Feeling super-needy...

[Jbarks]

Deebee-- I'm not sure your field, but NYU is a great program; I did my MA there. Plus, the funding package is pretty stellar, even though you do have to survive in NY. I would say Congrats!

[Stately Plump]

a lot of this right now. started off with an acceptance building me up, followed by five very unexpected rejections, now thinking of maybe just sticking to business management consulting.

I wish I got into NYU...

[deebee]

thanks Jbarks (it's American Modernism, which seems like a pretty passé focus). and i'm sorry Stately Plump - i realize i'm being awful.

Edited February 21, 2012 by deebee

[Stately Plump]

and i'm sorry Stately Plump - i realize i'm being awful.

It's okay. I can totally relate; I've had thoughts, even though I have been accepted to one program and wait-listed at another, of switching to sociology (the other half of a double-major), because perhaps I would have a better shot of getting in.

Totally, totally, absurd. I don't even like sociological research.

Maybe we'll be classmates at Harvard (along with Trip).

[deebee]

i'm just waiting for a voicemail of a brahmin accent laughing.

[HaruNoKaze]

Are we that bad? This seems like a legitimate condition to me. What's the alternative? Sitting around, sending resumes to jobs we know we don't want?

What's the most pathetic thing anyone has done so far?

skipped out on my own birthday... told everyone i didn't want to do anything. grilled ribs, gave a bone to my dog,

i forgot about my own birthday cake. i ended up eating little debbie swiss rolls and oatmeal creme pies.

i didn't even drink... that's pathetic...

[spasticlitotes]

skipped out on my own birthday... told everyone i didn't want to do anything. grilled ribs, gave a bone to my dog,

i forgot about my own birthday cake. i ended up eating little debbie swiss rolls and oatmeal creme pies.

i didn't even drink... that's pathetic...

It's not pathetic. I've been avoiding people like the plague for the last six to eight months. I get it. This is me, holding your hand and handing you a bottle of wine and a cupcake, simultaneously. (Yes, I have three arm-pendages. Did that help me get into more programs? Hell no.)

i would gladly trade you NYU for UCLA, but at the same time, my girlfriend has been giving me hourly reminders of how ridiculous i'm being.

I'll give you my soul for NYU. And maybe some of my students' souls (although they're not worth much ). I'll also throw in a pony, a barbie dream house, a bakers' dozen of chocolate chip cookies (each equivalent to my weight in cookie dough and chocolate chips [and given how much I've been eating, that's a LOT][yes, I know a LOT is something you park your car in, bite me]), a Carolina blue bicycle, and my entire life's salary. Trade?

[Jbarks]

It's not pathetic. I've been avoiding people like the plague for the last six to eight months.

Same here. I go to work; I go home. Sometimes I'll go to a movie or the the theatre. Some days are better than others, but, on the bad days, I even try to avoid my roommates, which is difficult when you have two and live in a confined space. When I don't get accepted anywhere, i can't imagine how I'm going to be-- either maniacal or comatose.