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  1. I doubt that this will make anyone feel better (it hasn't really helped me), but in 2008 I was accepted to my MA program on like April 26. It was an unfunded offer, of course, and I only had three weeks to accept or decline since it was after April 15, but I've been trying to focus on that.
  2. The website says: Admitted students who already have advanced degrees from other institutions may petition to have select courses count toward their Ph.D. course requirements, either in English or in their minor fields, but they are still expected to enter the program at the first stage. So it seems like we wouldn't automatically have any sort of advanced standing - I personally am kind of glad. I could see petitioning to have one or two courses transferred to fulfill requirements, but I would imagine most of us would take advantage of the opportunity to take more classes!
  3. I know, I just did a thorough search of my spam folder and I feel like the craziest of crazies right now. I'm glad this can only go on for so much longer
  4. Exactly! I'm presenting during the very first session (Thursday at 10am), so I'll be able to relax and really enjoy the rest of it. There are so many panels I'm looking forward to. AND a group of at least four from my MA school will be there Bring on the mead and the Bilbo's pizza!
  5. Huh, I'm a lit applicant and I never got that one...I did get one on Dec 29 that ended with "We look forward to being in contact with you. The admissions committees are on break at this time so be aware that the review process will not begin until after January 10. Most admission decisions will be relayed sometime in February," but nothing after. I have an MA and my focus is intersections between medieval Arthurian and British Modernism...UW has amazing resources for medievalists!
  6. This is what some of my professors have said as well - that a lower-ranked university (or even a community college, which is something we have to consider in our field!) may well be reluctant to hire an Ivy grad because they'd be unlikely to stay, and also might be far more interested in their own research than teaching. It's kind of a horrible stereotype, and I've had lots of amazing, dedicated professors who are Ivy grads (at my small, liberal arts-ish MA school), but I guess you might have to work a little harder to convince them that you're not going to run off at the first opportunity for a more prestigious job.
  7. Or nice (store-bought, handwritten) thank you notes with a homemade gift (like cookies you baked)? That can't really be seen as brown-nosing, can it?
  8. Playing the piano is working for me too:) Also yoga, running, and baking, followed by eating whatever I've just baked. I've been trying to find new book/film/tv series to get into, figuring that once I start, I'll be pleasantly distracted for 3 novels or 5 TV seasons or whatever. Generally avoiding stuff that's related to my research interests in any way, since it just makes me anxious.
  9. Me too, on both counts! (if you don't count my tagging along to Kalamazoo last year) I didn't apply for a travel award because I assumed (incorrectly) that one had to be a current grad student. Oops.
  10. Nada. The conference website says the program will be up in mid-Feb, so I'm hoping to know soon!
  11. I'll be in San Antonio too! I'm presenting on mise-en-scene and narrative in film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (but by day I'm mostly a medievalist/Modernist). Will anyone else be at the Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo in May? This is my 2nd year there (first time presenting though) and it's a lot of fun.
  12. Is it a teaching assistantship? Maybe they want you to focus more on your teaching style/pedagogy? Or other skills directly related to the (teaching/research/publishing) duties that would come with the assistantship, rather than on your own research like an SoP.
  13. Ooh this is fun! I also have been unemployed (mostly) by choice since last May, when I finished my MA, and taking this year off has been invaluable for my applications and my mental/physical health, especially after last year's across-the-board rejections. Assuming all goes happily this time, my plan is: February/March: work on my languages, make some short trips, and celebrate a lot April: travel domestically (I'm presenting at a conference in San Antonio, so I'll use that as a springboard to maybe do the southwest and west coast) May: plan and prepare for the move! June/early July: travel around Europe and go to all the places I've been promising myself I would go to when I had something really big to celebrate (Paris, Versailles, Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Iceland, Italy, Cornwall, Peak District) Here's hoping!
  14. Hmm maybe you're right - it said that my application for financial aid wouldn't be complete until I submitted a FAFSA and then it said that if I no longer wished to apply for financial aid, I should uncheck the box on my application. I guess I made the leap to thinking my application wouldn't be complete. But it would make me nervous to have an incomplete app for financial aid attached to my application.
  15. I got an email from Wisconsin-Madison a few weeks after their deadline saying that my application wouldn't be complete until I either 1. sumbitted a FAFSA or 2. returned to my submitted application and unchecked "I wish to be considered for financial aid." So on the one hand, I want to say yes, but on the other, they let me know before there was a problem. Not sure all schools are that helpful and proactive, though.
  16. Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for awhile but this is my first post. Here's my situation: I (stupidly stupidly) mistyped the email address for one of my recommenders into an application, so he never got the request. Today, 10 days after the deadline, the graduate secretary of the program emailed me to say it was missing and, following a flurry of emails between me, the grad secretary, and the recommender, I figured out that I had mistyped his email address. The grad secretary told me that I could just have him email the letter to her and that she would make sure my application was complete. So the question is: Would it be appropriate for me to send her a thank-you note? I really feel like she went above and beyond (I know it's kind of her job, but I'm sure at a lot of other schools they would have just disqualified my application), but I don't want to seem like I"m sucking up or anything while I'm waiting to hear back from them. Any advice?
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