ballerina18 Posted March 26, 2014 Posted March 26, 2014 Hahaha oh well Things worse than getting rejected : Working as a customer service rep. ......for the REST OF YOUR LIFE! lol
Tin Sn Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Getting rejected not only by the top choice but also by your bottom choice program at the same time. Yuckkkkk I got it. In fact, i was sad for two weeks and I wonder whether the schools that did not send me any letter will also reject me.
The Wayfarer Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Things worse than getting rejected : Working as a customer service rep. This is SO true. I currently work at a bookstore and that's pushing it in the customer service department for me...
Nautiloid Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 This is SO true. I currently work at a bookstore and that's pushing it in the customer service department for me... Maybe that's why the GRE has those infuriating customer service optimization problems in the maths section. It's like saying, "Hey, if you fail this test just remember that there's always customer service!"
gr8pumpkin Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Well, this happened to me. I'm pretty devastated and depressed. I'm really quite shocked because I thought the interview went well overall, and they more-or-less intimated that I was overqualified for the program. I got into Safety School and will go, but it's not Top Choice. I believe in reality. Top Choice is Northeastern Establishment. Safety School is Regional Powerhouse. The ultimate goal for me is teach music theory on the tenure track. Top Choice would have made that a vastly easier proposition. It's going to be incredibly, incredibly more difficult to do that coming out of Regional Powerhouse. I doubt it can really be done, unless Regional Powerhouse itself hire me in. In the beginning, I was only going to apply to Regional Powerhouse for various reasons (my wife is a schoolteacher and she is credentialed in the same state as Regional Powerhouse--- going anywhere else would have meant having to get credentialed again or at least going through a lot of hassle to get the credentials recognized). But I got talked into going for Top Choice by a mentor who said he'd write the strongest letter possible. But, it obviously wasn't enough. And now, instead of just going to Regional Powerhouse as I planned in the first place full of enthusiasm, I instead feel like a Top Choice cast-off. It has completely robbed me of any enthusiasm I have for where I'm actually going to be going. I feel that the rejection has branded me with the imprimatur of inferiority. I'm not good enough for the big leagues, for the Northeastern Establishment, which is very real. This would be starting my second doctorate. My first doctorate didn't amount to a hill of beans. There are no jobs in the field of my first doctorate. I'm obviously not the shiny new penny blank slate that Northeastern Establishment wants, and I can't do anything to change that. I feel absolutely helpless and like a complete and utter failure. I'm going to limp into my new mediocre regional school and languish in obscurity. I know, people will say, but, look, you got in somewhere! Lots of people don't get in anywhere! Okay, true. I got into Mediocre Regional Powerhouse. It's not Top Choice. In some ways I wish I didn't get in anywhere, because I could give it another shot next year. Instead, I am under (a goodly amount of self-imposed) family pressure to go through with Mediocre Okay Regional Powerhouse because I got a fellowship and it would mean income for my family, which we need. If I had completely struck out, I would not be on the hook to go through with anything and I could try again next year with a clear conscience. So to answer the original question, what's worse than rejection from Top Choice? Well, there's always death and taxes, I suppose, but little else.
