<p>Does anyone know the exact date that Part I decisions will come out? On the website, it says that they're released during the second week in December... I guess that's this week? And are the decisions sent by post or by e-mail? Thanks so much- and good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>i got an email saying third week. Not that it really matters for me cos my essays were embarassingly bad. I wish i could turn back time....</p>
<p>Hmm, now I feel kinda out of the loop. I didn't get an e-mail... oh well. REJECTED, haha. I feel you on the essays, Yuri.</p>
<p>My guess is for Wednesday (in the past 2 years the phone calls have started on the 13th). I suppose that this is technically the 3rd week of December.</p>
<p>Phone calls? Oh my. I am out of the loop.</p>
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<p>Interesting- that is very cool. I guess that's a luxury that comes with having only 200 applicants! Thanks so much ReJoyce for that info. Good luck to you guys!</p>
<p>Thank-you! I've been rehearsing for quite a while as to what I'll say when I get that much elusive phone call. I was thinking about a little nod to Edmund, "Aha! God really does stand up for bastards!" What do you think? Oh well, I'm fairly confident that I won't find the occasion anyway.</p>
<p>Your response is cheeky, I like it. I'll assume I'm getting rejected- and will pretend for a moment that they'll call me nonetheless, and will quote from Anna Karenina, and will say "All well, I shall not succumb to that 'eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires,' and so will be content in this momentous decision."</p>
<p>Do you think they would change their minds right then and there? I sort of think they absolutely would.</p>
<p>The number of lurkers on this board is quite astonishing. One post seems to precipitate many previously unknown "faces" out of the proverbial woodwork. </p>
<p>On a completely unrelated note, who else is struggling through Against the Day? Exams have torn me away from it, but we shall be reunited once more!</p>
<p>Well Grammercy to all in the coming week- I, too, dream of reaching for my phone to see "Big Pine, Ca" on the caller ID screen...</p>
<p>Yes, I too am tussling with that dread bohemoth...Lordy, it's long! But I spent 6 hours at Pioneer Square cadging enough money (I think it was $25 at Powell's) to purchase it, so I'm sort of obligated. I also managed to get a Durrenmatt play.</p>
<p>1100 pages of aesthetic goodness. </p>
<p>The characters' names are all so..erm..unique. Scarsdale Vibe, Webb Traverse and my favorite Pugnax.</p>
<p>And how in God's name did you manage to get $25 from the people at Pioneer Sqaure?</p>
<p>I still liked Oedipa Maas more. Wasn't nearly as recondite, but maybe being recondite isn't such a frightful vice.</p>
<p>What's pioneer square? </p>
<p>And I haven't made a very valiant effort, not yet, to read Pynchon. I'm of too weak will.</p>
<p>There's a large square in downtown Portland, OR where lots of hopped up yuppies lurk. Actually, I got $5 from my friend at Powell's--he appreciated my "The Wandering Jew needs a hitch" sign :)</p>
<p>Haha, that's funny. I'm from New Jersey; we don't really do that.</p>
<p>Eh? Is everyone in Joisey insanely affluent?</p>
<p>Speaking of recondite...</p>
<p>I am thankful that my parents decided against moving to Peapack. North Jersey is perhaps the worst place on Earth, second only to Long Island and Nashville, TN.</p>
<p>More or less. Well, no, that's not accurate. Everyone is very affluent- or completely outside of the eyes of the affluent. The tax structure (very unbalanced, decentralized property taxes) engender quite a bit of geographic class division, so places like Newark and Camden are very poor, while places like Summit and Mendham are extremely affluent. There's not much mixing- and in places that are in-between, people are too busy chillin in muscle shirts to care too much either way.</p>
<p>Hey yo ph34me, chill with the Jersey bashing. It has problems (illustrated above), but there are beacons of hope.</p>