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3 minutes ago, dangermouse said:
i LOVE happy birthday johnny! i'm a big fan of all the variants of slow disco; i also really love the piano version of saviour. i remember not being convinced by pills as much as the other tracks on my first few listens but naybe i should give it another go!
slow disco's such a gem of a song -- it really is like st vincent says, if it's a good song, it should work however you play it. and it does!!
i think pills is more of a grower. i really didn't like it initially, but the more you listen to it, the more it makes sense? and that saxophone part by kamasi washington at the end, alongside those terribly heartbreaking lyrics and annie's howl-like voice just make such a perfect combination. -
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8 hours ago, dangermouse said:
@flungoutofspace i LOVE st vincent! i've had the piano versions of MassEducation on repeat for the last few weeks.
ohhh do you have a favourite track off that album? and the original version of masseduction? (happy birthday, johnny always makes me tear up, but pills really grew on me, and that last part? so. good.)
3 hours ago, The Wordsworthian said: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!)
mine too!! except i can't listen to it too much because it's so melancholic and has, over the years, become the music i cry to. (same with the national, to be honest.)
10 hours ago, northwestnative said:Totally jumping into this conversation late, but I'm really digging everyone's tastes in music. @flungoutofspace, I just started listening to St. Vincent, and I'm into it. I only know Anna Calvi through her bit on a Noah and the Whale track, but I should go check out her solo stuff.
3 hours ago, The Wordsworthian said: 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.
she has such a haunting voice, and like st vincent, is basically a genius on the guitar. i can't recommend her enough...
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2 hours ago, dilby said:
If I were to pretend that I actively explore new music rather than simply replaying the Call Me By Your Name soundtrack and Phantom Thread score 4-6 times per day while working, I would recommend Andy Shauf (The Party), Owen Pallett (Heartland) and Miya Folick (Premonitions)
Serial CMBYN & Phantom Thread OST replayer here too! Though I’d also add the soundtracks for Her, Pride and Prejudice, and The Hours onto my study playlist. I love Andy Shauf as well, so it seems I’ve got to check out everything else on your list, since your taste in music seems to overlap very much with mine.
@Bopie5 @The Wordsworthian It’s so nice to know that there are other Sufjan fans on this forum as well!! 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.
And of course, I have to ask, are there any fans of Kate Bush here?
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5 minutes ago, Englishtea1 said:
Hi everyone! Long time lurker here! I posted the UIUC acceptance. Still in utter shock. I applied to many, many programs and I'm surprised that the first one I've heard back from is an acceptance.
Congratulations!!!!
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not exactly a rejection, but this was amusing enough...
Trump University Politics, Philosophy And Economics, PhD (F19) Accepted via Other on 15 Jan 2019 ♦ I 15 Jan 2019 - report spam
- Turning down the offer because they didn't offer me a ladder to get across the wall.
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5 hours ago, swarthmawr said:
Anyone else see the recent interview posted on the results page for UChicago? Is this one spam too?
I should think so, since @mandelbulb's friend did call UChicago yesterday, and was told that they were still reviewing applications. (Besides, interview updates for Chicago usually come around 20th Jan, with the talk of doodle polls and other interviewees...)
15 hours ago, aporeticpoetic said:Out of curiosity, did anyone else applying to Harvard's PhD in English get an email requesting additional language proficiency information? Not sure what to make of it.
Got that too, but as everyone said, it's probably a universal email. Still, that January 17th deadline for us to update our language proficiency has me wondering if they've actually started going through our files yet, or if they're only going to start on the 17th. (Please, start sooner, so we can be freed from this misery earlier!)
16 hours ago, pdh12 said:Comrades!!!!
The dreaded and most desired hour has arrived on this end—-Penn State requested an interview (Comp Lit!) !!!
What Do I Say?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!! please send help!
15 hours ago, dangermouse said:i got an offer from the university of york in england today (!) - it's slightly less exciting because funding information isn't released until march so it's not really an actual acceptance, BUT it is still a thrill to know that someone read something i wrote and liked it!
Congratulations both!! And best of luck to you, for your interview and funding situation respectively!
