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Well my anxiety is going to end sometime, but probably after everything ends. Even if I don’t get in anywhere, at least it’ll be over.

I feel like the nightmares I’m having are mostly because of the stress of waiting. It stared about a month ago and that was when I turned in most of my apps. And awww kitty ❤️ I’m both happy and a bit worried that we’re all awake.

I wish I could forget I applied and be pleasantly reminded by an acceptance phone call or email. That’d be the dream. Unfortunately I’m always checking my applications, this forum, and generally trying to figure out what I’m going to do if I really don’t get in.

Not entirely sure that’d work. The anxiety is keeping me awake, also I’ve been having nightmares everyday for the past month so I guess I’ll just stay awake for now.

I legit started busting out laughing. I wish I had something to drink, would enjoy going out too.

Also, question for everyone, why are we still awake? I’m guessing most of us are in America, it’s literally 3:30 where I am. I can’t sleep, send help.

Question for @litty, I don’t think I’ve asked where you’re applying, so where have you applied? @MFALongshot that’s true too. I have no idea what any of these teachers are like, except for UNLV, apparently one of my teachers who wrote my recommendation knows the person I want to work with.

I didn’t think you were being rude, it’s understandable that you’d get frustrated. If any one of the professors just left while still being featured heavily on the website, I would be angry too, especially since my work is kind of surreal and it’s hard to find many professors that match my weirdness.

Yeah, I get that. Especially if that faculty member is very well known or has been there forever. That’s exactly why I’m worried about UNLV and Iowa. I can’t confirm it’s that way with the assistant professors though. Hopefully it’s not that way with Professor Mort at Cornell, I really like her work TT_TT

@MFALongshot yikes I’m sorry that Saunders is leaving. If Chris Kennedy did that I would be very very upset.

I’m not, but I looked at the results section and acceptances tend to go out between the last week of January and two weeks into February. I hope you hear back soon, I hope we all hear back soon.

Nice, another WashU, Cornell, and Syracuse applicant! Also, welcome @bruin228! And thanks for wishing us luck! Just for reference I lived 10 miles off the equator for a month. The heat of America doesn’t bother me anymore, it’s just the humidity. Texas heat would be welcome right about now (I live in a northern state). Roast me Texas, I dare you.

OMG CONGRATULATIONS @Dochinka96 ??? I’m so so so happy for you!!!!!! I hope you get a spot off the waitlist, is it ranked?

At one point I was excited about it, but I forgot why. The more I learn about it the more I realize that it fit my very specific criteria and that may have been the main draw. I was so excited that it worked and also that Kathleen Graber seems pretty cool. VCU isn’t at the bottom of my list, that’d be WashU, but it’s the second from the bottom. The same thing also happened to UNLV, I like the idea of going abroad for a semester, but the only country that I want to go to is Wales. Welsh language books are freaking hard to find. I’ve looked everywhere around my town. I might have to order from an online bookstore. But basically the more I look at the program websites the more I either like or feel worried about the programs.

Ah gotcha, I’ll probably be spending more time in the city anyhow ‘cause I’ll definitely be living off campus.

Art museum you say? I’m intrigued. And while its kind of hard for me to break out of my shell, I would like the option of good nightlife. That’s also why I’m excited about Ithaca, I hear it’s awesome from people who went there.

I don’t know I have any important questions tbh. I suppose I should ask this though: What’s really exciting about VCU? I’m not too excited about it, and I want a reason to be excited about potentially getting accepted.

Nice! How was it? I’m applying to VCU.

Yeah, I definitely made a mistake applying to WashU instead of UT Austin

I know that now, but I was worried as a queer POC that I would have a hard time.

I thought there was a second one of those, you gave me a heart attack. ?

I feel like the reason I didn’t apply to Michener was partially because of Texas. As nice as it sounds I’m not enthused about the location. I didn’t bother looking anywhere in the south for reasons.

Nope, this year they didn’t require it, that’s why I applied cause I didn’t want to take the GRE for it to tell me I’m mediocre. I only applied to schools that didn’t require the GRE. So look at my list. As for UNLV, I emailed someone who then told me that they didn’t require it. So if that’s wrong then that’s gonna suck later.

Well I’m a poet, so as cool as Saunders is I’m not going there for him. I’m going for Christopher Kennedy, for the opportunity to visit NYC publishers in my third year on a school sponsored trip, for the three year program, for the opportunity to read literature beyond the workshop. And definitely not for the heckin’ snow. I hate snow, but I like Syracuse’s program enough to deal with it.

This is how I manage my application anxiety when I’ve run out of things to do. I mostly check gradcafe when I’m bored, and I’m always bored so I’m always here.