The Wordsworthian
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25 minutes ago, arbie said:
I applied there too, but haven’t heard anything, so I’m thinking maybe an implied rejection if nothing by end of day.
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!
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@pdh12 *checks every single portal and refreshes email ten times immediately after reading this*
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4 hours ago, sugilite said:
Somehow I’ve managed to only apply to schools that haven’t yet notified! Anyone else in the same boat?
Painfully in the same boat.
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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?
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10 minutes ago, mwils15 said:
Is anyone else like concerned about where they'll be when they receive news on their decisions? I'm currently working weekends and am a bit concerned about getting any kind of news while I'm at my job.
YES. I have played out so many random scenarios in my mind.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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@WildeThing Gulp. This week is going to move by slower than ever.
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12 hours ago, WildeThing said:
Seems like two of the acceptances are in my field too, so the odds are not good. Right now I’m bracing for another painful year of shut-outs, but at least with Wisconsin out of the way I am not expecting to (not) hear anything until next week with BC/Vanderbilt. I can pretend not to think about apps for a few days, then!
Oh my goodness does Vanderbilt actually start notifying that early!? Ahhhhh
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2 hours ago, Warelin said:
Congrats to all of those that have received an acceptance letter thus far. To those that haven't, most schools don't release decisions until Mid-Feb. There is still plenty of time left.
Thank you for this reassurance--I really needed to hear it
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9 hours ago, jadeisokay said:
i'm noticing for northwestern comp lit results that in the past handful of years a few people were getting results in late january. making me wonder if we'll hear something next week.
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.
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52 minutes ago, placeinspace said:
Anyone else here a fan of Mary Oliver? I'm devastated to hear she passed away.
Was so devastated to hear of her passing. She was one of the first poets I fell in love with
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@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.
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1 hour ago, Bopie5 said:
Hospice! Transatlanticism! In The Aeroplane Over the Sea! We have very very similar taste. Hospice especially is so much poetry.
Hmmm hard to choose. I think if I were to do it as a real course, I'd focus on the 2010-2020 decade and organize the course historically, and the syllabus would probably be more varied and feature albums that I don't necessarily like, but think are important (like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy).
But, if it were just albums I love, just to talk about lyrics as a medium of poetry, I'd probably say we'd share Hospice, Carrie & Lowell, Transatlanticism, and In the Aeroplane..., and I'd then add The Idler Wheel... by Fiona Apple, A Brief Inquiry... by The 1975, 22, A Million by Bon Iver, High As Hope by Florence + The Machine, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes, Melodrama by Lorde, and Kindly Now by Keaton Henson. And then it's a toss up for me if I would represent The National with Trouble Will Find Me or Sleep Well Beast, but I think I lean toward the latter! And I feel like I should have something by The Mountain Goats in there, but I can't decide which album.
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!
2 hours ago, flungoutofspace said:I just set my youtube on autoplay earlier, and it led me back to this (the side D of all delighted people), so I thought i'd just share it here, just in case anyone, like myself, was ignorant about its existence until recently.
Thank you for gracing my Wednesday afternoon with this--I'd never heard it until today. Incredible.
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@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!?
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54 minutes ago, lyonel_ said:
You should watch the performance of C&L Live, if you haven't already. The whole Live record puts a lot of beautiful interpretations on the album's songs.
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.
9 minutes ago, Bopie5 said:Totally agree here—The National and Sufjan are my go-to music for crying. And @The Wordsworthian I have this pipe dream of someday teaching a “Lyric as Poetry” course analyzing lyrics like poetry, focusing on significant albums of the 2010 decade. Carrie & Lowell would definitely be a week of the syllabus. Idk how Sufjan will ever top it!
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!
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8 hours ago, flungoutofspace said:
Does anyone else have Illinois at hand, in preparation for the day that they’re rejected by Chicago? (I’m not optimistic about my chances, so my vinyl’s already at the ready for when I need to mourn the lost hours I’ve spent working on my Chicago application...)
On a side note, since you’re both fans of Sharon Van Etten, do you listen to Anna Calvi or St Vincent too? Their music’s in a somewhat similar vein to Van Etten’s, I think.
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.
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@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.
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@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.
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3 hours ago, Bopie5 said:
This gets me wondering--what kind of music do you all like? We've talked about books and movies, but not much about music yet.
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.
2019 Acceptances
in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
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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!)