30 Nov -1

Stanford University

English, PhD (F19)

Accepted via Phone on 30 Nov -1

Note

Yay! So excited!! Dream school! Now after the long and arduous process of prepping for GREs, courting professors through undergraduate and master's programs, and sweating over whether or not I'll make that nebulous cusp from A- to A, I can spend six more glorious years killing my eyesight in an asbestos-ridden library cut off from friends and sunlight, at the end of which may or may not be a quasi-proper job in a location over which I'll have little-to-absolutely-no say and where I'll hopefully spend the next seven to thirty years agonizingly demurring to colleagues who reflect my own pretentiousness (while at the same time caught in a pitiful, vicious circle of avoiding my family who has become resentful of my working 80 hours a week) and to students I'm sucking up to who will likely not even have the decency to appreciate the subject I've offered my soul to or let alone leave me the positive reviews essential for the tenure committee's approving that Full Professorship I will never get!

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