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Can anyone speak to the Skype experience?

I prefer to live in my own world ... it is a comfortable place ... staffed with magical unicorns, acceptance letters from all the PhD programs in the land and of course me not having a grad cafe problem ... yes that is ONLY world I want to live in!

I feel so much shame ... I feel such a level of shame that I shouldn't feel

I can't see how that could possibly hurt ... I mean if the best of the best are gonna vouch I think a school would be kind of silly to say no ... but maybe that's me?

OK Thank G-d for Goldie because I am NOT on this site this much! This is clearly a miscalculation made by the fine admins of this site ... I hope there is a post-grade cafe therapy group when everyone starts school

Answer: ... "here's my fist! in your face! now tell how many fingers did I use?" ....and scene!

To borrow a phrase from The Wire, those are NOT clean stats! I am NOT obssesed ... just because this is the first thing I do every day when I wake up

From what I've been told it doesn't happen ... but human nature has a way of precluding objectivity at times ... this isn't to say your candidacy isn't strong by itself but I don't see this hurting

not going to lie this is all I took away from your carefully worded and deeply inspiring post ... damn my inability to focus on the important things! But seriously you raise a great point about the paper

"well I guess you can finally be a doctor ... just wish you had stuck with the math then you could be a real doctor"

I know it's hard and I can't begin to imagine where you are right now as far as the emotional and mental state but you have to compartmentalize these things. One box does not determine the other. These things don't make logical sense so who is to say Harvard won't give you a fair shot or that NYU doesn't want you? I say, until it is 15 April 12 or you have a rejection letter/email from that school you have as much right as anyone to believe you will be going there. Now I am not the most eloquent of speakers, so I will rely on the words of Rudyard Kipling to maybe bring you some comfort. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

I only ask because I have never had a paper published and in case I never get accepted I felt this could boost my chances the 2nd go-round. Or if I get accepted, it would show the professors a rough idea of what I am planning to write my thesis on.

BTW I started rereading Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball, so I guess that counts since it is a history of the NBA.

random question: is anyone writing a paper to publish in the interim or are you all focused only on the results?

Man I can't begin to imagine the level of frustration you have right now but as long as you don't have that email/letter in hand saying you're rejected you gotta have hope!

Well if your lecturer is a recent grad they might still have connections to the school so they can always try to reachback on your behalf, no?

I had a subtle hint it might be the case but I hate to assume so I felt it only right that I should ask, that way I would remove all doubt

Which is such a shame because classically speaking military history was always one of the most important branches within the field, next to religion.

Oooo ... man all that power ... how do I get on that gravy train?

Unless you make the wait list?

WOW I am shocked that Berkeley is doling out their rejections today, since it is a Friday. I know it sounds childish on my part, but I was thinking that no one has that level of sangfroid to literally poop on a person's weekend. Guess I was wrong. Sorry to hear that folks.

When I looked there seemed to be pockets here and there so I sort of discounted the notion of me getting into a school purely on that basis.

No sigh ... this is good I don't think the schools will be this cruel to deliver bad news on the weekend ... time to unwind!

I didn't apply last year but I started applying for a masters 8 years ago but due to some contractual obligations I was unable to pursue a masters at the time.

It was a field I almost considered but there aren't many here that specialize in that ... I would have had to go the Europ History route or Am Civil War or just a modern history etc ... it's all how you look at it really ... I've always loved reading military histories be it Caesar's Gallic Commentaries or the bios of the great warriors of yesteryear etc.