Monday, March 21, 2005
(1:35 PM) | Anonymous:
Graduate School Update #3 and now with Graduate Update #4
Well, as I called in my previous post, I received a rejection letter today. Fordham University has decided that I am not worthy to undertake instruction in their charge.So, for those keeping score -
Accepted without funding: New School, Nottingham, Boston College
Rejected: Villanova, Fordham (I'm starting to think the Catholics don't like me)
So I contacted Syracuse and Boston College. Syracuse has wait listed me and Boston College has accepted me into their Masters program.
Now it seems like I should say something. But how to say that something without sounding whiney or annoying? How can I present my disappointment without being a whiney little bitch? Is such a thing possible?
Here's what I'm feeling right now, complete and utter uncertainty. Unsure whether or not to take these rejections and acceptances without funding (which is tantamount to a kind of rejection) as a sign that I lack what it takes to do this or as, what they surely are, the result of a bad dice roll. Will I ultimately not go to graduate school? What then would I do? Become a priest? A high school civics teacher? What would there be for me? I know that I am not the most intelligent person in the world and that, in general, I can tend to be a whiney little bitch more than a rigorous scholar but my whole life I have been in love with thinking.
Two more chances at funding and then a question. What a strange place my life has brought me to.
