Congrats Woon and Happy and all other acceptances/waitlists!
@Pencore - It does kind of feel like there are a lot of McNeese wait listers, especially since they all seem to be on this board?? Oh well, congrats to us all!
@everyone - this is kind of in response to the down and out feeling today. I'm actually kind of excited to apply again next year, if that's what happens. I will not be applying to Iowa or Cornell or Michener, I will have probably 10-15 schools like Ohio State and Florida. It's not just because the "chances" are better, it's because I wasted half of my list on schools that I have no chance of getting into and I don't want to do that again. I think a second go-around will be a much easier and smoother experience.
On a side note, I'm still totally freaked out about next week. I will probably be a combination of totally depressed, totally resigned, and maybe (hopefully!) elated. I will be crazy :*(
re: Life issues that we should address before entering MFA programs (because MFA programs aren't like magic and will fix everything).
I haven't been laid in two years (I'm a woman, btw). I lived in a Muslim country for 18 months of it, have been home in the states for 6 months (and refuse to just sack any random dude).
Maybe if I get laid, I can clear my Qi and unblock the pathway to my success.
Then Sam Chang can call me and we can talk about home-made challah.
You know what my pet peeve is as a teacher, when a student asks "what are we doing today?" I'm not even joking today I was asked that over 20 times. You know that little feeling you get when you just might lose your temper, that's what the 20th time I heard that did to me...
OMG yes! How could I forget! When I'm coaching cross country, my runners always ask, "what are we doing today?" I always answer, "Running". It gets under my skin particularly because I supply each of my runners with a monthly calendar of EXACTLY what we're doing. I mean all they have to do is look at the calendar.
And then in the classroom, even though there's an entire wall with the day's plans, they still ask the same question. What are we doing today!? What are we doing today? What are we doing today!?
Answering this question has led to the perfection of my Death Stare.
YES!! That's just it!! I put a freaking Word document on Edline at the beginning of the week detailing EXACTLY what we're doing each day and they still ask that question, even at the end of the day when they could've asked another person in their grade level!!! Also, my students have a test tomorrow that we have been reviewing for, for the last two days, and one of my students came up to me and seriously asked "wait, we have a test tomorrow?" Oh my God, so hard to keep my cool sometimes... lol
That's hilarious! I had this one kid who was so upset at the end of the quarter when he received a D... because he didn't turn in his composition book... This is about 6 weeks into school. We've been using them on the daily. I explain to him that he got an F for not turning it in and then he asks, "What's a comp book?"
I mean, we've been using these almost every day. I've literally had the same conversation with him every week, "You need to get a comp book!" And now he's completely mystified by the COMP BOOK.
He eventually figured it out and ended up doing pretty well.
oh no. if we're going to talk about things our parents say that drive us crazy... when my dad has bad service on his cell phone he says he is "in a bad cell". He uses this phrase so confidently that he has passed it on to my mother.
I'm actually a fan of the question "What are we doing today." Whenever one of my students asks me that I just lie to them. Sometimes it's as simple as me responding, "Partying hard."
Other times I'll make up some elaborate bullshit lie. One was that in chapter 26 of Huck Finn Jim finds his wife because they meet on facebook, so today we will be discussing the use of online networking systems in late 19th century literature. The kid was like "Really?" and I was like "No."
@ miss You might appreciate this, but I used to joke that I wasn't sure if my lady parts were still working so I sent a canary in there and it flew back out alive. So I'm in good working order!
@ koru I wish that my lack of a sex life could contribute to admission into an MFA program, but it doesn't seem to be the case... unless there are MFA programs in monastaries.
@ Jason J The Real Talk comparison has got to be the most flattering thing anyone has said to me on this board, because I strive for the talk that is real.
@ everyone else who now knows too much of my intimate details I'm also the one whose been working with a chocolatier for the past three weeks. He's easy on the eyes and he makes delicious, beautiful chocolate and he's pretty much said, "Let's eff." The year and a half in a developing, Muslim country is a testament to my dedication to deprivation and masochistic streak- but not effing a cute chocolatier has brought me to a new level of self-control. Now if I can only hone this type of discipline into my writing.
