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2009 Waiting List Response Form This form must arrive in our office no later than Friday, May 1, 2009. * First Name: xxxx * Last Name: xxxxxx * Address 1: xxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx Address 2 (Apt./ Unit Number): – * City: xxx * State: xx * Zip Code: xxxxx * Country: United States * I will be at the above address until: 08-31-2009 * Email: [...]

Apparently, there are more people like me out there in the world. Thus far, I’ve gotten a few comments, which is simply delightful.  Honestly, I would rather respond to people’s musings and questions (despite what that sidebar may say) than simply post more drivel here.  But until that time, drivel is what you get. I’m [...]

  I’d liken the experience of being put on a wait list to stepping in a big pile of dog shit; it really stinks at first, and you know it won’t last forever…but even if things get cleaned up, you still know it happened and that smell is etched in your brain. Well, thank you [...]

Actually, NU told applicants they’d get a decision by midnight, 3/1…which I was one of those people who thought that meant Saturday going into Sunday, 3/1, not 11:59 Sunday.  I emailed them that afternoon, in a very polite freak-out about where my admissions decision was and why it wasn’t blaring on my screen at 00:00 [...]

What up world.  Here’s the body of the email I received from Mizzou on 3/6/09.  Since then, I’ve been bombarded with emails about teaching assistantships and research positions in the Graduate school.  Anyway, here’s what an acceptance letter looks like: ————————– Congratulations! You have been accepted to the graduate program of the School of Journalism [...]

Honestly, waiting to hear back from grad school admissions is agonizing.  Writing their essays and filling out their applications was nuthin’ compared to waiting to hear back from these places.  And the funny thing?  The last deadline I had was Jan. 15 from NU, and they were the first school to get back to me [...]

As far as test scores go, I think I’m pretty competitive.  No, I’m not one of those people who could be in the Triple Nine Society, but I am a high-achiever.  To be honest, I find the nature of standardized tests to be somewhat arbitrary and unfair; essentially, they test your ability to take a test [...]

My admissions decision came to me in a fairly non-standard manner about two weeks ago.  Recently, I was in Las Vegas for three weeks, seeing what life out there might be like for a low-limit poker player like me.  Suffice it to say it was a good experience, but I didn’t come back a millionaire. [...]

So, now you may ask, what schools has our host applied to?  Well, referencing the whole “go big or go home” mantra, I went big.  I applied to only four schools: Columbia, Northwestern, NYU, and Missouri.  I visited all but Missouri–they were sort of my backup school, despite possibly being the best Journalism school out [...]

In my original plan to return to school in order to become a journalist, I figured I’d go big or go home.  In fact, I went home first (I moved back in with my parents after living in Spain and teaching for a year) and then proceeded to go big.  What does that mean? Well, [...]