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is this your first go-round applying?

that has been my best line ... I think these should be turned into cards that you can hand out to folks just to further rub the salt in gaping wounds

this is becoming a psychological thriller

Well thank you! This process is depressing enough by itself ... a little levity never hurt

Well as rife as that question is for jokes, I think you bring up an interesting point. There has to be a limit on the things that you can ask a POI because they aren't your personal reference point. Just like once you start your dissertation, you have to do the leg work it finding out the deeper stuff, I believe the same applies to the current situation.

Now I just feel weird & icky ... did I give a girl kudos?!?! I probably have kudos :-( ... JOKES!

I have a man crush on this fella ... well mostly what you're writing sir! If you were a jedi I would humbly seek to be your padawan ... forget the age requirement!

I just showed my lack of literacy

You're not alone

from what I saw on the board the acceptances were told by their POIs not the DGS but I could be wrong, no?

I feel almost guilty in encouraging alcoholism but then again I am a horrible person so it fits my personality ... shhh

So does that mean they're done w/acceptances and/or wait list?

I would have to respectfully disagree with your sentiment but at the end of the day if you are happy with your choice who is anyone else to pooh-pooh that? Do what thou must.

I forgot to ask you but are you a military historian?

Hm slow day so far ... not a lot of news thus far ... I wonder if today will be a lull period?

That level of modern historicity bothers me b/c as you said it is a stretch. Sure there are SOME tangential points that can be connected to modern warfare (i.e., French Revolution to modern day terrorism) but why make the case? Just to sell books? To get a booking on the Daily Show?

forget the apple you should've just charged them and then delivered a beat down ... then throw the apple at them after you were done

D**n this ivory spring! I knew democracy was an evil burden that would come back to haunt me ... d**n you Klemenz von Metternich for not stopping it! D**n you Otto von Bismarck! Curse you English Philsophers of the 18th century ... a pox on the Grecian ideal of education being a universal equalizer .... and I think that covers my morning rant! YAY!

I guess the cut backs from the end of the aughts are still causing the #s to be higher

What kind of responsibilities do the GAship bring?

What's the Napoleon book like? Is it any good?

Good morning (super early I know) & may the day be good to each of you. On another rupaul may I ask if you're in anyway related w/the celebrity?

See my issue with this sentiment is justly: you are applying to multiple school and when multiple schools want you, what happens to the other students who are also applying there? Schools can only sustain a certain #. Now you turn down schools 2,3,4 etc. They all had a slot for you and now it is sitting there. Meanwhile back at the ranch, old Joe wants a PhD too and has applied to schools 2,3,4 and no where else. The schools all chose you over him. In your world, if there is no waitlist old Joe togon't get to go grad school. If he applies the next year and gets accepted, isn't that practically the same thing as being on the wait list? Or to use the kind of logic you are implying, isn't that even more 'sleazy'? Isn't there an implication that he wasn'h good enough one year and then all of a sudden he is?

No if you are ever booed off a stage those fans can NEVER cheer for you ... it is almost sleazy because they didn't appreciate you in your first incarnation ... I keed I keed ... but in all seriousness I can see where starlajane is coming from but at the same point this is business not personal ... you aren't looking to date your schools ... you are looking to get a degree (hopefully one that is fully funded for 5 years) and because of the dollar amounts related to it you have to be thick skinned ... on top of it you are competing with people who are just as smart (if not more intelligent) than you so there is a natural pecking order of things. I know I'm sound condescending and that is not my intent here but at some point we have to disabuse ourselves of any romantic notions we hold about academia.

That will not be the case for "Y" because when the decision time is made and "Y" runs into a POI and said POI says "Y!" ... the answer will be "You know Y!" ...... thank you thank you thank you! tip your waiters!