I was in your boat until yesterday. 2.24- Syracuse rejection 2.25- UMASS rejection
Applications Pending (Fiction): Alabama Illinois Indiana Minnesota Iowa Ole Miss Memphis Arizona Idaho Colorado UC-Irvine
I had theorized (with nothing to back this up) that the longer I went without hearing anything, the better my chances were. So much for that.
Pet Peeves:
I had an employee that repeatedly confused condolences and congratulations. I also have a friend that occasionally mixed up who and how as in I have received emails that said:
Hey bro, who are you?
I suspect my friend is barely literate. I also suspect that if you held up our annual Social Security Scorecard, I doubt there's a year I made more money than him.
Long-time lurker, first-time commenter, with a list for Seth:
These are all CNF:
Alaska - Anchorage low-res (accepted) Stonecoast low-res (accepted) Iowa State (still holding out hope that some bubbles might come up) Chatham Mills Montana
I've been trying to be very non-neurotic about this, but if I could explode people with my mind, the telemarketer who left a voicemail from an unknown number today would have been toast.
Woon and Happy, major congrats! So happy for you guys.
Woon, feel free to email me at nairakuz (at) gmail (dotcom). I've got some info I'm sure you'd like to obsess over. I have for the past few days, that's for sure. Let's just say that CSU never signed that AWP grad-school/give-folks-til-april-15-to-decide-mambojambo. Oy vey.
you guys are killing me! who was it the other day that was taking notes on all the postings? good luck with the peeving escape goats and tallying up the number of times the word "moist" is mentioned!
oh my. i really do love all you complete strangers. or a good percentage of you anyway.
Woon, congratulations. I'm currently at CSU for fiction and will be happy to give you (and any other interested parties) the low down on the program. As far as my experience goes, it's a good place to be. Let me know if you're interested in any details.
yeah, sorry, i'm here in louisiana...man, when i put the moist thang up there, didn't realize that was such a godawful word!!...on the 'what are we doing today' note, i hate even more when i get, when someone misses a class, 'hey, i wasn't there yesterday...what did you do in class' like i'm supposed to be able to rehash a 50 or 75 minute lecture in 30 seconds...so i usually lie my ass off too...oh, and another pet peeve, and it's totally regional...i hate it when someone pronounces new orleans like new or-lee-ans or new or-leens...grates my fucking nerves!! it's n'orlins or n'awlins, or at the least new or-lins...sorry!
OK, so I haven't been able to focus on anything today and have given up trying to work on my website. Decided to follow up on our total girl geek-out the other day and googled Jonathan Brandis and Seaquest and found... they have all the episodes online-viewable on netflix! So if any of you are looking for a distraction and have an account, get to it. Now, back to my schoolgirl crush...
love to see this discussion! It’s great to see you all working through the issues and also, it’s great to see recommendations for testing. In the end, it’s what your actual users do and prefer hat should be your biggest driver in making these decisions.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2438 of 2438Congrats Woon and Happy and all other acceptances/waitlists!
@Pencore - It does kind of feel like there are a lot of McNeese wait listers, especially since they all seem to be on this board?? Oh well, congrats to us all!
@everyone - this is kind of in response to the down and out feeling today. I'm actually kind of excited to apply again next year, if that's what happens. I will not be applying to Iowa or Cornell or Michener, I will have probably 10-15 schools like Ohio State and Florida. It's not just because the "chances" are better, it's because I wasted half of my list on schools that I have no chance of getting into and I don't want to do that again. I think a second go-around will be a much easier and smoother experience.
On a side note, I'm still totally freaked out about next week. I will probably be a combination of totally depressed, totally resigned, and maybe (hopefully!) elated. I will be crazy :*(
My dad's side of the family, for whatever reason, when they have a good thought like to say...
I have an ideal...
re: Life issues that we should address before entering MFA programs (because MFA programs aren't like magic and will fix everything).
I haven't been laid in two years (I'm a woman, btw). I lived in a Muslim country for 18 months of it, have been home in the states for 6 months (and refuse to just sack any random dude).
