LLajax
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Got an email from UMich- Expected since I wasn't invited to the open house. Another one bites the dust!
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They're not sending any of the rejects out until April 15?! Blargh. Thanks for the insight. I think the wait list situation this year might be because they're strictly limited to 5 people. Maybe I should email them too?
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For any of the BU peeps, I officially turned down the funded spot today- I hope someone else can get it!
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Flyers hockey and medieval history? Can I be your friend too?
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Hahahahaha, I guess this explains it then. Idiosyncratic describes me and my academic self.
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Huh, nice of them to let the rest of us know we're out of the running, eh?
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Congrats echolikebells! Looks like grad students tend to live fairly close to campus (Wayland Square, north)- wonder how far out is practical, for frugality's sake?
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%$^@$# Call from unknown number. Answer: "Good evening, I'd like to know what political candidate you support." Not yours! Ack. Blast it all, and I got my hopes up.
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Haha, in general, I'm pretty sure that none of us have any idea what's going at all- with anything.
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Dang it, looks like Harvard too. Please someone claim those accepts! Also, I'd like to make note of how awesome everybody is. Guys, you're all great, and don't you forget it! And if schools aren't bowing down to your awesomeness this year, you're sure as sugar gonna smack 'em in the face with it next year (your amazingness, that is, although I can think of some schools that could use a literal smack to the face- I'm looking at you Yale, with your no accepts). The number of schools left to hear back from may be decreasing, but don't let that make you feel diminished in any way. Chin up guys!
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Just a Netflix movie, all by its lonesome.
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Sh*t people say when you are applying to grad school
LLajax replied to Clou12's topic in Waiting it Out
Oh my goodness- I was working a research assistant job once when this crazy man came into the department, insisting a professor would talk to him. He was insisting that he had discovered a map to the holy grail in his grandfather's attic and he needed a professor to help him decipher it. He was just wondering around the department building until someone responded to him (tried to giev his spiel to me, but I was a lowly work-study and therefore not helpful for secret-message deciphering, duh ) Finally, one of the professors sat him down in her office and gave him a what-for. We all strained to try and hear her impressive setting down. We get lots of crazies in art history too. -
It was eerily quiet on the boards today. It's March- shouldn't this all be over soon?
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Congrats Octavia3!!!
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I usually indulge in lots of ridiculous magazines. I otherwise would never buy magazines, but they're bright, colorful, and designed to distract you. You can either get one with lots of articles to read (salacious, intellectual, whatever), or lots of pictures to look at (I go with fashion magazines and spend at least an hour of the flight analyzing advertisements). Plus, they're not too heavy and don't take up much space in your carry-on.
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I'll teach you German if you teach me French!
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Congrats sillnovista! I'll claim one of the other BU admits. Got the call while I was in class, so I just have a voicemail to go off of. Confused about funding, which sounds suspiciously like work-study (Must I be an academic indentured servant for the rest of my life??) But yay nonetheless. Definitely feels good after the Yale thrashing.
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Dude, let's do it. Apparently we're 11,000 strong. The board is awash with our Yale rejects. On a different note- congrats to complexprocedure and the BU admit!
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Oh good morning Yale. What's that? You're rejecting me? Eh screw it, no one likes New Haven anyways.
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Any predictions on who we'll hear from this week? I'm going to guess UVA. Maybe Harvard?
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My solution to the anxiety has been a large-ish bag of Nestle semi-sweet morsels. It makes the feelings reside for a bit in loving, non-confusing semi-sweet chocolatey bits. If it works for demontor attacks, it should be an okay treatment for grad admissions anxiety (you know, since I assume the sucking-out-your-soul process is roughly the same for both, right?) Sorry I don't have anything logical and rational to say at the moment in regards to anything but chocolate.
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I've been avoiding making a summer plan (eh, I guess I've reached the limit of my responsible-person-ness after apps and everything). I'm still trying to figure out what I should be doing over the summer: I know I'll do some combination of working (somebody has to pay the bills, and my lease goes until the end of August), going home home (ack, but only briefly, or I'll go nuts), moving to a new town (how soon can I move! sign me up!), brushing up on/learning languages so I don't disappoint anyone when I get there, and reading up on art history outside of my field (wait- there's art outside of the Middle Ages?! ). I wish I could laze around my enw apartment in my new town for the whole summer, but I don't see that happening, since you know, I don't have a new apartment yet, and I need some way to earn money (if only those work-from-home schemes worked!)
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Keep in mind, art history is a big category- not just paintings and scultpures, but buildings and archaeological finds as well. Also, due to the nature of universities, "art history" programs often also cover museum studies, archaeology, visual studies, architectural history, etc. Still, I think it might be fair to say that the job market (although most universities still employ a range of art historians) doesn't necessarily dictate how many people apply to any given program. I came from a history undergrad and decided I was really into medieval buildings. To do that, I could have applied to history, architectural history, art history, or medieval studies programs. If you think art historians' job prospects are dire, try medieval studies. So I looked at the base programs for history v. art history (or rather, art history programs with a concentration on architecture, or with POIs who were "architecture" friendly), and decided that I'd have a better time studying what I wanted to study in an art history program (plus better access and acceptance of the kind of sources I wanted to use- yay for pretty pictures and "things"! ) Heck, these days, certain time periods (and regions) are so interdisciniplinary, there isn't a huge boundary between "historian" and "art historian". In fact, in my undergrad, one of my favorite history professors (he's a neat old guy, anyone applying to Penn, let me tell you about him) actually got his degree in art history (and has help faculty appointments in three different departments). Also- anyone thinking about Penn- congrats and feel free to PM me- I love to gush about it! (err, I mean, spill the dirt)
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0% Confidence of Acceptance
LLajax replied to TripWillis's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I imagine him shaking his head and saying, "I informed you thusly."