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10 hours ago, placeinspace said:
Honestly, I don't think it is. I've worked in many offices in my career with varying amounts of the same drama that I truly believe anywhere there's a bunch of people, there will be politics and drama. I expect grad school will be no different.
9 hours ago, savay said:Every department will have its own dynamic/issues/tensions but some can definitely be more welcoming and accepting for graduate students and graduate work than others. There's also institutional politics that can impact your experience - sometimes antagonistically. I love my current department - there are differences but on the whole we're a close, collegial bunch. My institution on the other hand could do a lot more for the humanities - for as much as they love to tout the strength of our programs, they love to cut our funding.
That's true, especially with regards to the disjunction between the goals of the department and the institution itself. Based on what little I know about UPenn from a friend who's doing her history PhD there, your (@savay) experiences are not unlike hers, though she's also taken care to emphasise that the English department itself is exceptionally cohesive and collaborative. Likewise, my own undergraduate university is currently also embroiled in a conflict of such sorts, and it's getting quite ugly — media coverage and all. Not to mention, of course, that students are often the collateral damage of these tensions. (I count myself lucky that the English department here isn't far too enmeshed in the debacle, though that's partly because we've always been horribly underfunded, to begin with, so there's very little cuts that the university can make... ?)
10 hours ago, placeinspace said: As a side note, I had planned to apply to NYU but after reading the stuff on that disaster I decided not to. It wasn't so much the drama as the complete lack of accountability from the admin. I'm not interested in being somewhere that's basically a free for all for important people.
I had considered applying there too, but for the same reason, felt it was best not to. The many pieces exposing the dysfunction of their complit department, which arose out of that whole disaster, pretty much put me off the thought of ever studying at nyu. (But then again, I'm not particularly keen on joining a department 'dominated' by Žižek either.)
9 hours ago, savay said:Also, re: Frankenstein and abjection, Susan Stryker's article, on Frankenstein and Transgender Rage is great
Thanks for your recommendation! I'll definitely check that out!!
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6 minutes ago, sugilite said:
RE: Chicago--One of my letter of recommendation writers did his PhD there, and described it as "masochism masquerading as education." From his description, everyone seemed to try to play mind games, so I would ignore the interview post for now!
yikes. but quite frankly, is it ever possible for one to find a place that is completely devoid of departmental politics? i'm genuinely asking this because it is a concern of mine and some of my friends, especially given the whole avit*l r*nell fiasco that went down in nyu's complit department last year... (whatever it is, however, i'm hoping that my next few years will be relatively politics and drama-free.)
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how is it that every time i'm not on this site, so much happens????
it's 2am here and now im frantically refreshing my email, even though chicago hardly ever sends out interview invitations till late jan! (i'm genuinely hoping that was a false alarm, though of course, i'm not counting on getting into chicago either).
1 hour ago, punctilious said:Yes! He took American Modernism with Alworth this semester and is hoping to be a TA for that course in the future, and he'll (hopefully) be taking Media Theory with him this coming semester. I was really jealous when he attended some event earlier in the semester where Alworth lectured about book covers. I find that super fascinating.
i'm just as envious to hear that he got to attend the lecture on book covers, since that is something that i'm similarly fascinated by. as someone who does judge books by their covers — but only as a credit to the many designers and editors whose hard work is so often ignored — i'm so intrigued by how such frequently overlooked visuals form in readers first impressions that subtly inform the way we read.
1 hour ago, punctilious said:P.S. Husband actually applied to Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Oxford (plus TCD) masters degrees his first round! He ended up deciding against attending because of the lack of funding, but cool to see you're applying to a lot of those too.
ugh, the lack of financial support for international students at uk institutions is definitely a concern, but there are certain woolf scholars at oxbridge whom i'd (almost) die to work with, so i'm hoping that some luck on the funding front will come my way.
1 hour ago, Bopie5 said:Yes, I'd love to swap research! Two years ago I wrote an analysis of Frankenstein that plays on dynamics of motherhood and birth-giving in the text, but I wasn't familiar with Kristeva at that point, and I'm really intrigued by your extrapolation to the autobiographical! PM me and let's swap work!
to be honest, because i couldn't fit very much of the latter part of my idea into my assigned word limit (and because i'm wary of over-reading autobiographical elements into texts), there isn't as much of it as i'd like. but yes, let's swap work!
