TripWillis

I have not. How is it?

Discuss. (#1 fan ever) ((Also drinking)) (((Who Are You; Whistle Down The Wind; Innocent When You Dream; Time; Tom Traubert's Blues; Train Song)))

Ugh. I know what you mean. My M.A. was like a grand experiment in "Wow, will this debt and time mean something?" And it did. At least I think it did. We'll see in a few years.

Can I also say that in the wake of Ph.D. acceptance, my M.A. program has become really anticlimactic? I'm sorta struggling to stay enthused, but eh... I'll make it work.

I can't effing wait.

Dear Mississippi, The GradCafe lolopixie/datatape Appreciation Club REJECTS YOU. Worst Regards, Trip

Has anyone seen this before? It's my favorite spoof on cultural theory. "But it's empty." "But of course.":

My love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed my mind. I wonder what his critical approach is: "The key is to think of it not as "The One" ring, but as a one composed of many rings. By deconstructing the false unity of evil that the ring projects, one sees that beneath the façade lies a rhetorical performance or construction that reinforces and reifies the ring's central power."

Look! I found a picture of me 7 years from now, working hard on my dissertation... it seems the stress of doctoral study has aged me prematurely though.

Boo! Live in Brooklyn with the cool kids, like me and readwritenap. (Just kidding; I'm actually very jealous of your campus apartment option. CUNY has something like that but it's far from campus, expensive, and small)

Every time I see one of you guys post in this I think you're in! GO DT and LOLO!

I think you definitely should do both things: get into CUNY and the conference. That's just my two cents.

I was more referencing the idea that you really shoot from the hip with mixed results. I wouldn't say it always "elevates the conversation," bro.

This is, like, a classic example of a dokkeynot post.

I'm going because I want to be a tax attorney...

I definitely had one of these and it was hugely helpful to me all the way through the application process, but particularly in the beginning when I was trying to narrow my list of potential schools to apply to. Highly recommend this to all of you. Also, print it out and pin it to the wall in front of your desk. It will haunt you and keep you motivated.

Cool, let me know! +1. Revolts in the class are always a good thing in my book. I swear that eventually I'll make the time to respond to your PM. If LGBTQ, 20th C, and interdisciplinary are what you're into, CUNY is just sooooo ideal.

Is that university religiously affiliated in some way? I feel like it probably is, right? Methodist?

Spivak is speaking at the Grad Center on Friday the 27th. Anyone going?

Oh dear; it's contagious! Sorry. Just kidding.

That is bothersome. You may want to contact them and ask if they reviewed your app or not. You're owed a response.

Maybe Jerry Sandusky or JoePa were in charge of contacting you. (oooohhh too soon?)

Hmm, so I saw Portland Fioretti's name on the GC e-mail we all just got. Wondering everyone else is? None of the names struck me as super familiar...

Contexts, Contradictions and Cultural Criticism Or, as I shall refer to it henceforth, QUAD C.