hippyscientist Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 (edited) 4 minutes ago, G said: It's so good to see such an amazing community. So, my story is that I was basically diagnoses with borderline sever depression (on D Burns' scale) a week after I had submitted my application. Let's just say that obsessively checking my e mail and the results survey isn't helping. I'm sorry that grad school application season is the time you get diagnosed. Ar least you have adorable puppies?! This doodle dump is seriously making me feel better - I can't just pick one to share with you all so I'm sharing the album http://imgur.com/gallery/cTwOP (I should warn there's a slight NSFW watermelon one) Edited January 31, 2016 by piglet33 Justwaitingforneuro 1
G Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 4 minutes ago, piglet33 said: I'm sorry that grad school application season is the time you get diagnosed. Ar least you have adorable puppies?! This doodle dump is seriously making me feel better - I can't just pick one to share with you all so I'm sharing the album http://imgur.com/gallery/cTwOP (I should warn there's a slight NSFW watermelon one) *cringe* Saw that one. But thank you. It does help.
Justwaitingforneuro Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 1 minute ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: Dude, grandmas are the best. And always right, too. Yeah both grandmas believe in me. The other one invited me recently because she was scared of not seeing me for a year (I then explained that programs generally start in fall... and that I have not even heard back yet and Christmas break; while eating delicious stuff. Grandmas are the best) Hope they are right.
Justwaitingforneuro Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 12 minutes ago, piglet33 said: I'm sorry that grad school application season is the time you get diagnosed. Ar least you have adorable puppies?! This doodle dump is seriously making me feel better - I can't just pick one to share with you all so I'm sharing the album http://imgur.com/gallery/cTwOP (I should warn there's a slight NSFW watermelon one) Thanks for making me laugh!
blueoctavo Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 30 minutes ago, haltheincandescent said: We are pretty close in general, and have als been basically going through the whole process quite closely (meeting with the same advisors, etc.) and he's, at least outwardly, very zen about the whole thing so far, mentioning that he didn't even see the interview we both had as any sort of competition between us, and, on my side, I know that I legitimately wouldn't have cared if he got in and I didn't--though of course I can afford to, since I'd been accepted other places already. I don't know. We both work in the same building, so I'll see him on Tuesday. Definitely hoping that he, like me, is just not announcing his acceptance because I have (at least to his knowledge) not heard back yet. Either that or that they're just calling people over a couple days, instead of all at once--yesterday morning, when I saw acceptances posted, then four hours passed, I was sure I wasn't going to get anything....but then, around the five hour mark, there it was. I'm in the same position. My good friend and I applied to one of the same programs, however for some very good reasons, that was the only application she submitted. I've already been accepted to that program, as well as another one, and would feel absolutely horrible if she didn't get in at all! So like you, I'm hoping she has just not announced her acceptance yet.. I just need to build up the courage and ask
Pink Fuzzy Bunny Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 Well, guys... tomorrow begins the month of February. Just think, for most of us, it will all be decided in a month. Just that thought alone makes me want to vomit. lousyconnection, med latte, genderboi and 2 others 5
FoxAndChicken Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 1 minute ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: Well, guys... tomorrow begins the month of February. Just think, for most of us, it will all be decided in a month. Just that thought alone makes me want to vomit. It's terrifying! Though if any of y'all come visit Ann Arbor, Michigan, I give great tours. I very much love my school.
rosali Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 2 minutes ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: Well, guys... tomorrow begins the month of February. Just think, for most of us, it will all be decided in a month. Just that thought alone makes me want to vomit. YUP AHHHHHHHH FREAKING OUT. I can't tell if I'm experiencing anxiety-induced nausea or stress hunger. And I likely will be for a month. AHHHHHH. Also, pretty sure that, if I get accepted anywhere, I can't go to any campus weekends since I'm super far away from everything, and transatlantic flights are expensive.
