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They may want it all they want, but they are bound by law to do without it until April 15th. I'd advise taking your sweet time if you aren't 100% certain.

Wiki says Navajo. I don't know how any language would be impossible to learn.

Did they give everyone the "very strong candidate for funding" line, or do they actually mean it when they say it?

Buffalo doesn't offer funding for their MA at all, to my knowledge. In case you didn't know.

the getting it part? maybe not so much.

george eliot is about as canonical as british novelists come honestly if you asked for a list of the top five canonical british novelists at least three of them would be women

that's pretty weird I can only assume (hope) you didn't have to take the subject test

I should read Dead Souls

I'm still trying to get used to the idea that it is at least theoretically possible for me to appear at a campus this fall without being escorted off the premises by security.

Also in at Georgetown. Really wanted a PhD somewhere, but I'll go if I get funding. First positive word anywhere in two years of apps, so it's good to finally be able to pretend I did something right. Looks like a nice program.

what in the world would be "disturbing" about hyperbole? I'm assuming you read books. though maybe I shouldn't.

I stared at this for about ten minutes before I decided it wasn't worth my time.

and that's it for me.

the better the GRE is at testing what it is supposed to test, the less likely you are to be able to raise your scores to any significant degree of course, you can raise your scores. which means the GRE is pretty bad.

like apathy

people usually do defend stupid things by attacking smart people. as a PhD hopeful, one would imagine you'd be familiar with this. see, the magic of your deal with it gif is you can use it for anything, as you've aptly demonstrated. I could turn around and use it on you! man, these things are great! but no, sheer stupidity is not my primary objection to gif overload. do wait a minute, this is relevant. What grounds do you have for this ridiculous statement? Is the reverse also true? Your link carefully avoids making that mistake. Because it would be stupid. Well, for one, I would consider sentences like "The only problem with this view is that all you’ve managed to learn about English is how to get your brain to release some satisfying endorphins every time you blindly regurgitate some authority figure’s unjustified assertion" and "You’re not helping; you’re just getting someone to pretend to agree with you long enough to shut you up." to be polemical in the colloquial sense. More directly, this essay/thing is opposing a very specific mindset that it presumes to be dominant, which is the For Real definition of a polemic. The position that it happens to be opposing, as you've noted, is one which states that using the word "they" as a singular neutral pronoun is incorrect based on rigid historical grammatical tradition. Which is a position that no one here happens to be holding. The post even finishes with this bit: "You can even just stubbornly plow on, using he as a gender-neutral pronoun until you grow tired of people pointing out that it isn’t really. I don’t care, and you’re not grammatically wrong. But you’re just making a fool of yourself when you go around telling users of singular they that they’re wrong, because they’re not." Never mind that this is literally incoherent: it is in point of fact telling me that I can continue to use "he" in a gender neutral sense. Well ok, then. I will. Glad we cleared that up. You objected to Donthate's post, which at no point makes a prescriptive judgment. The word "awkward" evinces an aesthetic position, which has nothing to do with anything you've linked. In fact, to insist that she use "they" in a manner you approve of is to be prescriptive. If you want to do that, you probably shouldn't link to a blog with the phrase Prescriptivism Must Die! in its header.

well, with a mindless gif and a link to a screaming polemic against a position no one here has even addressed much less evinced, I sure am convinced.

if this doesn't work I'm probably going to finally write a novel. but I still have to, like, find a way to make money. this shouldn't still be a problem in the very twilight of one's twenties. what ever happened to patronage, world

I default to masculine pronouns unless I have a reason not to. yes, at least ten people on this forum are going to think I'm a monster for this.

I had to take the GRE on my birthday in 2011

I was playing poker with my brothers on christmas maybe five years ago and the first hand flopped 6 6 6. it was then that I knew to go all in

that was your 666th post. you have cursed me.

whatever will he do with such undistinguished schools as northwestern, chicago, UCLA, and Brown fighting over him? if only the world could understand.

I'm down to one PhD possibility left unless Buffalo does something with waitlists. I have 3 MA applications left--I don't even want an MA--but if Rutgers doesn't take me, I won't get a PhD at any point in my life. It's a little weird to know that a gigantic aspect of your future is down to one last coin flip (that is heavily weighted against you). There is something heartening about this distillation of the inevitable pointlessness of life. I can say it is at this point entirely uncomplicated, which is perhaps the only time in my life I've been able to say something like that.