There’s nothing quite like getting a letter from the chair of the linguistics department at one of the grad schools you applied to that says that your acceptance letter is in the mail.
I haven’t heard back yet from two other schools, but the simple fact is that next fall I am going to be enrolled somewhere to get an MA in linguistics.
I did it. I can’t believe I did it.
Now all I have to do is graduate… 
Well done, sorta thing.
It’s nice recieving letters like that. Recieving one from my Uni was no biggie (you needed to do well at college to get in, and I did well at college). But recieving a letter saying I have been accepted for a job (the one I am in now) was nice. Don’t recieve many letters like that.
Silly girl. Of course you got it.
Who said yes first?
Colorado. 
I got rejected from two others; I’m waiting to hear back from two more.
It’s exciting; I’ve been going around all day thinking “I get to be a linguist when I grow up! Wheeeeeee!”
Way to go, andygirl!
Excellent, andy! Say, would any of the other schools happen to be anywhere near Atlanta?
did you apply to McGill? big chibi anime eyes
Only if you consider New Mexico to be close to Atlanta; I’m waiting to hear from them and Berkley. (the latter being a school that I don’t think I have a snowball’s chance of getting in, not that I really care at the moment.)
'fraid not, Matt. It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s that I want to do fieldwork… documentation and preservation of endangered languages, and so academia has led me to regard points westward.
Rar! Well then, go to Colorado so I can see you when I go to visit my brothers. I have spoken.
Congratulations. Luck and joy on your chosen path.
Man, I remember when I got into grad school after getting 3 rejection letters first. What a sense of relief, joy, accomplishment, validation (yeah, I know - find that from within; but try telling that to anyone waiting to hear from a school), and direction.
You go, andygirl. Very cool.