nawa Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Sitting at coffeeshops trying to do homework but ending up just staring at things for a few hours then leaving. Preach
Lifesaver Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Working as much overtime as I can. Which is actually more stressful than waiting for these letters.
timbodi Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 (edited) I notice that people keep saying they check their spam folder. Do the school emails sometimes show up in Spam? I wasn't checking my spam folder until yesterday when a friend told me that he didn't see his offer of acceptance last year, which sat in his spam folder for 11 days until the school gave him a call... Edited January 22, 2014 by timbodi
roguesenna Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 working a stupid stupid job while my brain slowly atrophies and praying to god(s?) that one of my letters is a yes so I can GTFO. knowing they probably won't be a yes and trying to figure out what I can to do to make it a yes next time. faithfullywaiting 1
PsycD Posted January 22, 2014 Author Posted January 22, 2014 working a stupid stupid job while my brain slowly atrophies and praying to god(s?) that one of my letters is a yes so I can GTFO. Don't get me started... incognegra and gwualum4mpp 2
faithfullywaiting Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 working a stupid stupid job while my brain slowly atrophies and praying to god(s?) that one of my letters is a yes so I can GTFO. knowing they probably won't be a yes and trying to figure out what I can to do to make it a yes next time. Ugh this is me. I want to quit my job so bad but I'm putting it off until I get accepted somewhere :/ roguesenna 1
SocInTheCity Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 working a stupid stupid job while my brain slowly atrophies and praying to god(s?) that one of my letters is a yes so I can GTFO. knowing they probably won't be a yes and trying to figure out what I can to do to make it a yes next time. Hi, I am living your life in Chicago. I used to love my job, but now that my eye is on the prize...there is no going back. I think I've decided that no matter what, I am going to leave my position in May/June. If I don't get in, I'll spend June-October addressing any weak spots. If I do get in, it will be my last months of freedom for 5-7 years. Good luck all!
MPH(D?) Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I swing violently between "IM NOT GETTING IN ANYWHERE IM GOING TO FAIL LIFE AND DIE ALONE" to "THEY WOULD BE LUCKY TO HAVE ME." Until I receive word one way or the other, I am going to be mentally unstable and volatile. Apologies to all who have to be near me. This! I've also watched almost all of Netflix, read most of the library, taught myself how to knit, then crochet, and working to save up for the move (I hope I hope I hope I hope)
roguesenna Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I think I've decided that no matter what, I am going to leave my position in May/June. I sooooooooooooooooo wish I could. I wouldn't be able to afford to live here (NYC) if I did though. Instead I'm applying to jobs that won't make me want to melt my face off (or at least will pay me more money than this one does) and looking forward to summer because my second job is actually a lot of fun. gwualum4mpp 1
antecedent Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I feel a bit silly because I'm actually trying to GET a job right now, cause I have 7-8 months before I move if I even get in anywhere and 7-8 months with no job and no money coming in is stressful as hell. Anyone else applying to Whole Foods? No? Just me? Awesome... iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns 1
Loric Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Omg I'd kill to work at whole foods instead of my crappy job right now.
iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Wait... is this the hard part? All my letters made it. All my transcripts made it. My card didn't bounce. I feel relieved that it's not on my anymore. eafreder and faithfullywaiting 2
Bellawheeze Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I feel a bit silly because I'm actually trying to GET a job right now, cause I have 7-8 months before I move if I even get in anywhere and 7-8 months with no job and no money coming in is stressful as hell. Anyone else applying to Whole Foods? No? Just me? Awesome... I am! And local bookstores, and Trader Joe's, and anywhere that might take me, really. Also getting rejections from those, but at least there's less waiting involved?
ihatepencils Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I'm changing my previous answer to: "not" as in not coping. faithfullywaiting 1
Loric Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Wait... is this the hard part? All my letters made it. All my transcripts made it. My card didn't bounce. I feel relieved that it's not on my anymore. Give it time.. It's a slow burn. Then it becomes intolerable.
TimB Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I actually like my job; it's a good resume builder, pays well, and I do get to actually help people, but it doesn't stop me from spending way more time than I should thinking about my application. My wife and I aren't ready to move so I applied for only one program. My bad habits: Checking out every topic the forum has on acceptance into the program I applied for: if someone had a lower GPA/GRE, or less work experience than me and got in, my heart instantly soars, I am sure I'm getting in. Then I'll see someone with a better quant score, or more relevant major who got rejected and the despair hits, there is no way I'll make it. Reading my SOP over and over and thinking about how I could improve it even though it's too late. I deleted a comma from a sentence right before submitting, now I realize it reads better with the comma in it. Thank God there is no actual typos and only style things I want to change. It's funny because I applied for 4 schools last year, submitted my application to one of them late, had one LOR never turn their letter in, and didn't worry about it at all. I eventually got admitted too. It'll be very ironic if I don't this year with how much more time I've sunk into it. Luckily my state school's program's deadline in May, so I'll know if I'm in and have a chance to apply to another program.
Calorific Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Learning Python, watching movies and fretting in-between these activities by incessantly checking on the gradcafe results page. Two weeks ago, U. Florida asked me to send in my BS transcripts and they sort of hinted in the mail that that was what was delaying their decision. My gut feeling is I'll be accepted there//one of my back-up schools. My POI at UCSB has not been responding to my mails lately...life is terrible waiting for the moment folks! elanorci and omegamarkxii 2
A Finicky Bean Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 I started a second MA in the meantime. This is something I can continue with even if (I hope!!) I get accepted into a PhD progam. And I am working a lot. And I am still failing miserably at not compulsively checking the boards and my application statuses. Sigh.
haleyww Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 browsing almost every webpage (news, events, graduate students...) of the programs I applied and thinking how great it would be if I'm there next year...
MadtownJacket Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 Not sure what's worse, waiting to get an acceptance or waiting to leave my job for graduate school. roguesenna 1
j7887 Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) If only I had majored in philosophy! Maybe then I'd have some perspective on this instead of obsessing.... Edited January 25, 2014 by j7887
silver_lining Posted January 25, 2014 Posted January 25, 2014 This "coping" thing, I have never heard of it. Not in any dictionary I have at home.
knightrunner Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 I'm not coping to well. I use to believe THESE GRAD SCHOOLS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE MISSING last week. Now, I'm getting worried, and I hit burnout especially since my friends heard some news and attending interviews right now. I feel like this is a grad school conspiracy, and all I can do is wait things out. OH WHY CAN'T ONE GRAD SCHOOL GIVE ME NEWS OF AN INTERVIEW FOR I CAN MOVE FORWARD. For now I am just looking for summer internship to apply abroad and learning some computer programming tricks. I guess I'll start eating subway by myself an ponder the results Monday.
shelbyelisha Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 If only I had majored in philosophy! Maybe then I'd have some perspective on this instead of obsessing.... Representative from Philosophy, here. We've lost all perspective and are obsessing, too. colorless, pyrocide and omegamarkxii 3
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