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  1. I think it's only a matter of time before we have results from the Jedi Academy, the Starfleet Academy and the Daystrom Institute. And finally got my Pitt rejection. I still wonder what took them so long?
  2. From what I've heard, recommendation letters should preferably reflect the most recent status of your academic life. It probably will look better if you can get good letters from professors at Oxford. But if you find getting recommendation letters from the professors who wrote letters for you this year more preferable, it might be better if you keep in touch with them, keep them updated about how you're doing in the MSt, and ask them to write new letters instead of recycling existing ones. I think they will be happy to do so, since they already agreed to write for you this cycle.
  3. Still haven't got anything from Toronto, Pitt, and Cornell. I just hope they could be swifter. This whole thing has become mental torture.
  4. Drank copious amounts of beer and scotch to get through the anxiety, stress, and disappointment this application season. Gotta get my liver checked after this is all over. Congrats to everyone who got in.
  5. Gone through tortuous lengths to register an account in order to read Duke's rejection letter. It was nicer than the ones from other schools.
  6. It's so strange that there are no reports of rejection from Toronto and Pitt yet.
  7. Rejected by MIT. Quest Completed: Banished from the Institute.
  8. Recently the media has been spreading this idea that AIs are eventually gonna replace jobs that are easily automated. Judging from the limited functionalities of contemporary robot vacuum cleaners, I would say it will be a long time before janitors are replaced.
  9. I agree with you, but I already got an MPhil, though not from a prestigious US institution so maybe it doesn't mean jack for the adcoms. Getting into a funded MA doesn't seem much easier than getting into a PhD program. This application season has already left me broken financially, so a self-funded program isn't within consideration. Maybe if I win a lottery I will try. I graduated a few years ago, and had been in the job market for some time. Took me some effort to even find a dead-end job (apparently no employer wants a philosophy student here) with no hope of doubling my salary even if I work there for 20+ years. Counting the factors of inflation and rising cost of living, I would say my prospect is very dim. Frequently changing jobs gives one a bad rep, and job interviewers can be very mean about that. That being said, it's time for me to look for another full-time dead-end job now, so that I won't end up being a janitor for the rest of my life. Not that being a janitor is anything wrong - it's among the least replaceable jobs when AI hits the market, and the janitor from Scrubs is kinda cool too - but I would't exactly call it my dream job either.
  10. Can't say I disagree with you, but where I'm from, things are really not looking good, especially for a Humanities major. We are told to be grateful if we can get a menial, mindless, meaningless, dead-end job which inevitably leads to mental exhaustion after we graduate, and let's not get started on the meager salary and the continuously skyrocketing cost of living. Life pursuits that are not economic and wealth-accumulating in nature are discouraged by the prevailing ideology, and having them will make one the butt of jokes. I am not gonna go into details about the political situation here so let's just say it's dire. Sure, doing a PhD, and with any luck, working as an academic philosopher is not all romantic and rosy - from what we know it is gonna be frustrating as heck as well, and maybe it eventually will lead to nowhere, but at least I will be learning stuff and doing things that are a little bit less meaningless in the process. And it's one of the few ways to get out of this predicament, if even only for a while. But now it looks like this door is shut. Thanks for your response, and I'm sorry if I sounded whiny. Though it feels good to have a place to put my disappointment into words.
  11. Didn't even get waitlisted yet, let alone acceptance. It's pointless to be sad, but it surely is quite depressing to think I don't even get a chance to make something out of my life. But then again maybe that's just how life works.
  12. Looks like MIT has already sent out acceptance and wait-list mails, so rejections will probably be sent tomorrow.
  13. Seems like some people have already got the big no. I haven’t got mine yet. Wonder why they would send rejection mails in batches. I thought it was an automated process. No words from Toronto either.
  14. Still got no words from UWM and Pitt, so I'm prepared for the worst. Wonder why they don't just release all the results at the same time. Waiting when you know for certain you are getting rejected really does not feel good.
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