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5 minutes ago, pdh12 said:
not to mention...interview notifications?!?
2 minutes ago, placeinspace said:Yep! Can't wait for 3 weeks from now when I haven't gotten a Chicago invite and therefore know I've been rejected. It's honestly going to be a relief from all this stress and waiting haha.
The worst situation's when the departments aren't consistent in their interview requirements from year to year (I'm looking at you, Duke), so you can't even predict if you've been rejected.
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44 minutes ago, punctilious said:
I am excited about The Look of the Book because it is sort of the intersection between my husband's and my interests since I'm a graphic designer! And David Alworth was his main POI when he applied to Harvard.
Oh yes, I presume your husband has already started at Harvard? Has he had the chance to speak more and work with David Alworth yet? I'm quite interested in his work (though, again, because I've had to put visual culture to the side for a while, it doesn't fit into my primary area of interest, and as a result, I didn't name him as a POI in my application), so it'll be nice to hear from those acquainted with him more about what he's currently working on.
15 minutes ago, dilby said:according to the 2018 Acceptances thread the first person to receive a notification last year was a SUNY-Buffalo admit exactly one year ago today. So.....it begins I suppose
Oh dear... I've had barely 24 hours of rest since I submitted my last application, and now the stress returns. To be honest, I am quite tempted to not check my email till late-February, when almost all my decisions will presumably be in, so I can deal with them all at once. But alas, I need my email to keep up with school stuff. The agony!! ?
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@sugilite @lyonel_ ohh thank you so much for these recommendations! I can’t wait to check them out!!
33 minutes ago, sugilite said:Unrelated to the podcast, but I checked out a book called Picturing Identity recently. It's a recent release on contemporary US autobiographies and how they have increasingly used different media than text alone
Also, this seems especially up my alley, seeing as much of my work is concerned with life-writing, not to mention that something that has really piqued my interest lately — but which I haven’t had the chance to explore further — is how author photos, which aren’t necessarily deliberate means of self-creation in visual images (as opposed to what I believe Hertha Wong examines in Picturing Identity?), help perpetuate particular myths of the author and influence the ways that readers encounter their texts.
On that note, I think David J Alworth at Harvard works quite extensively within that intersection between texts and visual culture, if that’s something you’re particularly interested in..? I believe that his forthcoming work (Art Novels and The Look of the Book) speak quite well to my above questions, so I’m really looking forward to reading both books.
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On 1/9/2019 at 1:23 AM, Bopie5 said:
What's everyone researching right now? What thesis/paper/article are you currently writing?
I should be researching Woolf for my honours thesis, but instead, I'm rereading Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation (one of my favourite new books of 2018) for a class I'll be taking in the coming semester. I love when contemporary fiction's brought into the classroom, because it hardly feels like work for me then.
On 1/9/2019 at 3:30 AM, sugilite said:I've been trying to read up on visual culture since that's a developing interest.
Oh, have you found anything particularly interesting? It's one of my interests that I've had to brush aside (for now), because everything else demands so much of my time. Hopefully I'll get to return to it someday though.
3 hours ago, kendalldinniene said:I keep dreaming of acceptances, then waking up like DAMNIT
*strokes non-existent beard* wish... fulfilment... hahaha...
But I'm on the same boat here. I do have the occasional dream about acceptances, except something always goes wrong to keep me from accepting the offers. I don't know what this means!! (My other dreams are terribly strange — I've recently had one in which I somehow envisioned the March sisters of Little Women plotting to escape murder charges à la Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Also, the entire debacle took place at my secondary school. Curiouser and curiouser...) -
Have finally submitted the last of my applications, so now I'm back here, playing the waiting game for real now. (It's so great to see that so much has happened on this thread whilst I was busy hammering out my research proposals for Oxford and Cambridge!)
