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That was a great statement!!! I'll have to use that the next time they pull the "I hope you can finish" thing on me.

And my mother's answer to that is, "Accidents happen." They have an answer to everything it seems!

Everyone in my family seems to think that I won't finish. They all CLAIM that they have full faith in my abilities to be in school for another 7 or so years, but they keep saying "s*** happens". They apparently think I'm going to get knocked up and quit after a year or something.

I'm kind of doing a hodgepodge of things. I'm doing disability history, but focusing on women's disability history, so I applied to schools that had women's history departments and someone who knew something about disability history/studies. I haven't heard from anywhere yet and it's driving me nuts!

I'm seriously becoming really annoyed with OSU right now. The second person had to email them to find out he/she had been rejected. When do they suppose that they're going to send out rejections? May? I'm half tempted to just change my signature and chalk it up as my first response/rejection, but then there's a part of me that stupidly still has hope. I'm too mad that they aren't letting people know to be upset about it actually, hah.

My attitude is one of preparing myself for the absolute worst and imagining my horrible life post-rejection, but at the same time imagining my life if I happen to get in to at least one place. I'm trying to walk a tightrope between pessimism and optimism. Being that it's March and still no word, I think I'm falling into the abyss that is pessimism.

Ha, most of the schools I'm waiting on have said (or someone has told me) that they take a little longer than the rest. Apparently I applied to all late-notifying schools. Bad idea for an impatient woman like myself! But yes, I will definitely let you know if I hear anything!

Speaking of which, MDLee, do you know we might expect to hear something from South Carolina?

I definitely think amazing faculty can be found at smaller, lower ranked schools. And I'm sorry to whoever just got rejected from OSU by email. I wish they would just send out notices instead of us having to email them to find out we've been rejected (which I really don't want to do).

Thank you! It is part-time, so I'm really hoping that the schedule is lenient like my previous part-time job. I also thought about visiting on a different day. The only problem with that is that I can't drive and am legally blind, so visiting a strange city is not easy in general, and definitely would be a little easier if I were with other prospective grad students doing things together. I guess I can try to find out in the interview if there are ways to switch one's days around, hopefully without divulging that I might have to take two weekends off. Also, I know that one weekend is the 19th and 20th (a Thurs. and Friday), so I could always say that I'd start work right after that, which would avoid one problem. I think I'm just thinking about it too much, when I haven't had the interview and don't know about grad schools. It's just annoying having your whole life up in the air.

Well, I'm unemployed, but on the other hand I don't have any expenses as far as rent, etc. But I need money for the potential move. So I guess if I didn't have the job it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be nice to have it.

So, I just received a job interview invitation today. It's a part-time job, but it's mostly weekends. I haven't heard anything from any grad schools yet. The problem is, I don't want to tell them I'm thinking about going to grad school because 1. I haven't actually been accepted yet, and 2. I don't want them to not give me the job because of it. On the other hand, if I have to go to visit days, I don't want to (or know how to) lie about where I'm going, and I don't want them to fire me for witholding the info or for having to take off so many days. I know one school's days are a Thursday and Friday, and another is a Friday, but I'd have to take off Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for that one because of traveling and plane rides. What do you all suggest that I do or say in the interview? It's Friday, so there is a slight chance that I will know something from at least one school by then. I want the job, but now everything is becoming way more complicated. If I knew I would be accepted somewhere, this would not be as big of a problem. I'm afraid that I'll ruin my chances for the job and then end up not getting accepted anywhere. !!!

I received a letter saying that they had received my FAFSA as well. On top of that, they said that they needed more info before they could further process my application BUT didn't list what the info was. So I had to call them and the secretary told me that it was just a generic letter and to ignore it. Well, if it was generic, why did you say that I needed to send in more info???

What happened to the motto about delivering through sleet, rain, snow, etc?? You should go to the post office and demand your mail!

I kind of doubt it, but that would be really interesting if it were the same person. She went to my undergrad and graduated a year before I did. And if we don't know the same person, they probably know each other.

Fortiesgirl, I'm assuming it's just the general history program, because this person is doing history and museum studies, not American Culture. I think it's just a prospective student day, maybe somehow different than an admitted students day. At least I would hope so, given that, like you said, there's only a week difference to make travel plans. Good luck to you too! If I find anything else out, I'll let you know.

Mid March? What the heck!! Can't they just do it now? I know, very insensitive their time, but still...

I know someone else on here applied to Delaware and I found out some info today, that you might already know but here it is anyway: I found out from a grad student who talked to a prof. that the committee will meet in two weeks (second week of March I suppose) to make decisions, and the visiting days are March 19-20th, so there will definitely be a decision by then.

Hm, maybe it will. I guess we'll see. Congrats on your success!

I became seriously depressed when I read this. My GREs suck (compared to a lot of people's), I'm from a very small LAC that none of my potential professors have ever heard of, much less visited. My SOP, writing samples, and LORs are great, but on the other hand my subfield is very very small and not many of the professors in the department know about it. So you basically just told me I'm screwed, unless I manage to have some unbelievable luck.

I've managed to evolve past the crazy, obsessive thegradcafe and email checking. Now I'm at this point where I'm pretty much assuring myself of my impending doom, and am only slightly annoyed that the doom has not arrived yet.

I wish I knew. That "Evaluation" thing is really annoying me.

Dough!!! Yay!!! What about Eudora's Castle and David the Gnome? And Muppet Babies... yay! Yes, those shows were so much better than most of the crap that's on TV now!

I think I don't understand why there was an argument in the first place, but since it's over and didn't involve me, I guess it doesn't matter.

Thanks for the info! Yes, everyone I've been in contact with over there has been really nice and helpful. I know a grad student and a former employee and resident of Newark, and they both think the world of the place. I'm excited to hear back from them, but I suppose I'll have to wait a few more weeks!