Pink Fuzzy Bunny Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 7 minutes ago, FoxAndChicken said: It's terrifying! Though if any of y'all come visit Ann Arbor, Michigan, I give great tours. I very much love my school. I might be stopping by during the visiting weekend in late March, if your offer for a tour is still there
gingin6789 Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 1 hour ago, rosali said: YUP AHHHHHHHH FREAKING OUT. I can't tell if I'm experiencing anxiety-induced nausea or stress hunger. And I likely will be for a month. AHHHHHH. Also, pretty sure that, if I get accepted anywhere, I can't go to any campus weekends since I'm super far away from everything, and transatlantic flights are expensive. Definitely look into whether the department will pay for or reimburse travel expenses before you decide not to go! Hopefully they'll do anything they can to get you to visit campus!
hippyscientist Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 Just to update you on my "one of those" day: my phone decided it would have a tantrum while I was cooking dinner and just froze, wouldn't turn off, wouldn't factory reset, nada. But I let it drain out and now it works again. But then things started to get better I found a game I love on my ipad (well I found that I had an ipad which I'd conveniently forgotten about), and I'm under on my food today so I get to eat sweeties! And I found some whisky!!! So now I have a hot toddy and Lord of the Rings (book version). I also have a meeting with a professor who I really respect tomorrow as I sent him an email basically freaking out about the mean boy (for lack of a better phrase) and the professor is super concerned for me. So meeting tomorrow. Steps in the right direction! Thank you all for being so awesome! Now, Fuzzy (@Pink Fuzzy Bunny), why'd you have to go mention that?!?! I have my USC interview on Tuesday, and the on campus interview was on Friday and I'm the last person they're talking to before they go into the ad-coms room and decide who to accept/reject. No pressure My status for Florida has changed to "the admissions process is decentralized to have more faculty involvement. Contact your department for information" which is entirely unhelpful. My delaware application is unchanged and I'm fully expecting a rejection from them and PENN STATE I haven't heard anything from so JUST LET ME KNOW ALREADY....(nope not frustrated, not at all). The boy moved back to California yesterday and keeps sending me photos of him with burritos and tacos and surf and beaches and all my favourite places and it's not fair i want to be there rather than getting drowned in the rain! knp and G 2
rosali Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 @gingin6789 Good idea! It didn't even occur to me that they might pay for me to come. Hopefully I'll be able to get the time off work if it comes to that (which I hope it does!). gingin6789 1
haltheincandescent Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 (edited) I ended up asking the friend (too worried that our advisor, who I ran into, and who asked me about it, would mention it without realizing he hadn't heard yet, too)--nothing on his side Celebratory wine getting sadder. They are notifying slowly, so I'm remaining convinced that the call is still to come--I'm just more annoyed at this point, at the program, because he's at least as good an applicant and fit as me, and in many ways better. Back to hating this process for being so random and agonizing--I'm just as anxious for him to hear at this point as I was before my first acceptance! Blah. In the meantime, he's a hero as far as patience and support goes--congratulations and a brushing aside of my vicarious-anxiety. Edited January 31, 2016 by haltheincandescent
Pink Fuzzy Bunny Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 2 hours ago, piglet33 said: My status for Florida has changed to "the admissions process is decentralized to have more faculty involvement. Contact your department for information" which is entirely unhelpful. What the heck does that even mean??!
