GreenePony

Thanks everyone! I sucked it up and shot her a quick email in response to one she sent me to just remind her who I was. Hopefully, they just have the invites divided over several days but I've pretty much given up hope at this point.

But should I just go ahead and contact them the day after they sent out an invite or wait? That's the part that concerns me the most. The secretary was great about getting back to my emails before, so that's less of a concern, that and her desk is ~4 feet from the director's so he would hear if I called and that just terrifies me, I don't want to be labeled the neurotic one if by some miracle I am invited for calling too soon. (I fully admit I tend to be rather neurotic- I just don't want them to know that)

My top wish/dream/reach program sent out at least one invitation to interview yesterday morning. I have not received an email nor has my status on applyyourself changed beyond 'submitted' which it has been all along. There really isn't enough information in the survey to tell if they spread it out over several days or not but my gut is telling me not as this is a couple days after any other results have been posted in previous years.The program gets around 60-80 applicants if memory serves and invited 20-30 for interviews so it's possible they emailed everyone already and lost my application, or they just don't notify people if they don't make the interview stage. My friend who is at the school but different program (much larger program, in the sciences not humanities) said to wait a couple days but that makes me nervous. Interview weekend is in 2-3 weeks so there isn't that much time to begin with to organize everything. I visited this summer and the secretary is really nice (her son was doing Peace Corps in the same country I did my field school) so I don't think she would mind me emailing to ask if I should assume I have not made it to the next round but I'm just nervous. Should I wait a couple more days?

One had rolling admissions so I heard end of January, but the rest had a deadline of Jan 10 (1)/15(2) and I am supposed to hear "4-6 weeks" from there. Looks like all will be coming in this week (so nerve wracking!) The only program that offered a PhD track was the rolling admissions program so it isn't a priority-determined situation.

I didn't know any university did. We (well students ~6 years ago) had to fight to get MLK day off. Most businesses around here don't either- my husband is rather bitter about that.

I'm waiting for a decision from UDel's material culture program and haven't heard anything. I texted a friend there on his PhD to see if the university is in session tomorrow to know if I should be a mess or not. Dream program, perfect situation for husband and I, several friends of his and mine have moved to the area, really want to move back to the area. Friday was far too stressful not hearing anything. If they didn't mail and email I would think USPS is being evil again and losing my mail (things have taken months longer than they should have). You're certainly not alone.

I only needed to take 6 to graduate but I think I would be going crazy-er (it would be 1 45-75 mn class a day) since I only work ~5 hours a week, I usually take 17 hours. Thankfully (I guess?) I only know one person who got into his first choice program already (of course it was super prestigious, too), everyone else is in the waiting boat with me and we regularly ask each other if we've heard anything. It doesn't help that when my husband applied to grad school he already had a job offer of more than I'll make after 10 years exp so he wasn't nearly as anxious and so can't relate.

Yes! Last semester + only 9 credits + waiting on decisions + friends in the same boat I keep reminding myself that I thought field school felt like forever and that eventually ended without too much damage.

You know, I've never heard my Wisconsin family say Uff Da. Now my Dad's side is another story, I grew up with Ole joke books and visits from the cousins from Oslo and Bergen. Somehow a family that lived in Brooklyn for the first 30+ years after they immigrated ended up in southern PA, I never figured that one out, other than its just a prettier area. Everyone there is German or Irish.

Goodwill. My favorite (largish) leather bags have come from there. Just takes a bit of hunting.

Congrats! Have you guys found they want a relatively quick response turnaround? Leicester expects an answer from four weeks of the email and I still haven't received the letter packet. Hopefully they'll grant me an extension

Celebration of Discipline by Foster and Sacred Marriage by Thomas- but we're doing book studies on both. But it's not for school so it counts, right? I have a list of books I want to read this summer before grad school starts up but somehow I don't see that happening. Over that last 3 years husband and I have picked up ~45 books at the annual library fundraiser booksale and I've read maybe two and one ended up being a textbook (how cool is it to use Blackhawk Down as a text?)

My facebook feed blew up a couple weeks ago because a kid was wearing a very bright UT shirt in the middle of campus, the only way he would have gotten nastier looks is if it were an aggie shirt. I realized 85-90% of my shirts are from my college marching band, thankfully I didn't apply to a Big 12 (or former Big 12) school but I'll still probably make an effort not to wear a GWB shirt every day of the week in grad school. As a last semester senior? I really don't care anymore. As far as sweatpants are concerned- I personally don't find them that comfortable anyway but I've had professor friends mention they can't believe how casual students have gotten in the 10 years it's been since they were in college.

