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...another rejected post on the board.

I KNOW. Also, I love your user name, even though I'm not the biggest Joyce fan. Is it sad that I'm replying to almost every post on here? Can you tell how often I'm checking grad cafe?

*gasp* you're right! I know what you mean, my focus is totally shot.

Also, 2 waitlists up on the board so far today...aaand I just got an email that wasn't from Texas and my heart literally leaped out of my chest. Aaaaargh!

From what I understand, it's broken down by subfield and then each subfield has a group of waitlisted candidates that are not ranked. So if a ling/lang specialist focusing on diachronic phonology removes themselves from the applicant pool, another historical linguist takes their place, not a contemporary sociolinguist or something like that. I think they want to keep each subfield balanced so they don't end up with 10 people studying definite articles or something. Then again I haven't received any official correspondence in regards to the waitlist, that's just what would make the most sense to me. Which may mean it's totally wrong. Thoughts anyone?

I want to you hang out with you and your cat! I am a champion pet snuggler. Yeah, the holistic waitlist also makes me nervous, but really no more nervous than the question of whether or not I will even get waitlisted. This has been my top choice program since day one, so I'm really hoping...! I'm sending all my positive, HaruNoKaze-and-antecedent-accepting vibes to the adcomms this morning You waaaaant us in your program! You neeeeeed us in your program!

Also congrats Thunderpaws! That's so exciting What kind of (general) information does the email have in it, if you don't mind me asking?

CORGI IT'S A CORGI Just another great thing Canada has to offer: My application is still in review...where is hope.feathers.insanity? She (now I'm going to second guess all the genders I had just assumed on the board) was helping me hold onto some fragile threads of optimism...

Despite my obsession, which borders on fanaticism, I am not, in fact, George Orwell. I know, I know, I misled you all. I apologize. Yeah it's a whole subfield of sociolinguistics! Quite a few of the profs I applied to work with are language and gender folk. And I assume both bdon and cquin look like their avatars, though for some reason I think bespeckled looks like cquin's avatar + a lot of freckles. I'm also pretty certain Timshel carries around a parasol all the time, Grunty is always wearing a bandana over her (I think? Maybe his?) face and I've no idea what lolopixie looks like.

Weird! I was fairly certain andsoitgoes was a girl from the get go. Do I sense a research topic in the making? "'I totally thought you were a dude': Linguistic Representations of the Digital Self and Gender Perception in an Online Graduate School Forum"

Hahaha not THAT kind of lady Man we'll have to swap stories once we both get into Austin. I want to know how amazing rhet/comp is and I'll trade you some linguisticy goodness for it!

I love you for posting all of this! I've had similar musings about gender on these fora, but never knew if it was appropriate to broach them. Some are easier than others (most GC-ers who are American and have also mentioned their husbands I have pegged for women) and of course I have a general (though not focused, I suppose) awareness of pronoun usage. What really got me thinking about it all was when ComeBackZinc posted a photo of himself wishing us all good luck (or kcul doog as the case was I believe) and then some conversation TripWillis and koolherc had a while back. Anyway, I will risk discarding another piece of my internet anonymity and reveal that I am indeed a lady. Perhaps it was my George Orwell avatar that threw you off? And thanks for throwing me a sociolinguistics tidbit...being interdisciplinary is still new to me

So according to the website, tomorrow is the day. I'm painting my nails yellow right now 'cause either way I'm going to need some fucking sunshine at the office. Sigh.

I'm going to apply to Purdue next time around so we can hang out and you can say rad stuff like that all day! ...is that creepy? Creepiness aside, I worked at my undergrad's writing centre and we used the Purdue OWL all the freaking time. Best all around writing resource available, hands down. Do you get a chance with work with/at the writing lab if you're a PhD at Purdue?

Yes please! Cuddles for all!

I've been hoping the deadline they set for themselves (Feb 24th - tomorrow!) would be hard just so I could know, but perhaps if what you're saying is true then it isn't? I was under the impression that all UT Austin PhD offers included at least 4-6 years worth of tuition waivers, TA-ships, etc. Perhaps not?

They even fund their waitlisted candidates??!?!? j/k...just dreaming

Yeah, not one person on this board has mentioned applying in my specialty (ling/lang) so I'm curious if there is someone out in anonymous gradcafe land who heard back from them...

I've been out of school for a year already, and I know an MA would really improve future PhD apps so I'm doing it regardless. I have some savings I can burn up, and then there are always scholarships and loans. Now the trick is to find the best balance between price and prestige...

Yeah, me at UW Madison. There's a thread I started about unfunded MAs that helped a lot - might be worth a peruse.

Totally. I just want an email from them letting me know either way so I can mourn and get on with my life

There's one wait list up on the board...someone please put me out of my misery...

I'm pulling for you andsoitgoes! I wish the feeling that I'm going crazy would go away and I could just FOCUS. Alas, I don't forsee that happening until I hear back from everywhere

My treat to myself for working full time since June was finally chopping all my hair off. I've been rocking some variation of a Bieber/shaggy mohawk for 6 months now, and I'm really gonna miss it once I'm back in school. By the time I complete my MA I'll be back to crazy long hair after two years of self-imposed hair austerity measures. Hopefully I'll be living somewhere sunny so at least I'll go back to being blonde...

THIS. 100% THIS. I used to think I'd just move wherever the hell grad school took me and make my relationship work long distance or give up on it completely. Now I'm looking back on my apps and wondering how I could have chosen a city that doesn't even have an international airport (my boyfriend is Canadian). I'm now crossing my fingers for SFSU just cause it would be closest AND SFO is close by. And, same with both you and Silent_G, my boyfriend is a meteorologist and likely to be the major breadwinner for the rest of always in our relationship. I never thought I would feel that way until I realized how broke an MA was going to make me.