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TripWillis

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  1. Yeah, I'm supposed to get funding info for CUNY this week and my TAship interview for Amherst is later in the month... I know how you feel. Nervous... cannot incur more student loan debt at this point. Still, really, Indiana is great. My advisor went there.
  2. Yeah but you got into Indiana, which is a freaking GREAT program. So don't let Michigan get you down. Who needs 'em?
  3. Seriously -- $27,000 to live in Ann Arbor is nuts!
  4. I think one of those is a double post. Still, only 6 or 7 posted in previous years, so I feel like this could be a good sign... then again, maybe they're just waiting until later in the month to stomp on our hearts.
  5. There are now 9 rejections posted on the results board, Silent G. Getting tense in here.
  6. It's actually a really nice place to share grief with others, which I think is cathartic.
  7. Yeah, the truth of this thread for me is more like, "I am an accepted who will get genius." At least that's what I hope. Still feeling like it's a fluke miracle how well I've done so far.
  8. Awesome that you're still in it, Silent G! Good luck down the stretch!
  9. *bump* This needs to be up at the top so that when people get that finally relieving first acceptance they have a place to go other than 0% confidence -- 0% confidence is a wallowing place and no one needs to be reminded of everyone else's happiness.
  10. In the last two years, there were 7 rejections posted for Tufts in each year. For 2012, there are currently 6. If the results board is an in-proportion sampling size to real life, this might mean they've REALLY winnowed things down now... Ugh, I can't think about this stuff. I have papers to grade. Edit: Now there are 8.
  11. Still no decision posted here. Guess I'm still in the running. Sorry to hear you guys are out of it. This is nerve wracking how they're doing it little by little... and incomprehensible. Maybe they're reviewing by genre/need? And maybe they haven't gotten to the African-Americanists yet? Huh. At any rate... whew.
  12. Ooh, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake. Also Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke.
  13. I can tell you what not to read casually: Mont St. Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams. I know that makes me a bad Americanist to say that, but it was very, very dry.
  14. Do it (both the application and tell me more about Amherst).
  15. Thanks for this info! I just did the FAFSA. Took me like 2 minutes. @Timshel -- Yeah, I hope my student loan days are, for the most part, over. However, I might take out something small this fall just to help myself get established.
  16. Another contemporary suggestion: The Savage Detectives by Roberto BolaƱo.
  17. Whew, if you want to read a Baldwin book, I am your man. My personal favorite is Giovanni's Room. It is an accessible, romantic, and tragic novel about a sexually questioning American in Paris in the 1950s. I also like Go Tell It On The Mountain, but the middle parts of the book get a little experimental and stream of consciousness, so be wary if that's not your thing. Third favorite is If Beale Street Could Talk. His non-fiction is amazing too.
  18. I want to do it, but I'm not sure what schools to send it to yet. Can you send it to an unlimited amount of schools?
  19. Thanks! My fingers are crossed for an ECF...
  20. Did he/she happen to mention anything about cohort/applicant pool/notifications? Just curious...
  21. I likewise wish I had taken a few more risks, but hindsight is 20/20. I would've swapped Davis and Buffalo out for Columbia and NYU. Because why not, eh? My schools were pretty well stratified over the top 50 of USNWR, none under 55 I don't think. I only applied to places I would want to go to. It's really not worth it to apply to places just because you think they're "safe." I think you have a better chance at schools where you think, "Wow, I'd fit in really great there!" than schools where you're like, "Eh, I don't love it, but I bet I have a good chance at getting in." That's definitely not the case.
  22. Another pro for Amherst: maybe I can hang out with Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and J. Mascis in my spare time.
  23. Hmm... I wonder how this bodes for my funding, since I heard this week.
  24. It is REALLY tempting to get out of the big city into a quaint little place where I can focus on my studies, I'll say that much. Plus, that's such a literary town -- would be inspiring. How was your experience in terms of academics at UMass Amherst? Just curious. A lot still depends on funding... I think I can get the Amherst TAship, but CUNY's limited fellowships make me nervous. I was an early acceptance, so I hope that counts for something. I'm not sure I can do full time adjunct and the PhD... I don't know a ton about the MALS program at CUNY, other than it does tend to attract a lot of people who aren't academic lifers, as any MA program in this area does. People get MAs for a lot of different reasons, and most of them are not to spend another 5-6 years in school. So, if you do go there, be wary of that and get your focus and goals established with your professors very early so they know how to treat you as a student. Also, it does seem like an attractive option since it sets you up to go into other areas of study than just English -- you could do a PhD in poli sci, soc, whatever floats your boat. And since interdisciplinary work is so highly valued these days, that seems pretty golden. And YES, some of the classes from the doctoral program are open to MALS students, but I imagine they fill up very fast, so keep that in mind.
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