TripWillis

They do have an online system, and I did.

Yep. Another wrinkle to my ideas: they could've accepted a larger than desired cohort in order to anticipate the number of declines they'll have. After all, there are very few waitlists on the results board in contrast to prior years, but like 12 acceptances.

Just got an e-mail saying that my decision would be available on the website shortly. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE? This is like on Christmas morning when you're a kid and you pick up a small, rectangular present, and realize that it can be flexed, and is a book, and is no use to you.

Haha, you're in my neck of the woods. Yeah, nothing's free in New York; not even wi-fi.

You could post a Big Lebowski video for almost any event that could happen on this board. Here's me reading my UC: Davis rejection last week:

Ugh, I can only imagine. UMass has been REALLY nice and welcoming to me and it's going to be shitty if/when I decline. Sometimes I feel like if I don't accept by late-March (like they're probably all expecting) that I'll hurt someone's feelings or they'll take the offer away. Yeesh.

Agreed. I mean, I did very well in undergrad, but it was at a really, REALLY non-prestigious school and I didn't really study literature, so it didn't matter anyway; I was a creative writing concentration. I applied to MFA programs, got rejected and diverted into an MA, and then went w/o really having any clue what the hell I was doing. Within one semester I was met with the epiphany that I had really missed studying literature, and that I loved doing it so much that I might want to pursue a career in it. So, I spoke with the graduate deputy and we mulled over the idea of my pursuing a PhD program. He warned me that it was a total shitstorm from the app process to job placement. 18 months later (and after a LOT of sweat, weight gain, and hours in the library), here I am. I definitely had to bust my balls harder than I ever have, but I feel like I turned it around. So you can too. But, of course, let that first semester in the MA tell you if this is what you really want. Because it is incredibly hard. When I was in January limbo and questioning my self-worth as a human being (with the weight of my MFA rejections from two years prior still nagging me constantly), I started to wonder if I even wanted to be accepted (which, of course, totally turned around once I actually got my first acceptance). It's soul crushing in a lot of ways, and then wildly, beautifully, magically rewarding in so many others. It matches well with my polar lifestyle; I have no emotional middle-ground, which is why I'm drawn to this stuff. P.S.: I pretty much gave up the "creative" writing. I have a novel half finished. I usually don't give up on things in my life, but I had to look that one square in the face and admit that I was never going to pleased with my work, and neither was anyone else. It just wasn't fulfilling me anymore.

Holy God that's a lot of flying.

I declined the offer of admission earlier this week. Hope that helps someone out.

The farthest away school I've been accepted to, Amherst, is 3.5 hours away. Rutgers is an hour away. CUNY is in my backyard. Moving shouldn't be too much stress, though with my partner and I having cohabitated for 3 years now, it's going to suck if we have to live apart for a little bit. He can't leave his job and commuting from New Brunswick via NJ Transit would probably kind of blow for him. Well, at any rate, at least I didn't get into Davis (and decide to go). I am sad that it appears Boston schools won't work out. We love Boston and we were looking for an excuse to transition back. Oh well. Hope is still faintly alive.

I kinda wanna check this out: http://english.rutgers.edu/events/war/20112012/details/351-denis-johnson.html Anyone else interested?

How would you guys explain this sentence in my Rutgers waitlist email? "Our wait list is ranked both absolutely and by field; your name is close to the top." I imagine that it works like this: If an African-Americanist declines, they go to the field; if the field person declines, they go to the absolute list. Do you think this is right? Or is it something else? I'm picturing something like this: 1. Victorian Scholar A 2. Early Modern Person A 3. African Americanist A (me, hopefully) 4. British Modernist A 5. Shakespeare Person A -- 6. Victorian Scholar B 7. Early Modern Person B 8. African Americanist B etc., etc. etc. Then I picture an African Americanist declining and them picking African Americanist A. If A declines, B. If B declines, start at the very top of the list and go down until someone accepts, regardless of field. So, if I'm AA B, then I need to hope that both African Americanists decline, OR that the waitlisted AA declines, OR that it works so far down the absolute waitlist that it reaches me. But since he said I'm "close to the top," I'm going to assume that I'm in the first tier of "by-field" candidates. Here's hoping I just need one AA decline to get in. Okay, the whole hypothetical system I just worked out here is proof that I'm totally obsessed and need to go lie down.

That's going to be so much fun. I'm jealous.

It's been removed. Harvard is so weird this year. I blame P-Day.

I think he/she should go for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_phoenix

I see someone got into the English PhD at the Harvard GSD, Yale Architecture, and Princeton Architecture all at the same time! Congrats to that person!

Guys, I got into University of Phoenix!! Edit: I'm not sure what the point of this post was.

Oh, okay. Well then you're excused. Maybe we'll be cohort mates!

Another NYT death map idea: obesity related deaths.

Their tagline: "Our pizza is to DIE FOR."

I've also heard that Di Fara's is good, though it's failed a number of health inspections. Since my current campus is on the Midwood line I should just go over there after school someday. Whenever there are super-hyped places such as Grimaldi's, et. al., I always get too high of expectations and then hate it. But, I'll go before I leave Brooklyn if it kills me. I love pizza. LOVE it. Sea is overrated. Khao Sarn on Bedford is better. Sea is super loaded with sugar and salt, which is good when I want to eat junk thai food, but that isn't all the time. My favorite restaurants in this area are El Almacen and Five Leaves. Pies 'n' Thighs is also freaking amazing. I want to eat at all three of those places on endless loop.

From day one I always thought I'd only get into 1 school (IF THAT) and not have to make any hard choices. I never ever envisioned getting into more than one being a problem. Not to mention... UCR... awesome.