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@placeinspace @bardie it'll likely depend on when the interviews take place, no? post-interview turnaround has always been be pretty quick for chicago, so they'll likely begin to notify a day or two after interviews conclude.
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@FiguresIII yes, "something is taking its course..." but all i really want to know -- and want not to know at the same time -- is which courses i will be taking in a year, as well as where i'll be taking said courses.
sorry, it's a terrible joke. i'll see myself out. but before i do, i must say, i love the bersani as well! (though given my professor's project, which he's currently exploring in the seminar that i'm taking, he does have a quibble with both bersani and beckett, i think.)
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11 hours ago, lordweary said:
Do any of you have experience, either your own or another's, with distance learning programs in the humanities? A friend of mine went to the controversial European Graduate School, and his academic situation has improved greatly since. I am struggling even to pin down which universities are worth their salt; it's just an entirely new world, and I'm a little overwhelmed at the prospect of learning about it.
i can't really speak to the rest of your queries, but I do know a couple of people who've been to EGS, and my sense is that no, it isn't as much of a cash cow as everyone makes it out to be. classes there are terribly intensive (you're only going to be up in saas-fee for a few weeks anyway), and you are going to be talking to, and learning from, some of the best minds in the profession -- it's really like no other phd experience. the only things are that:
1. learning at EGS is highly self-directed, which means that the onus is on you to make your time and money worthwhile.
2. their courses are very much centred around continental theory/philosophy as well as cultural/media studies, so if those aren't your areas of interest, then you probably shouldn't be looking there.
3. you'll get no training on the teaching side of things, which will likely put you at a disadvantage in the job market. (then again, most people go there only for the opportunity to study with certain star academics who don't teach elsewhere, so i doubt that is their primary concern.)
other than that, i guess the only other thing that you really have to weigh against the value of the experience is the cost of the degree itself -- it is prohibitively expensive, so perhaps a conventional phd route (with a stipend) might suit (whatever little I know of) your situation more? -
10 hours ago, pdh12 said:
also @flungoutofspace, i believe, who recommended that sufjan side-D thing---so great for writing!!!
isn't it? i've been listening to a lot of that and max ritcher on repeat as i work (or attempt to, whilst i try not to freak out about *gesticulates wildly* this.)
13 hours ago, sugilite said:Same! I'm at the airport now and there's a piece by Sara Ahmed talking about the limbo of the airport and it fits in perfectly wit the limbo of my life at the moment!
ohh what's the piece? i'd love to read it!
also, if you -- or anyone else -- are looking for other literature on the limbo of the airport, olga tokarczuk's flights is an exquisite novel in fragments that addresses the topic rather brilliantly, i think.10 hours ago, bardie said:@flungoutofspace I totally feel you. I have a new appreciation for Beckett.
i'm currently reading a lot of beckett for class, and i must say, i've never really felt the frustration and absurdity and absolute misery of his never-ending loops more than i do right now. imagine endgame, but with me and uchicago--
chicago: we'll notify you of your admission status now.
me: then i'll know i've been rejected and fall into a state of utter despair.
chicago: we'll let you know that you aren't going to be interviewed. you'll be wondering if you've been admitted all the time.
me: then i won't know if i've been rejected.
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5 minutes ago, pdh12 said:
february is gonna be an eruption on here, for sure. it’s seriously not coming sooo enough.
tbh, im stuck in a sort of limbo stage between desperately wanting to know and not wanting to know my admissions results at all. (ignorance, at this point, is both bliss and torture...)
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11 hours ago, dilby said:
Memes are my only solace from this nightmare
oh noooooo... dogs, and especially labs, are too pure for this bamboozling business. ?
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1 hour ago, dangermouse said:
i did! i'm sorry we now have to be bloodsworn enemies, but on the bright side i absolutely delight in retelling the rumour that kcl used bentham's head as a football and now it's too hideous to display to the public. most students when i show them jezza just looked appalled, but i did a campus tour for some 11 year olds once and one student asked me 'aren't you ever worried he's going to follow you home one night?' ?
yikes, does the kid know something that we don't?
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15 hours ago, dangermouse said:
my undergrad institution is where they keep jeremy bentham's beautiful mummified corpse on display. i still think about him wistfully sometimes - we shared a lot of good memories, him encased in his glass cabinet, me proudly showing him off to uneasy prospective students...
omg did you go to ucl? i did my study abroad at kcl, so i guess i'm pledging my allegiance to the camp that had once kidnapped (dead) jeremy bentham's head ?
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10 hours ago, GawainLeigh said:
Are you applying for the MSt at Oxford? I was in the programme last year and I really enjoyed it. Glad to see more people joining the cohort!
I am, but for the 1900 - Present stream.
14 hours ago, spectrum-in said:!!! It is!! One of my favourite songs by her
Ah, I asked because I noticed your u/n right about the same time that Florence dropped her new tracks... Have you heard them?
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3 minutes ago, Warelin said:
One of my professors accidently asked us in our grad seminar if we had met the new prospective students yet before realizing that Students don't visit (it's an all-expenses paid trip) until the first week of March. As a result, I know decisions have been made but I don't think anyone's been notified yet. It does sound like notifications will go out soon though.
if notifications go out next week, as stated in the dgs's reply, i do think that most decisions have already been made. (why can't they just tell us already... the agony of the wait!!)
