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  1. I also posted this in the Social Sciences section....(don't be mad) Hey does anyone know how the Master of Liberal Arts program at University of Chicago is considered by the academic world? As far as I can tell it seems like a legit master's program, but I would definitely want to pursue a PhD afterwords and if this program isn't considered a normal master's program I wouldn't want to do it. Does anybody know anything? Also, i think Northwestern has a similar program- any advice/info/warnings would be greatly appreciated.
  2. Hey does anyone know how the Master of Liberal Arts program at University of Chicago is considered by the academic world? As far as I can tell it seems like a legit master's program, but I would definitely want to pursue a PhD afterwords and if this program isn't considered a normal master's program I wouldn't want to do it. Does anybody know anything? Also, i think Northwestern has a similar program- any advice/info/warnings would be greatly appreciated.
  3. and..............I just got my rejection email. Thanks alot Northeastern for waiting until THE MIDDLE OF MAY to crush my dreams. I probably could have been told sooner that you want nothing to do with me, and that I will be sitting on my ass at my hair salon manager job for another WHOLE YEAR. But, thanks anyways for NOTHING. Yes, I'm bitter. Sorry. Northeastern ignored emails and phone calls for a whole month, just to send me an email while I am at work, and can't properly vent my devestation. So I am venting it here. can't wait for next year, can't wait to go through all of this garbage again. SO AWESOME.
  4. I am also still in the dark. Remember when you started checking your mailbox all the time in like February!? Remember when you thought you would have all of this figured out by now? I am waiting to hear back from my last chance school. Rejected/waitlisted (then rejected) from 6 other schools. I have heard alot of "no news is good news" advice, but I'm not really buying it. It is MAY 11TH. FOR GOODNESS' SAKES! I would really just like to know so I can get on with my life. Limbo, limbo, limbo. Anyone else?
  5. Wow, that is so amazing! So happy for you! Where did you end up getting in?
  6. I understand and appreciate the advice given in these articles, but I would love some ideas about what all of us suckers are supposed to do with our useless undergraduate degrees in the humanities if we don't persue higher degrees. I don't doubt the sentiment of these articles, but isn't a possibility that the study of humanities will have to adapt for the 21st century, and who knows what kind of ways that could change the job market. I guess that's my blind optimism and my BA in History talking.
  7. Hey just wondering if anyone has heard back from Northeastern University for History PhD?
  8. Same thing for me... I was really glad that they spoke candidly in the email. No fanning the flames of false hopes.
  9. Totally! I really should have done more research about programs more compatable with my qualifications. But I guess I am taking MANY valuable lessons like that away from this experience! HA! And, tistre, I have checked the results page and people were notified a looooong time ago for one of the schools I am waiting to hear back from. The other one doesn't really have many results posted. SO WHO KNOWS!!! I emailed both of them today, even though I didn't really want to, but i think I need to know so I can start to move on.
  10. I am definitely hanging on by less than a thread i think. I applied to 7 prgrograms and have been rejected by 5. I don't know what is going on with my last two since I have not been notified of any waitlist situation. So I don't really think there's any chance, but I can't fully give up hope until I get these last two rejections. AHHHH!
  11. CONGRATS!!! I am very jealous, but very very happy for you!!!
  12. Omg, Even though I feel like I am in a good place (mentally and emotionally) if my last three programs reject me the waiting is kinda torture. I mean I wish I could just know, deal and then move on. Not to mention if I do actually get in somewhere I have to plan a cross-country move! But the funny thing is that i am going on vacation next week, so if i do get some postal responses I won't even be able to check my mailbox 100 times a day! UGH! Don't get me wrong I am excited about my vacation, but how am i gonna relax knowing my mailbox at home could hold response letters!?
  13. Thanks for the responses everybody! Great food for thought! Especially since it looks like I will be doing this again next year.... :wink:
  14. zeldacrash

    Bad Advice?

    So when I first started telling profs in the history department at my undergrad school that I would be applying for grad schools after I graduated they all told me to NEVER apply for MA programs, to ALWAYS apply for PHd programs. Well here I am with 4 rejections, and 3 schools left to hear back from and hope is fading. Add to this that I was at work on Friday and a client told me about all of the great programs she's been accepted to in my EXACT field (Russian History, Cultural) for MA programs. I was iffy about the PHD only advice to begin with and now I'm really wondering. What does everyone think? Should I have applyed to some MA programs despite the advice of my profs?
  15. I am planning an awesome art project with my acceptance letters. I hope it works out (unlike going to grad school)! I'll keep you posted.
  16. I couldn't agree more with ALL of this. This forum has been my saving grace this week. Even though you guys are all total strangers to me, it is so much easier going through this and knowing we are ALL in this boat- none of us are alone, and it seems we really are all going through exactly the same thing. I had (yet another) total meltdown about all of this stuff last night and the first thing I did this morning was to come to thegradcafe to see how everyone else is doing. So thanks from me too! And, it would be so great to all go out together! That bar wouldn't know what hit it! REJECTED GRAD STUDENTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE AND TAKE OVER!
  17. Um- Yeah I went 0/3 today with Vanderbilt today too! Nothing like getting a rejection email WHILE getting bitched out by your boss on the phone. Best Day Ever. P.S. I love the idea of starting our own grad school. There is OBVIOUSLY a TON of talent being squandered here!
  18. It feels like the people writing on this board are the ONLY people I can relate to in the universe right now. I applied to 7 schools and just found my second rejection today on the school's website. Have the whole RUPA thing going on for myself. Just wanted to say, I am really glad this website exists and to wish everyone the best of luck! P.S. Does anyone have an eye twitch yet? Cause I sure do.
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