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Isn't that absolutely wonderful about our field?

One of my TAs had a crush on me. We became pretty good friends, but I always had this feeling like he wished he was making out with me, which was not entirely comfortable. He's hot but I was taken - I've been with the son of one of my professors for five years now. And, that is a COMPLETELY ADORABLE story, ewurgler. I went "D'awwwwwwww."

Ha, I had a crush like that on my first cultural anthropology professor. He had super long hair and a bunch of tattoos and he was a righteous professor, which was part of the reason I was so into him. Also had a really big crush on a young female professor I had for a few classes. She was terribly intimidating and brilliant. I think I'm attracted to brilliance - that has to explain it! Also, this is a really fun topic.

Good morning everyone (or whatever time of day it is in your part of the world.) My application is being reviewed today by one of the two masters programs I applied to. Still no word on the seven PhD apps, but it sure would be nice to have an acceptance from somewhere!

Zing!

Yup, your experience equals everyone else's experiences. Have fun in grad school.

Whether or not you like State College is going to depend really largely on whether you like small towns. I happen to like small towns very much (and large amounts of wilderness). I know a bunch of grad students there, mostly engineering. They drink a lot, but I'm not sure if that's a product of the town, the field, or just their personalities. :wink:

I guess you don't understand quite how someone's circumstances could be wildly different from your own. You don't have your field written under your username, so I can't comment on that, but many of us are in fields where it is perfectly common to be funded from the get-go and to turn down offers if they don't come with a package. Unless my first choice accepts me (in which case I'll look into loans) I'll turn down any offers without funding too. I spent my money and time applying to the programs that fit me the best because I can't afford to go ANYWHERE without being funded. I'm not independently wealthy, so that's basically what has to happen.

It's me, isn't it? Shit, I've been found out. Don't accept any packages with airholes. :wink: Anyway, yeah, I've been having a lot of dreams. Most of them deal with me being accepted, oftentimes to universities I haven't even applied to or which do not exist. But I would actually rather have nightmares. When you wake up from a nightmare you're relieved to be awake and relieved that it's over, but when I wake up from an acceptance dream, I feel like I'm still bouncing and full of glee, and then I realize that my stupid brain made it all up and I feel like crying. We have Omega 3 capsules at home, my partner takes them. They're the size of horse suppositories and smell like the inside of a hobo's sneakers, but I'll start taking them too. Might help, couldn't hurt.

You know what, though? If the subject line was "F**K OFF" then it would spare me the inevitable four seconds of horrible, hopeful build-up time between looking at my inbox and experiencing the pangs of rejection. So I'm all for that.

It is very sad how some women are desperate to put down other women's achievements like that.

Um, referring to the chosen and beloved fields of others as "a waste of time and money" isn't too swell.

What, seriously? Well, that's bewildering.

We're doing something very similar to this. I plan to quit my job early so we can drive around the USA and maybe also do part of the Appalachian Trail, then we'll come home and start packing to move.

Someone posted an acceptance for one of my applied programs six days ago. The website still says "no decision" for me - I'm not sure whether that means I'm not out of the running, or they just haven't bothered to update the rejects' status yet!

I haven't been getting much spam, so I just stare and stare at my empty inbox. Also it has been "booze and video game madness!" at my house for the past several weeks, with no signs of abatement.

I figured I'd jump on the "stylish understated signature counter" bandwagon. Glad you finally joined us, crofty - this group needs all the collective moral support it can get!

Congratulations!! So happy to hear more good news.

I'm expecting Syracuse to notify end of this week or beginning of the next. I'm a great fit there academically, but was basically told the funding doesn't exist, so I'm not sure whether to be hopeful or just full of dread. It's still so, so early. Deep breathing!

My father and I or more or less estranged. I talk to him from time to time, so he knows I'm applying to schools, but he's scolded me for being in anthropology and not law or accounting. He's a real charmer, he is. My mom is really, really supportive. She has been wonderful about helping me to calm down and not have panic attacks about this entire process and she's hilarious. She's the best. I don't know what I would do without her and my partner. Go insane and be living in a box over the metro grate, probably.

I'm sorry to hear that. :/ But, you don't know for sure until you get a message of your own.

I personally would pick the fellowship. To repeat what was said above, you're not going to be excluded from getting experience, but it won't be foisted on you.

It's definitely situation-specific. I only have three other people at my company and they all know I'm planning to go back to school. I completed my applications while at work, so it would have been hard to hide it. They don't want me to leave, but they would never do anything bad to me. I guess this is a really individual decision, whether or not to tell.

Welcome! Yes, the longer it goes, the more I become certain that this process is an exercise in existentialism.

I dreamed I got accepted to Amherst. Woke up and cursed a blue streak, I can tell you. Then I ate a bagel while scowling.