FreakyFoucault

Seconded! Hopefully schools will follow another choice Backstreet Boys song from the same album: "Anywhere for You"

Congrats to every one who got in this past week!! 
A special congrats for those of you who had been shut out previously. I'm so happy for you! 

I GOT ACCEPTED TO OSU!!!
I knew my Home state wouldn't let me down!! 
Cannot breathe need help!! 

Hahhaa, that won't happen! I'm sure more good news is on its way! You gonna say anything to anyone at OSU in the meantime? I'm guessing their visit is a few weeks away, too.

DO AWAY WITH THE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH GRE!!! 

i will crash a visiting day weekend

Bingo! The emergency Jameson is indispensable. 

Being admitted to a program is just the first step on the Imposter Syndrome journey!

Maya Rudolph just guest starred in the most recent episode. So you know it's good. 

I think that covers it.

But ... but ... but ... but ... I suggested the title 

Niiiiice! Congrats!

I had to look this up — I’m hopeless! 

I don't want to be a boner (@Yanaka playfully raised this point in the Backstreet Boys thread), but having an acceptance does make things better. Work on Thursday was orders of magnitude better knowing that I'll be saying adios motherfuckers in a few months (or earlier -- I hope). 
That said, I'm still pretty anxious about the rest of the decisions. I've got nothing bad to say about OSU -- I'd be honored to study there -- but I kind of want to leave Ohio and the Midwest. I've been here for twenty-three years -- my entire life -- and I'd very much like a break. There's a whole world out there, after all! I want to eat freshly caught fish and smell the ocean spray; I want to live near a city with more people than I can fathom; I want to hear noise past 10 p.m.! 
But I'm still quite nervous, and I have a feeling that the next month will be a long one. 

I don't want to be a boner (@Yanaka playfully raised this point in the Backstreet Boys thread), but having an acceptance does make things better. Work on Thursday was orders of magnitude better knowing that I'll be saying adios motherfuckers in a few months (or earlier -- I hope). 
That said, I'm still pretty anxious about the rest of the decisions. I've got nothing bad to say about OSU -- I'd be honored to study there -- but I kind of want to leave Ohio and the Midwest. I've been here for twenty-three years -- my entire life -- and I'd very much like a break. There's a whole world out there, after all! I want to eat freshly caught fish and smell the ocean spray; I want to live near a city with more people than I can fathom; I want to hear noise past 10 p.m.! 
But I'm still quite nervous, and I have a feeling that the next month will be a long one. 

But thank God we're not moral philosophy professors hahahaha 

I think you misspelled 'acceptance'.

Thanks @wooshkah @FreakyFoucault @mk-8 @M(allthevowels)H and @bumbleblu !!!
 
Congratulations to @youngim and @Mellowyellow !!!

I've started working on a blog that deals with this. I think I'm going to call it "Southern Girl in the North Country" as a nod to Dylan. 

I'm pretty sure that all of the lyrics are still stowed away in the back of my brain somewhere. Every time I read the title of this thread, some of them surface and I sing to myself. 

This is a general rant/reflection as the application season is nearing an end and the waiting is happened. I know a lot of us have started considering what we wish we did better, but I'd love to know- what do you wish programs did differently. Also, I'm sure this goes without saying- but I'm not bashing, just recognizing how stressful this process is and the places that schools could improve. I'll start us off.
Just take the unofficial transcripts dammit. Don't make me pay $10+ dollars for each transcript that I have to send. Don't make me send paper copies. If you accept me, I'll happily go through the trouble. Quit with this community college bullshit. I just received an email from a program saying that once they receive an official transcript from a community college that gave me credit for a math class I took in highschool then my application will be complete. It was a dual credit class! It's listed on all my other transcripts and wasn't even taken at the college. Do you really care what I made in calculous 7 years ago? Do you really need that to review? Just give us the projected acceptance dates. Please don't make me crawl through the results page. Please don't give me anxiety checking the portals, email, mailbox... We're expected to turn in everything by a certain date and time. If our application is late, many schools won't even consider it. So I ask, why is this a one way street? We paid you the money, can't we at least know when we'll find out.   
What are your top 3 pet peeves of this application season?

Yessssssss. I love everything about this ... well, ya know, except the whole rejection part. 
I'm counting Chicago out at this point, and I'm beginning to think that Duke is a bust, as well. Looking back on it, my Duke fit was tenuous to say the least, but still. Ohhhh well. 

I motion for the creation of this thread on the condition that it’s titled “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” 
...and has the song playing on loop.  

Haha it's just so hard to flirt with early 20th century  poetry:
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." -Elliot
"As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –/First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –" -Dickinson
"The lonely peering eye /of humanity/looked into the Néant/and turned away" -Loy
"I came here to seek the spirit of mountains, and now/my soul is slipping from me for I only find the dead" -Joyce