1Q84

YES! I've been wanting to start this thread but I didn't want to spam the board. Here's a great song for when I'm feeling scared about my future:

I'm 55% rejected this season. What do I get?!

Congrats So happy to hear your plans and hard work paid off!

Obviously I don't know your entire financial situation with you and your partner but from what you've written here, I would even suggest a) planning for more than half a year's rent as buffer and b.) looking into a shared house with several other roommates, which will save you both a substantial amount of money. Of course that requires a certain type of personality but if it's you and your partner's first time moving out, it can actually be nice to have people around in that way. You'll also be less strapped for cash and that has an incalculably positive effect on you concentrating on your school work! Just food for thought

Well, doesn't seem like any wait list spots for UCI are coming anytime soon... better chalk that up as an R. :\

Funny, sometimes I go to this site and turn on the ambient coffee shop noise when I'm home alone and trying to get some reading done! http://asoftmurmur.com/

Sorry to hear jhefflol Hope the doctor's visit goes well!

Naturally wake up at 6am. Might as well get up to check if results came out: Nothing. Back to bed: Try to fall back asleep again but can't now because of results-related anxiety:

Are you serious? That's like calling Trump Intl. a nonprofit organization. This is actually the most outrageous thing I've heard all week.

Oh yeah I remember seeing this and it making my head spin. Definitely reminded of how numbers hate me and vice versa. I will say that it's interesting how different it is from the unsubtle US News!

What sites are there available for investigating rankings of English graduate programs? I noticed with envy the "Gourmet report" that the philosophy students have and realized how utterly little our field seems to discuss this topic. From what I see, no resources exist aside from the pretty much useless US News rankings.

Gotta say, I'm enjoying the super bitter, name-calling rejection posts on the results board. I'm not enjoying them in a malicious way but it's somehow amusing to me to see how vicious people get when they get rejected. I mean, if you really thought that way about the program, why did you apply in the first place?

Whoa weird, I'm into the same critical methodologies except my foundation is early modern English. Seems like a lot of us are in that growing field. I do really want to nurture and explore my modern (American?) cultural studies interests too. Still trying to figure that out at the moment.

Pouring one out for my fellow Columbia rejects: Edit: Okay... this is my 700th post. Maybe it's time to do some work.

Got my official Columbia rejection. Le sigh.

Got the invite from Tina via email today Thanks.

Lots of Brown admits. Congrats to all!

Have been inexplicably out of upvotes for 24 hours so I'll just have to comment it: you're amazing. That makes me feel a little better. But wow, what I would give to be able to finish 500+ pages in a day!

Seeing as the UC's seem to be pulling new tricks for sending out acceptances (Sunday evenings, leaving several days between groups of acceptances) I wouldn't feel bad about Irvine yet! Spending some time with some good emo music helps! Tom Waits and Nick Cave have carried me through some rougher patches these past few weeks.

Congratulations!! Did you receive an email or call?

Wow, you're on a hot streak! Congrats

Ah that's where I recognized the name from. I haven't but it definitely sounds like it's worth reading now that you describe it. Would love to have that epithet on my tombstone (1Q84 - Fop To Be Reckoned With). As an aside, I'm curious about everyone's reading speeds here. I feel sometimes that I crawl when I read novels (Victorian ones, in particular) and I'm not sure if I have a problem or not. I can usually do 40-50 pages an hour.. (that's a complete guess)? Critical writing is a whole other bag, though.

I didn't hear about an open house :/ Am I dis-invited because I live so close by?

Thank you again, everyone I'll add to this, though I'm speaking from the perspective of a fully-funded MA: after I received my acceptances, I went to speak to each DGS in person. When I mentioned to the DGS of University B that I had just visited University A's campus, she went into "business mode" and threw in $5000 on top of the initial offer. So I'd definitely say it's worth mentioning.