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  1. I'm sitting here eating ice cream to celebrate. Can't wait to see my profs on Monday. My mentor was so excited she could barely speak.
  2. I just got an acceptance to my first-choice program. More info will come with the "official" acceptance, but they're providing a bunch of money as travel support to come out for their welcome weekend and the prof who wants to work with me (I think? She's the one that emailed me) is going to try to be there to meet up with me that weekend - she's on Sabbatical!!! I am on top of the world. My mentor is BEYOND excited, as is my Mom. Oh my gosh!!! I'm going to graduate school!!!!! Mentor is talking about possibly multiple acceptances, etc... I feel so cool.
  3. Obviously that family member hasn't seen Criminal Minds...
  4. I almost wish I had results to freak out over, but literally the only result for this program was three years ago. So we'll see. Just waiting...
  5. So this isn't directly related to graduate school admissions, but is related to graduation...which for me, I hope to have a place in grad school before graduating! I was talking to our department secretary (who is a friend of mine) about how I didn't want to graduate and leave the department, because everyone is fantastic here...short background on me - paranoid of failure/disappointing people, etc. "I don't want to leave...I'll miss it here." "You know...if you stay here, it's because you failed something. Just sayin'." "...good point." I am suddenly more excited (albeit nervous still) about graduation. Mentor is excited to see me walk, as is my family. I don't want to walk..I hate pomp and circumstance and the like. But...I'll do it for them, I guess.
  6. I'm doing better today...still having trouble sleeping (mind won't shut off), but am overall less stressed. Mentor smiled when I told her and told me before I know it it'll be the end of the week, and before I know it it'll be next week and that it'll be okay. I'm not religious (well, not really), but I thank god each day for my department. They all take care of me and are all lovely people. I will be so sad to graduate in May.
  7. I just listed my cell...no way in heck did I want them anywhere near my house where my Mom or siblings might answer. Plus i just got in the habit of not using my home phone for much at all. I'm gone most of the day so anyone that really wants to get ahold of me needs to try my cell first anyways.
  8. Thanks. I am very much my own worst enemy sometimes. My mother is convinced that my professors know something I don't, which would be likely (since...well, beyond the fact they know /tons/ of stuff I don't know...anyways). The waiting is bothering me, but I'm doing better today. Focusing on my work instead of grad school apps and whatnot. Trying to eat a bit better and take better care of myself, so. We'll see how it goes. I think part of what troubles me with that "mini-interview" is that I literally had no idea what to expect or what was expected of me, and I'm guessing it showed. Oh well. Time to get back to transcribing interviews... Good luck to everyone who's interviewing in the coming weeks!
  9. The only application result from one of my programs is three years old and they called...so I'm paranoid about getting a phone call during class or something and darting out to check it only to find out that it's a telemarketer or something! I've decided that if that phone call was a mini-interview, then I probably botched it. I've spent the past week coming up with better questions I could've asked, etc. -sagenod- We'll see, though. She's the only of the three people that I listed that has contacted me, though, which I find interesting. Part of me likes to think that neither of the other two have because she "claimed" me...one of the two that hasn't is a good friend of my mentor (who has spoken very highly of me, and I know she's contacted her friend because I saw it in her to-do list) so in theory I'd expected to hear from her. I have no idea. I really need to stop theorizing.
  10. Oh gosh...the stipend. Mom: "So how much will you be making in graduate school?" "Whatever they give me." "Well, how much? 40k? 30k?" "Mom, I don't know." "I don't think they're giving you enough money." "...they haven't given me any money yet, Mom. I haven't been accepted yet." "Well, they'll be fighting all over you. One of them better give you enough money. Remind me where you applied again? I want to call them and tell them to give you more money." "...no." Yeah...
  11. Don't jinx yourself...
  12. "You'll get in, it's just a matter of where." <== From one of my LOR writers. I told her to stop getting my hopes up. It's driving me insane. I so want her to be right, but the wait is killing me...and I'm pretty sure I'm driving people insane at this point because I won't shut up.
  13. nohika

