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Congratulations dokkeynot! Fingers crossed for the rest of us!!

I love love LOVE both Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Blade Runner - too me they are the best example of a successful novel/adaptation relationship. Many plot points are the same, but Ridley Scott kinda made up the details in a way that actually fit the novel. Complementary, not identical. Unlike Harry Potter, where they tried to keep every detail the same (except when they gave up) and hit all the high plot points and not glossing over anything if they couldn't skip it, making the films seem like two hours sitting in stop-and-go traffic. I know The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo isn't high literature, but I thought that Noomi Rapace as Salander in the Swedish films was one of the best casting decisions I have ever seen. I swear she was born to play that role. On the same note, I thought Daniel Craig did a pretty good job as Blomkvist, although I'm afraid that's like saying Keanu Reeves did a good job playing Neo. Neither role required much expression, just a lot of hurrying around and looking concerned.

I gotta say, I agree on the whole Joyce thing (and felt very alone because of it - my undergrad department loved him!) though I did enjoy the poop jokes. Maybe Joyce got it right - if you're going to write several impenetrable (ha) novels, at least include enough poop jokes to help the less interested reader out.

Check your status on the webpage! Mine was updated to say I was accepted by the department (huuray!!!) and they were waiting on the university. I hope this means I'm safe! (edited because gosh, I must be so excited I can't even type)

I blatantly stole this from the Waiting It Out forum memes thread, but it killed me with its accuracy so I'm reposting it:

I generally don't mind Hardy, but Jude the Obscure made me want to bang my head against the wall at the end of it. But maybe that's because EVERYONE DIES. Also, on a critical theory note, I found Bruno Latour to be unreadable, but that could have just been a case of bad translation.

I know! When I saw yours I wanted to yell "Jinx!" and "aaaaugh you understand!" at the same time. Their radio silence has been unnerving. Sorry to be off topic in your thread, MyshkinLit!

Hahaha oh man you just gave me a heart attack. I had to double check that Comp Lit and English were different departments. Also, congratulations! Sorry I don't have anything useful to say.

Don't forget San Francisco State! Unless they don't have a Geology program, then forget them.

That's what I thought too, then my undergrad happened and BAM! I've been living North of the 49th parallel for nearly six years now. IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU.

ME TOO.

Yeah, but isn't it interesting that we even have these peeves in the first place? And that we use them to categorize or pass judgement on people based on their ability to identify a preposition and orient it properly in a complex sentence? Like, some 18th century bachelor's obsession with Latin is actively keeping otherwise qualified applicants out of potential jobs! It's nuts!

I like your style, perrykm2.

Congratulations

Well, it turns out I'm a wizard anyway, so it's all good.

Even when you've gotten in one places, or a couple places, things don't get any less uncertain until you settle on one offer and accept it. Then a whole new crop of uncertainties pop up, it seems! No part of this ride is easy, there are just brief moments of euphoria that stand out for the lucky among us. Gloomy Gus is Gloomy.

I'm training for a half marathon too! I made the huge mistake of doing an elimination diet at the same time (to target food allergies/intolerances) so I am somewhat my accident eating on a very restricted menu right now. Is this your first race? It's definitely my first time racing as an adult, and I basically just signed up to stave of the waiting crazies. It's been nice to see so many runners on the forum. Are you racing a local race or a destination race? I'm just doing the Vancouver half/marathon, but I have a few friends who have qualified for big exciting races, which is cool and super inspiring.

Hi everyone, I've been having a bit of trouble tracking down where to post questions about the UW-Madison Applied Linguistics MA. It's in the English department (or at least, the one I applied to is in the English department) but no one on the Lit, Rhet, Comp boards seems to have applied to it. I've seen it mentioned a few times in various threads here in Linguistics, but I thought I might try to centralize some thoughts on the program here. Has anyone heard back about the MA yet? I've seen lots of English PhDs on the results survey, but not much from linguistics. Is anyone here in the program already? What's your impression of being in a Linguistics program in the English department? Any other thoughts? ...Bueller?

Thanks andsoitgoes! I hope it means good things for you, and for all of us. Although if admits/rejections go out that Tuesday, and UW-Madison says we should know by that Tuesday (the 21st) I literally might die of waiting anxiety next week. Aaaargh!

I applied to the Applied Linguistics MA that is offered by the English department, and you're required to have that specific MA or it's equivalent before you can apply for the PhD. It's in the English department though, so I figured I might not be the only one here who applied. I suppose I should go interrogate the Linguistics thread now...

Has anyone heard about an MA yet? So far I've only seen PhDs on the board.

UW Madison kept sending me little "Helloooo! Could you fill out your FAFSA, please and thank you?" emails so I did early.

I really hope some of them do occur simultaneously!