HHEoS Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks Datatape! This is what my insides feel like right now.
bluecheese Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Congrats!!!! Awesome funding opportunity too!!!!! HHEoS and bluecheese 2
thestage Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks, sebastiansteddy! Sure. The only reason I didn't include them in the original post is because I found a Twitter account today that was @(myfullname), created in the last two weeks, that is a ridiculous Nicki Minaj shrine. I've been paranoid all day that someone is trying to mess with me because though my name rhymes with "Nicki Minaj", I've never found anyone else with my name on Google before. If any potential program is reading this: I am in no way affiliated with that page, and I'm not a Nicki Minaj fan in any way, shape, or form. Anyway, to answer your question: the program that mailed the acceptance letter is NIU. The one that nominated me for the fellowship is FSU. I like the implication that you ought to be rejected if you are a fan of nicki minaj (I don't like this implication) (no, I am not a fan of nicki minaj) (pretty bomb-ass verse in that one kanye west song though) (lol)
practical cat Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Congrats HHeoS! For what it's worth, my real twitter account @firstnamelastname is basically a several-thousand-tweet-long documentation of my deep fascination with Taylor Swift and that is so not even in the top ten reasons I believe I will be rejected across the board. kairos and wreckofthehope 2
DontHate Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 deep fascination? does taylor swift even have any depth to be fascinated by? DontHate and justkeepswimming 2
asleepawake Posted January 24, 2013 Author Posted January 24, 2013 Anyway, to answer your question: the program that mailed the acceptance letter is NIU. The one that nominated me for the fellowship is FSU. Congratulations!!! What a day!
sebastiansteddy Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Congrats HHEoS! You must feel so relieved!!
HHEoS Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks so much everyone! You guys are the best. Hoping to read good news from all of you in the future. I am pretty relieved, sebastiansteddy, but we'll see how long that lasts when February rolls around. For what it's worth, my real twitter account @firstnamelastname is basically a several-thousand-tweet-long documentation of my deep fascination with Taylor Swift and that is so not even in the top ten reasons I believe I will be rejected across the board. This made me feel a lot better, girl who wears glasses, but I do hope you aren't rejected completely. Maybe someone on some adcomm somewhere will be impressed by your passion/fascination if they happen to go acreepin' on Twitter.
sebastiansteddy Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 This made me feel a lot better, girl who wears glasses, but I do hope you aren't rejected completely. Maybe someone on some adcomm somewhere will be impressed by your passion/fascination if they happen to go acreepin' on Twitter. Do you really think they check twitter? Mine is mostly about literature (with a couple of Seinfeld quotes and some Patriots fandom) so I am not too worried, but do you really think they go beyond the application you send in?
HHEoS Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Do you really think they check twitter? Mine is mostly about literature (with a couple of Seinfeld quotes and some Patriots fandom) so I am not too worried, but do you really think they go beyond the application you send in? Probably not. I'm just a paranoid person in general. But there might be profs who Google applicants for whatever reason and might find a Twitter page if it's @(yourfullname). As someone said in another thread, though, he/she will probably be too embarrassed to bring up whatever was found privately in a committee discussion. However, I still think whatever he/she finds will help create his/her impression of what kind of person said applicant is. Edited January 24, 2013 by HHEoS
sebastiansteddy Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Guys - I just Googled my name for the first time in a while, and I found a tweet from my account that I never actually tweeted. It said something about special K, and then linked to site of erotic stories. I deleted the hacked tweet, but I hope no adcomms think I write erotica!
Troppman Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 That's ok, sebastiansteddy, the only other person in the world with my name lives on the opposite side of the globe and uploads pictures of the Klan. Get this: I learned about this individual before giving a lecture on Civil Rights. When a student didn't believe that I was previously an athlete, I google-imaged my name to prove it. BOOM, pictures of white hooded men and lynchings on the white screen in front of the whole class, with my name attached to them. I wish I was joking...
sebastiansteddy Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 That's ok, sebastiansteddy, the only other person in the world with my name lives on the opposite side of the globe and uploads pictures of the Klan. Get this: I learned about this individual before giving a lecture on Civil Rights. When a student didn't believe that I was previously an athlete, I google-imaged my name to prove it. BOOM, pictures of white hooded men and lynchings on the white screen in front of the whole class, with my name attached to them. I wish I was joking... Oh my... that is certainly worse than my story! I also share my last name with a very well-known celebrity, so after about a page of stuff on me, it's all just stuff about him. But wow.. I am sorry about that! Haha that is sooo unfortunate!
