fiveby5 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I work at a desk. My email and gradcafe are constantly open. I check the email tab maybe once every three minutes. I also have a Page Monitor plug-in for Chrome, which scans the results search for my still-pending application keywords about once every ten minutes. I also usually check my remaining application portals once a day, on the off chance a decision has been posted without my having been alerted. In the evenings, though, I've taken to cooking to distract myself. Tonight I'm going to try to make a pork belly quesadilla. Ditto to the cooking thing! Hard to check your email when your hands are covered in food It's a great distraction. I work at a desk as well, and it's pure torture----- email and gradcafe are always up. Why do we do this to ourselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleZephyr Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I'm 6 hours ahead of east coast time (in central africa) and I've been checking my email since I woke up. Of course, I have to wait 6 and 9 hours (west coast) for people on ad coms to wake up. Repeatedly checking is giving me and my phone the blues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W.Churchill Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The built in email app on my phone stopped working......now obviously this is not terrible, like I just open chrome and get to my email manually, but my phone will no longer send me instant push notifications when I get new mail. Normally I would not freak out about this--it has happened before, it will fix itself in a few days. It is a minor, minor inconvenience at most. But right now, while I am waiting to hear from schools? It feels like someone killed my puppy. In front of me. With a wood-chipper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarvesandcardigans Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 As of 1:00 pm, five times, I think. Probably higher because I check my e-mail at least three times every hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulpesZerda Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I'm an email junkie because I have push notifications on my phone! So I don't "check" per say, but every time I see the little email icon, I get all excited. For no reason. Just to follow up what I said last night... lol, ironically today in class I got a push email for an interview on my phone! (during an assignment where my professor asked us to use phones/tablets to look something up) I was very pleased and then pretty distracted in class! c m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Impatiently Waiting Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Just to follow up what I said last night... lol, ironically today in class I got a push email for an interview on my phone! (during an assignment where my professor asked us to use phones/tablets to look something up) I was very pleased and then pretty distracted in class! Nice! That is a wonderful distraction to have! Today I checked my email and I had one email titled "Admissions" I was so excited that I nearly threw my phone across the room... only to find out that it was from a local community college informing me that they are currently enrolling for spring semester. Thankfully they send a follow up email 4 hours later with the same title. Needless to say, the experience was soul crushing. Still waiting to get a real admissions email from one of my three prospective schools VulpesZerda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulpesZerda Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Nice! That is a wonderful distraction to have! Today I checked my email and I had one email titled "Admissions" I was so excited that I nearly threw my phone across the room... only to find out that it was from a local community college informing me that they are currently enrolling for spring semester. Thankfully they send a follow up email 4 hours later with the same title. Needless to say, the experience was soul crushing. Still waiting to get a real admissions email from one of my three prospective schools It'll come when you least expect it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvfm Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I've lost the track of how many times I checked my email today... Maybe 20? 50?? Even though I know that a decison probably won't come before March, I can't help checking my email and the application page every minute. pvfm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoethor2 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I know with near certainty that I won't hear anything until March 1st at the absolute earliest, so I've managed to check the application portal only once or twice a day. Once March 1 rolls around, I'm sure I'll be in there hourly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMGagne Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 At least 15 from my phone, plus the constant refreshing on my iPad when I'm in class or working. I've managed to only check results pages once a day, sometimes less (cut it down from never closing the browser window). It's unhealthy - I can't wait for the end of March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmityDuPeuple Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I have reached an all new level of email obsession I did not think was possible. I think they are trying to break us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russophile Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I checked my email a lot before the waiting game began, but now it has become an obsession. Even knowing that I am unlikely to word until the beginning of March, I have probably checked my email 200 times a day since the beginning of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future.grad.student Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 A lot..but not as much as usual. Only because I'm flying and I have to turn my phone on airplane mode..lol it was the first thins I did when I landed though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambi_86 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Oh you know, the standard 15-20 times per day. That is, aside from checking my phone incessantly for missed calls from a department and for new emails. Let's not forget the application portals that I know that virtually none of the schools I've applied to will even use for notifying applicants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grad_wannabe Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) Let's not forget the application portals that I know that virtually none of the schools I've applied to will even use for notifying applicants. Edited February 19, 2015 by grad_wannabe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambi_86 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Right. Virtually every time I log in, it takes me a couple of seconds to confirm that nothing has changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Impatiently Waiting Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't know why I keep checking the portals. just to check something, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloppo Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 It gets even painful when you are in an entirely different continent and time zone. Usually, I have to wake up in the middle of the night to refresh my mail and check my application page on the school website hoping a decision has being made. ilnomedellarosa and Mr. Impatiently Waiting 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bambi_86 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Wooow...that's rough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syllacrostics Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Far too often. And it's past office hours now so I need to step away from the computer... *backing away slowly* This weekend will be fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashiepoo72 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 So much I should be deemed insane (if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results). In the last hour I was at work, I told myself I wouldn't check my email til I got off. All I can say is, epic fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticktock Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I'm on my work laptop pretty much every hour that I'm not asleep. So I have my Gmail open as a tab constantly. Even though I know it will dynamically refresh and show a (1), I still pop over to that tab and refresh it just in case an email comes through that exact second. I can't wait until April 15th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly44 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I swear every single time I check my gmail I'm convinced it will be the day I hear back. I have heard nothing and I'm slowly dying on the inside. This waiting game is brutal. Mr. Impatiently Waiting, W.Churchill and Amayan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradapplicant15 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I eat, sleep, breathe it Mr. Impatiently Waiting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handiya Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Swear....each hour as a rule and by watch I refresh my email accounts...getting goosebumps 24*7.....no decision still from any of the applied schools so more anxious when I read about acceptances from various schools already....Really happy for all those who have been accepted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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