kretschmar Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 9 hours ago, Schwarzwald said: Alright you schmucks! It's been 2 days! Get accepted to places so I can feel hope! *here you go* Scoots and Schwarzwald 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kretschmar Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Phone call from out-of-state number. Adrenaline spike. Multi-level marketer. LORDBACON, Vivec, soproperlybasic and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORDBACON Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Someone just got the green light from Chicago. Woot, congratulations! I'd be buzzing... Now for my part, it is officially time to ramp up the anxiety! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genderphage Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, wayfarin' stranger said: Someone just got the green light from Chicago. Woot, congratulations! I'd be buzzing... Now for my part, it is officially time to ramp up the anxiety! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I have literally nothing to do at work at the moment either so it's so hard not to check my emails every couple of minutes, waiting on top, 3rd & 5th choice! (Chi, Berk, SB) PhiloStorian, soproperlybasic, LORDBACON and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soproperlybasic Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 9 hours ago, genderphage said: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I have literally nothing to do at work at the moment either so it's so hard not to check my emails every couple of minutes, waiting on top, 3rd & 5th choice! (Chi, Berk, SB) I'm pretty sure I refresh my email in my sleep at this point... Schwarzwald, genderphage and PhiloStorian 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelris Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just got a Skype interview request from Penn State! PhiloStorian, kretschmar, genderphage and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhiloStorian Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, soproperlybasic said: I'm pretty sure I refresh my email in my sleep at this point... Same. 11 minutes ago, jelris said: Just got a Skype interview request from Penn State! Nice! Good luck to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzwald Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 hours ago, soproperlybasic said: I'm pretty sure I refresh my email in my sleep at this point... I've allowed myself unlimited checks of the email, but I've told myself I can only check the application portal once a day. soproperlybasic, LORDBACON and PhiloStorian 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reav5000 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I'm going crazy. I'm constantly checking my email, spam folder, mail, application websites, carrier pigeons... genderphage, maengret, LORDBACON and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I am not sure that Chicago acceptance is genuine. It seems odd that (i) Chicago would send just one out at a given time and (ii) the acceptance would come this early. Chicago usually releases Feb 6-Feb 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cogitodoncrien Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 10 minutes ago, philosobro said: I am not sure that Chicago acceptance is genuine. It seems odd that (i) Chicago would send just one out at a given time and (ii) the acceptance would come this early. Chicago usually releases Feb 6-Feb 10. I agree. But, as a philosopher, I also have to point out that the post is ambiguous as to which university is being referenced. Does "Chicago" name UChicago, UIC, Loyola University Chicago? It is unclear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORDBACON Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 8 minutes ago, Cogitodoncrien said: I agree. But, as a philosopher, I also have to point out that the post is ambiguous as to which university is being referenced. Does "Chicago" name UChicago, UIC, Loyola University Chicago? It is unclear. To my mind that is understood to mean UChicago. And who am I to question this pillar on which lies the justification for my anxious freakout which knows no boundaries... kretschmar and Cogitodoncrien 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORDBACON Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 33 minutes ago, reav5000 said: I'm going crazy. I'm constantly checking my email, spam folder, mail, application websites, carrier pigeons... Uncanny: have you been checking my mail too? And yes: send pigeons at once, tyrants! totorotaro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 What were some of your guys writing sample on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORDBACON Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, philosobro said: What were some of your guys writing sample on? Aesthetics, contra white people can play the blues. Not in my AOI though. Current MA thesis topic is pro self-knowledge as a virtue for Nietzsche. Primary AOI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metanoia Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) 46 minutes ago, philosobro said: I am not sure that Chicago acceptance is genuine. It seems odd that (i) Chicago would send just one out at a given time and (ii) the acceptance would come this early. Chicago usually releases Feb 6-Feb 10. There's a good explanation for this. UChicago is doing interviews this year (I received an interview request, and mine is tomorrow). I take it that they're doing 2-3 interviews a day, and sending out acceptances accordingly in phases. Edited January 31, 2018 by Metanoia kretschmar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonasabi Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 11 minutes ago, philosobro said: What were some of your guys writing sample on? I wrote about Descartes's views on modality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, Metanoia said: There's a good explanation for this. UChicago is doing interviews this year (I received an interview request, and mine is tomorrow). I take it that they're doing 2-3 interviews a day, and sending out acceptances accordingly in phases. congratulations! do you know if they have sent out all of their request for interviews? (If so, my heart has just been utterly ripped out of my chest, slammed on the floor and jumped on. Not really but I would know not to hope for much with respect to Chicago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metanoia Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, philosobro said: congratulations! do you know if they have sent out all of their request for interviews? (If so, my heart has just been utterly ripped out of my chest, slammed on the floor and jumped on. Not really but I would know not to hope for much with respect to Chicago). With that description, I really hope not! But more seriously, I really can't say. I got an email from them on Monday, and was asked to pick a slot for either Wednesday or Thursday. FWIW, the email came from the dept. administrator, not from a professor. Edited January 31, 2018 by Metanoia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, Metanoia said: With that description, I really hope not! But more seriously, I really can't say. I got an email from them on Monday, and was asked to pick a slot for either Wednesday or Thursday. FWIW, the email came from the dept. administrator, not from a professor. Oh alright. Well, congratulations again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soproperlybasic Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 17 minutes ago, philosobro said: What were some of your guys writing sample on? Mine was about whether or not God should be a moral saint (bringing in Susan Wolf, Bernard Williams, and Michael Rea, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metanoia Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 27 minutes ago, philosobro said: What were some of your guys writing sample on? Mine was an interpretive paper on Aristotle, particularly on an important connection between his ethics and his metaphysics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 13 minutes ago, soproperlybasic said: Mine was about whether or not God should be a moral saint (bringing in Susan Wolf, Bernard Williams, and Michael Rea, etc) PIKSI!!!!!!!! soproperlybasic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinessloopypun Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 5 minutes ago, Metanoia said: Mine was an interpretive paper on Aristotle, particularly on an important connection between his ethics and his metaphysics. This sounds interesting. I don't know to what extent you are interested in the connection between ethics and metaphysics in general (aside from Aristotelian scholarship, say), but there is some interesting material on this in the literature of grounding which seems pertinent to your project. For instance, people like Selim Berker (2014, "The Unity of Grounding") believe that there is only one notion of ground, which interconnects ethics and metaphysics, as opposed to multiple fundamental notions for the metaphysical, natural and normative. Since grounding literature dates back in a sense to Aristotle, I thought you might take your paper to go beyond an interpretative paper and bear on a more general discussion. Seems worth taking a look at! Metanoia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosobro Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 9 minutes ago, Metanoia said: Mine was an interpretive paper on Aristotle, particularly on an important connection between his ethics and his metaphysics. Mine was on causal explanation and event individuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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