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  1. Hey all y'll out there in that dissertation phase - I don't know about you, but it'd be nice to have a place to report ongoing progress, successes, failures, schedules, feedback, and other thrills of the dissertation process. I'm thinking this thread could be that. No obligation to comment on others' posts, though it's nice to know we're not alone out here. Or rather, we are. So very, very alone. But at the same time, in different places. I'm in the humanities (lit and critical theory) but all dissertating individuals are welcomed and encouraged to post. cheers- E.
  2. Same story here--not a lot of information.
  3. WHY this process can't be humanized, I don't know...
  4. Congratulations to everyone! I spent my UG in the SMU English department and loved the people, the size, the vibe. All my professors had done such interesting work--AND they were good teachers. Lots of kind, intelligent folk.
  5. Anyone out there planning to attend?
  6. No prob. That was me. Call from DGS @ 1:04pm EST. 5-year funding package (referred to as the "something fellowship" - I was about to pee myself and couldn't hear straight): 2 years no teaching, 3 years TAship (1 class per quarter) at somewhere around $17,000/yr plus summer funding for the first year (I think that's what he said). Offer to match other offers. Sorry to be so flustered. I'm in shock, pretty much. DGS said an email would be sent today; I can be clearer after I get it.
  7. Thank you, englishgrad11. And you're welcome.
  8. Seriously. What is going on here? I'm guessing that those admitted so far just aren't on gradcafe...
  9. Dear All, This might be kind of interpersonally hideous to share, but at the end of January, feeling like crap, I decided to do something about it. I wrote my own damn letter and emailed it to myself. It might seem weird, but having this in my inbox really helps. Feel free to copy and paste/modify as needed. (It works!) Regarding Your Applications For Admission to Graduate Study 27 January 2011 Dear [You]: This is a letter from yourself. In the next month, perhaps two months, perhaps three, you will be receiving or not receiving emails, phone calls, and postal mail from eleven institutions scattered throughout the contiguous United States. You sent in some (a very few) materials to these institutions. Fully half of these materials are composed of numbers (and we must remember how we feel about numbers). The remainder of the materials are 1) letters from three people who barely know you; 2) a statement of intent that could have been much much better, but wasn’t, possibly because you were lazy and intimidated and possibly because it's the best you had in you; and 3) a rather pathetic(ally abbreviated) semblance of a paper that traces out some extremely elementary ideas in a field that you are not wholly committed to studying exclusively and that you know fairly little about. We shall not speak about our syntax; no, we shall not. It is true that you could have done all of this much better. The question of whether you should attempt to do so is not relevant right now, as is all anxiety about your non/acceptances. You must plan in the back of your mind to get on with things. That is, after all, what people do. You are a person. There are many things you can do with your life, time, and talent, and earning a doctoral degree in an esoteric field is only one of them. You must remember that admission to all of the programs to which you have applied is not only selective—there are criteria for admission of which you are, never have been, and likely never will be aware. You must recall that your identity is not at stake in this process. Period. You must remember what is important: you have a darling cat, well-intentioned and loving family and friends, and the rich possibility of the unforeseen ahead of you. None of that is taken away if you are not “selected” for admission. All the best, Yourself.
  10. I'm sorry, crimsonsneakers. :& I hear there's no night life whatsoever in Irvine, so at least you won't have to deal with that.
  11. 9:30 am, huh? As fates hang in the balance, muffins of the following sorts will, I predict, be consumed: Wildberry Nut Banana Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake Crumbly Lemon Poppy Seed Zucchini Pistachio and, for the Shakespeareans: Corn
  12. Do you see what this process is doing to my logic lobe? Do you see?
  13. Rejections before acceptances? (There are 2 rejections posted on the results board.) Is this weird? Could it be that they are *gulp* taking NO ONE?!
  14. "Start drinking" implies an earlier "stopped drinking"... FAIL. This is awesome.
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