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    tacocat211 reacted to dilby in Campus visit thoughts?   
    I just got my Yale visit itinerary and I have visits scheduled with SEVEN professors, plus a couple of graduate students. This double-department PhD situation means I have a lot of reading up to do in the next 8 days ?
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    tacocat211 reacted to Musmatatus in Turned Down Offers Thread   
    I love this thread b/c of the role reversal!!! So nice to see students doing the rejecting, for once
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    tacocat211 reacted to effietheant in 2019 Applicants   
    Just an update on my end as well -- after contacting the six schools I had left to hear from, I found out I was on hidden wait list for two of them, and rejected from one. I also found out that I have another week or two of waiting to hear back from the final three schools, which are Canadian. Incredibly frustrating because I have pending offers at other schools and I feel bad holding a place that someone else could be taking! 
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    tacocat211 reacted to havemybloodchild in 2019 Acceptances   
    In off the waitlist at Loyola
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    tacocat211 reacted to mandelbulb in 2019 Applicants   
    i move to enact a march 15th deadline for all initial offers and rejections............................. and then an april 15th deadline for subsequent offers. please just put us out of our misery.
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    tacocat211 reacted to Pnwonder in 2019 Rhet/Comp Applicants   
    @tacocat211 I'm still waiting on Penn State as well but have mostly accepted that as a no at this point. As for UT, I can say that I will be going to their recruitment weekend but already feel very strongly about another program and just want to give Austin a chance with the visit before making my final decision. But you can most likely expect some movement on the waitlist at the end of the month! Hope that inspires some optimism ☺️
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from ArcaMajora in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from havemybloodchild in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 reacted to urbanfarmer in 2019 Applicants   
    As someone whose popped into this forum from time to time, and gotten invested in y'all's decisions, I'd love to see someone make a "final decisions" thread so we can all see where everyone is ending up!
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from CatBowl in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from jadeisokay in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from vondafkossum in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from rr732 in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from The Wordsworthian in 2019 Applicants   
    seeing people who have already committed somewhere gives me a weird second-hand peace/life stability. like at least someone knows what the next 5ish years of their life are going to look like, even if it’s not me ?
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    tacocat211 reacted to mandelbulb in Philosophy -> Literature   
    i didn't personally make this move, but i have a friend who did an MA in philosophy and then did an MA in english. their experience was that they were particularly strong in regards to theory and critical thinking, but that applying theory to text was difficult because they hadn't had much practice. that said, they were pretty brilliant. benefits/drawbacks are -- i'm imagining -- about the same as a philosophy PhD. a big commitment paired with less-than-stellar job prospects in academia afterwards.
    i think the real question is why do you feel drawn to a literature PhD after your time getting an MA in philosophy and theology?
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    tacocat211 reacted to ArcaMajora in 2019 Applicants   
    Just did my campus visit for UCI a few days ago. I loved, loved, loved it and it was an incredible experience for 2 days (if anyone there visited and haunts grad cafe, this is the American poetry guy speaking). It was non-stop so there was exhaustion by day 2 lol, but it was the good kind of exhaustion. Basically re-affirmed my final decision. It just felt... right.
    Good luck to everyone still waiting Rooting for all of you as March rolls on.
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    tacocat211 reacted to ariadnev in Here Comes the Sun/ Waitlist Movements   
    Yes! Harvard Film and Visual Studies.
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from havemybloodchild in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    i'm screaming
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from dilby in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    i'm screaming
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    tacocat211 got a reaction from amphilanthus in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    i'm screaming
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    tacocat211 reacted to dilby in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    I fucking love gradcafe. this is how you know you're about to get the TEA
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    tacocat211 reacted to Glasperlenspieler in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    Lol. MAPH tuition is something like $60k, plus assume a minimum $20k for living expenses in Chicago. Even with the OP's scholarship we talking in the ballpark of $70k. Oh and given that it's a one year program, it's almost impossible to apply to PhD programs w/o a gap year. Don't recklessly give people advice.
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    tacocat211 reacted to amphilanthus in OK, let's talk about UChicago's MAPH. I need some advice...   
    it’s about to be 3 am and I’m more than a little tipsy (A LOT! very much so!!! absolutely sloshed my friends) so take this with a grain of salt, but I’m feeling emotional about this and I would strongly encourage anyone considering the MAPH to... not. unless it works for you due to outside financial circumstances. especially do not take out loans for that degree. you - anyone considering this - you deserve more. your value is so much higher. it will not give you any advantage that you couldn’t get from taking an extra year to research and write and figure things out on your own (I’m about to be two years out from undergrad and have desperately wanted to apply since then and couldn’t before now and, you know, it wasn’t ideal, actually it sucked a whole lot, but the time away only strengthened my application - didn’t make things worse - waiting until next year is truly not the worst thing at all). beginning your academic career with enormous debt will do nothing to benefit you, and it’ll be this weight hanging over you for so many years, especially if you already have any undergraduate loans (like me!). I know it feels like an honor in some ways to be accepted by any program at a very prestigious school, but think of it as a vote of confidence that means you do not need their program in the first place! and think about how much you’ve learned during the application process, that’s honestly the most valuable thing you could bring into another round. tbh i’d do so much differently if I did this again and it’s nothing I could have learned in a masters program.
    I’m sure I’ll come back to this in the morning (the real morning) and cringe a lot because I am Out Of It lbr but I also know I’ll stand by the main idea, which is: know that you deserve better. nothing they can give you is worth debt. maybe it’s right for you, given personal circumstances, but if it’s right for you, you’ll know. but don’t let them profit off uncertainty. it might offer benefits, sure, but they don’t outweigh the negatives and they aren’t much different from the benefits you could add to your application on your own outside of their ridiculously expensive program. take the acceptance as a compliment but not as your only option. 
    not sure how coherent this is but. anyway. that’s my take.
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    tacocat211 reacted to snorkles in Turned Down Offers Thread   
    I declined Brown. I committed to Chicago. I hope that gives someone on the waitlist good news!
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    tacocat211 reacted to dilby in 2019 Applicants   
    I also got (and immediately turned down) the MAPH offer. Me @ Chicago: 
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