medianerd

Ok, this thread made me feel a lot better that I am such a suck-ass teacher lately. It's all I can do to drag my butt into work, let alone deliver competent lessons. I'm a pretty big train wreck at the moment. I can't do anything except refresh email and half-assedly prepare my lectures.

Anyone else think to themselves occasionally "when I'm an anthro professor I won't be such an ass?" I hope I can remember what this part feels like enough to make that so

Totally. Just had an advisor from my MA program say that I might as well prepare myself to go to the school I've been accepted to. I was like "hey! I haven't heard from 8 others yet!" He seems to be of the opinion that if I haven't heard yet.... (insert funeral march here), not realizing that most haven't notified yet. Gave me a bit of a panic attack thinking he knew something I don't though.

It's also anthropology Among the slowest fields to notify, acc to the Results Search.

Nah, I have Netflix to make sure I always get something But more importantly, nobody in my entire apt building got mail either, and we're a big building.

God, I wish I'd had advice somewhere along in the process. I went into all of my admissions stuff blind without doing any of this. Someday, when I'm on an admissions committee I honestly admit that I think I'll favor people who clearly have potential who didn't know any of this stuff either After all, a grad student position is a mentorship and they can learn this later.

Like many things, it doesn't apply to Chicago. :roll:

I'm in the interesting position of not having had any mail delivered in two days.... which seems to happen in the city every now and again. I may go crazy and break into the post office.

Oh my lord... mailman hasn't delivered the mail in 2 days and I'm going crazy. Seems to happen around here a few times each year.

I am in the same boat as you. I only got my 1 rejection informally, because I asked a trusted source, and my acceptance was in the first week of Feb.

Here's why I don't believe that post- when people really are notified, we see acceptances posted, right? There are none, so I'm thinking that one is incorrect.

See this is what I think sucks about the Results Search - it currently says that one person called NYU and was told decisions were presently being made and people would be notified in the next 2 weeks. Then another person posted and said that all accepted and waitlisted students have been notified already. So which is it? Huh? I stopped reading the RS because of all of the conflicting info and I may have to go back to that.

Yes, I have. I have a longterm panic disorder though, so attacks are nothing new for me. I've been having more severe ones lately, mostly triggered by the usual problems, but much more intense. Sigh. I am trying to meditate more as a solution. And I'm getting acupuncture done, which helps.

I've told many people around here this, but this isn't my first time applying.... there's a reason I have two master's degrees. The position you MAY find yourself in, IF it even happens, is an increasingly common outcome of grad school applications. You're not alone. There are simply too few places for the number of people who apply. If you really, really want this, you've gotta keep trying. *e-hug*

I actually love when I have to leave my computer for more than an hour, because then coming back is more exciting. I can hit 'check mail' on my email with hope in my heart. :roll:

Congrats to the Brown admittee. My alma mater!

Yeah, I'm fairly certain I'm being lied to. The icing on the cake was when I forwarded the emails stating that my app was complete as well as the missing parts of my application, the reply I got back (just now) was: Well, decisions have been made. We'll look at the documents you just sent, but can't promise anything. No acknowledgment of error on their part, of wasting my time and money, of taking me out of the application pool solely because of their disorganization and incompetence. If I'd ever had another case of 'lost email' at my school address I might give their claim some credence. Huh.... maybe I haven't heard from many schools not because they haven't attempted to send me anything, but because my email is broken (kidding). :roll: Thanks for letting me rant!

Yeah, I'm trying to think 'I'm glad I found out this place is a horrible disorganized mess before I considered going there' rather than seeing red. A nap helped And yeah Lizzie, this weather is something special... ugh.

Yep! In my head I call it "Stanthropology".

Where did you read that? Just curious

I might name the school after the matter has been settled (and I am fighting with them now... don't want to go there at this point, but want some sort of justice...) Meanwhile, a pep talk from my SO last night has me just attempting to focus on other things... like my peanut butter and banana sandwich

Woaaaaah okay everyone, ready for the "way fuct story of the day" ? I wrote to a program and said 'hey, what's up' ? They said, "we sent out admissions offers last week and you weren't included, but only because your application was incomplete." "WHAT?" I replied "I have an email from your dept secretary claiming my application is complete back in January." "Yeah, but we tried to contact you several times about your incomplete app and you never replied." "That's kind of impossible.... I've never had a problem with my email." "Well.... oops" So, I'm not prone to swearing but WHAT THE FUCK?????????? That's not only not cool, I think the emails I saved stating my app is complete make a case for me to raise a serious ruckus :evil: .

That's about where I am. Totally checked out mentally but still in a state of panic.

Someone told me Stanford hasn't notified on cultural yet, but I don't believe much of what I hear these days :/

Michigan too. Well, I feel like I'd have been notified at this point if I were really on Michigan or Chicago's waitlists (I am aware of people who have been waitlisted there.) I dunno. I don't wanna go to the school that admitted me very much, but I'd be okay with every single other school that I applied to. I really am having a huge freakout today. sdsfsfsddfs ETA- Did anyone say if UCLA is notifying anyone yet? ETA Again- Lizzie, you should come over for a martini :?