On 1/5/2019 at 12:55 AM, Bopie5 said:You are speaking my language rn! Love Kristeva, Cixous, and Irigaray! My writing sample was largely drawn from Kristeva’s “Stabat Mater.” Totally agree—my psychology major friends are always shocked about how much I use Freud. Have you read Toril Moi’s essay “From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan, and Feminism, Again”? She deploys Joyce McDougall and Stanley Cavell to argue for taking Freud and Lacan’s understandings of castration and penis (or phallus) envy and reformulating the discourse to talk about “finitude” instead. Super interesting as a modern attempt to really engage with the impacts of Freud and Lacan!
Yes!! I remember encountering that in my class on psychoanalysis quite a while ago, and really being taken by the way she reworks Lacan to, as you say, posit a notion of "finitude" more relevant to, and consistent with discourse today.
Also, your writing sample (and your current research) sounds fascinating. I'd love to read it, if you don't mind! My second writing sample for Harvard, because they require two, is a reading of Frankenstein through Kristeva as well. It's nothing groundbreaking, since everyone and their mothers (ha.) have been analysing Frankenstein alongside Powers of Horror for ages. But I try to draw on Shelley's biography, and the correspondences between that and the narratives of Frankenstein and his monster, to read the somewhat autobiographical — I use the term very loosely here — novel as the author's "abject progeny". Again, it's not a particularly novel idea, but I'm counting on my primary writing sample, which is closer to my research interest anyway, for that.
On 1/5/2019 at 6:11 AM, savay said:Tim Dean's book on the intersection of Lacan and queer theory, Beyond Sexuality, really allowed me to work through my knee-jerk disgust with Lacan, imprinted from stumbling through Feminine Sexuality as an undergrad.
On 1/5/2019 at 7:03 AM, dilby said:One recent engagement with Freud that I was really impressed with was Eugenie Brinkema's The Forms of the Affects (which is a wonderful and exciting book for lots of reasons)
I really need to get these in at my university's library, especially the former. Anything that helps me read Lacan with more openness and generosity is always welcome.
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19 hours ago, Bopie5 said:
imho, definitely! I love psychoanalytic crit, especially for poetry, but I think Freud (and tbh, Lacan as well) are especially off the mark in terms of their theories of femininity! But so much psychoanalytic theory rests on Freud/Lacan/Lacan’s use of Freud that I appreciate their work even though I find parts of it sexist and/or troubling. Personally, I think Freud is still a compelling writer even though I’m not a fan of the centrality he gives to the threat or discovery of “castration.” My roommate’s a psychology major and she definitely thinks Freud’s theories are a big pile of bullshit, but was fascinated to learn how important he is for the foundation of psychoanalytic crit!
that's definitely my complaint with freud and lacan as well, though i'm rather conflicted about how to treat charges of sexism against the both of them, seeing as their theories are very much of their time (especially freud's) — not to mention that there's a particular sense of empathy with women's marginal position that underlies their work. but of course, i do appreciate the later feminist readings and refutations of both theorists, and would happily read kristeva, cixous, and irigaray over freud or lacan any day. (also, it's so strange to think that we, as literature students, probably read and engage with freud's texts much more than psychology students do, given that he's been pretty much reduced to a footnote in many a psychology textbook. i guess the pains he took to insist upon the scientific nature of his methods didn't quite pay off after all... ?)
14 hours ago, Bopie5 said:So who else just now got the email from humanitiesadmissions at Chicago and briefly panicked!? I read and reread the application receipt email making sure it wasn't saying anything bad haha! Looks like we'll be hearing mid-Feb.
that email was the first thing i read today upon getting out of bed, and it certainly is more effective than coffee at jolting me awake.
(on a side note, i can't believe they're trying to sell us their MAPH program already??)
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8 hours ago, mandelbulb said:
this sounds like me... i tease myself for this all the time.
to be honest, i do too. (is it possible to think freud's a bit of a phooey whilst absolutely loving psychoanalytic theory at the same time..?)
