THE PLACE OF LOLLING

[1Q84]

February is starting to feel like

 

[Hannalore]

While the Results Page is Down: 

 

[1Q84]

Naturally wake up at 6am. Might as well get up to check if results came out:

 

 

Nothing. Back to bed:

 

 

Try to fall back asleep again but can't now because of results-related anxiety:

 

[fancypants09]

Naturally wake up at 6am. Might as well get up to check if results came out:

 

 

Nothing. Back to bed:

 

 

Try to fall back asleep again but can't now because of results-related anxiety:

 

 

Korean GIFs! Love it! 

[kurayamino]

When you realize it's a long holiday weekend and that you won't be hearing from schools until Tuesday at the earliest.

 

[Dr. Old Bill]

^Love the Clue .gif!

 

 

Me, in the cold, waiting on decisions while a snowstorm is bearing down:

 

[kurayamino]

When two of your three top choice programs notify on the same day you begin to feel a lot like this paper roll:

 

[Dr. Old Bill]

How I feel about my ultimate resolution to be pursuing an M.A. at UMD this fall...

 

Edited February 20, 2015 by Wyatt's Torch

[1Q84]

Ah, for those of us sitting on the reject pile today:

 

[pannpann]

I had a dream I got into UPenn. Then, I woke up.

 

[1Q84]

[kurayamino]

This has likely been posted before, but it's still amusing:

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/what-grad-school-is-really-like#.dlyOZrj6X

[Dr. Old Bill]

 

Did you ever know that you're my hero?

[1Q84]

Did you ever know that you're my hero?

 

No, but feel free to tell me again

[onlycoffeeiscertain]

Getting my Purdue acceptance:


Wondering where my final few decisions are:


Getting an email from POI at Purdue, in which my WS is praised for the brilliance it is:


My response when asked if I would go through the application/waiting process again:


(I would apologize for the RPDR-ness of this, but in terms of gifs, it's really all I got.  ) 

[kurayamino]

Thinking about saying yes to a school on the other side of the country has got me feeling two kinds of ways.

 

I'm both

 

 

and

 

 

And thus Kryten from Red Dwarf trying to understand ambivalence:

 

The fact that there is not a gif of Kryten's ambivalence is highly upsetting. The internet has let me down today.

[silenus_thescribe]

Seeing rejections up on the board like this one from UConn:

 

"While your application presented many strong points, others were stronger."

 

[jujubea]

 

I cannot. stop. watching this. 

With tears and laughter out of fear!

[1Q84]

With tears and laughter out of fear!

 

Hopefully to alleviate some of that fear and focus solely on tears and laughter, this is basically how I think I sound when I talk to POIs:

 

[jujubea]

Hopefully to alleviate some of that fear and focus solely on tears and laughter, this is basically how I think I sound when I talk to POIs:

 

 

Ah, mannn, it makes me want to watch the whole interview! 

 

What that means?!  

...Can we move on?

[1Q84]

People are turning down schools that I'm wait listed at. Why is my phone not ringing?

 

[1Q84]

Spring Break starts for me this week! But with a 2/2 load and a thesis and two seminar papers due rather soon, I'm thinking my break will probably play out like this:

 

[greenmt]

People are turning down schools that I'm wait listed at. Why is my phone not ringing?

 

 

Pas de upvotes, mais magnifique.

[A blighted one]

On 2/11/2015 at 10:53 PM, 1Q84 said:

Naturally wake up at 6am. Might as well get up to check if results came out:

 

 

Nothing. Back to bed:

 

 

Try to fall back asleep again but can't now because of results-related anxiety:

 

 

This was me two nights ago

Edited January 26, 2016 by A blighted one

[knp]

I posted this in the whine wait already, but I love it so much I will post it twice