sasksaffron Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 Has anyone received a letter to the Visit Weekend for the Psychology program at Berkeley? It's coming up fast, but I have heard nothing. I emailed the University to ask if all letters have been sent out and did not get a reply.
fenderpete Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 I'm really really struggling this week. Having still heard absolutely nothing from anyone is getting increasingly hard to take.
Tonights Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 I'm expecting Syracuse to notify end of this week or beginning of the next. I'm a great fit there academically, but was basically told the funding doesn't exist, so I'm not sure whether to be hopeful or just full of dread. It's still so, so early. Deep breathing!
nemo Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 I'm really really struggling this week. Having still heard absolutely nothing from anyone is getting increasingly hard to take. Me too. What residual excited hopefulness was left me last week has disappeared in a dim fog of premature dispair. way premature because i probably wont hear from most places until march at least - but people applying for my programme at other universities are starting to hear, and this does not help my mood. i think i will try a self-imposed ban from all internet forums and just limit it to checking my email seventy times a day. or, if that doesnt work, im certainly banning myself from checking the results page at least, because all i can possibly learn from that is that other people have heard from my unis and i have not. feeling too delicate to appreciate that information right now. oh god, this is such a horrible process!!
Abiogenic Gas Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 I started off well by only checking the results page and forums once a day. At some point in the last week I've started to check twice a day then every ten minutes. My other option is to write my thesis so I'm here.
psycholinguist Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 Heh. I just printed off nine pages of data for my thesis, and then decided I'd done enough work on it for the day. Meeting with advisor in twenty minutes. Fortunately, he's a nice guy. And I had a bad cold over the weekend, so I'm still in 'err on the side of taking it easy' mode. Though I don't know how long I can keep that up with my schedule! * laughs *
Dubya Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 you sound like me psycholinguist! I downloaded about a dozen articles that I needed to read today and decided "well, that took me a pretty long time...lets call it a day." I then looked at my watch and realized it was 1pm. Oh well!
Dinali Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 Must be nice. I've had to cut my rates (freelancer) so much in this economy that to maintain my income I'm working almost double what I was this time last year. Doing these apps while working 70 hour weeks was NO fun.
psycholinguist Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 What a drag! Yikes. Hopefully funding will come through in order to provide a bit more stability for a while.
Dinali Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 What a drag! Yikes. Hopefully funding will come through in order to provide a bit more stability for a while. I don't mind being busy at all. The hardest part about it was that I'm 3,000 miles and 3 years away from when I was in undergrad. When I resurrected a paper to submit as a writing sample, I didn't even understand it and found it hard to believe that I had once written it. Luckily, it all came back after rereading and rewriting it a few times, so it's not like I've forgotten everything -- it's just no longer readily at hand. The distance was harder to surmount. I had to call and email my former profs instead of swinging by and visiting. I had to remind them who I was. I didn't/don't have any kind of advisory infrastructure. I'm reading this site and constantly happening across people mentioning stuff in their posts and thinking "should I have done that? Does that apply to linguistics? What does that even mean?" Based on my experience, I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone that is even considering grad school, apply as a senior even if you don't plan to go right away! You can defer admissions, or simply decline everywhere, but when you do finally decide to go, you'll have a worked-up, advised-on paper, your profs will have letters on file for you, you'll know what the timelines really mean, etc.
socialpsych Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I just found out on what day my top choice program is meeting to make final admissions decisions (next Wednesday). Oh em gee. I don't think I'm going to sleep until then.
Yellow#5 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Ummm, you seem to have racked up a good number of acceptances, so I'd say you're doing alright
psycholinguist Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Based on my experience, I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone that is even considering grad school, apply as a senior even if you don't plan to go right away! You can defer admissions, or simply decline everywhere, but when you do finally decide to go, you'll have a worked-up, advised-on paper, your profs will have letters on file for you, you'll know what the timelines really mean, etc. This is really reassuring. If anything, I was feeling weird about having applied as soon as possible; two of my professors as well as several of my friends and friends' parents advised me to take time off before even considering grad-school - supposedly it helps you avoid burnout, rekindles your passion for the field(s) you're aiming for, and gives you a better idea of why you even want to go. Problem is, I'm very certain that I want to do this; I'm not feeling at all burned-out or restless or sick of the classroom; and I can't think of a single realistic job outside academia that would interest me remotely as much as grad-school. (I'm very fond of writing and even editing, but I don't think I'd want to do it full-time; the same goes for music; and though I would go into lexicography in an instant, finding any kind of position in it is nearly impossible and getting worse.) I can appreciate the arguments in favour of visiting the real world for a few years, but if my past experiences are any indication, I'm going to be bored enough just by the end of this summer!
illinoisellie Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 No more waiting for something, anything to come back. haha Well, at least I know that they received my application. At least a couple more weeks, hopefully, until the others come trickling in...
riss287 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Someone in the history field found an acceptance in his/her spam folder and so everyone is reminding everyone else to check their spam folders. BUT, I check mine every time I check my regular inbox!!! Bah!
sunshine6 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I didn't even THINK to do that.... I'll be back later! Yeah, that was a waste of time..... But thanks for the suggestion. Apparently I also won a million dollars for doing nothing! Stupid spam.
riss287 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Ha and I'll just bet you'll find an acceptance letter!!!!!
riss287 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 And then you can get John Commuta to help you with your debt solutions if the million dollar plan falls through
sunshine6 Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Either way, I am set with male enhancement products for life. (too bad I am female...)
jino Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Only way I've been surviving this waiting part is with copius amounts of Scotch whisky every night. Sigh.
Phoenix Rising Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Its nice to have find a place to connect with people as anxious as I am right now. If one more friend/family member tells me to "just relax", I'll scream! I feel like I'm in limbo. I have to make sure that I stay super busy everyday to distract myself.
Genghis Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Either way, I am set with male enhancement products for life. (too bad I am female...) I'll trade you-- I get all the breast enhancement spam, and I'm a guy.
Tonights Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 I haven't been getting much spam, so I just stare and stare at my empty inbox. Also it has been "booze and video game madness!" at my house for the past several weeks, with no signs of abatement.
BigCheese Posted February 11, 2009 Posted February 11, 2009 Ugh waiting for a school (Yale Political Science) who has contacted everyone under the sun but me.. like really wtf!!!
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