OMG WOOOOOOOOO

[gogmagog]

Taken from karma_aster, a list of good things about today:

5. I'm finally getting over this bug I've had for a few days...I can actually breathe and taste again today, and my throat's only a little sore.
4. For breakfast my stepdad got chocolate eclairs and Matterhorns from Andre's, which is this Swiss bakery here in KC that makes the best pastries EVAR OMG.
3. It's a beautiful day outside - it's gorgeous and springy and wonderful.
2. I got a package of stuff I'd ordered from Overstock.com, with volumes 2 and 3 of GetBackers, the third Marmalade Boy boxed set, and Suikoden IV.
1. I got a letter today informing me that I've been admitted to the University of Iowa's Ph.D. in English program!

SUCK ON THAT COLUMBIA! I'm gonna become a world-class scholar and you'll wish you'd taken me but you'll be SCREWED!

...er, w00t for me! :D :D :D

Comments

[courters28.livejournal.com]

Congrats Joseph! :)

[jokersama.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :D

OMG, you have an Andre's in KC too? :D There's one in Denver!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Andre's Confiserie Suisse? I didn't know there were others! :D

Does the one in Denver also serve as a Swiss consulate the way the one here does?

[jokersama.livejournal.com]

Y, You know, I'm not sure. XD All I know is that this place is Swiss and has a small bakery in front of the restaurant where there is a metric fuckton of Swiss desserts. Mmm-mmm.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I think it may be a different owner, but they do sound pretty similar. The Andre's here is pretty nice - their restaurant is kinda limited, given that it's a price fixe (?) menu and so there's only about three choices of meal. But their desserts are amazing, and there are approximately 3 billion of them.

But actually, you know, now that I think about it I'm not sure our Andre's actually does have a real bakery. Because the only pastries they really have are eclairs and maybe one or two others like that - the rest is all more candy-type desserts. (Their truffles, especially, are to die for.) And their stuff isn't that expensive, which is surprising but totally rocks.

[dincrest.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Looks like we're both making pachadi! (Pachadi is an Indian dish consisting of yogurt and some cooling vegetables like cucumbers; good for spicy food. It's kinda like raita) but in my family they like to refer to PhD as pachadi.

I know what you mean about the ivy leagues making mistakes rejecting folks like us. When I was applying for PhD, I got rejected by Stanford, Yale, UPenn, and NYU (I did my Master's at NYU.) But Rutgers accepted me and it's a good match. Their academics are terrific and I'm challenged. Plus, the school is damn good. I'm in my 2nd semester in the PhD program and it's intense.

It's the other schools' loss, when I make great strides in Educational Psychology. Though I think that while I had the academic merit for some of these big name schools, I likely didn't get accepted because those schools tend to accept those students whose families donate $100K a year and stuff to the school.

ASIDE: jokersama- that avatar's definitely striking. On the one hand it's cute and salacious, but on the other hand, the girl looks so f'n young that a geezer like me feels guilty for even peeking. (That is if you call 26/27 geezer.)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

You're going to Rutgers? That's one of the other schools I'm applying to (I'm actually finishing up the online form today). I'm applying to their Global Affairs M.A. program, which is on the Newark campus. If I end up going there (which I probably won't, given the Iowa developments, but I might) we could hang out. :D

But yeah, I'm paranoid about not being accepted by universities. That's why I'll end up having applied to like 8 different programs (Columbia, Oxford, Cornell, Iowa, U of Texas-Austin, Rutgers, U of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin). I know on Friday after the Columbia letter I was all "oh noes, Columbia rejected me and no one will want me and I'll have to go on a Road Trip of Self Discovery (tm) and then I'll have to go through all this again and I'll end up dying pathetic and alone." Then yesterday I got the letter from Iowa, and felt really stupid and melodramatic. XD

[dincrest.livejournal.com]

I'm at the New Brunswick campus at Rutgers. Not too far from Newark.

When it was rejection after rejection, I was scrambling to think of a plan B- which would have been trying to get alternate route teacher certification in P-3 (prekindergarten- third grade) so I could teach pre-K or kindergarten, since I was an early childhood teacher's aid and love working with kids (hence, my research interests are in child development.) But Rutgers came through for me.

What seems to surprise everyone I talk to is that NYU didn't keep me on. Though NYU's faculty even told us that the school almost never keeps its own students and encourages its students to go elsewhere for further education and explore. I'm actually kinda glad about that. While my studies at NYU had great methodology courses (where we studied about the kinds of psychology/educational research tests, how to administer them, and how to construct our own tests) the stats courses were weak. Here at Rutgers, the methodology courses are weak (or nil) but the educational stats department is crazy good.