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2 minutes ago, Warelin said:
From previous conversations with Duke, I'd also like to add that English and Literature are very-closely affliated with each other. If either receives an application that they think is suitable for the other, they'll forward the application. A few people here have found themselves accepted into the other program as a result.
i'd like to believe that's why someone posted the interview invitation on the board, though wouldn't it make more sense if that post came alongside other interview requests for duke lit (since i don't think they've sent out their interview invites yet.)
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@spectrum-in i've been trying to get myself to check this site less, but every time i get off it, i wonder if i'll miss out on something important (i'm not even one to experience fomo usually, but this process has just been so nerve-wracking...)
(on a side note, is your username based on florence and the machine's "spectrum"?) -
9 minutes ago, spectrum-in said:
@flungoutofspace you’re truly my favourite person today! Thanks so much for doing that!
It's no problem at all! The results post was also nagging on my mind & keeping me from working on all that I'm supposed to be doing anyway, so I thought it would be better if I just clarified things, so I'll have some sense of certainty. (I guess we'll be worrying about the same things again next week, but at least I'm not doing so right now.)
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for everyone panicking, i emailed the dgs to clarify if they're carrying out interviews for this application cycle (because they did so a few years ago) and the answer is no. whomever posted about their invitation to interview on the results page is either mistaken, or trying to mess with us, or there might, perhaps, be special cases that necessitate interviews. otherwise, they "should be able to start notifying people next week". (fingers crossed!)
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5 minutes ago, dilby said:
I set my phone to give me push notifications for my .edu email address — although since I'm not in school anymore, I don't use that for anything other than PhD stuff. It's been a good way to stop myself from relentlessly checking.
im getting push notifications from my .edu email too, but my brain just refuses to be rational at this time of the year (see also: reading one's horoscope), so i'll probably still be refreshing my email every ten minutes anyway.
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1 minute ago, sugilite said:
Regarding vanishing dates on a website, it's possible that those were leftover from the previous year and they only updated it in some places and not others. You might check to see how the dates line up with last year's calendar (if it's more squarely a business week).
in that case, the published dates are a couple of days before when decisions were announced last year.
still, it's quite unnerving to know that at any moment, you'll be hit with That Email. (for someone who works so much with derrida's l'avenir/à-venir, i really don't deal very well with uncertainty in the future to come. ?)
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2 hours ago, SomeoneAcceptMe said:
I too recall seeing this on the website, but for some reason I remember it saying they aimed to start getting decisions out after the 20th? At any rate, I've been refreshing my email since like 4 AM lol
it's past the 20th (and i am compulsively checking my horoscope just because...)
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29 minutes ago, conraddy said:
I found that on their website a while back and added it to my document of program notes... But of course now as I try to go back and find it, it's disappeared! I was pretty meticulous about putting the document together, so I would be surprised if I just totally spoofed on that, but it's definitely possible. I'm also having a hard time getting onto Duke's whole website at the moment, which is not at all my favorite timing.
Right, because I recall seeing that somewhere too, but after being reminded of it by your post yesterday, I tried to confirm the details but couldn't find any mention of their intended notification window on the website. Do you think they might've removed it just because they no longer intend to notify us so early? (It's driving me a bit nuts, because I'm refreshing their results portal incessantly too.)
23 minutes ago, Glasperlenspieler said:Here you are: https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/program-statistics (scroll down to find Literature, but you're right about 7 admitted, 2 matriculated)
Duke is impressively transparent about admissions numbers which is appreciated.
Ah, I was asking about the notification period for Duke English, but I do appreciate this link! Time for me to over-analyse statistics to guess at my chances of... not being rejected. (*screams into the void*)
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2 hours ago, conraddy said:
Duke decision is killing me... knowing that their window is the 19-23 (rather than, like, sometime in late January) has me looking at the application portal every 10 minutes. Jeepers!!!
ohh, where'd you get the information from? i've always thought they simply tended to release their decisions towards the end of january and didn't exactly have a window to notify applicants.
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@j.alicea oh yes, there's that, and also another 1967 adaptation by joseph strick, but i don't know if either can truly replace the experience of reading ulysses itself. i'd love to read your cohortmate's thesis when it's completed though -- it sounds really interesting!
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48 minutes ago, sad_diamond said:
I wish there was a movie of Infinite Jest so I could just watch that instead of reading the book. I'm always telling my roommate that he's a total rube for reading Anna Kerenina right now
i know that i'd probably be hung, drawn, and quartered for saying this -- especially as someone whose research interest is partly on modernist literature -- but i wish someone would do the same for ulysses. i don't know how any adaptation of that novel can be done effectively, really, but if someone could translate //all that// to screen, im sure the film would be a masterpiece not unlike sally potter's orlando.
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55 minutes ago, SomeoneAcceptMe said:
Whilst on that subject, what books do you guys turn to cope with the world?
Tove Janssen’s stories are such a warm, idyllic comfort from the world. (But right now, i’m just playing Florence and the Machine’s Big God on repeat because I’m feeling a bit ghosted by Chicago.)
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55 minutes ago, Bopie5 said:
Welp, the fact that I didn't get an interview email from Chicago has officially activated A New Level™ of decision anxiety. Catch me deploying the dubious coping mechanism of reading and rereading Sedgwick for the next several hours while eating cookies!
im running on less than three hours of sleep today but this certainly jolted me awake.
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just cleared my cache and reloaded the site and it was a rejection.