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I think your best bet is to look up each school you're applying to on the Results page and see if people posted getting interviews for those schools in previous years.

Throwing things back to the psychoanalysis conversation...anyone here ever think about just becoming a psychoanalyst as a plan B.

UC Irvine Comp Lit interviews and seems to notify abt interviews around Jan. 22

I taught Of Mice and Men in a 9th grade English class last year and all my students started using the word "tart" instead of slut because of it...not exactly the result i was hoping for

Anyone here seen Pom Poko? It's a really fun and strange Studio Ghibli movie about shapeshifting Raccoon Dogs with giant testicles

I'm teaching myself Brahms's Ballade op. 10 no. 2 on piano and feeling like a genius

Ah just saw on results page that someone got the interview email from Emory WGSS, so I think I'm down for the count there

@savay I read Disturbing Attachments last year and loved it...it pretty much got me to apply to Emory's WGSS program, where Amin teaches (along with Michael Moon and Lynne Huffer). Actually I'm supposed to hear back from them today about whether or not I got an interview! They very kindly sent an email to everyone in December telling us we'd hear about interviews by the 11th. @dilby I haven't gamed in years but What Remains of Edith Finch sounds so lovely I'm downloading it today!

I'm usually a very sound sleeper but in the past week my sleep has been horrible...due to a variety of factors I think but definitely decision anticipation is a big part. The other night I was having auditory hallucinations that kept me up ಠ_ಠ

@Bopie5 your thesis reminds me of HIM from powerpuff girls...the queerest and most brilliant villain out there @dilby I saw Madeline's Madeline in September and I really haven't stopped thinking about it since...

I was having auditory hallucinations as I was trying to fall asleep the other night ?

Our trash society generally thinks the ability to teach is worthless so I feel like a lot of it comes down the question of whether the ppl on an adcom share that view or reject it. You would think in an education system a lot of people would value pedagogy but unfortunately I don't think that's the case.

I was super inspired by one of my tenure-track assistant profs who did really smart scholarship but was also a really talented poet because her outlook was very like "there are lots of different kinds of writing and thinking that I like to do I just get paid a lot more money to do one of those kinds of writing." Obviously she was very lucky to have her position but I really admired how she didn't let academia dominate her creative life, and her advice to me was on the same vein...she said a PhD can be a good setting to do certain kinds of writing and thinking but you don't actually need to be a PhD student to authorize you to do that work...you can authorize yourself!

I'm applying with just a BA but it's my second year working since graduating. Like u all said paying for an unfunded masters sounds impossible and my recommenders said they thought I could probably get into a PhD so i'm going 4 it...one of them did try very hard to convince me to rethink because of job market though

Glad you all found that Berkeley sample SoP helpful...I also read it back in September and found it to somehow be the opposite of helpful. Like, I could see why it was an effective SoP but then all I could think was "ok here's a good SoP" but not how I could translate anything to my own...

Hello all...I've been lurking too long and too obsessively not to post here despite knowing that it would probably be better for my mental health to block this website ? I finished my BA in English in 2017 and now applying to a mix of English, Comp Lit, Media Studies, and (one) WGSS programs. I'm drawn to a lot of different theoretical approaches so the common denominator for the places I applied is interdisciplinarity within the humanities/social sciences but lately I'm feeling worried that by applying to a few different kinds of programs I failed to commit to a specific enough way of packaging myself...anyone else who applied to multiple kinds of programs feeling this? Also RE the psychoanalysis convo, I got a book for Christmas called Self and Emotional Life cowritten by Catherine Malabou and Adrian Johnston about how recent developments in neuroscience force us to change the way we think about psychoanalysis and continental philosophy...I'm very excited to read it! Anyone on here read it/heard about it?