12 hours ago, WildeThing said:Also, I have been obsessing over these apps now that we're in 2019, which, in case you didn't realize, is the same year we would be starting our PhDs, should we get accepted. Like, holy shit. In similar Panicville news, it's fucking January 2019. First responses could be out in about two weeks (I've got Emory down as a mid-late January interview notifier). Most if not all the places I've applied were done notifying acceptances by the end of February, which is NEXT MONTH. Why is no one else here? Panicking? I've been living on a diet of school reviews, undergrad acceptance reaction compilations, program websites, and gradcafe deepdives for the past few days.
i'm currently working on my applications to oxford and cambridge (the latter has just been submitted) to take my mind off this immense anxiety, except the process has had me scrolling through thestudentroom (the uk version of collegeconfidential, which also includes a forum for postgrads) and panicking even more. it doesn't help that oxbridge actually does rolling admissions, which means some applicants to other courses have already received their admissions decisions. given that i'm already pulling my hair out over this, i can't imagine how the coming weeks will be like as responses start trickling in... *breathes into paper bag*
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10 hours ago, mandelbulb said:
when did all of you bump into your research interests for the first time?
I can't really say when I first read A Room of One's Own (it was ages ago), but besides its message, I remember being so taken by Woolf's wit and language that I immediately started looking for, and poring through everything else that she's ever written. Certainly, there's much to admire and discuss in her novels (which explains my honors thesis topic), but it was always her non-fiction — her essays, letters, diaries, memoirs — that charmed me. Her words just brim with such personality that I couldn't help but seek the person behind them, so that led me to Hermione Lee's biography of Woolf (which I, too, fell in love with), and then her other books on life-writing... I guess that, and my general curiosity in the gossipy particulars of writer's lives (especially those of women writers), was what then cumulated in my current research interest in women's life-writing.
10 hours ago, mandelbulb said:i knew about psychoanalysis from my history of psych class and all the smack we talk in evidence-based treatments about "talk therapy" (like psychoanalysis)
On a side note, this really cracked me up, because my best friend's a psychologist who can't tolerate any serious mention of Freud, whereas half — if not all — of the work I do now can be traced, in one way or another, to his theories... so she teases me a lot about it.
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@jadeisokay this is exactly how I feel!! And even if I do bring out the numbers, it's still hard to imagine what 3-7% of all applicants really entails.
I'm not the sort to get other's hopes up until I am certain I can fulfil their expectations, so I've been trying to prepare my parents for the very likely event that I should fail to get into any school, but they seem to think that I'd easily make the top "3-7%". If only they knew how many indeterminable factors play into admissions decisions!! (If only I really knew too!!! But alas...) -
2 hours ago, kendalldinniene said:
A) Lauren Berlant
Between this thread and the other on books, it seems like half the comments from this year's applicants are just us (virtually) yelling "Lauren Berlant!!" at each other... ?
(To be fair, the awe she inspires isn't at all unjustified.)23 minutes ago, jadeisokay said:within my extended family just graduating college is a big deal so i feel like a total anomaly. i went blue in the face explaining how funding and dissertations and everything work at the last gathering i went to this year. and of course i was still asked after what exactly i was thinking majoring in english. sigh.
I definitely empathise. At this point, my family's still pretty confused about the funding situation, even though I've attempted, repeatedly, to explain it to them. And their confusion only exacerbates whenever I tell them about the frightfully low acceptance rates for PhD programs, not to mention the even more terrifying job prospects that I'll face after graduating from one. (I don't know where, or how my parents got the impression that being a professor's a glamorous job!! *side-eyes tenured professors, with their cushy incomes and job security*)
I suppose I'm lucky to have my wonderful mentors to talk to and keep me sane in this period of time, even though I sometimes feel like they have far too much confidence in my abilities. Perhaps this is just the imposter syndrome talking, but perhaps my worries aren't unfounded — we'll see when the admissions results roll in...
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12 hours ago, WildeThing said:
Yeah, it's probably just a Graduate School requirement, but still seems silly. Bhabha, Gates Jr and Carpio are all awesome and I would have loved to work with them but I have generally tried to avoid relying on the big names in my applications. In all likelihood they're getting a lot of mentions from other applicants but are also more likely to be unavailable due to research stays and projects. Outside of Carpio and Gates Jr there are a few new hires in Af-Am, but I haven't had much of a chance to research their work to see if we would mesh
Ah, of course, that's always a concern with the big names... I'm certain you'll be able to find your place in the department, but as to how close a fit it is as compared to the programs you've applied to, I can't quite say since I'm not all too familiar with your areas of interest.
