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just cleared my cache and reloaded the site and it was a rejection.

i need paper bags to breathe into.

@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.

@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.)

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?

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.) 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. 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. ???

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...)

oh noooooo... dogs, and especially labs, are too pure for this bamboozling business. ?

yikes, does the kid know something that we don't?

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 ?

I am, but for the 1900 - Present stream. Ah, I asked because I noticed your u/n right about the same time that Florence dropped her new tracks... Have you heard them?

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!!)

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.)

@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"?)

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.)

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!)

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.

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. ?)

it's past the 20th (and i am compulsively checking my horoscope just because...)

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.) 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*)

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.

@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!

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.

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.)

im running on less than three hours of sleep today but this certainly jolted me awake.