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Few feelings are quite as odd as elation at a personal accomplishment of which you cannot feel proud. Grad cafe clued me in that Middle Tennessee State has posted descisions on their website, so of course I rush to check -- and, of course, I completely forget my password.
AFter searching through my gmail for several moments, I decide that drastic measures are necessary. I left the kids alone at the store and rushed off to Donkey coffee shop. Fortunately for my sanity, I had my passwords saved on Lappy. I logged onto the MTSU site and discovered my acceptance into their Ph.D. program!
The news made me happier than I would have suspected. Of course, granted, I WANTED to get accepted, and it's the goal of my last four years to finally make it into a ph.d. program. Nonetheless, the school was my backup school, an option only b/c I was rejected from the others -- and, as far as backup schools go, it seems like a pretty lousy school. They wanted no writing sample, for crying out loud! You teach two classes a semester! They have no on-line info about job placement statistics! The entire school strikes me as an user and abuser of cheap graduate labor (their MAs are entirely unfunded). I only applied because they had a number of people interested in popular genres. I discovered them from looking up the tables of contents of various sf/fantasy publications. Very few of their professors have any book-length publications.
But I'm happy anyway. Part of me is seriously considering refusing the offer. . .it's evil, isn't it, to accept their offer yet still apply to programs next year, hoping a "prettier girl" comes along? But then again, I just don't know how I could intentionally delay my dreams yet again. It's quite a pickle, I tell you.
Makes things no easier that I"m getting laid off at the end of this month, and the chance for a regular salary AND health insurance is looking mighty good. Plus, I'm not getting younger. So. . . I don't know.
At any rate, I haven't heard OFFICIALLY from the school. No word on funding (although I assume they fund all their Phds). I'll hold off on all descisions until I have more information to work with.
AFter searching through my gmail for several moments, I decide that drastic measures are necessary. I left the kids alone at the store and rushed off to Donkey coffee shop. Fortunately for my sanity, I had my passwords saved on Lappy. I logged onto the MTSU site and discovered my acceptance into their Ph.D. program!
The news made me happier than I would have suspected. Of course, granted, I WANTED to get accepted, and it's the goal of my last four years to finally make it into a ph.d. program. Nonetheless, the school was my backup school, an option only b/c I was rejected from the others -- and, as far as backup schools go, it seems like a pretty lousy school. They wanted no writing sample, for crying out loud! You teach two classes a semester! They have no on-line info about job placement statistics! The entire school strikes me as an user and abuser of cheap graduate labor (their MAs are entirely unfunded). I only applied because they had a number of people interested in popular genres. I discovered them from looking up the tables of contents of various sf/fantasy publications. Very few of their professors have any book-length publications.
But I'm happy anyway. Part of me is seriously considering refusing the offer. . .it's evil, isn't it, to accept their offer yet still apply to programs next year, hoping a "prettier girl" comes along? But then again, I just don't know how I could intentionally delay my dreams yet again. It's quite a pickle, I tell you.
Makes things no easier that I"m getting laid off at the end of this month, and the chance for a regular salary AND health insurance is looking mighty good. Plus, I'm not getting younger. So. . . I don't know.
At any rate, I haven't heard OFFICIALLY from the school. No word on funding (although I assume they fund all their Phds). I'll hold off on all descisions until I have more information to work with.