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that's the spirit!

currently (re)reading this myself, at the tail end of Rimbaud's complete works. also reading some Whitman. Beckett's Malloy trilogy and Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation are on deck. hoping to convince myself to make space for Proust in the near future.

racist

out of curiousty, how specific of a project did you outline in your SOP? did you talk to people in the department? I looked briefly at that program and much more seriously at the more or less equivalent one at Minnesota, but I didn't apply to either because it looked like I wouldn't really have a shot if I wasn't willing and able to essentially turn my SOP into a mini dissertation prospectus. I was neither willing nor able. In your experience, is this a reasonably accurate conclusion?

I think this is where I get to do that thing where I say there only looks to be one (well, two) mad person in here and it ain't me.

ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinggggggggggg hi, thread.

I'm coming for you, CUNY Grad sometimes in life you're going to see people you don't like. even in academia (lol joke). it's not a big deal, I promise. I see them every time I roll out of bed, including when I look in the mirror.

ok, ok, fine: I'll think of something sophisticated to pretend to do instead, just give me a week or so.

I would brofist you, but that sounds a lot like rape when the other party is a woman.

I know the score (currently 58 amirite)

my magnanimous capitulation to the demands of grad cafe judgment discourse

if rem was not ready to come to the defense of her therapist, than her therapist would not be her therapist. oh, how many thousands of other words I could write here than you would not read! here is what I do know: rem's therapist said what she said he said, unless rem is a sociopath. here's what else I know: what rem's therapist said is really dumb.

wallace stevens isn't cheesy

better than the one with a financial interest in the situation and hey, I got experience

unfortunately, his PhD is in telling you what you want to hear. alt: you know what else "offers a few minutes of relief from the anxiety?" smokin' crack rocks.

As a (the?) vet here, I'm going to say what every vet will say, and what none of you will listen to: just forget about it you have a choice: make your life miserable for the next two months, or make it slightly less miserable. it's all on you. in a process where you have virtually no say, this is the one thing you can do. don't troll the results board, don't spend all day and night dreaming up stupid questions and scenarios to post on grad cafe, don't look at last year, don't email schools, don't reload the status section of your app at DumbFuck U every thirty seconds come Feb 1, don't don't don't. don't do shit. go get laid. if you have a master's thesis to write, you poor sap, then close your browser. literally every second you spend here instead of there can only hurt you. choices.

Arthur Rimbaud gave up poetry at age 21. almost everything he ever wrote was in his teens. lets kill ourselves.

I feel like I would sacrifice myself for the good of humanity if there existed a genie able to take my life in exchange for removing the word pretentious from the English language Just think about why the whaling industry stuff is in Moby Dick how do you hate the sound and the fury. the first time I read it it was so good that I felt sad that other people had read it, like it had been improperly used. yes, this is how I operate. Absalom, Absalom! is probably better than The Sound and the Fury, but you won't want to have sex with it as much. and you absolutely should not read it if you didn't like S&F. and you absolutely should not read it before you read S&F

Woolf is for To the Lighthouse

Woolf is for To the Lighthouse

no regrets, wasn't going to get into any of the places I passed over. I will say that it would have been nice to apply to some comp lit/theory programs, but hey, my German just ain't good enough.

What I learned: ummm well

I study suicide all the time usually at night

DontHate is pretty great

yay, turns out my situation is now a clusterfuck. there is no way for me to resend prompts and the department in question has been less than helpful.