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They said they'll be making the bulk of their decisions within the next 2-3 weeks. Good to know I waisted that application fee.

sent an email today...we'll see

UW-Milwaukee

Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology for Marxism and culture. I also found Foucault's Madness and Civilization accessible.

roommate, cook and buy in bulk, bike when you can, set temperature to <65 in winter and 75< in summer, eat/drink out less than once a week, bagged lunches...you can live comfortably on less than 10,000 a year.

haven't heard anything still..

would any grad students want to get group house together. it would bring rent way down.

bike-friendliness does matter. and the music scene of a place. and food. i guess the school itself factors in somewhere.

I'm not going, but if anyone is and needs a place to stay in Richmond or just wants to hang send me a holler.

i can put people up for conferences in richmond until i leave for school.

nope

Some, but it was all unrelated to English. Don't know how much it helped.

I should probably do this...and I'm going to submit more then one too because I feel like, so many panels, different people read the proposals, right?

right now i'm trying to decide between best fit and little funding and decent fit with better, potentially full, funding. waitlisted at a not-so-good fit and guaranteed full funding. how worth it is debt?

I've heard things about UW-Milwaukee in transition too. Anyone know more about that?

I got it. Maybe good news for you?

I wish I had some grey hairs...

What's the deal with British people saying an R when there is one then not saying it when there is?

nope. looks like (from last year, though) denials have to wait until the end of march, just hanging on to the chance of being waitlisted

got an email, wrote back, got a clearerish email saying a letter is coming. apparently no absolute ranking on the waitlist, so people in my field, don't go here. the program (what it offers) looks amazing, but i'm not too sure about it being only a year.

what are the cheap, yet-to-be-gentrified areas that only somewhat sketchy? (by the railyard, preferred) what are food options like? how is the music scene?

i have two weeks to decide at one school because i was offered a scholarship, but i'm waitlisted at programs with better funding and/or better fit. should i tell the school that i'm waiting to hear back about other opportunities, or would that just make things sour if i went there?

waiting on Penn State and Oregon

no news on mine yet. looked like most of those rejections were from the phd program though

actually, wrote an email for clarification. turns out i was accepted to the MA and am on the waitlist for the PhD program.