misterpat

Welcome home. It's tough being totally anxious and frustrated about something of which the majority of people you interact with on a daily basis have absolutely no understanding.

Of course there are exceptions. I do better than most on standardized tests without studying, but I studied for the GRE quite a bit (and still did mediocre on AW). Do I sometims complain that the AW prompts are inane and boring and ridiculous? Of course. But really, I probably could have worked harder and beat that section, and I admit this to myself. But the source of my frustration stems from people like this: I work with a guy who took the GRE recently. He scored somewhere around an 850 or so (Verbal and Quantitative combined), and of COURSE it was the test's fault, because standardized tests totally don't prove anything, right? He never took into consideration the possibilities that he (A) didn't prepare enough for it, or ( is, in fact, a complete moron. (The latter's possibility given some support by the fact that he was semi-proud of beating 13 percent of people on the Quantitative section despite his not taking any math courses in college. It was the first time in my life I witnessed someone bragging about achieving a 13th percentile score on something.)

Congrats Indiana admits. Now I'm worried about that one...

I always feel like people who talk about how standardized tests don't prove anything are people who didn't want to study for them. :::Flinches, anticipating accusations of any number of "isms":::

I've heard a lot of negativity about Philly. But I think people are probably scared about certain areas of Chicago I don't sweat about venturing into, so I imagine I'll be comfortable in Philly.

Whoah: easy on the confidence, buddy. I think you stand a shot for the schools you applied to. I didn't even know UW-Mil had a sociology department. Sidenote: Why didn't you retake the GRE?

Just to prove you wrong on the first part. And no.

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Who gave you that advice? I love answering private/unknown calls.

I never really read King. I read some fantasy novel he wrote, Through the Eyes of the Dragon, when I was 15. I also read Misery, when I was 15 (and didn't even like it much then). I have heard his non-fiction work On Writing, is excellent though. I give him credit for having the balls to say the Twilight author "can't write worth a darn," even if that is quite possibly the lamest way to articulate that thought I've ever heard. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29001524/

Congrats. I hope they send some funding your way.

Did you have any of Hebidge's theory in there? He seemed omnipresent in subcultural works I'd read. There were a few grad students doing that stuff at my UI.

Slawken, also, I think that the two JHU admits in the results are actually the same person. The first post was from an informal e-mail from a professor, and the second says "official package described." I can't even find the first one now, which makes me think I am correct. Hopefully you haven't started drinking away your JHU sorrows yet for the day.

I sincerely doubt such statistics are kept, or checked. And if they are, it appears admissions-anxiety is an inherent characteristic of prospectivus academicus. So no worries.

It's a little early to say that.

Yeah, that blows my "if the website changes, they'll e-mail me about it" theory out the window. Which hadn't prevented me from logging on to all of them a few times a day anyway... But now I think we're going to crash UCSB's server.

Damn it. I saw the UCSB admit and you had the most recent post on Hist admissions and I thought it was you.

Haven't seen it. If anyone hears anything from any school, you won't be able to miss it. These things get discussed ad nauseum.

How large is the difference in rank? I would also agree to visit. Also compare the placement info on the dept's website. And is that type of thing common at Lousiville? If you're one of the only people to get that 30k fellowship, then you might even take that into consideration. Winning a prestigious award always looks good, and you might be the star of the department there. But I don't really know how the sciences work, so don't read into my advice too much. But that really has to be tempting. 30k would be amazing to live on during graduate school. If only that were the size of the standard stipend. 8) EDIT: Just looked it up, I saw FSU as 51 vs. L-ville 144. That is a HUGE difference. 19k is still a good stipend, however.

Um. WS and Statement of Purpose are the most important parts of your apps. They read hundreds of papers by taking their time and having a whole team of people doing admissions. They're going to pay your tuition and give you tens of thousands of dollars in stipends over the next half-decade or so, I think they'll want to learn all they can about you. To the OP, why would you submit a paper you didn't think was good?

You're right, I don't know it. I think was repeating what I had read on Philosophical Gourmet without looking at it. The site says they have the best program in terms of faculty. So, my mistake.

I just looked at that e-mail again, and it said that the first two weeks of feb are when they are being made, not available. But I can't imagine there being much delay before they're up on the site or sent out.

Damn. I enjoy reading other philosophers explain Kant's ideas, but I always found his writing to be horribly unreadable.

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Missoula is supposed to be really beautiful. I knew a guy who transfered there and he still hasn't left after graduating.