amywhoisawesome

Thank you!! And your name is awesome (which of course reflects your awesomeness). Amy Power! And shopping today was made even better by the fact that I still had gift cards from Christmas. I knew I was saving those for a good reason...

Nothing today, but I can live with that because I got an acceptance from one school and notification of funding from another school yesterday! So today I did some shopping to reward myself.

Absolutely nothing today. This is killing me, aughhhhh!

This WILL be a good week! I believe, I believe!

3/5: A letter from PSU (which is supposed to be an acceptance letter, I guess? JEALOUS) for one housemate, and a package for another housemate. Why do my housemates get all the mail arghhhhhhhhhhhh

3/2: Today, I saw a priority mail envelope in the mailbox. "For me?!" I thought. I rushed out to the mailbox, saw "Indiana" on the front and almost got excited... until I saw that it was for a housemate of mine and it was from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Oh man I am frazzled.

2/29: See something white hanging out of mailbox. Freak out. Run outside. "WANT FREE GAMES?" Ugh, junk mail. Addressed to "resident."

I've got a huge stack of books that I shouldn't be reading but in the midst of schoolwork and the waiting game, I decided I deserve to read for fun at least a little, right? I just picked Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, and I've also made a small dent in The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson. I also recently read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The nice thing about YA lit is that it usually takes less than a day to get through a book. (The bad part? That's a day I usually should have spent, um, studying... whatever.)

I'm definitely the kind of person who will post my acceptance to Facebook. For one, a lot of my friends are also applying to graduate school, and it's kind of a way to show our support for each other—if one person posts that they got accepted somewhere, we all 'like' their status and congratulate them, and it happens with everyone. I figure, we're all going through the same things right now and it's nice to know that there's people out there who are excited for you too, even if only for the split second they read your status and 'like' it If there are people out there who don't care about my acceptances, they can just ignore me or hide my status updates from their feed. Frankly, I know I have a lot of friends who I maybe don't talk to as often as I'd like but who would want to know about my success, just as much as I'd want to hear theirs, and Facebook makes it all easier When I heard my first acceptance, I definitely posted it to FB (as "who got into grad school? this girl!!!" except with more caps-lock and exclamation points, because I'm that person). Now whoever gets accepted anywhere gets a big ol' "congrats!!" from me

I am probably overanalyzing things (aren't we all?), but something happened this week that has my brain all crazed now. I received an e-mail from the FLAS committee at a school about my fellowship application: they said that my summer application materials had been received and that evaluations would start at the end of the month, etc etc. After frantically crying in one of my professor's offices, I e-mailed them back to say that I thought I had applied for an academic year fellowship, and further explained the problem. Thankfully, they moved my application to the academic-year pile (rejoice! cue the overly gracious e-mail!), the evaluations of which start next week. My question is... do you think it's safe for me to assume that, since they are going to evaluate my fellowship application, I've at least been wait-listed into my program, if not accepted? My brain can't help but jump to these conclusions! I feel like it would be silly for them to Part of me wants to e-mail the program and ask about my application status. Do you think this is okay to do? The website doesn't really have an option to check—it just says "Status: Submitted" (well duh, I knew that already)—but I also don't want to come off as rude or bothersome (especially not right after this whole debacle with my fellowship application). Any ideas? Also, has anyone else applied for a FLAS anywhere? We can cry and agonize together!