AnthroPerson

I'm heading to UMich! Going to the accepted students visit next weekend, nervous and excited!

I got official notification from BU that my application (due Jan 1) was incomplete and not considered. Since I submitted my application Dec. 26th and got completion confirmation, I'm pretty annoyed. I've emailed them and I definitely want my application fee returned, since apparently my application wasn't even considered.

Really? This is actually not what I want to hear! I have already accepted my Yale rejection is imminent and moved on to getting psyched for where I DID get in. Now I have to deal with the fact that it's not over yet? We just can't win, you guys!

Forgot to say my unofficial rejection from my undergrad advisor/POI was Harvard (archaeology) and he said official notification will be out really soon.

Finally heard from Ned at Berkeley, it was a no but I'm not shocked. I also emailed my undergraduate advisor and he told me I didn't get into there either, which is more of a blow since I'm actually on campus now visiting my brother so I was really hoping I'd be back in the fall. My last unknown that I'm still interested in is Yale which is almost certainly a no, but that's fine since I do have Michigan and I'm very excited about it!

My SO needs to submit his location preferences for TFA by oh, yesterday? If I don't hear anything new today he is going to have to submit without complete information and if I then end up getting in to a better school he will have to give up that sure-thing job and join the unemployed masses to be with me. This thoroughly SUCKS. Dear schools, I know you know if you want me or not. Hurry your rears up and tell me please! Some major life decisions are hanging in the balance here and the way you are toying with us is just cruel.

Frustrated because my SO needs to make a major career decision TOMORROW and it all depends on where I get in... why can't I know right now?!

Harvard tops the list of schools most likely to get fake posts. I doubt it's real since they have only mailed results in the past.

Do you mind if I ask your source on that? If this is true I'm a bit put out, not because I didn't get in but because I would have expected at least a note from my undergrad advisor there letting me know.

I haven't heard anything. The result says it was an informal email so I think it was just something they got. That said, I'm starting to think those of us who haven't heard a peep out of cal are not going to hear good things at this point.

Hermione transferred. She couldn't take it anymore when people were shouting "ten points for Gryffindor!" in her classes after she answered questions. No, really. People did that.

Well, my Good Omen turned out to be true! Back story on this, my boyfriend is a big fan of Jason Segel, and often jokingly compares us as couple to Lily and Marshall on How I Met Your Mother. Then, he watched The Five Year Engagement, in which (spoilers!) Jason Segel follows fiance Emily Blunt to University of Michigan for her post doc, only to be miserable and unfulfilled in Ann Arbor. After difficulties lasting 5 years/the length of the movie, depending on your perspective, he gets a food truck and happily ever after commences. So after watching this, the boyfriend texts to say "Problem solved! If you get into UMichigan I don't need to find a job there, I'm getting a food truck." The omen was that that VERY day, I had watched a show in which a character gets a food truck. Now, my boyfriend and this character share a key characteristic, which I won't mention in case someone reading this recognizes us (I'm an archaeologist + description of my boyfriend = not that many people to choose from). So ANYHOW, I was like YES it's a sign, us in Ann Arbor was meant to be. Only, let's find you something to do other than a food truck. It's just a plot device here. ANYHOW this has been the running joke for weeks until FINALLY, today I got in to University of Michigan! TL;DR - YOU GUYS, ALL THESE SIGNS WE HAVE BEEN SEEING EVERYWHERE ARE TOTALLY REAL.

I got into Michigan! Archaeology. I know from results there are a few of us on here, so congrats to everyone. I am SO excited to get an acceptance!

The results boards are driving me nuts more than anything else. I keep seeing results from schools I applied to, but for different subdisciplines... Archaeology professors, please get it together and let me know, one way or the other!

For the Yale interviewee that posted on the results board, are you social anthro or...?

figure eight

vanilla bean

So glad I'm not the only one without a REAL plan if this doesn't work. My life plan has been "become an academic" for so long that the question "what if you don't get in?" is pretty much a life ruiner. Um, if I don't get in anywhere I will have to completely reevaluate my plan for my entire life because that would kind of be the end of my careers goals.

Right. Last night I dreamed that my first choice school POI emailed me and was like, "you're in! Obviously. There was never any doubt. And we want to fund you to go to this years SAA conference in Hawaii. And we should start working on publishing your undergrad thesis!" I was not pleased when I woke up from that dream. My boyfriend was all ohhhh it's a sign and I'm thinking aren't you a psychologist? Clearly it's nothing more than my subconscious desires being really rude and messing with my head.

THIS! No one else should be getting good news as long as I am hanging in limbo! I mean, no really I'm happy for the other gradcafe peep with good news. I'm also super super jealous, though.

I have a profile on academia.edu, but I don't post anything on it... I just use it to keep track of new papers in my field, what my postdoc friends are up to, etc. That said, it's on the first page of results if you google me, and the website provides free analytics of page visitors. Usually I get one per month, and it's usually an undergrad friend adding me even though our fields are unrelated. In January however I "spiked" to 5 page visits, all in the space of a week. Obviously I have decided that these must be adcom visitors googling me. Instead of viewing this as "oh they're considering me" I'm not thinking "geez, will they judge that half the people I follow on here aren't even in my field? I just like to know what my friends are doing, academically! Oh MAN they were referred from google, I hope they used [My Name]+ [undergrad institution] so they don't confuse me with that OTHER person who has my name." And so on. This is what I've become... instead of obsessing about what could be a good sign, I chose to see it as a sign of the apocalypse.

I had a dream last night that my undergrad roommate sent me a fake acceptance from a made up school to study something I don't study, just to make me feel better. I'm going out of my mind.

That has to be a troll. Harvard in the past has been really strict about only sending them by snail mail or letting people know by phone.

That said, I have read elsewhere (chronicle of higher education forums, for example) about current grad students/profs from schools checking out these forums, laughing at our anguish, etc, and commenting that they'd seen some fake results from their department. Trolling exists. Anyhow, these conversations are from past years so no examples that are actually relevant, and while I don't think it's that common, it has happened. So we can all keep the dream alive! Slash, live in denial for a couple more weeks. Then be that much more destroyed when it turns out these results are all real.

Hahaha coming from a fellow archaeologist I know the beer is extra special! And I am finishing off a beer as I type this so I'll just pretend I got it from you.