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    Ooh, true. I think my sister has some I could...borrow. My school definitely does. I like to color-code so I can see at a glance what I have due when, basically - whether I have exams this week, or quizzes, or papers or homework or...I like highlighters for that reason. I got all my school stuff in my planner last night and am just focusing on adding the highlights. I have some small widgets on my desktop that track some other to-do lists I have, since they're handy, but I'll organize most of my school-related stuff in my planner, I think. Found out yesterday night that all three of my classes have exams the same week...all three weeks [with exams in them]. I'm like SERIOUSLY? Mentor wasn't surprised and while I normally have them close together, I've never had all three bunched up like that. Blech. @VBD - I like having school as a distraction, but with the professors dying to know about admissions as much as I am, it drives me a bit crazy sometimes. Plus I have a massive anxiety issue already, so grad school admissions are basically exacerbating what already exists. I don't check in as obsessively as I'd like sometimes, but I definitely check every 15-20 min if I'm on my laptop not focused on something else. Ironically, the waiting and the stress is making me want it more...
  14. I was at first like hah! Them crazies and their dreams. I'm not there /yet/. ...last night and the night before. I keep dreaming about getting emails. Some I can't read, some are clearly "yay! YOU GET TO GO!" and I don't know wtf is going on, but it's very disorienting to dream about getting emails and not actually get them. So schools! Read my brain and send me those acceptances!
  15. nohika

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    The hard part about having a core weekly schedule is that my second job, the schedule changes week to week, haha...I've used google calender in the past but I really like being able to have daily to-do lists since while blocking out the time is nice, I like having a list to cross off, and I like having everything in the same place. A planner is useful for planning everything out over the semester, but it's harder to color-coordinate. I put way too much thought into this, haha. I might try and combine a paper planner with Google Calender...the less I have to do by hand, the saner I feel, that's for sure. Post-its are an awesome idea...I haven't used those before. Might have to borrow some from my department. I like having the to-do lists to cross off. Use a planner often too, just trying to find the "right" way, haha...
  16. nohika

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    I've got...three classes, working on a journal manuscript, TAing for two classes lesser involved (track assignments, enter grades, etc), TAing for another class that is more heavily involved (helping design assignments, grade assignments, etc), working on two research projects with my mentor (one involves transcribing and analyzing interviews [which I have no idea how to do] and the second is working on learning modules and whatnot for a project with the DoD), doing general RA stuff for the two professors I work for...oh, and I work two jobs totaling about 25-35 hours a week. One is my TA/RA work so I do a lot of that then. Oh, and I need to start putting together a professional portfolio... I will be kept plenty busy. Just gotta figure out how to get organized the "correct" way...making an Excel sheet that will be able to be blocked out like Google Calender but maintain individual to-do lists. I'm crazy, I know. Fun times.
  17. nohika

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    I have been working on planning out every space of time for the next sixteen weeks. Or at least close to it. I pick random things (I study Japanese for fun, so I fret over that) to fret myself half to death and it works okay because it keeps me away from the issues that /really/ matter. Basically, worrying about anything but graduate school school. I have so much going on this semester that I'm worried about how things will play out...
  18. Oh gosh, PhDreams, that blows. :(
  19. nohika

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    This...so much. Thankfully my professors are more than willing to listen to me ramble (a couple of them, anyways) and two of my LOR writers are very similar to me in different ways and have had some strategies to help me calm down, but. Most students don't understand what a PhD is, what is expected of it, what the application process is like, etc. I'm basically the one that teaches them. It's the bridge for me...I'm doing better, but I'm focusing on schools and fretting myself to death over insignificant stuff because I can. Not exactly healthy...
  20. I haven't heard anything official...was contacted by a prof from one program, but that's it. I'm applying to human development/family studies/whatever else you want to call it. A bunch of programs officially come back from winter break tomorrow, so that's probably why a bunch of us haven't heard much.
  21. I didn't even think about human development until my third year of college...so it will have taken me three years to graduate when I graduate in May. Nothing compared to a nontrad, but my whole family keeps commenting on how long it's taken. Compared to how long it takes to get a PhD, it's really nothing...I never thought I'd work at a school, but I don't mind the thought of it. It's a long road...but a nice one.
  22. Agreed! Sister's considering a Masters in Accounting (or something), but I have dibs on being the first in (hopefully...I'll find out soon!!). I never thought I'd end up with a PhD. Always thought of like vet or med or something like that. It wasn't until I started working with my mentor that I decided PhD... Ironically with it being waiting for admissions decisions, I'm getting more and more comfortable with the decision every day.
  23. nohika

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    Are you my twin? I was absolutely delighted to go back to my work (at school) a week early because - people!! Not only people, but people that understand the wait! School starts back up on Monday and I'm almost paralyzed now because I have sooooo much to plan for when it comes even just to schoolwork. A lot of my bad mental health-ish habits have started coming back because the anxiety is so bad. It's concerning to me, because I don't know what I'll do if it keeps getting worse...
  24. nohika

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    Agreed. We'd know we're going SOMEWHERE, even if we weren't 100% sure where. I think I'll be hit with a bunch of senioritis when accepted, but...I just want to relax.
  25. nohika

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    Oh don't worry, I'm sitting here refreshing waiting for people to talk about applications so I can talk about applications and feel slightly less unhealthily crazy than I have so far. Fun?
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