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I wonder if any of the other subject subforums have devolved into madness, too.

Of course you aren't losing your mind. And the tattoos should be of burritos.

My partner is into student organizing, student power and rights, etc. Conveniently he also has experience in politics and law. I'm going to raise this issue with him, see what he thinks. I wouldn't mind doing a little organizing about this.

Burritos have the best juju of all, even better than turkey sandwiches. And the one I just ate was big enough to fill my yearly quota of beans. Oof, my stomach. Thanks for the good wishes. I'm getting awfully cranky and antsy at my job because I want to leave, and I don't know if I can be hopeful about doing so or not.

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In the back of my mind I'm like "please let this be true, please let this be true!" I can offer some evidence of it being true for anthropology, at least. Out of ten DGS that I emailed to ask about the importance of my quant GRE, nine were like "Pfft, we barely look at it," and I didn't apply to the tenth.

I've heard it said that the GRE is no measure of what kind of grad student you will be - it's only a measure of how well you've been trained to take the GRE. I really think it should be done away with as a serious measure of our capacities, not to mention that the cost of their services financially disempowers some folks from being able to apply to graduate programs at all. It's an expensive enough process without $150+$20 for every subsequent wee bitty piece of paper. Why not institute all-electronic reporting? Oh, 'cause then they wouldn't make as much money off poor academics. I forgot. Standardized tests always make me feel like a dancing organ grinder's monkey, anyway. DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!

That's just frightening. I kind of feel like my math teachers let me slide a little bit. I have a learning disability coupled with a very shaky foundation on mathematical basics, but I sort of got shuffled along with the rest of the honors/AP group in my extremely small school district because the rest of my grades were very high. I never did well in any math class, but that was despite constant tutoring and a large amount of despair. The thing is, I think I would have been better suited if I'd been held back and actually given a foundation of understanding instead of passed along to harder and harder courses which I then proceeded, of course, to not understand.

Somebody posted another acceptance for Amherst on the results page! Congratulations, whoever you are! Sadly, I won't be checking my mail until like 11 PM. Blegh. *self-medicates with a giant burrito*

Amen. It is rather sobering to know that our life's accomplishments are being judged as we speak. And I can't help but feel that mine are rather trifling. I would take out loans for one of the MA programs I applied to, but not the other. I don't like the one I was already accepted to enough to pay for it out of pocket, and the acceptance letter was basically like "GET A JOB!" so let's hope the other department comes through. I don't think I'd want to do loans for any of the PhD programs.... that just makes me think I'll be in debt until I die. I too am hopeful that having heard nothing, it simply means that either funding is being scared up for us or we're on some sort of waitlist which heaven knows is better than just being rejected outright.

I think it depends largely on your field and your programs. In anthropology, many of our replies are just now starting to trickle in, and sometimes not even yet. I wouldn't worry - it really, really still is early. Also I love that I learned a new awesome term that involves cured meats.

Oh, my god. I have absolutely no knowledgeable advice, but I just wanted to say I'm really sorry that this happened to you.

People have posted results for three of my schools, one so far back as February 4th. *squirms* Sometimes, it seems like it's really more stressful because we're seeing other people get results, but really I think I still feel better knowing than if I only had the blank void of my mind and the horrible pretend scenarios within.

That's weird - this is also exactly how my day went. Clearly, turkey sandwiches have some major good juju. Good luck, everyone. Maybe this will be our week.

Oh, ouch. I'm sorry. Did you get yours Saturday too? I'm trying to think positive but really not looking forward to checking my mail or email tomorrow.

Thank you, Dubya. If we didn't all have each other to freak out with and reassure, I think I'd be running around in a circle and screaming.

Oh, no! Someone's had a rejection from Syracuse in the mail today. I'll probably get mine on Monday.

It's stories like that that make me think maybe they purposely screw around with people. I mean, what in the heck? Can't someone in the office realize that this is a stressful process and every email with a remotely encouraging subject line is going to prompt certain optimistic assumptions?

Thanks for discounting my experience, but I live outside Baltimore, go into the city for work and visits nearly every week, and find it hideous. Just because I don't live there doesn't mean my experience with the city isn't significant.

This is exactly how my ranking is. Instead of going 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, it's 1, 1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9. Although not that I think I'm going to get admitted to even one of my first choices, let alone multiple ones.

I'm with you, Media - one step away from covering my ears, closing my eyes and going "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." The last three years, one of my schools has notified this past week. Not this year, apparently.

Replies to livejournal comments, alerts on the ski conditions at our nearby winter sports facility, and Netflix emails. *despairs*

Somebody's had an email rejection from Rutgers. Do you think that was unprompted, or that they emailed to ask?

I actually haven't seen The Wire. Lost is basically all I watch. XD Baltimore is kind of interesting. One minute you'll be driving down a street that seems moderately okay and then you'll go 12 more feet and it'll be like HOLY SHIT ROLL UP THE WINDOWS!!!!!

Baltimore is not a happy place to live. My best friend lives there. To quote her, and Futurama: "It's shank or be shanked!" She was molested by a homeless transient last year at a laundromat and hasn't fully recovered. I realize that kind of thing can happen anywhere, but it's got a really good chance of happening in Baltimore. There are something like six times more murders there than in New York City and astronomically high rates of assault and burglary. A popular graffitoed euphemism for the city is "Bodymore, Murderland." I actually didn't apply to Hopkins purely because of my familiarity with the area. I know I wouldn't want to live there and I wouldn't feel safe or happy. So if you're picking based on location, there's some stuff for you.