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Good luck this week, everyone
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1 hour ago, alexisnj said:
This may have been asked already, but is there a thread with information regarding what English PhD applicants can do after a shutout in order to improve their application for the next cycle? Feeling pretty convinced that I need to start planning for this already
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.
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Another day, another Shx meme
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For me it's like, the entire 18th century lol
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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!
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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"
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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.
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3 minutes ago, bardie said:
UChicago is opening back up tomorrow, according to their website. I'm guessing we will get news Friday.
*also jk about having doubts about Chicago. Admissions, if you're out there, I love youuuuu ?... ??*
lmao the idea that adcomms are on this thread looking at my memes is a god damn nightmare
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I would very much like to know where/if I am going to graduate school !!
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26 minutes ago, effietheant said:
lol that makes me want to cry
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
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12 hours ago, effietheant said:
I'm so confused by the CMU admit! Is the "S19" a typo? I didn't think they had a Spring start date and if they did, wouldn't the semester have already started? Has anyone heard anything?
I'm almost certain that this person thought "S19 cycle" means "it is currently spring 2019" and they will be matriculating in the fall
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4 minutes ago, Bopie5 said:
Where are you seeing this!? I can't see it on the results page!
I believe it's a comp lit acceptance!
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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
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5 minutes ago, pdh12 said:
fun fact: if i hadn't already hammered the nail in the Penn State Interview coffin (Very Likely), i definitely did when i emailed them asking how the Rutgers deliberations were going.......FMLLLLLLLLL
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.
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15 minutes ago, jadeisokay said:
waiting on chicago too?
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
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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.
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58 minutes ago, veroniquea said:
An email from University of Minnesota's Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program makes for my first acceptance! Such a feeling of relief!
Congratulations! That's a super cool program--definitely one I'll be looking at if this cycle ends in a shutout
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@StHoly Howdy, this is a humanities thread
you may be posting in the wrong place
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Memes are my only solace from this nightmare
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3 minutes ago, Sav said:
I’m also a Rice acceptance! So excited.
Congratulations!
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17 minutes ago, madandmoonly said:
But as a posthumanist this program is a REALLY good fit for the work that I do, and I’m really pleased.
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"
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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. ?
2019 Acceptances
in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
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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!