catalyst1

Hi, I teach as well but I think for me teaching is the best therapy for grad school application anxiety. While teaching or preparing to teach at school, I could channel my attention on teaching only. Strangely enough, I rarely think about the results. Part of this is because mainly the result will come up at night time (US day time). For me the bad time is when I go back home in the evening. I can't help checking the mail though I have lots of work to finish at night. Totally can't concentrate and have to spend at least an hour exploring gradcafe site!

Like many people , I don't like to wait anymore. I have been checking email quite often at night after I am back from work. Since I live in Asia, the day time in the US is night time here. Sometimes, I just sit in front of the computer and keep on checking. I have got an acceptance email from one school of my top choices (which arrived at the time when I was about to switch off the computer a couple of days ago) and I feel good about having a school to attend for sure. Yet, I just can't help checking the results of the other 10 schools I have also applied to. This is very unhealthy for me since I have been sleeping very late these days. I am wondering how often people check their mail/ the website of the schools they have applied for? For me, I would say I spend an average of at least an hour just going through the site and checking the result page. Good luck to everyone

I received a personalized email of offer (PhD English) from UNC Chapel Hill around 3 hours ago. Very happy . I am an international student with full scholarship already so I didn't apply for any funding. I heard that 17 people got in the PhD program. I wish everyone luck! Fingers crossed.

I have just gotton a personalized email of offer to the PhD program (English) from UNC Chapel Hill This year 17 people were chosen. My case is different from most people here because I have already secured a full scholarship from the Government of the country I live so I am not applying for any funding there. I believe that people in the US may receive the snail mail (or in some cases email) For my case, the DSG told me that she would inform me of the decision via email to avoid the delay of international postal service because I live so far away from the US. If you haven't got any offer, don't give up hope. I wish that it would arrive soon. Fingers crossed for everyone! Thank you everyone once again for your support and comments to my previous post. **I am the same person registered as Catalyst but I totally forgot my password and had to register again with a new name.