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I'm also trying to eat healthy, although I'm not sure that the pop tarts I justified because they're organic and came from Whole Foods really oughta count. (At least they're sugar rather than corn syrup.) :roll: Just about to have some Yogi Tea's Royal Vitality tea, for the heck of it. Oh, hey, Yogi Tea does free samples for anyone who wants to try them. p.s. Lizzie it just occurred to me that maybe I've gone so nuts that you're just my alter ego

Here's my litany of ways to cope, and I might add, my list includes medications because I have a severe anxiety disorder (social anxiety disorder/ general anxiety disorder), and am therefore prone to freaking out anyway: -acupuncture -herbal teas (Yogi Teas, Tulsi tea, and some Chinese teas given to me by the acupuncturist) -daily Cymbalta for maintenance anxiety, and Ativan or Propranolol as needed (but again, mine is not typical anxiety) -yoga (but this is ongoing, I didn't just start now) -knitting (calms me) -omega-3 supplements (they're good for me anyway and have read some intriguing studies about stress management benefits) I do mean to meditate, but never seem to be able to sit still long enough, which ironically means I probably need to meditate all the more.

Minnesota and Virginia notified according to the results search / grad student rumor mill

Oh I have to actually somehow function as a teacher during this time too... but every time I sit still I crave a nap.

I'm consistently surprised that rejections don't go out first... seems like they need to prepare more info for the accepted folks. (Although phone calls speed it up, I s'pose.) I just figured there were rounds of rejections as the pool is thinned, and each wave would mean more people would know they'd been cut. I have a friend who sits on his U's admissions committee as a grad student rep, and I'll have to ask him about this. And I hope I get to do this in the future I'm nosy.

I teach too, and this past Monday I was suddenly self-aware in the middle of a class and went "wow, my head is so jumbled that I am not explaining ANY of this properly!" I felt like a terrible teacher.

It looks like it'll be a few weeks until results really start to pour in. Is it bad that I'd consider sleeping until then? :roll:

I actually think it's worse to have so much to do right now while waiting on app results... because I am so preoccupied that everything I work on reflects that. I was fine until I heard from one school- now it seems that results from others could come -any minute- so I have stalled in my ability to be productive. I actually started getting acupuncture to help with the stress And my husband's reaction to all of this is 'why do you want to stay in academia again?'

I have moved onto the stress based exhaustion :< I mean, I want to sleep all the time, which is sort of impossible because of having to be at work.

I actually had a really severe panic attack today out of the clear blue, related to this process. I'm trying to breathe at the moment. Does anyone notify via physical mail anymore? It seems like they notify, and then if you're accepted send physical materials later. Saves trees, I s'pose.

I -need- to stop refreshing my email. I think I'll go watch a documentary on fish.

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Well, there's no such thing as a safety school in PhD admissions, really. I swear they can sense if they aren't a top choice, and with most programs taking so few people these days, nowhere is safe I felt like 10 programs was too few, but I was going broke when I got to 10. I had applied to 9 but the last one was a panic application. :?

I know people who have been accepted to Berkeley and Virginia and Minnesota in anthro. All via personal email. That's all the dirt that I have so far