Hopephily Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 What is the first thing you will do if you get in? Or if you strike out?
Edit_Undo Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 What is the first thing you will do if you get in? Or if you strike out? If I get shut out, I will mourn by drinking. If I get an acceptance, I will celebrate by drinking. TheVineyard, gughok, Happydays2 and 4 others 7
frege-bombs Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 The answer to both questions: drink heavily. humean_skeptic and wildc4t 1 1
Hopephily Posted January 28, 2014 Author Posted January 28, 2014 If I get shut out, I will mourn by drinking. If I get an acceptance, I will celebrate by drinking. I figured someone would say this. Will it be the same drink(s)?
Hopephily Posted January 28, 2014 Author Posted January 28, 2014 And for good measure, what I'll do if I get shut out.
greencoloredpencil Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 If I get in: be excited If I don't get in: be disappointed (In case you're wondering I cannot consume alcohol.)
Edit_Undo Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I figured someone would say this. Will it be the same drink(s)? Yea, most likely. Several shots of Jäger, fireball, and lots of beer! ERR_Alpha and wildc4t 1 1
MattDest Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Acceptance: the Carlton dance, followed by heavy drinking. Shut-out: the Darth Vader 'Nooooo', followed by heavy drinking. wildc4t and philstudent1991 1 1
wandajune Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 I will probably celebrate by going out for a nice dinner and a few drinks with friends. (Maybe more than a few, who knows.) If I get shut out, I'm sure it will feel horribly disappointing. However, I hope I'll try moving on as quickly as I can and start working out my alternative plans.
philstudent1991 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 If I get in, I will probably cry. This is years worth of work and dreams coming to fruition. Or, of course....not tpop and wildc4t 1 1
ERR_Alpha Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Yea, most likely. Several shots of Jäger, fireball, and lots of beer! Fireball solves all emotional problems. Fact.
philosophe Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Post on gradcafe... And post on gradcafe greencoloredpencil, philosophe and wildc4t 2 1
Cottagecheeseman Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 I'm going to just say that I'm going to drink heavily either way. A sing a drunken tune of giddyness or sadness depending on the circumstances.
wildc4t Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Win or lose, we booze. wildc4t and bar_scene_gambler 2
bar_scene_gambler Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) Jesus Christ we're a bunch of alcoholics. In all honesty though, if I get in somewhere, I'll drink myself into a happy stupor. If I'm shut out, I'll drink myself into a deep coma, one deep enough to propel me into a time where I have a better chance of getting in. It'll be like deep-space hibernation, except with alcohol. Edited January 29, 2014 by bar_scene_gambler
Cottagecheeseman Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Jesus Christ we're a bunch of alcoholics. In all honesty though, if I get in somewhere, I'll drink myself into a happy stupor. If I'm shut out, I'll drink myself into a deep coma, one deep enough to propel me into a time where I have a better chance of getting in. It'll be like deep-space hibernation, except with alcohol. I know a few people already in grad programs, and they admit that most of their fellow students and them are high-functioning alcoholics.
objectivityofcontradiction Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Inform my letter-writers and some friends from my MA program.
idol.chatter Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Inform my letter-writers and some friends from my MA program. I really dig your practical response. And, I must say, drinking actually was not the first thing that came to mind. The answers were much simpler: shout with joy, and weep bitterly, respectively. After reading this thread, though, drinking has become solidified in mind as the obvious, and surely most effective, response.
PhD applicant Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 Celebrate: hug all my teachers and take everyone out to dinner that did anything that made my application look good Mourn(ish): go to Vegas and try to make something to pay off my student loans OR become a homeless gypsy (maybe)
dgswaim Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Admitted... shut out... Either way a bottle of Booker's is going to die. tpop 1
MongooseMayhem Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) If I get in: be excited If I don't get in: be disappointed (In case you're wondering I cannot consume alcohol.) Sober hopefully-soon-to-be grad students, unite! Edited February 6, 2014 by Dylanhelloglue greencoloredpencil 1
dgswaim Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 I believe it was one Peter Griffin who said, "It is the right of men to drink not because we want to, but because we need to!" Certainly this seems to hold true anecdotally.
Cottagecheeseman Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Sober hopefully-soon-to-be grad students, unite! WHATS UP NERD!!!! Silly_Socrates, greencoloredpencil and philosophe 3
bar_scene_gambler Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Woah. I could have sworn I was on thegradcafe, but it seems I've somehow found my way to /r/badphilosophy. Cottagecheeseman 1
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