kittythrones Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 Aww, I am so sorry gr8pumpkin. I am going to go with the old-age advice. Do not put down anything that makes you seem over-qualified for any position that you want to apply to . You should still be excited though! Show Northeastern what a great student they missed out on! Well, this happened to me. I'm pretty devastated and depressed. I'm really quite shocked because I thought the interview went well overall, and they more-or-less intimated that I was overqualified for the program. I got into Safety School and will go, but it's not Top Choice. I believe in reality. Top Choice is Northeastern Establishment. Safety School is Regional Powerhouse. The ultimate goal for me is teach music theory on the tenure track. Top Choice would have made that a vastly easier proposition. It's going to be incredibly, incredibly more difficult to do that coming out of Regional Powerhouse. I doubt it can really be done, unless Regional Powerhouse itself hire me in. In the beginning, I was only going to apply to Regional Powerhouse for various reasons (my wife is a schoolteacher and she is credentialed in the same state as Regional Powerhouse--- going anywhere else would have meant having to get credentialed again or at least going through a lot of hassle to get the credentials recognized). But I got talked into going for Top Choice by a mentor who said he'd write the strongest letter possible. But, it obviously wasn't enough. And now, instead of just going to Regional Powerhouse as I planned in the first place full of enthusiasm, I instead feel like a Top Choice cast-off. It has completely robbed me of any enthusiasm I have for where I'm actually going to be going. I feel that the rejection has branded me with the imprimatur of inferiority. I'm not good enough for the big leagues, for the Northeastern Establishment, which is very real. This would be starting my second doctorate. My first doctorate didn't amount to a hill of beans. There are no jobs in the field of my first doctorate. I'm obviously not the shiny new penny blank slate that Northeastern Establishment wants, and I can't do anything to change that. I feel absolutely helpless and like a complete and utter failure. I'm going to limp into my new mediocre regional school and languish in obscurity. I know, people will say, but, look, you got in somewhere! Lots of people don't get in anywhere! Okay, true. I got into Mediocre Regional Powerhouse. It's not Top Choice. In some ways I wish I didn't get in anywhere, because I could give it another shot next year. Instead, I am under (a goodly amount of self-imposed) family pressure to go through with Mediocre Okay Regional Powerhouse because I got a fellowship and it would mean income for my family, which we need. If I had completely struck out, I would not be on the hook to go through with anything and I could try again next year with a clear conscience. So to answer the original question, what's worse than rejection from Top Choice? Well, there's always death and taxes, I suppose, but little else.
PsycD Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 Having the guy you're dating take you out to a restaurant where his "friend" is working, finding out the "friend" who is waiting on you is your date's ex-girlfriend, who he confesses to still being in love with......on your birthday. aphdapplicant and DeafAudi 2
kittythrones Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) O - O Uh PsycD, I think you should like stop picking mates and let your friends do it... either that or run from Modor as fast as you can and don't look back. Also, please tell us what state you are from. We will be sure to avoid it like the plague. Things worse than getting rejected : Laying on top of a guy after you two have just done it and he says and I quote, "You are alright in bed". I am so sorry that I'm not a whore like the girls you've dated and I haven't slept with 50+ men and women in the span of 2 years, you sociopath. Edited March 30, 2014 by kittythrones
aphdapplicant Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 1) a hair in your food 2) phone, wallet, wedding ring, other important personal possession falling in a public restroom toilet
Guest ||| Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 buying a bag of m&ms expecting chocolate but accidently getting the peanut variety
kimmibeans Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 Getting dumped 2 days before your birthday.That happened to me a few years ago and it was not cool!
PsycD Posted March 30, 2014 Posted March 30, 2014 O - O Uh PsycD, I think you should like stop picking mates and let your friends do it... either that or run from Modor as fast as you can and don't look back. Also, please tell us what state you are from. We will be sure to avoid it like the plague. Oh Kitty...I've tried letting other people choose for me. Hmmm let's see... There was the conservative Christian with the porn and gambling addiction, the military officer sex-addict who, while on a road trip to New York decided it was a good time to tell me he was still married, and the guy who fell in love with a cheerleader...a male cheerleader.
Guest Gnome Chomsky Posted March 31, 2014 Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) Going on a date with PsycD. Ugh. All she did was talk about her exes. Edited March 31, 2014 by Gnome Chomsky roguesenna 1
Nautiloid Posted March 31, 2014 Author Posted March 31, 2014 Going on a date with Gnome Chomsky. He's a very progressive thinker and made great conversation, but I found his shrill gnome-voice to be incredibly obnoxious. He also slurped the soup. 2 stars, would not date again. PsycD, roguesenna, sqxz and 2 others 5
psychgal3 Posted March 31, 2014 Posted March 31, 2014 Having your boyfriend's mom tell you that you'd better hurry up and have children because "THE CLOCK'S TICKING!!!" MY mom does this to me all the time. I'm not even engaged yet.
simplelife Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Not getting accepted anywhere. That would be scary!
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