Naito
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@costevens Yeah, Heartless Harvard!
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Ah, I almost forgot! Happy New Year! 恭賀諸公 稱心如意，美夢成真，金玉滿堂，更上層樓，名列前茅，加官晉爵，五福臨門，六六大順！！！
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I just realized that all of the Harvard PhD rejections for people on here on the results page came out on Valentine's Day! 如此狠手，碎我心思！
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@costevens Wow, CONGRATS!!! Woohoo!!! Yay!! You're a smart cookie!
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@spicyramen Harvard PhD admission is like a Pandora box! True story: A friend of a friend applied to Harvard, Penn, Columbia, and two more programs I can't remember, and got rejected from all of them, except Harvard. Harvard was the last one that didn't reply yet. Then she emailed the school asking please, tell me I got rejected already, so that I can move on with my life! Interestingly, Harvard replied, saying "Oh no, you actually got accepted! It was an unanimous vote!" And now she is happily at Harvard.
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Often it's just one professor who says "I want this candidate!" and thus he or she is admitted. But like 韓非子曰："欲成其事，先敗其事", this time you'll get accepted!
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@AnUglyBoringNerd Haha thank you! And I love your Pusheen avatar. Hopefully I won't have to write the sequel, 《落志吟》(if I get rejected) LOL.
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@Jules4663 Wow!!! Welcome and congrats on Harvard! Very impressive! You must be very intelligent. Don't worry about Penn. The other real contender is Princeton for classical/medieval stuff. But with the Harvard acceptance you're all set!
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Good to hear from you again @mxiongturquoise!! Very interesting research perspective you have there! As for me, I think by the time this is all over, I will have turned into Shakespeare... "Waiting for Good News" No word from thee, my beloved top choice, My pain grows bigger, my worries balloon, When will thou relieve me of this empty void, And give me rest from patience's relentless test!
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《待校信》 尚無回音，嗚呼痛哉 未知成否，長期久待 千慮萬愁，人豈不傷 何以忘憂，名揚金榜 時河悠悠，斷吾心腸！
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Has anyone else got anything from Berkeley...? Just spoke to a friend who sat on admission committees in past years at her grad school...Not sure how representative her school's way of doing things is, but I was told that the "clear rejects" and "clear admits" are sent out first, and the "middle files" are on hold until April when the admits decline/accept offers. Seems like I might be in the ambiguous pile at Berkeley.
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Agreed wholeheartedly!! They should have something akin to an "early decision" option which notifies applicants in 2 weeks upon completion of application!
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Another week of waiting. I still haven't got any email from Berkeley...Do they send out admission results in alphabetical order? Anxiously waiting...
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Rejection is like a tear-soaked sleeves that can never dry, which reminds me of a poem... "My tear-soaked sleeves are like rocks in the offing. Even at low tide you never notice them, nor can they ever dry." 『わが袖は 潮干に見えぬ 沖の石の 人こそ知らね 乾く間もなし』 -- 二条院讃岐
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@machacreampuff This is awesome info! Thank you. Do you know if Harvard RSEA has met as well or are they meeting after the Harvard EALC PhD decisions? Many thanks.
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@kotatsumuri Congrats kotatsumuri! Your advisor seems to be very nice and proactive!
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@Kongyiji 豈敢豈敢，恭賀先生金榜題名！Congrats on the Berkeley PhD acceptance! They have a great program. I know a poet who went there years ago. I think he ended up just getting an MA en passant. His name is a pun, and his father is a Chinese literature professor at Beijing. (何鯉乎？何鯉者，河之鯉躍龍門，雖潛於水而卓越於世也。) https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/何鲤 And there's a person on the results page that got accepted to the Cornell Asian Literature PhD without having been invited to an interview, so you still have a shot! http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=cornell+asian Anna Shields is great for mid-Imperial poetry (Tang-Song). I hope you get accepted to Princeton!
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@Kongyiji 孔乙己，Welcome to the forum!! Official funding usually comes later when the school gets money for the next year, which can be as late as early April (but hopefully before April 15 when one has to accept/decline).
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@chihiro Congrats Chihiro! WUSTL is a great school!
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Congrats everyone for the acceptances! Bravo! 合格おめでとうございます！よく頑張りましたね！とうとう念願がかないましたね！大喜びです！！！ I haven't got any email from Berkeley yet...I hope I'm not an auto-reject...
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Waiting is like a torture. This weekend I'll be watching おんな城主直虎 to kill time while waiting for results. Plus there are Japanese subtitles!! http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzMwNjg4ODE2OA==.html?spm=a2h0j.8191423.playlist_content.5!4~5~5~A&&f=51141272&from=y1.2-3.4.4 It's interesting to see how a woman rose to political power in the Sengoku period, and the dramatic depiction of a female lord of a castle. All this was accidental, of course; it's not like Naotora was like Wu Ze Tian, who deliberately seized power. The last time Taiga Dorama explored the life of someone who represented women's rights was Yae in 八重の桜. And I can't wait to watch Segodon 西郷どん (ongoing this year) about the life of Saigo Takamori. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOkg7jdH-s&t=63s
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Yale PhD results have been posted! Congrats to those who got accepted to Yale!!!
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I'm also getting extremely nervous. My professors tell me to calm down but I work in a place where calmness is not the norm (everyone is highly educated but irritable all the time) and everything is fast-paced. I think I will have a heart attack in my 20's thanks to the added pressure of waiting for admission results...
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@spicyramen Thank you so much -- that's great to know all the results and get it out of the way before my trip. Yeah I don't want the application process to ruin my trip. Haven't been back to Japan in a while (my first time there was in my freshman year where I did a summer host family program staying for 2 months and second time was for a short trip as well so I'm so excited!). I have several friends there so I'll meet them (if their schedule allows) and then have parties in Tokyo this time hehe. And yes, I changed my profile photo; the previous one was a character from ancient Japan which 信長の野望 and 大河ドラマ series inspired me to upload as my profile photo. I've been watching 『夏目友人帳』 http://www.natsume-anime.jp/ and have been playing Persona 5 lately on the PS4 (and dreaming I am a butterfly...) so I'm in the anime mood for changing my profile photo to Natsume. I wish I were like Narukami Yu 鳴上悠 in Persona 4 and jump into a TV...Anyhow watching anime and playing video games in the original Japanese is a great way to practice. Some games have hiragana (for example the visual novel game "Time Travelers" on the PS Vita) so there's no need to look up words and most of the time you can figure out what a new word means by just deciphering it from the context. And certain light novel/anime like 少年陰陽師 (here is a hiragana version book on Amazon JP and Kinokuniya definitely has it http://www.kinokuniya.com/us/) is a good way to learn some literary Japanese. This is how I passed my JLPT...
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Yeah! Tempus fugit. I really, really hope that I will hear back from all the schools by the time I leave for Japan in April (for cherry blossoms in Tokyo). I can't take this anxiety with me to Nippon. >_<
