theory_junky
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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.
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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.
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ok, i didn't want to resort to this, but hey--someone has to do it.
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I really hope that immersion and vecrhite have both gone into the User Control Panel thing on this site and added each other as "foes." I always wondered what that even meant, but seeing the two of you, it makes so much sense.
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....
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I don't want you to be PC. I want you to be yourself. And, as it stands, that self is pretty racist. I live in an "ethnic ghetto" a few blocks from Penn so when you talk about it derisively..I'm gonna speak up...I'm not asking you to change..I'm just letting you know...that the comments suggests a serious race issue...
And, frankly, I really hope you don't get in.
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.
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If so, are you deferring or accepting? Or still undecided? I'm still on the waiting list and trying to gauge my chances
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Huh?
Oh, c'mon! LOL.
I hardly think this the proper forum to say that a sentence of oh 20 words would fumble someone's comprehension.
It was an obvious joke. I refuse to people on here can't see that in abundance.
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!!!!!
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yeah, if people can't see this as an off-the-wall exaggerated joke with no absolutely no reality to it and to a great extent self-parodistic, then they are mad dumb.
werd.
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hmmm. can it be that the penchant for PC in humanities has eradicated people of their sense of humor?
*apocalyptic soundtrack*
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wow, so much for "on or around the 16th." these days are feeling endless!!!!
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i received a similar letter last week. i would also opt for it being completely meaningless.
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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.
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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.
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Ok. But I am still waiting on seven! schools!
good golly gosh. where are you waitlisted? im down to 2, so 7 sounds pretty good right about now.
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no -- but I got accepted to temple.
upenn, however, is right nearby.. in the GHEETOOOO [cartman from southpark]
When at Upenn on visit, I can engage in prestige duels using hyper-refined connecticut well-born partrician almost southern sounding William F Buckley accents wearing a blazer with a coat of arms and saying "Ooohhhhhhhh [nasely], dear fellow. *I* am going to temple, the bastion of celebrity, the tip-tippity-top of fabulosity and grandiosity! Ooohhhhhhhhh [nasely], what can you *YOU* say about your *NOT* so venerable institution. We at temple are surrounded on all sides by crack dens, low-income substandard tenement housing which regularly fails inspection regulations for structural soundness, and a veritable potpourri *ETHNIC* communities... what do *YOU* have to offer? Hmmmmm??? I've been mugged, thrice. I bet you don't have such a boast!"
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!
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Wow, March 16th??? For What? That's wayyyyy later than I found out.
what did you find out verchite? were you accepted? if so...congrats!
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oh theory_junky...
you're in the same boat as us all. you want to inflict violent unforgivable, merciless harm to those chattering fools the adcoms for making you wait like a fool and drive yourself up a fucking wall in the process.
so many social restraints keep us from doing what we really want to do --- rushing to the department, putting hand over heart, genuflecting before the adcom and swearing with tear-filled eyes that you will work night-shifts as their janitor and clean their toilets and do their linens and dry-clean their suits and do their grocery shopping, their UPS-shipping, for nothing, for FREE, for the ENTIRE FUCKING TIME YOU'RE there... if only only only they will see that you, that YOU are special, among 200 people, YOU have a story, a background, YOU have read through deep jargon-laden books in a fever of excitementthat most people would snarl at for incomprehensibility , wrestled with the big deep abiding "ideas," debated in class far outshining the rest of your peers, brown-nosed and schmoozed with every single pompous ass in your department and sent flowers and edible arrangements to your recommenders, checked, and rechecked the spelling of every SINGLE scholar you reference in your personal statement... conscientious, desperate, willing to be abused... for 6 years of hard intellectual labor and subsistence living...
And you know what they do, they fucking tell you that shit should be up by the damn 16th and it isn't and it makes you want to bitch slap them across the universe..
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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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There's a thread about this on the psychology subforum. A number of us received that letter, on different dates, and all ended up being rejections. BUT, I think it could be different for each department, especially since you also had a note from the department.
I hope you hear good news on the 19th!
aw shiz :cry:
well, thanks for the wishes.
perhaps though this may be good? i was (am?) notified of being waitlisted.
o, agony.
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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. ?!?!?!?!?!?!
I think this is a rejection--any second opinions?
in Waiting it Out
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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.