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Crow T. Robot

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  1. Congrats to everyone who heard good news today!! Sounds like this week is off to a great start for a lot of people.
  2. Another day of silence over here, too. It's finally starting to get to me.
  3. Really hoping to hear back from Duke Literature this week....................... Historically, it looks like we're also approaching Rice and UT Austin acceptance dates--maybe next Monday if not this Friday?
  4. I am chalking up Chicago as an implied rejection. Alas, being advised by Sianne Ngai was not to be. Still going to read her books though...
  5. Massive congrats, Mellow!!!!! If you don't mind my asking, what are your research interests?
  6. I recently took some old Gradcafe advice and read Eric Hayot's The Elements of Academic Style. Lots of great perspective in there on everything from building "professor-like" writing habits, to the relationship between style and meaning, to more in-the-weeds stuff like citational practice and paragraph structure. Would definitely recommend! Now I'm on to Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, a thought experiment on what would happen if humans were to vanish suddenly. Not sure how I feel about it yet--pending story. Then maybe some Henry James? We'll see.
  7. Huge retweet @ the resentment toward being auto-pegged as a "grammar nazi." Usually for me it takes the form of "Yikes!! I better watch my grammar around you!" Other than that, I find myself getting pretty agitated when people say "subconscious" rather than "unconscious"...
  8. Yup, it was the whole adcom! I'm not sure what their notifying schedule is going forward, but best of luck!
  9. Right, looks like they were late March last year (much to Gradcafe posters' dismay it seems) but early February in 2016. What a range......
  10. Right? And I was confused by the app portal, as it seems like the info on mine (on the "Checklist" at least) is 2 years old. Did Stanford mark your app "Complete" yet? Mine is still "Incomplete" and it still gives me anxiety, despite their messaging re. not worrying about that status and them reaching out to applicants they still need materials from...
  11. Anyone else waiting out Stanford MTL? And @WildeThing, I see you also applied to Berkeley Rhetoric--any clue when we could hear back? Seems like their window fluctuates wildly from year to year...
  12. Thanks @ranny820! I keep hearing great things about Minneapolis--totally understand the cold concerns, though... I'm telling myself I'd be used to it since I'm originally from Massachusetts, but I suspect I am being very naïve about that... And I have heard back from Duke! I had the initial Skype interview on Monday--if I had to sum it up in a phrase, I'd go with "amicably intense."
  13. Thanks, @Mellowyellow--I'll absolutely keep everyone posted! Fingers crossed for sure...
  14. Congrats, @ranny820 and @jelris, and good luck on the interviews!! I applied to one half comp lit program, and I half applied to one comp lit program, so I suppose I applied to one comp lit program total. That is... I applied to Duke Literature, which isn't exactly comp lit but seems to get referred to as comp lit by Duke students in other departments, and I applied to UMN CSDS, but after a conversation with the DGS, we switched my acceptance (!!) over to Comp Lit on the adcom's recommendation.
  15. Thanks, @Mellowyellow! I think the interview went surprisingly well. The one thing that surprised me, but that I enjoyed, was how focused it was on the content of the project I proposed in my SOP. There was only, like, a nominal gesture toward 'why Duke' (presumably they could sense my thirst), and the rest pretty much resembled a particularly lively conference Q&A. It was definitely intimidating trying to explain, on the spot, the relevance of Jameson's work to mine... when he's right there in the room. But it was a fun challenge, and all the acdom members were all very personable and engaged. Good call on referencing actual numbers rather than Gradcafe whispers. I don't know if there's an uptick in admits or not; I'd trust your sources over the stuff I synthesized from old posts for sure. But given those numbers, things are looking encouraging! Best of luck to you too!
  16. Super delayed response, but thanks for the well wishes and for passing all that on!! Very heartening to hear about the tenure track job for sure. And I've actually never been to Minneapolis--shameful, as I'm a rabid Replacements (and of course MST3K) fan. I'm excited to visit!
  17. Wow, such activity! I love it. So happy to see people get in so many cool programs. Massive congrats, @a_sort_of_fractious_angel, @FreakyFoucault, @EspritHabile, @bumbleblu, and @clinamen (I think that's everyone but just in case congrats to all)!!
  18. Hey @Mellowyellow, I did! I had my interview on Monday. After obsessively trawling through past Gradcafe threads on Duke Lit, it seems that in past years they've been interviewing 20 or so applicants via Skype, then sending down 8ish for an "admitted students weekend" that's really just another interview, then offering admission to 6 of those 8. Seems like those who got the in-person visit but didn't get an offer are waitlisted. To your point, though, I'm not sure exactly what function the 10-minute interview serves in their process... I can only guess that the decision re. which 8 move on from that pool (if that's still how they're operating) involves more factors than just that conversation. Best of luck to your friend! And speaking of interviews, huge congrats on Chicago!!
  19. Just got an acceptance from Minnesota Comparative Literature! I applied to the CSDS program in the same department, but I had a lovely phone conversation with the DGS where she recommended I switch to Comp Lit. My first acceptance--I'm overwhelmed! The pain from Chicago is healing.
  20. Another Chicago interview hits the boards--more congrats, anonymous poster!
  21. I like that theory! And my last name is in the back half of the alphabet, so there's that........
  22. Whoa, congrats to Chicago interviewees!!!!! Any clue whether the email notifications are staggered throughout the day, or whether they all got sent out at once and that's it?
  23. In undergrad, I was a linguistics major for a hot second until I took a morphology class... I was not prepared for that level of 'mathiness.' Once I settled on English, I ended up doing a lot of 19th-century American, and then even more specifically a lot on the late-19th-century realist novel, which I ended up writing my thesis on. At first this was mainly because one of my absolute favorite professors taught in those fields, but I ended up with a longstanding love for Howells (underrated), Wharton, James (if you want to call him American), and co. And not to mention, outside the novel, Dickinson. Then, honestly, in grad school I encountered Žižek and nothing has ever been the same since.
  24. I got a Duke Literature interview!!!!!!!!!
  25. Process improvement! I would love that. Much more humane, I think.
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