Maybe if I get laid, I can clear my Qi and unblock the pathway to my success.
Then Sam Chang can call me and we can talk about home-made challah.
You know what my pet peeve is as a teacher, when a student asks "what are we doing today?" I'm not even joking today I was asked that over 20 times. You know that little feeling you get when you just might lose your temper, that's what the 20th time I heard that did to me...
On a serious note, I actually used to have a pet escape goat. It used to peeve EVERYWHERE.
Eventually I ate it.
kaybay!!
OMG yes! How could I forget! When I'm coaching cross country, my runners always ask, "what are we doing today?" I always answer, "Running". It gets under my skin particularly because I supply each of my runners with a monthly calendar of EXACTLY what we're doing. I mean all they have to do is look at the calendar.
And then in the classroom, even though there's an entire wall with the day's plans, they still ask the same question. What are we doing today!? What are we doing today? What are we doing today!?
Answering this question has led to the perfection of my Death Stare.
@pencore
HAHAHAHA.
the day needed a laugh.
YES!! That's just it!! I put a freaking Word document on Edline at the beginning of the week detailing EXACTLY what we're doing each day and they still ask that question, even at the end of the day when they could've asked another person in their grade level!!! Also, my students have a test tomorrow that we have been reviewing for, for the last two days, and one of my students came up to me and seriously asked "wait, we have a test tomorrow?" Oh my God, so hard to keep my cool sometimes... lol
@pencore,
perhaps you should hold off on the getting laid plans?
you know, athletes don't get laid before 'the big game' so as to hone their energy into being lean, mean fighting machines ...
maybe not getting laid is a way of channeling all your energy into the MFA application process?
i mean, what if all that anxiety and energy and stuff just melts away once you get it on, and you're unable to ever write again ...
@pencore
Perhaps the most real talk comment since... well, reaaaaal talk.
Along the lines of "expresso": my mom says laTAY for latte. Drives me fracking crazy.
@kaybay
That's hilarious! I had this one kid who was so upset at the end of the quarter when he received a D... because he didn't turn in his composition book... This is about 6 weeks into school. We've been using them on the daily. I explain to him that he got an F for not turning it in and then he asks, "What's a comp book?"
I mean, we've been using these almost every day. I've literally had the same conversation with him every week, "You need to get a comp book!" And now he's completely mystified by the COMP BOOK.
He eventually figured it out and ended up doing pretty well.
oh no. if we're going to talk about things our parents say that drive us crazy... when my dad has bad service on his cell phone he says he is "in a bad cell". He uses this phrase so confidently that he has passed it on to my mother.
@Kaybay
I'm actually a fan of the question "What are we doing today." Whenever one of my students asks me that I just lie to them. Sometimes it's as simple as me responding, "Partying hard."
Other times I'll make up some elaborate bullshit lie. One was that in chapter 26 of Huck Finn Jim finds his wife because they meet on facebook, so today we will be discussing the use of online networking systems in late 19th century literature. The kid was like "Really?" and I was like "No."
@ miss
You might appreciate this, but I used to joke that I wasn't sure if my lady parts were still working so I sent a canary in there and it flew back out alive. So I'm in good working order!
@ koru
I wish that my lack of a sex life could contribute to admission into an MFA program, but it doesn't seem to be the case... unless there are MFA programs in monastaries.
@ Jason J
The Real Talk comparison has got to be the most flattering thing anyone has said to me on this board, because I strive for the talk that is real.
@ everyone else who now knows too much of my intimate details
I'm also the one whose been working with a chocolatier for the past three weeks. He's easy on the eyes and he makes delicious, beautiful chocolate and he's pretty much said, "Let's eff."
The year and a half in a developing, Muslim country is a testament to my dedication to deprivation and masochistic streak- but not effing a cute chocolatier has brought me to a new level of self-control.
Now if I can only hone this type of discipline into my writing.
@Coreyann
OMG that's hilarious. that literally made me happy to read.
weighswithwords: It's rather obnoxious that these schools don't just come out and say it already. Just reject me so I can move on!!!
