Sparky Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 The object of the game is to get as drunk as possible so you don't really care once the rejection e-mails start to roll in. Take a drink every time... A science program shows up, and you remember that you are in the humanities. Someone posts an "Other" about a mass e-mail. ...two drinks if you received that e-mail as well. A school that you have applied to shows up, and even though it's not your program your heart skips a beat. A school that you have applied to shows up, and even though it's not your program you check your e-mail/voice mail on reflex. A school that you have applied to shows up, and even though it's not your program you run to your mailbox to check for snail mail. ...two drinks if it's Sunday. A program that you have applied to shows up as a rejection, you have no new e-mails, and you just get even more nervous. A program that you have applied to shows up as an acceptance, you have no new e-mails, and you want to die inside. You bookmarked the RSS feed for just the programs you applied to. You bookmarked the RSS feed for programs you wish you had applied to, so you can torture yourself if you Would Have Known earlier. Someone posts a rejection with a note expressing bitterness. ...Two drinks if it's, "Their loss." Someone posts that they received a notification a program is accepting only one applicant this year. Someone posts a result from a program without rolling admissions whose deadline has not yet passed. There is a forum post asking, "Who posted this result?" There is a results search listing that asks, "Who posted this result?" ...Two drinks if it asks for GRE and GPA. You are waitlisted at a program, and someone posts they were accepted there but are turning it down. Someone posts a result for a subject you have never heard of. Someone posts a result for a subject you are fairly sure does not actually exist. waddle, caputmundi, neuropsych76 and 22 others 24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessabee Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Game on! Although, if I followed this I would probably drink myself to death before anyone accepts me....after which of course I would probably get accepted by my top choice, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venetia Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Someone posts a result for a subject you have never heard of. Someone posts a result for a subject you are fairly sure does not actually exist. This keeps happening to me! Especially the ones that are just initials. What's that all about? Also, I'm loving the Jack Harkness quote... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arabella Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I LOVE this! You totally nailed all of my anxieties/moments of panic and desire to drink myself into a stupor in which it all doesn't matter. Although Jessebee has a point -- there are way too many times that I'd have to take a drink, that I would probably die before I got accepted at my top choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeIsGood Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Oh, awesome! This will give purpose to my obsessive results checking. Just what I needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caputmundi Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Now I will be tempted to supplement all of my rejection postings with "THEIR LOSS!!!!", just to make things interesting... Sparky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordy Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) Love it!! Adding a couple, if you don't mind ...... - Someone posts a result for the subject/field you applied to and your heart stops until you realize you didn't apply to that institution. - Someone posts a result as "Other by Other" just to say "To the poster below who heard from XYZ..." (two drinks if you were the previous poster in question) Edited January 28, 2010 by jordy Sparky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroturf Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 The object of the game is to get as drunk as possible so you don't really care once the rejection e-mails start to roll in. A science program shows up, and you remember that you are in the humanities. A school that you have applied to shows up, and even though it's not your program your heart skips a beat. Hahaha, this happens to me daily. I see some of my top schools postings results and I just freeze in panic...then realize I'm applying for English, not Aerospace Engineering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereiscarmen Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 -Someone posts one of those mass email messages like "We have received your application. It's in review now." 2 drinks for each person that posts the same thing right after for the same school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Vallier Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 -You post a rejection in the results page. Later that day you check your RSS feed and see someone else has gotten rejected from that school in your program and you feel better...until you realize it's just you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digits2006 Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 I read this and I had to check the results page. I guess I should take a drink even tho its 8 in the morning and Im abuot to go to an internship at a courthouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piccgeek Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Best. idea. ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sew8d Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 I finally got the "die inside" one today. No word = drinking tonight anyway. Oh well, just one program. But this is quite possibly the best idea ever. I think the amount of "other" posts requesting GRE info went up exponentially after this - gave them the idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 Happy Holidays to all this year's applicants! XOXO, Sparky Alyanumbers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyanumbers Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 If I didn't have finals on Wednesday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricaMarie Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Crap, I'll be drunk well before beer o'clock at this rate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 HA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechatgris Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I can only assume that most of the humanities ad comms are playing this game as well. They certainly don't seem to be in any sort of rush to process applications (although, if my current department represents the standard, we've taken to leaping wildly over the mountain of envelopes that began overflowing the inboxes in December. It's a bit like the giant Jiffy Pop in the movie Real Genius. If they don't start reading these things soon, the pile will eat the copy machine and I'll have to resort to teaching with hand-puppets instead of hand-outs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumms9980 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I love this. Well done!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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