dilby

Hello, congratulations! This is a humanities/literature thread, so you may have posted in the wrong place either way I hope you enjoy your acceptance glow this evening!

Good luck this week, everyone

I'm sure we'll have a postmortem/planning for next cycle thread sometime in the spring! It would be lovely to have some of you as teammates for next round if things don't work out this year.

I sure hope those UCs + Stanford get to work soon! The two I applied to are my top programs!

Another day, another Shx meme

For me it's like, the entire 18th century lol

I wasn't accepted to UT, but it was my undergrad institution and I've been living in atx for about six years now. FWIW, I think a 17k+ stipend is really livable, if you're able to find a roommate or two. Studio apartments will run 900-1000+ per month here, but sharing a living space will probably set your rent in the 400-800/month range. Feel free to DM me if you have questions!

Looking forward to getting an email from my CA schools tomorrow like "due to the inclement weather in the midwest, we will be delaying our admissions process by 2-3 days"

I argue in my sample that Spirited Away's narrative calls attention to the flexible metaphysics of the animated mise en scene by staging encounters with fantastical and transforming bodies. These encounters foreground both the cognitive processes and cultural presuppositions that undergird affective responses to the body—particularly disgust, which in philosophy/aesthetics has been a sly and unstable strategy to delimit what kinds of bodies are and are not "acceptable." I argue that Miyazaki's grotesque, intensely corporeal imagery is designed to elicit and subsequently undermine disgust, in line with Sianne Ngai's and Eugenie Brinkema's critiques of the affect as theoretically centerless, predicated on rejection and ultimately self-defeating. The film goes on to develop a more emotionally and dialectically positive intervention, constructing a pluralistic poetics of the body that highlights the redemptive potential of empathy and physical contact.

Waitlisted at Rice!!! edit: lol and I also swapped my GRE verbal and quantitative scores

lmao the idea that adcomms are on this thread looking at my memes is a god damn nightmare

I would very much like to know where/if I am going to graduate school !!

Oh no! Only one acceptance to me suggests that there will definitely be more to come. Most of the programs have 5 or 6 posted acceptances and until that time I'd say they aren't done notifying

I'm almost certain that this person thought "S19 cycle" means "it is currently spring 2019" and they will be matriculating in the fall

I believe it's a comp lit acceptance!

Congratulations UT admits!!! That is my undergrad institution and I know most of the faculty personally (although the department is huge and I have some blind spots). Please feel free to DM me if you have questions about the department or the city

Aw! If anything, I'll bet they had an empathetic laugh and moved on with whatever conversation they were having before. They already knew where else you were applying and there's no way a little email flub would impact their opinion of you.

Chicago, Yale, Toronto and Madison, plus Stanford MTL! I sort of assume because English is usually the flagship humanities department of these universities that others in proximal departments will follow their lead

Man, I wish that cinema studies departments were as communicative as English folks. I've been forced to sort of just assume that they will operate on a similar-ish timeline.

Congratulations! That's a super cool program--definitely one I'll be looking at if this cycle ends in a shutout

@StHoly Howdy, this is a humanities thread you may be posting in the wrong place

Memes are my only solace from this nightmare

Congratulations!

It so is a good fit and that's such good news! I'm sitting at a Barnes and Noble about five minutes away from Rice right now, resisting the urge to stumble into their department office and tell them "hey guys it's me dilby you don't need to call me I'm right here"

Was that Rice acceptance anyone here? I was not expecting them to admit until February, since their application due date is January 8th, and last I heard they do interviews. ?