#gradcafe

[eoril1]

Checking GradCafe every five minutes like I'm going to find something new about my applications for doctoral programs has me feeling some kinda way

[gothamcitynarrows]

Word of Advice

When applying for programs steer clear of the gradcafe online because watching other people’s acceptances and rejections roll in while you have heard nothing even if they’re in totally different fields will make you grind your teeth down to the goddamn gums. I’m ready to pull my skin off. 

[n0thingsgonnachangemyworld]

GRAD CAFE IS THE MOST TOXIC SITE ON THE INTERNET FOR ACADEMICS

[chrysanthemumpink]

If I were God for a day, I would delete Gradcafe

[balisongavalight]

No responses (accept, reject, nothing)

2/5 schools have have sent interviews based on grad cafe. My heart feels like a lead weight, I slept for 4 hours this afternoon depressed and trying to avoid seeing my empty imbox. This sucks, I wish I hadn't applied

[lifeisaunicorn]

Gradcafe

I told myself that I would stop looking at gradcafe.... I clearly have an addiction. I didn't last an hour. NOW SEND ME MY LETTERS!!! (And hurry up mailman)

[fourohfckingfiveam]

holy shit grad school.

pretty sure i had my first panic attack tonight. my undergraduate career has been relatively low-stress, not counting working ~35 hours a week at my job AND another 15 in the lab on top of classes. it's been smooth sailing, up until now.

first of all, i have like 6 classes left to take. two aren't offered next fall, so all i can do is cross my fingers and hope that they offer them in the spring so i actually have a hope of graduating on time. the other 4 all conflict with each other, so it looks like i'll be taking two over the summer. which is cool with me, except that leaves massive holes in my fall/spring schedules. guess i'll just do some GPA padding. no biggie.

second, DON'T EVER GO ON GRADCAFE BEFORE YOU APPLY. i spent like 3 hours today looking at all of the schools and programs that people are getting rejected from in neuroscience. there's people with like 4.0 GPA's and years of research experience that are getting rejected from the schools i want to go to. and most of these programs only accept like 10-30 people a year. my GPA isn't low, but it's definitely not a 4.0...i don't have any publications yet, and only 3 months in a lab so far.

so, i am having an internal freak-out. i have less than a month before i take the GRE, which i am so not ready for. and t-minus less than 9 months before all of my apps are due. 

i am never getting into grad school. ugh.