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I know what you mean ... some days the doubt knocks on my door but gotta remain vigilant against that enemy ... the finish line is so close

Welcome to PhD World! Over analyzing things most people will barely appreciate.

Kool I appreciate your avatar AND the name. Keep Real Hip Hop alive!!!

Good morning gradcafe family! Another day closer to knowing ... ludi incipiant!

make sure you spray some champagne perfume over said letter

for me it would be: step 1: write to all the schools that rejected you step 2: include picture of your posterior step 3: ask them to send back picture after they've kissed it

But I don't get where the intellectual aspect of that comes into play here. You aren't hiding your smarts per se, you are looking for a way to inform people w/o making it an obnoxious sort of announcement, I think is the gist of this thread. That isn't intellectual modesty, at least from my understanding, that is just basic decency. I have had friends excited that they graduated Barber collee and posted a status update about it and it was done in tasteful manner and I have had friends graduate from community college where they went over the top with it. The point, I think, is to find that fine line where you post your info w/o being too exuberant.

guess someone isn't invited over to casa de Tiglath Pileser or palace de Tiggy P ... whichever

what would you define as intellectual modesty?

I'm not even looking for multiple just the one funded offer will do ... once I get in then it is ON like gang busters!

I just feel sorry for those that have to wait till the very last minute to know what's going on

oh that one slays me ... "get in everywhere" ... ADCOMs must hear this a lot, ergo why they are so stingy w/their admittance rates

Coffee break

Let me know when McDonald's has a version then I'll know they've truly arrived!

you would think this is the 19th century and you're going to the big city to make your fortune

wouldn't you rather have that in a to-go box?

LOL who said that one?

:: sigh :: I wish I had that luxury

Well! Now is the time to start dropping the hint to the rents that SOME DAY their baby boy is going to get married and in this economy a struggling PhD student will need "assistance" and potential 'funding'.

I would say "are you KIDDING? of course we're alternative! Look at the insanity we're willingly subject ourselves" but then I would bet dollars to donuts that people in the 'real world' also endure some kind of insanity in their own lane. But your question now has me intrigued to see if a study can be conducted.

Newest one: after finding out that my Dad went to one of the schools I applied to for undergrad and grad someone asked me, "well you're a shoe-in since your dad went there"

Well first off, congrats on Harvard! Isn't it possible to really weave your art historical background into whatever research you decide to do?

I take total responsibility the inability to not know anything has my mind all over the place ... and these wedding/marriage suggestions are TOTALLY awesome for an unmarried guy b/c some of this stuff is EYE opening and it sort of dispels some of the myths you see on TV.

Well you Canadians are so polite and so nice ... y'all should bottle it and sell it!

the French call an orgasm "a little death" ... schools have taken this meaning too literally