Troppman Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Yeah, it was awkward. Fortunately I had a good connection with the students and nobody thought much of it (to my knowledge). I actually hope that google stalking is part of admission decisions. A committee would be able to differentiate between me and evil-me, and in doing so they would see that I have already contributed to the discussions that I've proposed to further engage. I didn't know how to sinuously mention such 'accomplishments' in my SOP, so I just left them to the CV... sebastiansteddy 1
1Q84 Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 I love Nicki so much! Me too! Despite some pretty unfeminist lyrics, she's got some pretty awesome feminist leanings in some of her interviews. Congrats HHeoS! For what it's worth, my real twitter account @firstnamelastname is basically a several-thousand-tweet-long documentation of my deep fascination with Taylor Swift and that is so not even in the top ten reasons I believe I will be rejected across the board. Do you really think they check twitter? Mine is mostly about literature (with a couple of Seinfeld quotes and some Patriots fandom) so I am not too worried, but do you really think they go beyond the application you send in? You guys... just make your tweets protected and change your avatar to something innocuous (if it's not already). Although I would proudly show off my Seinfeld quotes...
justkeepswimming Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Checking updates on this thread as soon as I wake up has already become a daily ritual... (The second thing I do is to go to the results page)
ghijklmn Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 In case there are any other Comp Lit-ers out there, I just spoke to WashU and they're reviewing applications right now, hoping to send out notices in 2-3 weeks!
wreckofthehope Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Guys - I just Googled my name for the first time in a while, and I found a tweet from my account that I never actually tweeted. It said something about special K, and then linked to site of erotic stories. I deleted the hacked tweet, but I hope no adcomms think I write erotica! there is a popular (apparently?) author of erotica short stories who shares my real name...or, more likely, who took the same name as a nom de plume (my real name is quite unusual). I genuinely worried a lot about that when I was applying as her stories come up when you google me (or did, then...now the academic/real me has taken over the first page of google search results, yay!). Hopefully the fears were unfounded, since I did get in to places...adcomms definitely google you, though. Not all, but some; I can fairly positively identify those that googled me, because academia.edu gives you states on who got to your pages through a google search, and where they were searching from. Because I was in a different time zone it was quite easy to tell which part of the US or Canada was searching for me. Edited January 24, 2013 by wreckofthehope
DontHate Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 On 1/24/2013 at 10:57 AM, ghijklmn said: In case there are any other Comp Lit-ers out there, I just spoke to WashU and they're reviewing applications right now, hoping to send out notices in 2-3 weeks! I'm a Comp Lit-er but I didn't apply to WashU. Have you got any news from other schools about when they're gonna report?
ghijklmn Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Nope! That's it so far. Let me know if you hear anything!
sadthatthisdefinesmylife Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Congrats to everyone who's received good news! You all deserve all the best for your hard work. That's true for the people who've received not so good news too. It's just the beginning of what, I'm sure will be a roller coaster of a few weeks, I'm sure that each one of us will get the positive news that we're looking for.
Laokoon Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 I creep more than I post, but I wanted to add that I just got a decision from Ohio State (English)! No email or word on funding yet, since it rolled over in appstatus maybe 30 seconds ago. I'll be updating the results page, but this is my first notification of the season, so I'm just squeeing right now! :D :D Sursie and Datatape 2
sadthatthisdefinesmylife Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 I creep more than I post, but I wanted to add that I just got a decision from Ohio State (English)! No email or word on funding yet, since it rolled over in appstatus maybe 30 seconds ago. I'll be updating the results page, but this is my first notification of the season, so I'm just squeeing right now! :D :D Yay! Laokoon 1
bluecheese Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 I creep more than I post, but I wanted to add that I just got a decision from Ohio State (English)! No email or word on funding yet, since it rolled over in appstatus maybe 30 seconds ago. I'll be updating the results page, but this is my first notification of the season, so I'm just squeeing right now! :D :D Awesome! CONGRATS! Ohio State (Comparative Studies) was my first news also (a week or so ago). Laokoon and bluecheese 2
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