UndraftedFreeAgent Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 1. Every time someone says "crap shoot", you envision a professor throwing all applications in a toilet, aiming a shotgun at the toilet, firing, and making a decision based on what splashes out. 2. You have spies (friends) at your favorite schools "volunteer" to envelope letters for the department. 3. You've developed a composite set of department rankings based on the dozens of other rankings that are out there. 4. You know the names of the departmental secretaries at all schools by heart. 5. You're convinced that all postings on the results page regarding schools from which you haven't heard are lies, because your hidden web cams show that the committees are still meeting. 6. You begin to wonder what sort of placement you could get with a degree from University of Phoenix Online 7. You've created a text message system to notify friends/family of every decision... even if they don't care. 8. You installed an alarm system to let you know when the mail arrives. 9. People have started betting as to your odds of getting into certain programs, just so they have a reason to pretend to care when you rant. 10. You check your email so often that sometimes you don't even need to re-enter your password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyorama Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 11. All plans for further than a week away are contingent on the state and results of pending decisions. 12. You have started developing baseball player style superstitions - lucky clothing, counting, other OCD habits. 13. You don't go out so you can obsessively check. 14. You go out for the sole purpose of avoiding obsessively checking. 15. Your filing system for your applications, responses, etc., is a complex system you created and refined over multiple months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencio1982 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 16. You are in danger of getting fired from your job because you spend all your time on this website/on craigslist for the town/city of the school you just got accepted to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polisciphd Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 17. You have a least five screens open on your computer at any given time: one for your personal email, one for the results page of gradcafe, one for the poly sci forum page of grad cafe, one for the results page for yuster, and one for your work email (which is there only for you to click on really fast when your boss walks by). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanJames Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 18. You have no job because you've already been fired for obsessively checking GradCafe and your inbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencio1982 Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 and one for your work email (which is there only for you to click on really fast when your boss walks by). hahahahahaha.... i feel as though you are spying on me... this is how i spent my entire day today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarex Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 19. You assume this list will be a series of hilarious exaggerations that will amuse you, yet find to your horror that 90% of them actually do describe the last two months of your life extremely well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 20. You tell people that your entire career/life depends on what happens in the next two months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diotima Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 21. You end up reading the threads for all the other disciplines...just in case someone mentions by-the-bye that they were also accepted to your discipline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanJames Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 22. When you are finally accepted by a school with funding, you start to question that school's program because all of the other schools are still making you wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartplato Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 24. you start to miscount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyorama Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 25. Fleeting delusions of grandeur and persecution. I'm going to get in everywhere ... They are out to get me because I am just too good ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futureprof Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 26. You check your mailbox first at the exact time they start sorting the mail, wait patiently by it for 15 minutes checking periodically, go get lunch, come back after an hour to check again... then stop by to check one last time in the evening just in case they did their sorting late that day. 27. Your facebook status may as well be renamed your grad school status 28. You spend an entire day carefully crafting an email expressing that you would indeed like to attend the visiting weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegona Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 27. Your facebook status may as well be renamed your grad school status Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UndraftedFreeAgent Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 29. You've crafted your own version of a "rejection of a rejection" letter based on the wording of letters you have received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve2008 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 30. You have a friend, currently taking a seminar course with your dream adviser at your dream Ph.D program, sending said dream adviser subliminal, telepathic messages under the assumption that "every little bit helps." (Folks, this really works!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizH Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I laughed so hard at this tears acutally ran down my face. I don't know if it is REALLY that funny, or if I am simply starting to lose it from all the waiting games. 31. Every morning when you wake up your first thought is "Maybe I will hear back today". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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