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I came home to start studying, but checked my e-mail first. I saw an e-mail from UMich with the subject "Offer of Admission." Since I'd been getting so much e-mail from the schools I'd applied to and I was sick of reading it, I proceeded to start checking other messages. Then the lightbulb came on and I realized that I was in!!! I felt so dumb for it taking so long to register, but it did eventually. After reading the e-mail I called my mom, then my dad. I almost started crying when I told them because I was so relieved. I then started telling my siblings and friends. That night my roommate/best friend took a picture of me with a printout of my acceptance. We officially celebrated about a week later when we had more time to.

I want to be a life sciences specialist at a university library or maybe a health librarian. I wouldn't discount academic libraries of any sort, though.

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The sooner I realize I'm probably rejected, the sooner I can get over it and concentrate on other things. While I procrastinate a lot of things, I don't like procrastinating bad news unless I know that there are things that MUST be done that I won't accomplish if I receive bad news. In this case, though, it's easy to just not visit the results page for a few days.

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I haven't decided yet. If I get really good funding I'll probably just work the same part time job I've had since high school (because it's really flexible) and run around doing whatever hits my fancy. Or stay in my college town and run around doing whatever hits my fancy with my best friend. Probably some traveling and vacationing and such. Work on getting a tan. I haven't had one since high school since I'm always inside doing research or school work or work work. Otherwise I'll have to defer a year and work to save up money to pay for grad school, in which case I won't be running around doing whatever hits my fancy. I'll probably become a lab rat and do PCR all year long. :/ I hope I get good funding.

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Bad Day: (Looking at my GREs, transcripts, etc) "Hm. I think she accidentally applied to the wrong program." After reading my SOP "Why on earth does she think she's qualified? No library experience whatsoever? REJECT!" Good Day: "Let's get some diversity! A biochemist mixed in with all these historians and literature fiends will be an interesting social experiment!"

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I'm just a really young 21 with pretty much no life experience, so you can take this with a grain of salt. That said... I really believe that the "right" decision always boils down to what will make you the most happy with your life and yourself. Who cares about having lots of money or success if you can't find joy in life? That being said, would you be happier deciding to forgo the PhD and wondering the rest of your life if you shoulda coulda woulda or getting a PhD, losing some financial security, and maybe having to live more frugally and retire later than you otherwise would have? Do you really think you would fail at a PhD, or is it just self-doubt that you're allowing to creep in? I think your family would understand especially if they knew that trying was important to you. Speaking as a daughter, it's much more important to me that my father be happy and content with his life than having enough money to buy lots of frivolous things. My family has scrimped and saved for as long as I can remember, and it's made me a better person. But you do have to consider how they feel and how their feelings would impact your happiness or chance of success. Really only you can decide what's best as you're the only one with all the details. But I hope you take some time to consider what you WANT to do without worrying so much about logistics and what ifs. They're important, no doubt, but I don't think they are the most important part of the equation.

o_0 I really don't understand why people are against anyone getting more education. The time you have to make use of your degree shouldn't have any impact on getting into a program. It should purely be qualification and fit. I'm sure the younger applicants can get a house and spouse and children without a doctorate, and who's to say these whipper snappers won't die the day after they receive their PhD?

Hm. I haven't thought much about it. I'm single and while I don't despise the holiday or fall apart on it, it's not a big deal to me. I'll probably eat a cupcake or something and watch a chick flick with my roommates.

Nope. Nada. I'm a biochemistry major involved in research. I decided about a year ago I wanted to be a university librarian, but by that point all the positions in my university library for this school year had been filled (Really? 8 months in advance?). I'm hoping my research experience will give me bonus points for the health sciences library, and I did get a glowing LOR from a librarian who works in my university library. We'll see. I'm trying not to be too hopeful, especially since they weren't clear on what successful applicants would look like. Still, how nice would it be to have a masters completely paid for? I hope you hear something soon! I'm sending you good vibes. Congrats! It's such a relief to be in somewhere that you are excited to go, isn't it?

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I was going to apply to Rutgers when I first began considering MLIS programs; my dad went there for a while. I'm not entirely sure why I changed my mind. The waiting game stinks, doesn't it? I just want to know what I'm doing next year. I'm obsessive about planning, so not knowing just kills me. I hope I hear back from everyone before mid-March though. And I really need to figure out how to pay for campus visits. :/ Yeah, that's what I thought when I first heard. Especially since they extended it after the deadline had passed. Do you think we get bonus points if we applied by the first deadline?

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