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Yay!!!! I'm so happy for you!!!! Are you leaning towards one or the other? Also, YOU. ARE. KILLING. IT!!! Woot woot!! Congrats, Ash!!!! Here is how I feel for you: Happy for y'all, and lehgo March.
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Congrats, congrats!!!! That's so exciting! YAY!!!!!!!!!! All the balloons and chocolate and hearts to you!!!!
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Nah, I wouldn't think that. It's more if there have been a ton of schools that have already made their calls or sent out their offers, but honestly, just seeing all of the history on the results page here, some people have gotten offers at the last minute as funding switched around, sometimes calls are staggered--you just don't know until you have the official notification from the university. I wouldn't give up hope, but, even if it doesn't work out acceptance-wise this round, don't stop believing in yourself. You can do it, and that acceptance from a lit mag is phenomenal. Congratulations on your success.
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I wouldn't! On Draft, there were a couple of people who got into both programs, and it (looked?--don't quote me on this) like via conversations in the comments that some people were leaning more towards accepting Michener offers over Iowa. Michener apparently had over 700 fiction applications this year, so if you haven't heard yet, maybe that means a waitlist? Hoping for the best for you!
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Missed commenting on this, but I wanted to say that it's gorgeous!!! It reminds me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Thank you so much. ❤️ I really am hoping I do, too, ha! I hope you hear back from all of your other apps soon--I'll be hoping/praying for you! My heart is waitlisted, if that counts? It's like a horse ready to go out of the gate at the races, atm... Haha, in all seriousness, though, is this the program you posted about a few weeks back? I hope you hear soon!!
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Anyone else only apply to one school/program?
eternalwhitenights replied to clanders's topic in Waiting it Out
I did! I applied to Notre Dame's MFA Creative Writing program, Prose Track. I want to make my Irish Potato Famine novel my thesis for the program. Best of luck to y'all! -
Hugs. ❤️ I hope you hear soon. Perhaps you can go bang on their door and serenade them? Some people find that romantic?...? In other words:
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Awww, I'm so sorry. ❤️❤️❤️ Are you doing okay? Were you fiction or poetry? Hugs to you--how many more schools do you have to hear back from? Still rooting for you!
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I was literally just going to ask this!! OMG, here's hoping for all of us. ❤️ Anything from Michener yet on your end? I know that's one you're pulling for. I believe in you regardless!
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Congrats on all of your hard work in applying, and I hope your heart is okay. I'm so glad you have the courage to share your voice with the world in the first place. ❤️
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The time has come, the walrus said, for me to officially start shitting bricks. Here we go. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Look, marshall/frock, one thing I have noticed is that you seem to be coming from a place of pain in your posts. I'm not sure if you're bored, or you're burnt out, or someone told you once that your writing wasn't up to par, or what. I have no idea where your pain stems from, and I don't want to judge you, because I don't know your story. If you want to share anything, I'm happy to listen, if you're going through something, but regardless, just because you're disillusioned, it doesn't mean the rest of us have to be. I'm wondering if you're maybe someone that was told it wasn't okay to fail, and you just kind of go through life expecting bad sh*t to happen to you. (Not saying you are; it's just a hunch on my end.) I get it (if that is indeed what you're going through); you know, it took me a really, really long time to forgive myself for some choices I made in my past that went against my values, and sometimes I still struggle with bracing myself for things to just come collapsing down around me again, because hoping again after you've gone through some crap is really, really, really hard, and requires the most courageous thing anyone can do: being vulnerable again. That means you risk, well, risk, and you risk being hurt. If you harden and numb yourself, though, and retreat into your shell, ultimately, you deprive yourself of the depth of the human experience, because in avoiding the pain and numbing yourself, you also throttle your capacity to experience deep, freewheeling joy at its lifesource: your heart. I don't know about you, but living in perpetual gray and trudging through life seems pretty bleary to me. Ultimately, too, to be even more cliche ?, I think so much of it really boils down to how it is all about perspective. The thing is, life, and people, ultimately, are fundamentally good. I know you've mentioned a couple of times giving "false promises" to people via encouragement; have you thought about reframing that perspective and viewing that expression of positivity from a place of anchoring yourself in a belief that good, that love, ultimately is the force that courses through the fabric of our world, and that it's okay to believe that, in the end, love and hope do triumph, and win? I would argue that asserting that truth doesn't warrant a notion of false promises; it simply means that despair, and hopelessness do not get the last say, and that even if you can't see it in the moment, even if it all looks bleak, lost, thrashed about and gray, hope always finds a place to sprout through. For a more practical example, think of a rainbow after a storm, or how a forest fire can be regenerative. (In the case of the forest fire process, at first glance, it seems to destroy everything in its path, but what's going on underneath the surface, is that the heat of the fire is actually what activates the melting of the coating of the serotinously-covered seeds in the very plants the fire is burning down in its destruction, and that heat and that force catapults and scatters those seeds into the earth around it, so, in the end, the very element that seemed to destroy the vegetation and the life in the forest, actually, through and in its burning process, activated the release of new seeds and new life in its wake. Even in destruction, new life springs forth.) I hope that however you have been hurt or are hurting heals, and that you don't stop believing in yourself. I'm just letting you know right now, that none of us on this board are going to treat this process as if everything is effed and there's no hope at all. We're a tenacious bunch, and if you'd like to join us, awesome. If not, I mean, there's no other way to say it, but you're truly just wasting your time on here, because we're not going to entertain or engage with your premise that all is effed when it comes to MFA processes. I hope you choose to hope, and to have faith in yourself. Sometimes, it doesn't turn out how we expected, but how do you know something better isn't right around the corner, something that may have never been possible if your past plans had succeeded in the interim? I hope you have a nice day, marshall/frock, and I hope you don't give up. You're worth more than despair, and so are the rest of us on this forum as well. Best of luck. ❤️
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This guy is a troll, rc. His name is Marshall. He pops up under different usernames constantly to troll. Sorry you got hit with it.
