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my POI tells me that this might be the case with Cal ad coms for me I hope I get in anyway

I don't feel that it's really that compatible with stimulating thought. then again it's just me. c'est comme ca

I'm not white but I'm middle class (and not american). I detailed what it was like teaching underprivileged kids, but being middle class I said that my obstacles were small compared to theirs. which is true anyway. these kids don't have time to study cuz they're supporting their siblings. I mean, I didn't have THAT problem. I only switched to english late (in undergrad).... it's embarrassing to talk about my problems when others have it much worse

Keely: Cal is my first choice and it saddens me that I would have to deal with hipsterism etc. I'm also not American and terribly paranoid about being uncool. But Cal has Altieri in English, whom I really wanna work with. D'you know the attitudes towards international students there?

I don't know if Cal will start notifying in early or mid feb. probably mid, given my luck.

I just cried and cried and cried. I hate this job and I am sure I won't get any funding. FML

read ee cummings and laugh because now we know that http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/edward-estlin-cummings/nobody-loses-all-the-time-x/'>nobody loses all the time so at most....

it's brilliant isn't it? it's one of the books which people like to make out as unenjoyable -- but it's wonderful to read

I really like the Trilogy. It helped to calm my (usually horrid) nerves down 'I listen, and the voice is of a world slowly crumbling, a frozen world, beneath a soft untroubled sky, and yes, frozen too. And I hear it whisper that all wilts and yields... beneath a sky without memory of morning or hope of night'.

I just dunno how to wait it out till around mid feb

I'm reading Gertrude Stein's 3 lives and tender buttons. very enjoyable so far

Yes, UT Austin was the most irritating out of my 4 apps for that reason. Then you had to apply through applytexas, AFTER WHICH they sent you a link to another Austin website... Alberta is annoying cuz it relied on snail mail, and one of my LORs got lost!!! They emailed me to ask for a copy -- the prof had sent it but it didn't get to them -- and in the end he had to send an electronic copy. I don't understand why they didn't make it electronic to begin with. I thought BU and Berk had very good, easy to navigate applications

This is interesting. I wonder if you would be referencing really early wars -- in lit like Jane Austen. one thing that intrigues me is that I find more similarities b/w 18th C english fiction and 'modernist' fiction than say, 19th C english fiction... I wonder, vaguely, if the wars had to do with the way narratives were told....

congrats to those who have been accepted so far btw! [the rest of us wait with quivering ears]

Hey people! good to know you guys are about. I know all this, which makes me even more morose than usual. well, at least my school is not unknown (listed in the app forms) but I dunno I don't have much faith in Americans knowing things outside of America -- sorry but it does seem to be the case that they're... insular. I think the listing is generally more for show. Alberta is more of a backup tbh. Because Berk, UT Austin -- particularly -- are very difficult to get into (Berk admissions rate for english = 4%). BU isn't that easy either.......

my Berk POI told me that Berk rhetoric, while good in theory -- is more law-oriented than really 'englishy' so if you want to do something with english and interdisciplinary studies (I cross over to cog and neuro science) it's better to apply to english. just fyi cuz the Berk rhetoric website doesn't make this clear. But I think gender studies might still make it to Berk rhetoric Not sure about UMinn cultural studies PS now wondering if us internationals get informed later than americans in general. granted, none of my unis have notified anyone yet....

I'm international. I have this notion that because I am -- my unis -- particularly Berkeley, my first choice -- will not take me. I am drinking wine. I am also reading Gertrude Stein. A year of non-acceptance means more work at this stupid place for me. I am considering my choices -- places to reapply to -- already. edit: and my degree is not from an american university, obviously showing how incompetent I am or so I think ad coms will think.

'Try. Fail. Try again. Fail better' -- Samuel Beckett. Um, it's inspirational to me. With the right dose of irony.

I need to wait till feb for at least some news. I really want to just get it over with now. I'm looking at unis which I can apply to next year, because I'm totally optimistic about my chances

I really wanna go to Berk for POI reasons, but I checked and saw that the earliest that Berk English notifies is 6th Feb for GC. Dunno if it's different for Berk comp lit. Berk English is missing a grad administrator, according to my POI, so I'm expecting them to be perhaps a bit later than usual. I just wish -- whatever the news -- they would get it over with.

congrats!!! no news on my side