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I'm not even getting false alarms! And, really, this obsession is becoming a problem. I was having a perfectly interesting conversation with my co-workers, but halfway into it I started having legit anxiety that I wasn't near my phone or computer. Hoping for news from OSU this week sometime. 

Accepted to Literature MA at Alabama (not Strode) with assistantship and Loomis scholarship.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got waitlisted for a Gender Studies program -- first non-rejection in two years; I suddenly feel like maybe I have a chance. 

ACCEPTED TO ILLINOIS AND NOMINATED FOR A FELLOWSHIP!

FALSE ALARM, DON’T PANIC: There’s a Chicago interview in Cognition on the board that really got my heart going.

They almost certainly will not care about something small like that, &, if that was enough to disqualify you, just remind yourself that a department with that little generosity is probably a bad fit for you. 

Sitting at work, actually doing something productive, then I think, "Oh my god, it's been five minutes, I need to check the results board and forum immediately."
This is going to be a long couple months...

^big mood. 
I have a PhD prep syllabus/thing made up but am too scared to do it - I feel like it's tempting fate in a maybe not-good way. Though maybe I should it. I don't know. Ugh.
TV is great - I just finished The End of the F***ing World and loved it and am starting The Good Place now - and I've started playing Hearthstone again. I'm not very good but it's a decent way to pass the time.
I've also been enjoying GC threads from years past  - I've decided it doesn't "count" if I'm reading old threads instead of refreshing the results screen. Some of the threads are hilarious and the shade that gets thrown around in mid-Feb during the '09/'10 years is high-quality. So, if you're needing to be on here but not wanting to be, seeking out threads with silly titles and lots of responses may be fun.

My husband has been trying to get a "head start" for the language exam (at least Maryland's), which they want you to take in the first year. You have to choose two books in the language that they'll select a 350(?) word segment from for you to translate, I think. I gave him Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin for Christmas since apparently this dude is part of the Russian 'new sincerity' and I wasn't sure if that was in any way related to the American new sincerity. So he's reading it in English to see if it could work as one of the books for his exam (if he even gets into/goes to Maryland)! The other would probably be a Nabokov novel.
I loved The Good Place, and highly recommend Mindhunter!
And don't feel disheartened--it seems like this is such an unpredictable process, a rejection does not mean you aren't a stellar applicant. With such super low acceptance rates, amazing applicants are going to be rejected sometimes, for reasons we may never know!

Nothing sane or healthy about how often I check my emails/the results board/this forum, but I'm not gonna pretend like that's gonna stop soon. I do make an effort to leave my phone in the opposite side of the house when I'm at home to reduce the obsessive check-ins. In the meantime, I am trying to read more--although I was silly enough to think I could get a "head start" with grad school and work on my reading list for that. After the implied rejection from Emory (since I didn't get invited to interview), I'm feeling disheartened and find I want to binge-watch TV shows instead. I'm currently finishing up The Good Place, Black Mirror, and The End of the F***ing World. I have plans to start The Crown, Dark, Mindhunter, Godless, Glow, and like 10 other shows. The End of the F***ing World is on Netflix and is definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea since it's dark comedy and pretty violent, but I'm crazy about it. I've also been playing Yoshi's Woolly World and working on jigsaw puzzles. Really living life while I wait, lol. 

Nothing sane or healthy about how often I check my emails/the results board/this forum, but I'm not gonna pretend like that's gonna stop soon. I do make an effort to leave my phone in the opposite side of the house when I'm at home to reduce the obsessive check-ins. In the meantime, I am trying to read more--although I was silly enough to think I could get a "head start" with grad school and work on my reading list for that. After the implied rejection from Emory (since I didn't get invited to interview), I'm feeling disheartened and find I want to binge-watch TV shows instead. I'm currently finishing up The Good Place, Black Mirror, and The End of the F***ing World. I have plans to start The Crown, Dark, Mindhunter, Godless, Glow, and like 10 other shows. The End of the F***ing World is on Netflix and is definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea since it's dark comedy and pretty violent, but I'm crazy about it. I've also been playing Yoshi's Woolly World and working on jigsaw puzzles. Really living life while I wait, lol. 

You've given me an idea for every time my mother calls. 
11/10 agree you're selected to all. 11/10 believe they are staring at the phone during the weekdays - waiting, hoping, praying you'll call back. Have you gotten any voicemails of just breathing? I'm assuming several. Nerves, you know - crazy things.

Congrats to recipient of the Emory interview!  Woo! 

I had spelling errors in my app that I didn't notice until I was helping a friend through their apps this year. I still got into great programs. "Bloopers" freak us out, but good ideas and scholarship still stand out . 
 
