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In at Urbana-Champaign for their MA/PhD Program!!!!!!!!!!!! It isn't the best fit in the world, but Tim Dean is one of the most incredible queer theory scholars in the country and I am very excited!

Update: I was waitlisted at CU Boulder! @The Wordsworthian check your portal!

It's just too real.

Update: I was waitlisted at CU Boulder! @The Wordsworthian check your portal!

Thank you so much.  I was going to spend these next couple of hours between classes trying to be productive, but it looks like they will be spent furiously refreshing my portal/e-mail. (Although that habit is nothing new these days!)
Congrats again on making the waitlist!

Update: I was waitlisted at CU Boulder! @The Wordsworthian check your portal!

extremely disappointed about the northwestern rejection, like sink-into-the-ground-and-disappear-forever disappointed, but choosing to instead answer the call from @illcounsel for pet pics: here's my puppy, convinced that the cat must want to cuddle with her deep down (the cat does not)

I was thinking that once all the applications were done, things would be so very easy but I can't even begin to describe how wrong this thought was...  Before going into this process of waiting to hear from schools I was *naively* contemplating about how only one acceptance is enough, and nothing else really matters (lol to my past self, I guess). But you are completely right and I'll just give myself some time and watch some funny cat videos on youtube to heal  

This is how I felt about Chicago and it took me a couple weeks to really process and accept the feeling of rejection. I completely understand where you're coming from, and it's definitely okay to take some time and not immediately just accept it. This process is really hard because it's not just a small thing- a program is a total life change, and all the factors that go into that can be really hard to accept when you think you've found the perfect place and it doesn't work out. So don't be too hard on yourself or rush to get over it- take some time to process and know you did everything you could!

Same here. I feel like I’ve been managing the anxiety fairly well given that I’ve been pretty busy at work. Now that other people are starting to hear back, my nerves are fried! I don’t feel particularly hopeful in getting an acceptance to any of the programs to which I’ve applied, but I made my peace with that in December. Legit not trolling for compliments or reassurances—I’m good with where I’m at; no worries! I just want to know for sure either way.

@pdh12 *checks every single portal and refreshes email ten times immediately after reading this*

@The Wordsworthian ahhhh, it's Literally All I Know How To Do Anymore ;( 
 

Why do I keep thinking schools will just magically notify me in the middle of the night on a Saturday 

Me! I’ve yet to hear anything!

Same. I’m hoping. And I hope if anyone hears they post ASAP. 

So did mine. She also said I should only check once per day. I said, "get real ?". 

Going to bed anxiously hoping I hear something from one of my schools tomorrow so I can survive the weekend.  Even a cold rejection is better than this silence! 

I actually initially posted without that amendment and then immediately was like "nah that's too mean" so I fixed it hahah. Sorry!

I actually initially posted without that amendment and then immediately was like "nah that's too mean" so I fixed it hahah. Sorry!

check grad cafe, check /r/gradadmissions, check email, repeat repeat repeat
i'm ready to be off this ride, lol.

Another day, another Shx meme

Ugh sorry I keep confusing people. I need faces to connect with events (but I too haven't put up a photo). We can be there for each other when we get rejected. 
Anyway, this is really killing me today. I turned my phone alerts on for my decision email this morning and used the ringtone "suspense" as I kind of cruel personal joke, which I do not recommend...  the suspense is horribly anticlimactic when it's Vitacost reminding you that there are still items in your cart ?

I'm still hoping to hear something today... even if that's unlikely.

@Warelin Thank you, you are always so helpful. However, now the anxiety has returned ?.