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  1. hedgerows
    YAY! Let's be "triangle" friends/real friends! Us North Carolina 18th centuryists have to stick together, after all!!
  2. hedgerows
    It's Duke for me too!
  3. hedgerows
    *sigh*
  4. hedgerows
    After 6 years in New York, the Southern charm thing might be nice change. (Not that this has any impact on my final decision -- okay, well, a little...) I am definitely going to miss the affected disaffection, though, when I live in Durham.
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    I'm glad I could be a part of 1. the complete derailment of this topic from a serious track and 2. helping againstourfaces choose a program based on the most frivolous factor of all time. *pats self on back*
  6. hedgerows
    The one thing I'm going to miss most about the city is my L train commute, or what I like to call my "daily serving of eye candy." EDIT: NOTE: This is probably not a valid criterion for decision-making.
  7. hedgerows
    Ha ha! I'm living that life right now (mostly just the living in Brooklyn part), so we could definitely be friends! I'm fully on-board with the whole superficial deciders thing. I think this video is appropriate:
  8. hedgerows
    I know this sounds silly but when I visited one of my schools, every student apartment I went to had a record player, and sitting on a couch, listening to tunes and drinking beer, I just thought, "This is it. This is the one." Also, everything else/job placement/faculty involvement/cheap housing/etc are also awesome, but sometimes it really is the things you can't quantify that weigh heaviest. EDIT: That being said, I still haven't finalized my decision because -- jeez! -- six years is a long time to make a decision based on something so tenuous!
  9. hedgerows
    Alright, who posted an acceptance by phone? Please tell me they called you because you're in Canada and that they're waiting until today to email me because they don't want to pay fees for calling internationally. *hopeful/delusional face*
  10. hedgerows
    My first favorite quote ever (and one I still love) is this one from A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh": "Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
  11. hedgerows
    I got an email on the 24th, so they must have really hated me.
  12. hedgerows
    Thanks! Yeah, it's not even about where WE think we fit, but where each department thinks we fit. Does. Not. Compute.
  13. hedgerows
    Ah! I got a call, too. Judith Haber told me that Carol Flynn (who was my POI) has now retired and they've hired a new, young 18th centuryist. I don't know how I feel, but I'm happy to have been accepted, and will definitely visit and see the campus. This makes my implicit rejection from Rutgers a little easier to bear.
  14. hedgerows
    I definitely am, because I work with women writers and later 18th c. novels that border on the gothic. But I can't even begin to think about Toronto. That's one of the last ones on my list that'd give Duke a real run for its money...
  15. hedgerows
    What's with them and us poor 18th centuryists? I was sure we'd get into ONE of our mutual programs together bdon!
  16. hedgerows
    I still haven't heard anything else from CUNY, which means I probably won't get much (?). I wish I'd printed out the acceptance from Duke so I could keep it under my pillow to comfort me in this, my hour of need.
  17. hedgerows
    *goes to sob in a corner, rejectedly+* (+still only implicitly, at this point)
  18. hedgerows
    Also rejected. Brown was the best fit for me and my interests, but heigh-ho! I wonder if they received more applications than usual due to the "The Marriage Plot"...
  19. hedgerows
    *gives up hope, grabs closest bottle of alcohol*
  20. hedgerows
    If I don't get a call tomorrow I am actually going to throw up then drink myself into oblivion. Oh Rutgers, I want you so bad.
  21. hedgerows
    Just had my interview today. If yours goes anything like mine did, be prepared to be grilled like a salmon about your writing sample, and be able to defend everything you said. My panel (via Skype) was very serious, contained some of the scholars I most admire, and I didn't know what to expect at all, so was foolishly unprepared and bumbling. Good luck to everyone interviewing! (Visconsi told me final decisions would be going out around the 1st of March, fyi, after all finalists had been interviewed.)
  22. hedgerows
    Congrats bdon! Hands in the air for 18th centuryists!
  23. hedgerows
    I didn't get one, either, Trip! And I was the first one on the board to post an acceptance, so what's up with that? (Maybe they know I'm not going to go there anyway and are trying to make the decision easier on me...?)
  24. hedgerows
    I'm currently an MA student at NYU, and I say NYU all the way. It's an amazing school and their funding (as mentioned before) is awesome. My PhD friends live pretty easily (in NYC) on it, and some even support their spouses. Also, the grad student community in the department and all the professors are amazing. CUNY is also amazing, but they just don't have the resources that NYU does to financially support their students.
  25. hedgerows
    I haven't heard anything, but just seeing this topic made my heart stop.
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