I've made a huge mistake...

[gza]

In reading through this forum.

I used to come to TGC just to check on acceptance/rejection dates from past years so I had a better sense of when I could expect notification for the fall 2016 season. But now I've dipped into the forums and am starting to feel much more anxiety knowing that I'm not competing against abstractions but persons with fingers that can type.

[philapgirl]

ditto

[502845824]

Yeah, I learned the hard way that little ol' only-has-a-bachelor-degree-from-a-non-elite-school-with-a-lowish-GPA me is competing against people with BAs from Ivies along with MAs. That hurt.

[lisamadura]

On 2/6/2016 at 4:01 PM, oldhatnewtricks said:

Yeah, I learned the hard way that little ol' only-has-a-bachelor-degree-from-a-non-elite-school-with-a-lowish-GPA me is competing against people with BAs from Ivies along with MAs. That hurt.

For what it's worth, your GRE scores are super impressive (I took it twice and hired a tutor but mine were too pathetic to advertise here. Seriously. Abysmal.) And based on the title, your writing sample sounds badass (Pixies reference?). 

[502845824]

2 hours ago, lisamadura said:

For what it's worth, your GRE scores are super impressive (I took it twice and hired a tutor but mine were too pathetic to advertise here. Seriously. Abysmal.) And based on the title, your writing sample sounds badass (Pixies reference?). 

Ah, well thank you! I'm sure you did fine!  and yes!

 

It started out as a defense against Parfit of the (broadly) Kantian position that making sense of one's sense experience requires the self-ascription of those experiences by a subject. But that project broke down, because I couldn't find a way to respond effectively to Parfit's notion of "R-relatedness." So I attempted to combine the positions, under the timeless supposition that, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! So I came up with a sort of externalism about mind in a way that still allows for the unity of consciousness. Hence the Pixies reference. Anti-realism FTW! 

[MentalEngineer]

31 minutes ago, oldhatnewtricks said:

Ah, well thank you! I'm sure you did fine!  and yes!

 

It started out as a defense against Parfit of the (broadly) Kantian position that making sense of one's sense experience requires the self-ascription of those experiences by a subject. But that project broke down, because I couldn't find a way to respond effectively to Parfit's notion of "R-relatedness." So I attempted to combine the positions, under the timeless supposition that, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! So I came up with a sort of externalism about mind in a way that still allows for the unity of consciousness. Hence the Pixies reference. Anti-realism FTW! 

I'm not an AdComm, but I'd read the shit out of that paper.

[dgswaim]

51 minutes ago, oldhatnewtricks said:

Ah, well thank you! I'm sure you did fine!  and yes!

 

It started out as a defense against Parfit of the (broadly) Kantian position that making sense of one's sense experience requires the self-ascription of those experiences by a subject. But that project broke down, because I couldn't find a way to respond effectively to Parfit's notion of "R-relatedness." So I attempted to combine the positions, under the timeless supposition that, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! So I came up with a sort of externalism about mind in a way that still allows for the unity of consciousness. Hence the Pixies reference. Anti-realism FTW! 

I ain't gon' lie. I have no idea what mostt if this means. I know I'm *usually* against anti-realism though!

[502845824]

9 hours ago, MentalEngineer said:

I'm not an AdComm, but I'd read the shit out of that paper.

Thanks! It was actually a load of fun writing it. I know I'm supposed to be like "ugh, thesis...bullshit...adviser sucks!" but it was fun. I'm not done yet, though. I had it good enough for a writing sample, and now I'm polishing up it even more for my thesis defense in April.