practical cat

Go, go, WUSTLers, go!!

"The place that accepts me." "No, really. What's your number one choice?"

Not sure where else to ask this short of starting a new thread so. Would someone be willing to provide a list of the items/categories under the "requested materials" section of the Buffalo status site? I'm about 99% sure I have lost my mind because something seems to have changed there but it's also possible I have made it up and have been walking around in a state of false bravado wrt my own reading comprehension skills. (Note: the latter could be true even if I am actually right this time.) Basically, you know you've been hit by the anxiety bus when you start wishing you had taken screen shots of your status sites throughout the post-submission period.

I was never able to figure out how to get my email to stop considering any communication from Brandeis spam so I check the spam box regularly, unfortunately. I hadn't thought of an email actually getting LOST though.

I just want to say that part of my angst about Michigan football is because I had to miss the OSU game to work on apps and it was the ONLY GAME I have not watched in the last five seasons. I may have all of this application-related anxiety wrapped up in football that is being expressed in kind of silly up-voting of anyone who says anything even remotely resembling "go blue."

lol GOOD LUCK THOUGH I will not hold this statement against you.

baseball hat

Yes. I guess I work nearly full time but it gives me a lot of technology time during the day and not much brain work either so it's not like I have a distraction. I'm sitting in on a class because I need a few hours a week where I'm guaranteed to be thinking about something else but it's getting to be not enough. I was mostly just bored, but as it gets closer and closer to the time when my schools should start responding, I am starting to really feel the anxiety that everyone else has been talking about.

I had the most boring of application related dreams last night. I dreamt that I felt like one of my LOR writers was being mean to me. I say "felt like" because I, even within the dream, could not point to anything specific that she had done. I'm also having really intense and dramatic spy/action-adventure/murder dreams that are a pretty clear manifestation of the stress I'm not letting myself feel during waking hours but all of the dreams that are explicitly about admissions are really impressively dull.

insect repellent

I respect that you're being the bigger person here but I'm personally not super thrilled with being accused of "ganging up" on someone when I just happen to agree (very strongly) with something one person says and disagree (equally strongly) with something another person says. Just because my trend over several posts was to agree with what one person said and disagree with another in no way reflects anything other than my judging each post by their own individual merits. I may upvote armadilla and downvote wildviolet at some point in the future. It's so not personal. I think, as someone who was the victim of pretty vicious hate speech that went unmoderated, the moderation of these boards can be really misguided.

Pft, that person's glowy/swirly diamond thing would totally be red.

I don't know about anyone else but the only reason my twitter account is my real name is because I wanted to have control over my google profile. Despite having a really uncommon name, there are two other mes out there: British Me is quite the partier and Athlete Me is quite the soccer goalie. I wanted to negate some of the damage being done by British Me's facebook page being one of the top results in google so I spent about a year pretty carefully crafting an online footprint. I actually kind of hope they search me and look at my twitter. I think it rounds me out a little bit. Congrats on the OSU acceptance!

Inter-tread-uality!

Congrats HHeoS! For what it's worth, my real twitter account @firstnamelastname is basically a several-thousand-tweet-long documentation of my deep fascination with Taylor Swift and that is so not even in the top ten reasons I believe I will be rejected across the board.

You, bfat, are amazing and I believe in you.

Space jam

I've been reading PhD comics since first year of undergrad, LONG before I ever began to seriously consider actually pursuing a PhD. They were hilarious then.

gender studies

I think that's the list in its entirety of the things that messed me up on the Lit GRE. This semester, I'm just taking a Joyce class.

student government

Tea cozy

Seriously, I keep getting REALLY excited for you guys.

Irish coffee

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop but so far, very little stress/anxiety. I DO want to be able to make real plans for the next year (or more) but I'm not one for worrying about what I can't control. My schools are (judging from previous years) nowhere near notification so I think that also helps. We'll see how I'm doing come 1 February.