gingin6789 Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 2 hours ago, haltheincandescent said: I ended up asking the friend (too worried that our advisor, who I ran into, and who asked me about it, would mention it without realizing he hadn't heard yet, too)--nothing on his side Celebratory wine getting sadder. They are notifying slowly, so I'm remaining convinced that the call is still to come--I'm just more annoyed at this point, at the program, because he's at least as good an applicant and fit as me, and in many ways better. Back to hating this process for being so random and agonizing--I'm just as anxious for him to hear at this point as I was before my first acceptance! Blah. In the meantime, he's a hero as far as patience and support goes--congratulations and a brushing aside of my vicarious-anxiety. Oh, that friend sounds like my friend, especially in terms of "they're as good of an applicant as me, if not better!" My friend and I applied together straight from undergrad to various MA and PhD programs two years ago. She applied to a bunch; I only applied to 3. She was so calm throughout the process. She wasn't even sure if she would get in because she ended up getting waitlisted at one of the many programs she applied to. But she was very calm about it all. She ended up getting accepted off the waitlist and is very happy where she is, in a very nice PhD program! I told her I'm applying for PhD programs this year, and I told her how neurotic and anxious I am about the process, and she just chuckled and said "Oh yes, I remember how neurotic you were two years ago..." hey, we just have different ways of taking in this process. I bet your friend is gonna be just fine *shares celebratory wine with you* haltheincandescent 1
Pink Fuzzy Bunny Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Hey fellow Americans, don't forget that this Wednesday is National Carrot Cake Day. My department chair commissioned me to make a cake (I always bring cookies in) so I got the ingredients today and man is it going to be beautiful. Double-layered with a buttercream glaze between the layers, and frosted with a cream cheese - buttercream frosting, with coconut drizzled throughout (though I'm allergic to coconut, so no taste-testing). I'm pumped! hippyscientist, rosali, aksiksi and 1 other 4
hippyscientist Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 11 hours ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: What the heck does that even mean??! I have no idea! So frustrating! Also carrot cake day? mmmmmmm
G Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Should I be worried if I'm hearing a clock ticking in my head now that it's Feb? That was a joke BTW, I'm not actually going crazy... *looks both ways and jumps under the blanket*
G Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 14 hours ago, piglet33 said: Just to update you on my "one of those" day: my phone decided it would have a tantrum while I was cooking dinner and just froze, wouldn't turn off, wouldn't factory reset, nada. But I let it drain out and now it works again. But then things started to get better I found a game I love on my ipad (well I found that I had an ipad which I'd conveniently forgotten about), and I'm under on my food today so I get to eat sweeties! And I found some whisky!!! So now I have a hot toddy and Lord of the Rings (book version). I also have a meeting with a professor who I really respect tomorrow as I sent him an email basically freaking out about the mean boy (for lack of a better phrase) and the professor is super concerned for me. So meeting tomorrow. Steps in the right direction! Thank you all for being so awesome! Glad to hear that things are finally looking good for you!
aksiksi Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 6 hours ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: Hey fellow Americans, don't forget that this Wednesday is National Carrot Cake Day. My department chair commissioned me to make a cake (I always bring cookies in) so I got the ingredients today and man is it going to be beautiful. Double-layered with a buttercream glaze between the layers, and frosted with a cream cheese - buttercream frosting, with coconut drizzled throughout (though I'm allergic to coconut, so no taste-testing). I'm pumped! Why did you have to describe it :'(
Justwaitingforneuro Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 6 hours ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said: Hey fellow Americans, don't forget that this Wednesday is National Carrot Cake Day. My department chair commissioned me to make a cake (I always bring cookies in) so I got the ingredients today and man is it going to be beautiful. Double-layered with a buttercream glaze between the layers, and frosted with a cream cheese - buttercream frosting, with coconut drizzled throughout (though I'm allergic to coconut, so no taste-testing). I'm pumped! Oh, I had no idea, can not-Americans participate too? Isn't it kinda cruel to bake a cake you can't eat? I think I'll bake a cake this week, chocolate-cherry, I mean, better than pressing F5 all the time right?
G Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 33 minutes ago, Justwaitingforneuro said: Oh, I had no idea, can not-Americans participate too? Isn't it kinda cruel to bake a cake you can't eat? I think I'll bake a cake this week, chocolate-cherry, I mean, better than pressing F5 all the time right? Make sure it's dark chocolate. You'll get a better kick
Justwaitingforneuro Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 1 minute ago, G said: Make sure it's dark chocolate. You'll get a better kick Always dark chocolate. I don't like any other
G Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Just now, Justwaitingforneuro said: Always dark chocolate. I don't like any other Maybe I should eat chocolate... On a scale of 1-10, bow much would that help?
Justwaitingforneuro Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) 14 minutes ago, G said: Maybe I should eat chocolate... On a scale of 1-10, bow much would that help? Hmm... as a future doctor I can say it should rise your happiness level by 23% for each 10grams. (You should really not trust me with medical decisions yet...) Edited February 1, 2016 by Justwaitingforneuro spelling G 1
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