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Is anyone else dreaming about other people's admissions chances? I totally dreamt one of y'all (I couldn't remember who if my life depended on it) got into Michigan. I might be coming down with a case of the clairvoyance. Anyway, I think I'm pretty easily recognizable if they are reading, even without the school specific information. (I'm the one with the Dorothy Parker writing sample. . . . Please let me be the only one.) Dear adcomms: sorry about the overuse of the comma and the part where I'm not very funny. Hope to see you soon.

Shit. Gotta do that. Been putting it off because I cannot risk disrupting my delicate emotional balance with all of the Feelings. Whatever, excuses.

Yes. But he/the show project an image of the comic and I don't think Austen does. I also think she's painfully unfunny. Amusing, but not funny.

I saw over in History boards that Columbia is having a hell of a time with their (new?) system. They're struggling with updating.

Yeah, but donthate can take credit for most of my comments.

Ugh. This is why I think talking about Jane Austen in the abstract is boring. Like, I get that there's such a Thing about her because people attach a gendered narrative to her but oh my god let's actually talk about anything else.

Eh, I think she's more like a mean girl than a comic but still damn amusing. Super snide.

The White House. I'm not entirely kidding. I would go the politics route. I want to be a strategist/campaign manager or a tv critic if the grad school thing doesn't work out. I'm thinking the politics bit is the only plan I have that even approaches realistic...

I think Jane Austen is better (whatever that means) and more enjoyable but I think graphic novels are more interesting, especially in the abstract.

I actually see Woolf as the most straightforward of the modernists. Little work involved. But I'm an Americanist and won't take too much offense at this. Barnes is really chill though, love her.

Bored, I am so bored! I won't defend the position but.

I'm with you on Diaz, donthate, for the same reasons. Joseph Conrad because I have never in my life been bored by something (other than maybe Downton Abbey, oops) the way I am bored by Heart of Darkness.

Getting back into the Sims 3 was an active decision I made in response to being done with applications. I can't control my fate now but I can make sure Melody Pond realizes her dream of becoming quite the adventurer. Not a one of my Sims has any sort of literary ambition, I assure you.

No. Please. Don't. Leave us to our hand-wringing and self-righteous misery.

Well. I'm not sure about that. Literature is not keeping people out in order to fix the job market situation, not by any stretch of the imagination. (And NO ONE is looking at "great" job prospects right now.) I suspect, though, that sciences have way more funding and fewer applicants (and, yes, fewer unqualified applicants -- Literature is notorious for unserious applications, quite a few of the hundreds of applications are no where near capable of or serious about performing graduate-level work at Cornell or anywhere).

7 year old I nanny: "I'm going to show you your life in one year." Rips a napkin to shreds. I mean, he really doesn't know the emotional trauma he just caused but it really hurt.

Digital humanities/media studies people are really big on the twitter. It can be a really great academic resource. People put out questions about texts, talk about teaching, etc. And the #realforbesprofessors from the other day was wonderful and hilarious and difficult.

Did anyone else get the Wisconsin financial aid email? They really did good by making sure that the first line said something about not being about admissions. It has endeared them to me just a bit more.

More. Beer.

At this point I have become willfully apathetic about the process but I have such a profound, all-consuming (probably symbolic?) desire for the wine.

A couple but it was more from programs where I'd started applications and hadn't (yet) finished. Harvard sent me about 12 between Christmas and New Year's. Every time I was like, "Calm down, Harvard, you will get your $105."

Dear god, Harvard. They know that's above 99%tile, right?

Many of us are ultimately going to be responsible for shaping discourse and the future of admissions. Talking about class whenever possible is incredibly urgent. This is probably not a place to change the world but it is a place to develop ideas. This dismissive attitude is way less productive than anything snide donthate has said about pedigree or wtfever. I've stayed away from what this thread has turned into because of Reasons but I respect a lot of what has been said.

This is a fun new way to be neurotic. Someone from the Nashville area viewed my profile? Must be about Vandervilt! . . . No, just a high school friend of my mom's. I agree with regal renegade though. Tough to tell what it actually means.

Nutritional yeast on all of the things. I just want a big pile of it shaped like a pizza.