Don't worry too much 
Good luck with the app season! 

Arizona Late February-Early March
  Arizona State Mid February
  Berkeley Early February
 
Boston C  
Late January
 
Boston U Mid to Late January
 
Brown Early February Buffalo Mid February
  Carnegie Mellon Early February
  Chicago Interviews in Mid January Claremont Late February
  Colorado Mid to Late February Columbia Late February Connecticut Early February Cornell Mid February CUNY Mid February Davis Early February Delaware Late January to Early February
  Duke Mid January
  Emory Interview requests send out in Mid January.
  Florida Early March Florida State Early March Fordham Mid February George Washington Late February Harvard Late February Houston Mid March Indiana University Early Feb to Early March Irvine Mid February Johns Hopkins Late January to Early February Kansas Middle February LSU Early to Mid March
  Maryland Interview requests have been sent.
  Massachusetts Mid February
  Miami University Early to Mid February Michigan Late February Michigan State Mid to Late January Mississippi Mid March Missouri Mid February

I know I'll find bloopers galore if I dig, but I'm holding myself back from looking at any of my documents for sanity's sake. 

Time to bust the Jameson out from under the desk! 

I know I'll find bloopers galore if I dig, but I'm holding myself back from looking at any of my documents for sanity's sake. 

Today, I found myself extremely bored. As a result, I complied a list of when schools typically notify for first-round acceptances using data from the results page. After, I rearranged things in order by  when programs typically notify.

Michigan State-Dec 10? (Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures)
OSU-Jan 25
Wisconsin- Jan 28
Duke- Jan 29
WashU- Jan 31-Feb 2
Northwestern-Jan 31-Feb 2
Berkeley- Jan 31-Feb 2
Chicago- Feb 1/2
Minnesota-Feb 2
Vanderbilt - Feb 2/3
Texas- Feb 3/4
Indiana-Feb 3/4
Purdue-Feb 3-5
UCLA- Feb 4/5
Johns Hopkins- Feb 5
Davis-Feb 5/6
Penn State- Feb 5/6
Pittsburgh-Feb 5/6
Nebraska-Feb 5-7
NYU-Feb 6/7
Maryland-Feb 7-9
Rochester-Feb 8/9
Emory- Feb 8-9
Irvine-Feb 8-9
Illinois- Feb 9-12
Brown-Feb 10-12
LSU-Feb 11
Rice- Feb 12
Buffalo-Feb 12
Missouri- Feb 12-14
Delaware-Feb 12-14
Kansas-Feb 14
Carnegie Mellon- Feb 14/15
Alabama-Feb 14-16
Cornell- Feb 15/16
Miami University-Feb 15/16
Michigan-Feb 16
Connecticut-Feb 16
CUNY-Feb 16/17
Santa Barbara-Feb 17-19
Stanford- Feb 17-Feb 20
Princeton-Feb 17-20
UVA- Feb 19/20
Rutgers-Feb 19/20
Harvard- Feb 20-Feb 22
Columbia- Feb 20-22
Penn- Feb 20-22
Utah-Feb 22
Notre Dame-Feb 23
Yale- Feb 24/25
Washington-Feb 25
Syracuse-Feb 26
Chapel Hill-Feb 26/27
Oregon-Feb 27-28
Iowa-March 2-5
Florida State-March 4-7
Mississippi- March 5-7

I have one in the works! Will be posted later tonight.

As an additional alternative, March 21 is Naw-Rúz, the Bahá'í new year, if you still need time!

Not exactly an English program (but lit theory related!), and not exactly an acceptance, but I just got word from UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness that I am on their short list! I was not expecting to hear from them for a while, especially because they don't do interviews... but I'm thrilled! Final decisions should be out by mid February. Fingers crossed for good news.

@FreakyFoucault I work in a university research institution and spend a lot of time banging my head against a wall doing the same, except with doctors *and* academics. I like a lot of what I do, but I've gotten very fed up working to improve other people's projects instead of conducting my own. In short, I'm bored. It's been really useful, though, in helping me to narrow my interests. I've specialized in early modern stuff for a long time, but I've been able to refine my focus--early modern medicine and medical rhetoric. I've been pleasantly surprised at the parallels between my interests and the conversations taking place in contemporary health sciences. 
 

Ah so excited for you guys! I'm also proud of myself for actually being excited for you when I also applied there. And slowly feeling anxiety rising
Let us know how it goes!

Okay so this isn't an acceptance but my husband just received an email saying that he is on the "short list" for the University of Maryland and inviting him to a Skype interview next week! We are local to the school so he's going to offer to go in person (not sure if that's an option) but I AM SO EXCITED FOR HIM!
P.S. Any PhD interview tips would be super appreciated!