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Yeah he could be underemployed in one of the most expensive cities. Oh.

You two have a pretty adventurous relationship.

Thanks for posting that. I may or may not have had some subject verb agreement in my first two apps. It also may or may not have been couched in so many clauses that 3 readers all missed it. G-good sign?

I assume it's some kind of statement reflecting your abilities and visions as a teacher? Ha, glad I am not applying there. Also, sorry.

I followed my prof's advice: "don''t equate, don't one up. Never a good idea, but never legit for white guys" so I kept it brief. For once I skipped the abstract ramblings on race and all that.

I hope that same school asked for evidence of your economic hardships, at which point you just uploaded a screencap of that previous screen. Also I did the same thing, I looked at my bank account, subbed out application fees and emailed the grad coordinator to ask about entering a negative figure.

The other end of the spectrum isn't so much better: "I'm sure everything will be just fine."

As I understand it, fellowship = grant = free money. TA = teach comp/lit courses = get tuition remission/money in exchange for working No idea what a RA is for humanities, I imagine it means lab work for sciences. I suspect somewhere it says "financial data will not affect your application," but they need to have an idea what kind of aid they will be allocating, if possible. Or maybe they consider all of that too.

My plan is to waste $1000+ applying to programs that will reject me. It's going pretty well so far, I think.

Plan B?

I kept my standard 1000 for the SOP and did something like 350 for the personal history. Let's call it "economy of language."

Combined 1500, I think very few people would get in anywhere...

I am pretty stuck on this one. Harder than the SOP.

guess I should start that

Got to be honest I 100% made up proto-adolescence. I also 100% made up everything I've ever written about Lacan. I did like the mirror stage, though.

re-write and say the child enters a period of "proto-adolescence"

My GRE timeline: July 2010: "I should study for the GRE" I buy the Princeton Review, I read it once. No further studying September 1: I save the huge word document from vade mecum, I read it. I make notecards of every author, each work when necessary (it was not necessary for me to make a separate card for Gatsby, but I had to learn every james and eliot novel). September 15: I put every poem from vade mecum in a separate document. I read this now and then. I do notecards, I read poems. October 10-14: study constantly. I crammed the night before. people say you can't, but you can. October 15: score 690 15-17: video games, weed, sleep. I am a delivery driver so it's pretty easy to study 5 notecards at a redlight. Or I'd take a stack of 20 for the day, carry them around, read them on elevators, absolutely learn that group for the day. It becomes easier to target groups (fuck james) the more you study. Also, I probably read the 180 page poetry document 6 times total. 2 of them the night of/morning of the exam. As for theory, good luck. Use PR as a model but I suggest expanding it. It's helpful to know main works of theorists but when they give you 3 obviously cultural-marxist positions and you have to guess which is marxist A and which is marxist B, good luck. I was studying up until the exam, though. I was in the exam room with 50 of my "must study" notecards. The proctor told us we were ready to begin, I got up and unceremoniously dumped 50 notecards in the trash can. It felt great.

57th. I study English for a reason.

I just skipped those. As an English BA you probably won't have research or anything like that, remember hard science uses the same app. Unless you did some kind of directed research project with grant monies or something, it probably doesn't pertain to you.

I told a prof my scores. He said "great job, now forget about it all together." Judging from the rhetoric of dept sites alone (not sure if this is a valid method or not), test scores are de-emphasized quite a bit.

Agreed, my anxiety increased 5x after I started lurking.

The ugly beast profit rears its head again

I just called. 690, 93rd percentile. Also relieved, and now I feel the sop/writing sample pressure.

I believe the saying is "I am basting a number of roasts."

I agree. I'm going to talk to a LOR today and I know she'll ask what I've been doing since I graduated and I'll say, "well I was studying for the gre and now I'm applying to programs..." It will probably make for a stronger LOR if you get the thesis proposal done first, though.