7 hours ago, WildeThing said: Truth be told Chicago and Stanford might be more secure on my dream list if the West Coast wasn’t so damn far away and if I hadn’t had so many people tell me to keep away from Southside. Not that it stopped me from applying but it is something I think about.
5 hours ago, Bopie5 said:I've heard this same thing a few times, and it's definitely the reputation of the Southside (I grew up in the Chicago area). However, I have some friends who live on Lake Shore Drive and they say that the Hyde Park area around UChicago is improving in terms of safety. The bigger complaint that I've heard is that there isn't much in the way of night life, it's not as accessible to public transportation, and groceries can get kind of expensive. And (this is just my opinion), a lot of the negative rhetoric around the Southside can be racially charged. I'm sure you already know/have researched/thought through all this, but any big city has crime and safe and unsafe areas, and from people I know who live in or near the Hyde Park area, they say it's generally safe if you're careful and especially safe closer to campus, and that there are good fun little shops and restaurants if you know where to look.
Forgive my ignorance, but since I've never actually stepped foot in the states, and have only heard of such safety concerns from others (I'm sure Baudrillard has something to say about this), can I just ask, what is the so-called benchmark for "safety" there? I've lived in, and gotten by quite well on my own in other big cities like London and Paris, but gun safety's always a concern for me wrt to living in the states. (I never know if it is exaggerated in the media, or if things are exactly as they seem — quite horrific, by the looks of it. Also, I don't know if it's something I'll ever be able to get used to...)
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8 hours ago, WildeThing said:
As an international student I need to submit TOEFL results, too. It's possible that I can get something done in time but I highly doubt something I pull out of my ass will be competitive, especially without much time to research proper fit. Not even sure if the fit is there, honestly.
Ah, I didn't know you're an international student too! (On that note, how much of a waste of time and money is the TOEFL?? You'd think that having studied ENGLISH literature for about, or at least four years, we'd be sufficiently able to communicate in the language itself... ?) But anyway, it's a wise choice to put off applying in this cycle, I suppose, especially seeing as Harvard's program tends to skew towards being more traditional, still, not to mention that their application fees are rather exorbitant. Nonetheless, if you're thinking of applying in the future, I believe Glenda Carpio and Henry Louis Gates Jr (amongst others) work quite extensively in your areas of interest. And then there's Homi Bhabha, of course...
7 hours ago, mandelbulb said:so what is everyone's dream program and why? and on the other hand, if you don't get in anywhere, is there anything you can fall back on that doesn't make you feel sick about facing another application cycle?
It's currently a toss-up between Columbia and Chicago. On one hand, there's Marianne Hirsch at Columbia; on the other, there's Lauren Berlant at Chicago... How to choose, how to choose — as if one could even be so lucky to be offered that choice in the first place. To be honest, I think I'd be more than happy at all the programs to which I've applied, though Duke does present a slight challenge since I've always been more fond of living in (or at least, close to) a big city. But who knows, I could like North Carolina after all.
At this point, all I'd like is an acceptance (just one will do!!), because I don't really have a satisfactory Plan B, except to proceed on to do a masters at my current university. I could go back into journalism or take up a gallery internship, and maybe do some language courses on the side, but I'm just afraid the pause will lead me to stagnate.
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34 minutes ago, WildeThing said:
Yeah Harvard has asked for two for a while. A little peeved that Harvard changed it now because I checked in September/October and they had both the GRE and Subject test as required so I moved along because I didn’t want to take the Subject test (money/time). Would be nice if these requirements (and program ans faculty changes) were reflected on the website in advance of application season.
Well, the application deadline's not until Jan 2, so you technically still have a couple more days to put together an application, though there, realistically, isn't much time if you don't already have a second writing sample. (But if you do, and if you're able to get hold of your letter writers over the holidays, it is, perhaps, doable..?)
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upvoting for the Joni Mitchell and Pink Floyd and Arcade Fire and Fiona Apple and Lorde and FATM and The National.
it's 1.30am here and my brain isn't quite so lucid, so all i can say is, i love all your music tastes omg.