# Well, banish misfortune, I got in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388 "2004-02-27T01:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/1 "2004-02-27T01:08:57Z")
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… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/2 "2004-02-27T01:15:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/3 "2004-02-27T03:16:00Z")
Silly girl. Of _course_ you got it. 🆒 Who said yes first? ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/4 "2004-02-27T04:06:09Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/5 "2004-02-27T04:23:11Z")
Way to go, **andygirl**! ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/6 "2004-02-27T04:34:37Z")
Excellent, **andy**! Say, would any of the other schools happen to be anywhere near Atlanta? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/7 "2004-02-27T05:10:24Z")
did you apply to McGill? _big chibi anime eyes_ ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/8 "2004-02-27T06:24:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/9 "2004-02-27T13:34:05Z")
Rar! Well then, go to Colorado so I can see you when I go to visit my brothers. I have spoken. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/10 "2004-02-27T13:39:20Z")
Congratulations. Luck and joy on your chosen path. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-banish-misfortune-i-got-in/231388/11 "2004-02-27T14:20:17Z")
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.