Longest. February. Ever.

[stephanie.ms.antunes]

Only 11 days until this month is over!! We can do it. It really has been long though....probably not hearing back from any schools until April too, so I fear March might be a long month as well...ugh

[ekant]

This February has taught me to: obsessively and compulsively check my e-mail, run to my mail box like a little child every day, and nervously play with my beard/bite my nails. Thank you, graduate school admissions committees.

[sansao]

Does tomorrow (or this coming week in general) make anybody else particularly nervous? It seems like decisions have really started rolling out in a good mix of fields over the last week. I know tomorrow's President's Day, but I also know that a lot of the schools (my UI included) are not taking a holiday. Idk, maybe the stress is starting to get to me.

[DorindaAfterThyrsis]

It's Reading Week/Spring Break at my current school this week, which is extra shitty as I now have to add those hours that I am normally in class with my brain otherwise occupied to the hours that I spend here and/or obsessively checking my inbox/staring at my phone.

Chances that I will actually do any "reading" or writing during this break? Slim to none.

Ugh.

Edited February 19, 2012 by DorindaAfterThyrsis

[sansao]

It's Reading Week/Spring Break at my current school this week, which is extra shitty as I now have to add those hours that I am normally in class with my brain otherwise occupied to the hours that I spend here and/or obsessively checking my inbox/staring at my phone.

Chances that I will actually do any "reading" or writing during this break? Slim to none.

Ugh.

Hey, at least it's not Spring Break everywhere. Could you imagine if we all just had to wait 9 days with almost guaranteed silence from everywhere? Yikes.

[crazygirl2012]

Another weekend-hater here. Hang in there, everybody-- it's almost Monday!

[Inspired10]

Ditto to this post! If only February will past quick and we can move on to March. Can we get a good night rest?!

[lakej]

i guess universities don't generally take off presidents' day?

[GreenePony]

i guess universities don't generally take off presidents' day?

I didn't know any university did. We (well students ~6 years ago) had to fight to get MLK day off.

Most businesses around here don't either- my husband is rather bitter about that.

[MonkeyPants]

This February has given me a grand total of three new white hairs and four new white eyelashes. Come on, March!!!

[put a bird on it]

Yeah, this waiting got to stop!!!My 155-pound body can't handle all this pressure!!!!

This February has given me a grand total of three new white hairs and four new white eyelashes. Come on, March!!!

lol you all are hilarious.

[sansao]

Well, it's either laugh at my situation or completely flip out and go become a hermit in the desert. I like showers too much for the latter, so laughter (which is becoming slightly maniacal at this point) is what it's going to be.

[espresso_eyes]

This February has given me a grand total of three new white hairs and four new white eyelashes. Come on, March!!!

[dufromage]

Something to help the crazies (like me) while waiting: go on twitter.com/search and type in "name of university" and then "accepted" or "rejected" and it yields all tweet results about being accepted/rejected by the said university. A lot of people don't know that GradCafe.com exists, so its a good way to see if other people have started to be accepted/rejected into the universities that you have applied to. This will obviously also yield results from high school applicants that have been accepted into undergrad, but still. It works! Eeeeeeeeeek.

[ekant]

Despite it being Presdient's Day, I heard back four rejections today. Long February, but damn fucking short February 20th if you ask me. 0/6 now.

[trina]

Something to help the crazies (like me) while waiting: go on twitter.com/search and type in "name of university" and then "accepted" or "rejected" and it yields all tweet results about being accepted/rejected by the said university. A lot of people don't know that GradCafe.com exists, so its a good way to see if other people have started to be accepted/rejected into the universities that you have applied to. This will obviously also yield results from high school applicants that have been accepted into undergrad, but still. It works! Eeeeeeeeeek.

oh no. now you've given me one more useless thing to do while waiting for march and decision letters. each day just seems to pass so slowly. i've only got 9 credits of classes this semester, and i don't feel like studying at all. i'm on gradcafe most of the time.. just refreshing the results page and the Speech Language Pathology thread. i need to get a life.

Edited February 21, 2012 by trina

[domnulsl]

Despite it being Presdient's Day, I heard back four rejections today. Long February, but damn fucking short February 20th if you ask me. 0/6 now.

Damn, that is harsh; I'm sorry to hear that. Keep your head up! I'm rooting for you.

[espresso_eyes]

Despite it being Presdient's Day, I heard back four rejections today. Long February, but damn fucking short February 20th if you ask me. 0/6 now.

Sorry

[ekant]

Thanks ya'll. Good luck to you too. I hope everything works out for everyone in the long run.

[PhDreams]

Thanks ya'll. Good luck to you too. I hope everything works out for everyone in the long run.

Stay positive! It's not over yet!

[dufromage]

oh no. now you've given me one more useless thing to do while waiting for march and decision letters. each day just seems to pass so slowly. i've only got 9 credits of classes this semester, and i don't feel like studying at all. i'm on gradcafe most of the time.. just refreshing the results page and the Speech Language Pathology thread. i need to get a life.

that sounds just like me. i check gradcafe threads & results search when i wake up, on my break at work, and all night at home. i do my twitter searches intermittently. whenever i hear the new mail beep on my iphone my heart drops. oh, wait, it's just groupon, again D:

[sansao]

whenever i hear the new mail beep on my iphone my heart drops. oh, wait, it's just groupon, again D:

Haha, I had to unsubscribe from every listserv/bbs/advertising/political/anything that was routed to the account I applied with.

[guttata]

Something to help the crazies (like me) while waiting: go on twitter.com/search and type in "name of university" and then "accepted" or "rejected" and it yields all tweet results about being accepted/rejected by the said university. A lot of people don't know that GradCafe.com exists, so its a good way to see if other people have started to be accepted/rejected into the universities that you have applied to. This will obviously also yield results from high school applicants that have been accepted into undergrad, but still. It works! Eeeeeeeeeek.

oh no. now you've given me one more useless thing to do while waiting for march and decision letters. each day just seems to pass so slowly. i've only got 9 credits of classes this semester, and i don't feel like studying at all. i'm on gradcafe most of the time.. just refreshing the results page and the Speech Language Pathology thread. i need to get a life.

I wouldn't worry. This isn't specific and when I tried it it seemed to be almost 100% undergraduate admissions results for every school. Pretty worthless, IMO.

[-hermes-]

Something to help the crazies (like me) while waiting: go on twitter.com/search and type in "name of university" and then "accepted" or "rejected" and it yields all tweet results about being accepted/rejected by the said university. A lot of people don't know that GradCafe.com exists, so its a good way to see if other people have started to be accepted/rejected into the universities that you have applied to. This will obviously also yield results from high school applicants that have been accepted into undergrad, but still. It works! Eeeeeeeeeek.

Oh no. Couldn't resist after reading this. I just killed 30 minutes reading tweets. I need a life, lol.

[sansao]

Oh no. Couldn't resist after reading this. I just killed 30 minutes reading tweets. I need a life, lol.

Ok, I'm not that obsessed. i'll check the results survey and my email fairly frequently, but I'm not going to let it eat every waking second, Just most of them, haha.