theory_junky

On the UCdavis app website, I got a "Y" on "deny reason 6" which is insufficient scholarship funds. Blah, so i guess it's a no go. which means I got in nowhere. unless...having a deny reason on the app doesn't necessarily mean i as a human ENTITY am rejected, but simply that aspect of my person, and that the remainder of my self is welcome with open arms! Uh, sure.

just got this letter: We are in the process of making a decision on your application for admission. You may review the decision after 8:00 a.m. PST on April 13, 2009, by accessing your UC Davis application on the online admission web site. Please contact the Comparative Literature program if you have any questions regarding this decision. Best regards, Office of Graduate Admissions and Academic Services University of California, Davis ughhh.....i am scared.

BUMP Anyone?

i am on a waiting list, and my univ notified me that i may not hear of a status update until may 31. MAY 31!!!!!!! for the love of god.

ok, i didn't want to resort to this, but hey--someone has to do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz3qDu0WemM

Why is it that having a debate must make us foes? We are in higher academics--we should be used to handling conflict and debating intelligently. Although I think that this post took a turn for the worst once ill wishes came into play, I think it brings up an important issue in liberal arts institution. Namely, I am on the side of not being condescending or overly squeamish about what constitutes as offensive language. The point is to have a dialogue, not shut others down through blame or condescension. The last thing we should do as teachers and intellectuals is assume a position of superiority for our thinking; this is, I think, an indication of bad faith, and also defeats the purpose of why we are willing to forsake things like money, adequate shelter, or having personal lives that start once the work day ends. Or at least, I like to think so. A girl's gotta sleep at night....

this is the best place to start revolutions. bravo. perhaps it is the criteria through which "ethnic ghettos" are classified is the real racial problem. is it so because it falls significantly below your middle class suburban upbringing, or is it really hard knocks? i live in an area that has been classified as ghetto, and I see the problem of that being the overestimation of violence and danger in the area simply because it has a high number of non-white families living well below the middle class. before you get back on your whitewashed liberal soapbox why don't you try to figure out who you are defending, or why you think that you will be the crusade to their cause. poking fun at the ways in which race and class are geographically distributed and defined is hardly going to result in the next slave trade. lighten up. the only people that you can save will be ones that willing to be subjugated to your benevolent spokesmanship.

If so, are you deferring or accepting? Or still undecided? I'm still on the waiting list and trying to gauge my chances

aren't english people notorious for being able to work through infinitely long sentences and instinctively respond according to their favorite discourse(s) despite their proclivity to dismiss obvious performances of irony as complicit when there are no embedded intertextual relationships to be deconstructed? GIVE ME A SIGNIFIER!!!!!

werd.

hmmm. can it be that the penchant for PC in humanities has eradicated people of their sense of humor? *apocalyptic soundtrack*

wow, so much for "on or around the 16th." these days are feeling endless!!!!

i received a similar letter last week. i would also opt for it being completely meaningless.

Couldn't hurt to do so. Many schools have already sent out their first round of acceptances/rejects, so you may very well be still in the game.

so i spent hours upon hours doing research that is due friday, only to lose it all because of a computer glitch. no rejections yet, but im going over the edge. yes, i am totally emo righ tnow. just can't win.

good golly gosh. where are you waitlisted? im down to 2, so 7 sounds pretty good right about now.

bigup my man. universities SHOULD be in the midst of such "ethnic" diversity! it toughens our theoretical muscles, blings up our otherwise morose countenances, and keeps us in touch with "the people." my university is in a ghetto-rific area and I like to this it elevates its ranking. congrats on Temple!

what did you find out verchite? were you accepted? if so...congrats!

LOOOOLLLL after a good laugh....wow. what a stunning depiction of desperate hope. im speechless. if only they realized that YES this is the applicant that will save the WORLD that will successfully bridge the ostensible gap between theory and practice, that has deep, prophetic insight into the unconscious forces of our time, that will indelibly change the consciousness of every individual and leave a mark on the stain of literary criticism and ultimately wind up in the Norton Anthology of Awesomeness that was trail blazed out of the esoteric brilliance that positively seethes from the pores. Or, maybe I should send in a picture of me, with 3 kids strapped to my back, bend over a toilet with plunger, and with my other hand, feeding the mouth of a Congolese infant i rescued from the ravenous jaws of a lion.

for comp lit of course. my concentration(s): postcolonialism, borders, the middle east, arabic translation. here's my story with penn: i have contacted professor of my dreams that specializes in much of what i am interested in. i sent him my cv and he said he would be interested in working with me and to apply. so i did. after i did, i fretted about my writing sample. i wrote most of it independently, and after taking a diaspora theory course this quarter, and then revising the writing sample to present it at a conference, i emailed the dept with an attachment and (beggingly, pleadingly) asked the super nice coordinator to pass it along. so, im fretting that it was too late to have my writing sample looked at again. but i figured, hey, i made it through the first round, and i have an advisor willing to take me up as his knave. i have no idea.

I received an email saying that results would be posted online "on or around" March 16. It's March 16, and I have carpel tunnel from hitting refresh in my inbox so many damn times. What gives? Anyone hear anything yet?

anyone?

yeah, this is really taking it's toll. perhaps admissions committees should send out complimentary happy pills for each app transaction. i've been a gloomy, zombieish wreck. moping around house. feeling that interaction with others is nothing but empty pleasantries, paranoid anti silence. aren't we intellectuals a morose breed?

aw shiz :cry: well, thanks for the wishes. perhaps though this may be good? i was (am?) notified of being waitlisted. o, agony.

oh yeah, also wanted to mention.....yesterday i received an email from someone in the department i applied to saying that i would find out by April 15. So either they are really eager to have me or really eager to reject me. ?!?!?!?!?!?!