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Posted: 2/20/2009, 9:41 am
by Johnny
JERK!

Posted: 2/20/2009, 11:42 am
by Dr. Hobo
sweet.

Posted: 2/20/2009, 7:40 pm
by beautiful liar
guys! i'm so excited i have to tell everyone...

i just got admitted to the ma program in creative writing at the u of c. and they're offering me a $10,000 scholarship!!!!! what an awesome day!!!!!!!!!

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Posted: 2/20/2009, 8:03 pm
by laurel
ok, so i totally read that wrong. i read your first sentence, then skimmed the second and read 'program' as 'pregnant'. then i reread it and was calm.

but holy crap...creative writing programs are notoriously hard to get into. and a huge scholarship, no less!

congrats!

Posted: 2/20/2009, 8:26 pm
by beautiful liar
that reminds me of the time when a co-worker told me she was pregnant, and my response was "oh, no!" and she was like "what? i've been trying for this for ages!" - she was a 30-something-year-old woman who had been trying for years to have a baby.

anyhow, thank you! i worked really hard at preparing that damn application - which required all kinds of academic and creative writing samples, letters of recommendation, jumping through hoops and interpretive dance to complete. i thought i was done when they phoned and told me i had given them two different birth dates. i guess they forgave me :lol:

Posted: 2/20/2009, 8:51 pm
by myownsatellite
Congratulations Claire, you totally deserve that!

Posted: 2/20/2009, 10:00 pm
by saman
congratulations claire!

Posted: 2/20/2009, 10:01 pm
by xjsb125
That's awesome, Claire. Congratulations!

Posted: 2/20/2009, 11:11 pm
by beautiful liar
thanks guys :love:

Posted: 2/20/2009, 11:13 pm
by Kicker774
CONGRADUMUNATIONS!!!!

Posted: 2/21/2009, 12:49 am
by nikki4982
Yay Claire!!! That's freaking awesome! :)

Posted: 2/21/2009, 2:46 pm
by Dr. Hobo
beautiful liar wrote:that reminds me of the time when a co-worker told me she was pregnant, and my response was "oh, no!" and she was like "what? i've been trying for this for ages!" - she was a 30-something-year-old woman who had been trying for years to have a baby.

anyhow, thank you! i worked really hard at preparing that damn application - which required all kinds of academic and creative writing samples, letters of recommendation, jumping through hoops and interpretive dance to complete. i thought i was done when they phoned and told me i had given them two different birth dates. i guess they forgave me :lol:


maybe they thought you were being creative when you gave them 2 different birth dates? :O on a completely serious note.. congrats claireooo! :)

Posted: 2/21/2009, 3:14 pm
by Johnny
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Posted: 2/21/2009, 4:56 pm
by Shanae
Good work!

Posted: 2/21/2009, 8:01 pm
by myownsatellite
I took the GRE this morning and didn't do so well. 1110 out of 1600. I blame it on the fact that I broke my tail bone two weeks before the exam and spent a week so messed up on pills that I couldn't focus on studying.

Blah. I hope SUNY Albany will still take me even with that low of a score and a GPA below a 3.6.

Posted: 2/21/2009, 9:07 pm
by beautiful liar
Does the school allow an explanation of circumstances? if you tell them that an accident interrupted your studying, they may place less emphasis on your GRE score . . .

Posted: 2/21/2009, 9:25 pm
by myownsatellite
I doubt it :P It's not a big deal if I don't get in this year, I can't go this year anyway so if I get in I'm just going to defer my acceptance to next fall. So if I don't get in, I'll just re-take it later when I have more time to study.

Posted: 2/23/2009, 2:50 pm
by Johnny
took a quiz today. Got an 85 on it.


Surprising since i guessed on most of the questions.

Posted: 2/25/2009, 10:40 am
by AnnieDreams
I love when that happens. I once literally knew none of the answers and still got a 65. Some of them were wrong too.. I don't know what was up with that marker.

Hi guys!!
I haven't been around since september and now there's 1098536089 new posts for me to read. And fresh blood, too! I think last time we had youngin's here was when I was a youngin.
I really should be writing my 20% english paper right now, but me and Procrastination just get along so well. Which is probably why I'm spending so much time reading old posts right now...

Posted: 2/25/2009, 12:02 pm
by saman
hullo, andrea! long time no see! i wondered where you had gone off to