I am still so excited and I cannot believe that as someone who struggled almost all my life in school (and actually had a high school teacher tell both my parents and I at a high school teachers conference that I was going nowhere in life) to get accepted into a PhD program.
I got to sleep in that morning because I didn't have class and I didn’t work until 1, so I was sitting there making toast, putting granola in my yogurt, and just sat down to eat and drink coffee and I decided to check my email and my first email was some random person but it just has the first part and just stated “We have made a decision on your...”. Panicked because one I had no idea which school it was and then I opened it and right when when I read that I had gotten accepted I screamed and started jumping around.
I called my mom and was pacing back and forth hyperventilating and my mom thought I was DYING and I just blurted it out! I still haven’t heard back from most of my programs but I still cannot believe. I wasn’t expecting it because previous years were notified later. I still keep re reading the email and I’ve been researching the school to the very intimate details because I am super exited!