choices but every mark off the list hits and dings hope

Both...oh dear

Heads up, Michigan Fiction acceptances are coming in. Just thought you ought to know *passes out*

I don't know if you saw earlier, but I actually attend Notre Dame right now and had Joyelle for my advanced creative writing course (she wrote one of my recs actually!) - there is a strong, passionate liberal political base in the student population here and the arts & culture scenes are finally coming into their own. South Bend has been ailing for a long time but there are signs of hope, and, like you said, " all the more reason to get over there and stir up some change"! Joyelle's perspective on the whole conundrum is right here, actually: https://bigother.com/2013/06/11/interview-with-joyelle-mcsweeney/ This is my favorite part: " My muse-en-abyme is the Rust Belt, specifically northwest Indiana, where I live. When I moved here in 2006, the economic pain of the place was just palpable: everything was out in the open, from the foreclosed buildings to the SRO motels to the contagious violence that seemed to move around the city to the expressions on people’s faces, people’s postures. In a few years the rest of the world would reveal that it, too, was suffering. In the East Coast suburbs where I grew up, everyone hides their debt behind a façade of affluence. In fact, affluence is debt—you can afford a bigger house, bigger car, second home, new bathroom because you are managing a debt. Here there’s no façade. Capitalism has cracked here, left buildings up and left the ground and water poisoned and the community drained of resources due to rapacious attacks on the tax code. It’s reverse Wizard-of-Oz here—I fell asleep and woke up someplace made of pain, a place that couldn’t hide its pain. In this way it turned out to resemble the majority of human habitations on earth and most non-human habitats, too. "

oh dear. I applied to Florida and i've heard nothing.

nice, i go here for undergrad and i've fallen in love over the course of four crazy years. i can vouch for the awesome faculty. as i haven't gotten anything from ND yet i'm guessing it's not a great result for me, so it goes! only formal result i've had so far is waitlisting at Arizona. not an ideal result but i guess it means my work is in the ballpark of acceptance? i applied to thirteen programs. thirteen rejections (eventual or immediate) would be hard, but if that's where my life is going i guess i'll make the most of it.