It's pretty commonly known in the graduate school "angst universe" that March 15 is a drop-dead date for schools with strict (not rolling) applications deadlines sending out results for Fall admission. Ergo, the closer you get to the Ides of March, the more likely it is that you are on a wait list, or have been rejected ( Read more... )

Things are getting that "far-out, way-too-real" feeling.

I am excited, yes. Sure. Absolutely. It is going to be an exciting change for me- a bright new chapter, blah, blah, blah. But as one student said to me during me visit, "grad school brings up all your shit."

Yup, it does.

I have this fear, probably irrational, that when I leave home, bad things ( Read more... )

I was comparing the process of waiting on decisions for graduate school like being a contestant on The Bachelor; waiting for the damn rose. And you don't know if you're geeked over the guy holding the rose, or just conditioned to want to be picked ( Read more... )

Dear Singdammit ( Read more... )

Acceptance #1: University of Hometown. Master's program. Funding decisions to follow ( Read more... )