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Awwww congratulations!!! So happy for you! ❤️
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Someone just posted on Draft that they got a waitlist notification from Cornell for poetry, just as a heads up to y'all (and KEEP YOUR HEADS UP, too!!!!!!).
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Amen to that. I imagine we'll be hearing a lot of things by the end of this week and all during next week hopefully!
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Lovely! Yeah, the lakes in the Midlands were some of the best parts of it. Also, the fact that there are 1000 year old castles like every 3 miles, lol. And ooo, your fiction sounds scintillating! I have an entire book of Lady Gregory's Irish folklore that I bought at Charlie Byrne's in Galway, and I definitely want to incorporate some type of Irish folklore into the thematic schema of my novel, at some point. Just going to try to soak up as much as I can for now so that when that magic moment of creativity and consciousness click in the midst of story writing, I'll be able to pull from a treasure trove. I hope you hear back from Iowa, and all your programs soon, and, I mean, there are worse things than having the ocean as your front yard, ha! And to your van on a beach aspirations, I think Matt Foley said it best: C'est la vie?
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Ah, that's brilliant!!! Can't wait to go back and have the craic someday. Did you ever visit Neachtains in Galway? It's still my fav pub because of the live music and artistic atmosphere. Also, Carlsberg ftw. ✌️ And oh my gosh, what a breathtaking place to grow up across from. I remember when my ex and I were driving through West Cork, and we came upon some Famine house ruins, I could just feel the sadness. I mean, it just seeped from the land. You could almost wade through it, it was so thick. Did you veer into Roscommon area, then? And awww, yay to your service dog!!! Although my memories of Mullingar aren't so hot (my ex is my ex for a reason, ha), I used to work at a place called Gallery 29 (they're closed down now) when I was over there on my working holiday visa, and it was me and two old Irish sisters running the entire enterprise, and boy, did that place become my respite. I miss Emily's cakes, and oh. My. Gosh. do I miss 99s. I STILL haven't found comparable ice cream over here in the States. Also, that's so cool you have family pics near Galway Bay!!! I found out after I got back from studying abroad and living in Ireland that my mom's side of the family actually came from a small town about 6-8 miles or so outside of Galway, and it was one of those full-circle, palimpcestical moments where it confirmed what I'd always felt in my soul, this pull towards Galway and Ireland. That was a pretty rad moment. And I will let you know when it's out! I plan on it changing the world, so watch for it. What do you write, btw? Did you apply this round to schools? I applied to one program, Notre Dame, because, yo, their Irish Studies program is the bomb dot com, and I can research and write my little heart out on Thomas Davis and the Young Irelanders and Grainne ni Mhaille to my heart's content in their program. Here's hoping.
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Random sidenote, I lived in Ireland, too!!! When did you live there, and where? I studied at NUIG for a semester, and dated an Irish guy for 4 1/2 years and lived in Mullingar (where Niall Horan is from) when I went over to visit him on two separate occasions! My MFA thesis is going to be my Irish Potato Famine novel and love story that takes place during it (if I get in, it'll be a thesis--I'm still writing it either way, lol!). I just had to shoutout Ireland here, because I miss Galway so, so much, and Galway Bay is the most beautiful place in the world, and just hi hello how are you to a fellow once-lived-in-Irelander!
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I'm glad you mentioned the fee waiver stuff--I kept forgetting to mention that if you've done AmeriCorps, you should be able to get a fee waiver as well. I did AmeriCorps 2017-2018, and I was able to get my fee to Notre Dame waived. I suppose you can always email the school and just ask, too. (You never know until you try, right? :))
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He's a troll. Don't pay him any mind. ?
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Marshall, you sly thing, you. Hello again!
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Hiiiii! I'm waiting on Notre Dame, too (it's the only program I applied to)! I think literally the best thing ever, ever, ever would be to get in, and then to get in with friends from here! Also, a major, 8 bjillion times over, congratulations to all who have been waitlisted, accepted, rejected, and are still waiting. When I was praying today, I was thinking about how, no matter what, I'm still a writer. No matter, what, I am still going to make it. No matter what, I, and all of us, are going to be okay, and if we get rejected, we're going to double down on our craft, and keep writing, keep growing, keep learning, and keep loving, and we're all going to make it, whatever that ends up looking like overall. I believe in you guys, and I believe in myself! All of us are "success stories" because we have the courage to put our hearts on paper in the first place. In other words, no matter the outcomes, let's ROCK this, y'all!!!!! ❤️
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Are there any Rutgers people here? Saw on Draft that a couple people got emails about interviews for poetry! (Good luck if that's anyone here. :D) I feel like I've seen Rutgers applicants floating around here...
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I saw they had over 1000 applications this year. That's an incredible accomplishment in and of itself. Congrats, dear!! ❤️