Congrats Woon & Happy & anyone else I've missed on today's awesome acceptances. :)
@pencore, strangely enough, there's been discussion (off the blog) about monastic MFAs ... that's all I'll say publicly! :p
@v and others that have not heard anything yet:
I was in your boat until yesterday.
2.24- Syracuse rejection
2.25- UMASS rejection
Applications Pending (Fiction):
Alabama
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Iowa
Ole Miss
Memphis
Arizona
Idaho
Colorado
UC-Irvine
I had theorized (with nothing to back this up) that the longer I went without hearing anything, the better my chances were. So much for that.
Pet Peeves:
I had an employee that repeatedly confused condolences and congratulations. I also have a friend that occasionally mixed up who and how as in I have received emails that said:
Hey bro, who are you?
I suspect my friend is barely literate. I also suspect that if you held up our annual Social Security Scorecard, I doubt there's a year I made more money than him.
Good times.
@Himbokal
your pet peeves just might have made you my hero.
New mailbag is going up in just a few seconds...
still haven't hear a word from umass, beginning to question if they even received my manuscript.
Long-time lurker, first-time commenter, with a list for Seth:
These are all CNF:
Alaska - Anchorage low-res (accepted)
Stonecoast low-res (accepted)
Iowa State (still holding out hope that some bubbles might come up)
Chatham
Mills
Montana
I've been trying to be very non-neurotic about this, but if I could explode people with my mind, the telemarketer who left a voicemail from an unknown number today would have been toast.
Woon and Happy, major congrats! So happy for you guys.
Woon, feel free to email me at nairakuz (at) gmail (dotcom). I've got some info I'm sure you'd like to obsess over. I have for the past few days, that's for sure. Let's just say that CSU never signed that AWP grad-school/give-folks-til-april-15-to-decide-mambojambo. Oy vey.
Wow, while I was gone at work a second Chrissy showed up on this blog! I can't believe it! There are so few people I know who go by Chrissy!
Hi Other Chrissy! And congrats on the GNE!
@Woon--OMG, I'm so excited for you! Congrats congrats congrats!!!!!
you guys are killing me! who was it the other day that was taking notes on all the postings? good luck with the peeving escape goats and tallying up the number of times the word "moist" is mentioned!
oh my. i really do love all you complete strangers. or a good percentage of you anyway.
Woon, congratulations. I'm currently at CSU for fiction and will be happy to give you (and any other interested parties) the low down on the program. As far as my experience goes, it's a good place to be. Let me know if you're interested in any details.
yeah, sorry, i'm here in louisiana...man, when i put the moist thang up there, didn't realize that was such a godawful word!!...on the 'what are we doing today' note, i hate even more when i get, when someone misses a class, 'hey, i wasn't there yesterday...what did you do in class' like i'm supposed to be able to rehash a 50 or 75 minute lecture in 30 seconds...so i usually lie my ass off too...oh, and another pet peeve, and it's totally regional...i hate it when someone pronounces new orleans like new or-lee-ans or new or-leens...grates my fucking nerves!! it's n'orlins or n'awlins, or at the least new or-lins...sorry!
@B -- what's your email?
Woon, you can contact me at bs_shields@yahoo.com.
Woon, you can contact me at bs_shields@yahoo.com.
OK, so I haven't been able to focus on anything today and have given up trying to work on my website. Decided to follow up on our total girl geek-out the other day and googled Jonathan Brandis and Seaquest and found... they have all the episodes online-viewable on netflix! So if any of you are looking for a distraction and have an account, get to it. Now, back to my schoolgirl crush...
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/SeaQuest_DSV_Season_1/70042825
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. In at Boulder!!! And on my way to a show but so so excited.
(without funding by mail)
@Meredith:
I got into Michigan. But I'll be declining, so if you are on the waitlist...
love to see this discussion! It’s great to see you all working through the issues and also, it’s great to see recommendations for testing. In the end, it’s what your actual users do and prefer hat should be your biggest driver in making these decisions.
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