The Wordsworthian

Emphasizing this! Vanderbilt is one of my top choices as well. (If I weren't out of reactions for the day, I'd upvote this post!)

Same. Super excited for those who heard back, but my stomach definitely dropped when I saw that people got responses and my inbox was empty. Fingers crossed for both of us!

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

Painfully in the same boat.

Anyone want to claim that Penn State acceptance? If so - did they also update your portal with your acceptance or is it still showing up as pending?

YES. I have played out so many random scenarios in my mind.

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!

Anyone else apply to Penn State's MA in English program? In the past couple of years it looks like people started hearing back around this time and I cannot stop checking my application portal!

@dilby really wish I wasn't out of reacts, because I want to upvote this 50 times ^

Every time I check my Vanderbilt application status there is a message at the top that begins "We are very pleased you have applied to Vanderbilt University..." and the "We are very pleased part" ALWAYS throws me off into thinking for a split second that I am being accepted. UGH.

Why is it that today of all days THREE of my friends have called me "just to chat," when this is not a common practice in any of my friendships!? My roommates all chuckled as I hastily turned over my phone and let out a melodramatic sigh of disappointment to find out it was a friend calling each time. It also doesn't help that my e-mail is blowing up with marketing and spam messages, adding to the anxious hellfire. This is going to be a loooong week.

@WildeThing Gulp. This week is going to move by slower than ever.

Oh my goodness does Vanderbilt actually start notifying that early!? Ahhhhh

Thank you for this reassurance--I really needed to hear it

Same for Penn State! It looks like in the past three years some applicants heard back in late January (while others heard in March), so you bet I’m checking my email every minute now haha.

@dilby Oh my goodness this is GOLD.

Was so devastated to hear of her passing. She was one of the first poets I fell in love with

@mandelbulb I'm SO jealous that you've seen Death Cab and The National in concert! I feel as though I have not seen enough live music as I'd like. Luckily for me the artists I tend to listen to the most have affordable tickets when they do tour.

Wow I love that you love Hospice too. It is an unbelievable album (and the Antlers are incredible as well). The alternate song titles are so harrowing. I am a huge fan of Bright Eyes ("No One Would Riot For Less" is one of my all-time favorite songs off their album Cassadaga), Bon Iver, Keaton Henson (have you ever listened to Soko? She's sort of similar and they used to date), and Florence + The Machine as well. Wow, we are kindred music spirits! Thank you for gracing my Wednesday afternoon with this--I'd never heard it until today. Incredible.

@Bopie5 Wow great question. I suppose I'd put Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and/or Reflektor, Stevens's Carrie & Lowell, Beach House's Teen Dream, Pink Floyd's The Wall and probably Animals, Hospice by the Antlers, In The Airplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie, and Trouble Will Find Me by The National. But I feel like I'm only scratching the surface there... I think I'd have to dedicate an entire year to a class like this, ha ha. What about you!?

Oh my goodness the live performance is absolutely harrowing. And I love that Sufjan is low-key super awkward and sways his hips all weird when he tries to dance but is totally making it work. Wow, I totally share that dream. I've taken a few classes where we dabbled briefly with particularly poignant song lyrics but we never went as in depth as I'd have liked to. Also a huuuuge National fan here, and Matt Berninger has been doing a lot of solo work and has been so successful--I absolutely love his music outside the band as well!

I love Illinois, but I do have to say my favorite Stevens album is Carrie & Lowell. (Especially given my research interest in the elegy... coincidence? I think not!) Also a fan of St. Vincent but I’m going to check out Anna Calvi now that you’ve mentioned them. Always love discovering new music.

@dilby Ahhh the Call Me By Your Name soundtrack is GOLD. Sometimes when I'm feeling particularly melancholic and just want to sit in my sadness I watch the end scene where Chalamet is just staring at the fire with tears in his eyes and "Visions of Gideon" plays. Unreal. Andy Shauf is also fantastic. I quite love the song "The Magician" by him.

@mandelbulb Your taste is fantastic! I love Broken Social Scene, fka twigs, Banks, and Passion Pit. I also saw Arcade Fire in concert last fall and it was UNREAL.

Ooooh I love any music-based discussion, I have literally been spending all my anxiety-ridden time making Spotify playlists to match my neurotic array of moods. I'm really into Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Arcade Fire, Beach House, alt-J, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon van Etten, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, to name a few... but I'm missing a ton in that little list.