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Let me start this by saying I KNOW HOW TO USE THE INTERNET, I know how to use websites, but the UF website is neither intuitive nor does it want to give up information because, despite the fact that I have been researching stuff for months, I literally found out yesterday that, instead of having rolling admission for fall admission like everything else, the program I want not only starts in the summer, the due date is February 11th. Like, I don't even know how it is possible that I missed this, but there you have it.
THE GOOD:
- I took my GRE yesterday and I did relatively well!
- 2/3 teachers *should* have my letters of rec done
- Personal statement is ready to go
THE BAD:
- Because it took me until fucking last week to pin down a third person to write me a letter of recommendation, and literally until YESTERDAY to get a reply from them, IDK what the fuck to do
- Not the mention the fact that I'm communicating with them through facebook because they no longer work at UF so IDK what email address to put in for the 'send them a letter of rec form please, UF!'
- and to contact them through facebook I had to
1) send them a private message
2) Wait forever while I know that it was seen the day after I sent it
3) Panic more
4) Finally write on their wall 'hi did you get my message if you can't do it DON'T WORRY' [subtext: JUST TELL ME FOR FUCK'S SAKE]
5) Finally got a reply yesterday that they would do it, they just wanted me to send them things
6) Sent another private message with details/my resume attached, asking for their email
7) Hoped I wasn't irritating them, didn't want to pester them for an email, so I google searched their name and found their new position at another university, I'm a creeper.
I AM DYING. I know I have done this to myself (HOW DID I NEVER SEE THIS DATE?! How did I never see it was for summer admission? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE VAST MISUNDERSTANDING THAT OCCURRED) but now it is crunch time and I want to throw up
On the other hand, for the application to FSU, I only need two letters of recommendation and that's all fine and good, and my personal statement needs to be half the length of what I sent UF, but they want a sample of my writing. Which would be fine, except for literally every paper that I manage to still have a copy of is in French. So I called FSU and I found out that I have to write a five paragraph essay on like, an opinion. WHAT DO I WRITE ABOUT, HOLY HELL.
I have to believe that everything is going to shake out as it should. My UF application is at least submitted, which is awesome, and hopefully everyone will submit their letters of rec and I won't know any more about it until April.