Even places where you *never* need winter clothes (like Texas, despite what my wimpy peers say, it never gets cold-cold), they're on sale at the mid-to-end of winter. My husband just got two new coats for ~75% off and I know Burlington is having a sale on scarves and gloves, maybe coats. After Groundhog's Day is traditionally the best time to hunt down new warm-weather clothes.

My GPA's meh thanks to taking geology for 6 of my 9 science credits (at the time I was planning on being a BS with an archaeology emphasis so it made sense) and ancient languages for my foreign language credit (I am HORRIBLE at languages, always have been). And I didn't explain that in my SoP since I could get it to sound not excuse-y. Also, I mostly applied to schools in the Midatlantic region and while I grew up there, I went to undergrad in the southwest and while it has a somewhat respectable reputation here, I don't know if anyone in the Northeast knows us for anything but our football and basketball teams in recent years. Oh, and I applied to one of the same programs as a friend whose GPA is light-years better than mine, scores are fairly similar, and we both have done an internship in our field. Only minor benefits I have iare that I've done field research and my internship was at a larger institution. The program accepts 40% of ~200 so in theory we might both be accepted but still... I hate feeling like I'm competing against a friend. We both would need a fellowship to make it feasible and there's only 10 of those for the 80 students (large program). At least I'm past the wailing and whimpering "I'm not going to get into annnywhere!" stage.

I'm lucky in that we live off my husband's salary (thank God, one of us went into a field where you actually get paid) but even then I like to keep on a budget. For lunches I've taken to making smoothies so I can doctor them with whatever supplements I want (ie need a lot of fiber in diet thanks to the wreck field school left my system). My grocery store has really cheap bags of frozen cut up fruit that I dump in with whatever almond milk is on sale that week (can't have most cow's milk products) with baby spinach, yogurt, and sometimes a little peanut butter for flavor. It's delicious and filling, and best of all, really cheap. it also keeps in thermos. You can add tofu to it is as well. Shakshuka is fairly cheap, and my husband and I make a large batch so that we can have it two nights in a row. Some of skinnytaste's recipes are pretty cheap or can be altered to be cheaper like the Chicken, Shitake and Rice Soup (use cheaper mushrooms), and that lasts us like 3-5 days.

Slightly off topic but a concern now: is it normal for schools to disable emails after you graduate? My husband graduated from our university 4 years ago and can still use his?

I need to change my answer- for the first acceptance I bought a new suit but when I get ALL the answers in, I'm finally cutting into the 5 yards of dark brown miniature herringbone that just arrived in the mail.

Translating prophetic poetry for Hebrew and studying for Military History. I've gotten nothing done today, I made three pans of cinnamon rolls for my Sunday School's V-Day breakfast tomorrow, and now the Lady Bears are on TV and that is so much more interesting than looking at the trends in early US Military strategy and tactics. And we won! Guess that means I need to focus... yeah, sure.

I think that sounds like a perfectly valid writing sample- but then I'm in Anthropology of Religion and that was a proposed research topic this semester (I'm writing about the monomyth in film and television, pretty much an excuse to watch movies and call it "research".)

To be honest, I haven't heard much about it. I went to a member of AAM's professional development committee when making my list of schools and he didn't mention it (but at the same time I wasn't really looking at ed, I've been bitten too many times working with school groups - literally). The description on http://perceval.bio.nau.edu/downloads/acumg/museumstudiesprograms.pdf seems like they have a good curriculum but the lack of solid numbers annoys me a bit. I grew up in PA so that would explain why I haven't heard of it, if we talked about MST programs in New York it was Cooperstown.

Something that may help is a list put together in 08 of museum programs. I know Baylor has changed a bit (more staff, 3 full time and 3 part time as of this year, no longer offers the BS/BA only minor available, same awesome wing of the Mayborn Museum Complex). I think acceptance rates are about the same for the programs listed and seems fairly accurate about all the programs which are held in or near a museum. http://perceval.bio.nau.edu/downloads/acumg/museumstudiesprograms.pdf

Psh, my mom's college roommate got married for the first time at almost 50 (47, I think) just meant there was a bigger party afterwards.

Let's add slapping your husband's shoulder 20 times in quick succession yelling "They're looking at it!They're looking at it!They're looking at it!" to list of funny habits. I kind of feel bad for it now... It just showed up online that one school cashed the application fee check included in my application 3 days ago. That means they opened the envelope!