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I'm not sure what's more impressive: your art or CV! Congratulations on being awesome and having such talent and a killer undergraduate record!

Haha! It's too bad they couldn't move the auction up a week or 10 days: Maybe a decision during the work rush will make it go by quicker! Have fun camping I bet being off the grid for a few days will prove to be relaxing and rejuvenating. I live in California too and I'm going camping for my anniversary in April! It'll be my first time camping since I was a kid, so that will be an adventure. I applied to 5 schools last year. I thought that was bad. Nope! 13 is definitely worse. I could barely keep track of all the deadlines and such, so I turned everything in in October and November, uploading parts of my application at a time so that I knew all schools had the SOP uploaded, etc. I was fortunate enough to even talk to every POI I emailed. That was my favorite part!

You're totally right. Sleep made it clear, 3 is the winner! You can live vicariously through me! I'm going to blog about it on my site! Hehe

Oh! I didn't realize that! Congratulations, Once! That's awesome and you deserve to treat yourself !!

Exactly...

Nuts! Yeah, this year was the only year recently that it's been in my price range since I live in LA and have a full time job to afford it! I'm really excited. Because of work, I can only go on Saturday, but I still think it will be beneficial even though it would have been nice to be able to go to the whole conference. I'm most looking forward to: New Approaches to Post-Renaissance Florence, ca. 1600–1743 - The sheer glee of this may put me in a catatonic state... Art and Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750 The Body as a Site of Political Intervention in Contemporary Middle Eastern Art - Not my specialty by any means, but how can you not be interested in that? Hehe. 2 & 3 have conflicting times so I'll have to choose. Somehow. The conference as a whole looks really strong and I'm fully expecting some great things in scholarship to come out of it. Wish I could go to the whole thing! Too bad the centennial will only happen once in my lifetime.

I'm sad that the UCSB & Princeton acceptances didn't put up their stats. It's anonymous. No one will know. We're among friends.

Anyone else going to CAA 2012? Or, have you been to CAA in the past?

Wow!!! That's really inspiring! Congratulations!

I've literally been giggling about this to myself all day long. I love it! I wish I could understand German... I'm sure it's chalked full of irony. Edit: Oh wait, there's the original scene! yay!

Art Whostry! Ahahahahahhahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!

"Perhaps this is a mistake?" Hahaha!!! That's terrible. I hope it worked out!

Oh my goodness!!!! I'm so glad they let you send it in late. Whew! Thanks for the laughs

Brilliant!!!

This is so romantic... I can't tell you how much I hope that you and your SO get into the same school! Ahhh! :wub: :wub:

Amen! I'm round 2, too. Last year, fresh out my BA, I was overly ambitious and applied to 4 top Ivy League schools in my field and one top public school. The Ivies weren't even necessarily strong in my area of study, but I was (and am still, to a degree) enthralled by their amazing faculty, campuses, and financial packages. I was rejected from all five, and it was like I was going through a breakup. I went through all the stages of grief. It was a bittersweet three months for me, and what carried me through was that I was getting married in April. This year, I was a lot wiser (or so I'd like to think). I spent the year taking an expensive GRE course (by this point I'd taken it 3 times; I am simply not good at standardized testing). I also started my SoP from scratch, added a couple new professional memberships to my CV as well as some extra-curricular activities, and gave my writing samples some serious looking over. I refined my area of study, started studying German (I already have the Romance languages under my belt), and do heavy reading. I was extremely picky about the programs I was interested in, opting less for the prestige of the school like I did last year. I focused on finding programs that are exceptionally strong in my specialty. I contacted all my POIs early on (in the summer) and by October I had spoken to all of them, and we still keep in touch. I'm confident that I did everything in my power to give myself an edge this year. I won't be able to apply to grad school again, so this is all or nothing. I admire everyone who, as emmm says, has the perseverance to do this more than once. The Grad Cafe is my favorite place on the internet. I love the community. Good luck everyone!

Me neither! I suppose no news is good news. Although, I just saw an acceptance for one of my programs - in the future! It was posted on Feb. 3, but here in Cali it's only Feb. 2. I'm guessing this means I'll hear from this program soon, either way. One of my programs only sends out decisions via snail mail. Anyone else applied to those? Isn't that the worst?

Congrats to the UCSB PhD acceptance! Yay!! Anyone want to claim it? I'm jealous that wherever you are, it's the third of February, and I'm in little ol' California where it's still only 8pm on February 2nd.

Camping is a great idea! Unplug, disconnect, hope good results are waiting when we get back My work has a week-long conference starting next week, so my next 7-10 days will fly by. I'm pretty sure I have to work the weekend too. An acceptance with funding would make the hard work seem like I'm eating a chocolate sundae... Hint. Nudge, adcoms.

I hope you don't mind. I had to turn this into a rage comic I hope you like it!

I came into work today and was greeted by this. I've already been startled by his intense stare once because I forgot he was there! I love it! Creepy Van Gogh is creepin'.

Hahaha!!!! This literally made my day. I'm sorry no one knows what linguistics is. No one knows what art history is either. That's why I made my site. The big one I get is that I can actually make art. ... Nope, not what that means! Key word: history! Haha

Spending time with my husband, Looking at websites about & talking about grad school, Scrapbooking, Catching up on all the Academy nominated films I didn't get to see in theaters, Reading, Writing for my website, Reading ALL the rage comics, Playing the Sims 3 (controlling my virtual reality is pretty awesome) Among other things!

Sheer brilliance!! "Every valley girl and 6th year senior wants to add my class..." "My game is to list all the 15th center popes..." Ahahahahaha!!!!