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Congratulations!!!

Yesss! Congratulations! (I'm still keeping an eye out for UCR, but it's great regardless)

Congratulations!!

Ah!! Congrats!!

Sorry to hear that about Duke. Oddly, I know someone who felt that exact same way about Brown but didn't get in. You've got some great options, so wherever you end up you'll be in someone's greener pastures (if that makes sense. It's my Grandma's phrase and I've never realized how odd it is until now). (also this was not meant to shame you for your disappointment or anything) Yes! I'm rooting for everyone to get into UCR all the time. I love that school and its faculty and its oranges.

oof. A moment of gratitude for resubmissions! I almost did this! With a Tim/Tom.

Congratulations! Always nice to have an option that takes you home :-)

Weird. Thanks for emailing. You're a star!

Congratulations!! I'm also waiting for the stragglers so I can start stressing about choices, and then start stressing about moving, etc, etc. Congrats! Aw, that's bittersweet, but still congrats. Maybe they'll come through with something?

Good luck!!

Did I miss Arizona State notifying? They are the last school I am waiting on, (except UC Boulder, but I can extrapolate there).

You get it! The first time the EGSA hosted an event and invited the MFA we spent the first fifteen minutes just looking around, surprised there was not actually a table with a bunch of wine on it. "Is it behind the soda? Is it under the table? Where do they keep it?"

When I was thanking my undergrad reccommenders, everyone got a candle and a card. Now that I'm thanking my MFA recommenders, everyone is getting booze. (The MFA's culture is very boozy, so I promise this is perfectly ordinary for us. Your mileage may vary.)

Congratulations!!

I just declined my spot at Texas Tech. I had an additional scholarship that waived teaching for the first year, so hopefully that passes on to someone else. Also, their DGS is the kindest, most helpful person in the universe and writing that email felt like breaking my own heart! I don't know if Decliner's Guilt is a real thing, but I've got it.

Yay! They sound like really good people. Fingers crossed for you.

Yay! Congratulations! Now you only have to worry about living in an area with such a subpar football team

I wasn't trying to accuse you of holding those views, and if I came across that way I'm sorry. When I mentioned those methods in opposition to what I was doing or had read, it's because those are the opposing ideas to what I'm talking about that do exist. When I say something like , "rather than presenting Academic English as infallible" it's not in response to you - it's in response to what a great many teachers do. It is just the other option in the wider conversation. Sorry if that was unclear, or I made you feel like I was attacking you for some imaginary pedagogy. I'm more including the other because it is a part of the conversation (which is happening everywhere, for what it's worth. This has been a consistent conversation among writing teachers since at least my practicum a few years ago, so it definitely bears discussing.)

@hibiscus what @CulturalCriminal said, but with the obligatory adjuncting suuuuuuuuuuuucks. I'm also not sure at what tier medical benefits become part of the package. I think Senior Lecturer at some places?

Whoop whoop! Impostering so hard I'm expecting to see Scooby Doo and his friends waiting to unmask me at my first campus visit. I have no advice, only the solid expectation that we will both get through this. @E. Coronaria I see what you're saying re: dangers of ignoring grammar. But like @EspritHabile I also have abandoned a rule and recitation based grammar (I teaching writing exclusively). Retention for recitation-based grammar lessons are iffy. It takes a year+ for something "sink in." Coming at grammar as it arises through the articulation of ideas is just a more effective way (for me) to introduce these elements. That way the class is geared toward the generation and clarification of ideas and opinions and grammar is a vehicle to make that possible - rather than a more abstract goal of learning X rules or demonstrating command of them. It's almost more valuable to teach academic speech as translation work or code switching, rather than presenting Academic English as an infallible standard. I don't think this is a disservice to students because a student who knows how to think critically and organize those thoughts is far more competitive than one whose only memorized Strunk and White. Mina Shaughnessy has a pretty cool essay that talks about how a flawed relationship between teacher and students is the "converting the nonbeliever" model - where one party has all of the information and the other party can only offer obedience. It's much easier - and more successful - to work from a place where both sides respect the sophistication of the other - partners on a journey whose destination both parties want to reach. If that makes sense. She put it better, probably. But working through essays together and using specific grammar rules as they come up presents these things as tools to aid in the larger and more important journey of students expressing themselves, rather than a test or quiz they're going to fail.

Me three! At least they didn't waste too much time. I guess :-/

Yes! Absolutely tell the department, especially if you want to speak to a faculty member, current student, or sit in on a class. I made a tiny joke to one of my programs about just showing up, and they seemed quite nervous about that. If you've been admitted into their PhD, they might already have funds set aside for visits (though if so, it will likely just be for you. A few programs have specified that they can't pay for the travel of guests so your parents would be on their own financially). If you're just visiting to see campus and don't actually want to speak with anyone, I guess going incognito is fine, but it would be a good opportunity to get a feel for the people and atmosphere.

Congrats!! It's never too late for good news.

Yes!!!! You were so psyched to get on the waitlist, I was really hoping you would make it through! Congrats!

Ah, you were so young and naive then...in the good old five hours ago.