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		<title>Decision Made!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this week, I was able to accept my offer from UNC Greensboro &#8211; with no regrets!
A few days ago, Texas State came back to me with a small scholarship that would knock my out-of-state tuition down to in-state. I was glad to hear they were trying to entice me more, but as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=201&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waitlisted, again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard from my last school. I&#8217;m on the waitlist at Arizona State, which just created another one of those, oh YAY I don&#8217;t COMPLETELY suck&#8230;but huh&#8230;what now? moments.
I replied to their nice email (in which I was told the poetry faculty really liked my creative work) thanking them and asking if they thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=198&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/waitlisted-again/</link>
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		<title>How hilarious it all is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[email received 4/1/09:
&#8220;Emily, I just received an updated list of assistantship positions (and the likes) and realized that you haven&#8217;t been NOT awarded a position (I know, double negative), but you are on the waiting list. The department will be
continuing to make offers for assistantships. Those who were offered
assistantships first are accepting or declining over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=196&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/how-hilarious-it-all-is/</link>
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		<title>Nearly April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mail brought no news with it today, but I do have some updates.
I went to visit Greensboro last weekend and had a great time.  I attended a reading with graduating students and then went to a party afterward. It was a late night, and a student let me crash at her place instead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=193&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/nearly-april/</link>
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		<title>Waitlisted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[as someone on the P&#38;W Speakeasy just told me, Welcome to Limbo!
I received an email this afternoon telling me I&#8217;m on a short waitlist for the MFA poetry program at University of Arkansas! They are accepting only 5 people this year.
woooweeewooowweee&#8230;.!
initial thoughts:

I&#8217;d put Arkansas on par with UNC Greensboro for great faculty, alumni, and overall reputation.
Getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=189&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/waitlisted/</link>
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		<title>The Tally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNC Greensboro &#8211; accepted, funding TBA
Texas State &#8211; accepted, funding TBA
UT Austin Michener MFA - rejected
UT Austin MA &#8211; rejected
Montana &#8211; rejected
Minnesota &#8211; rejected
Alabama &#8211; rejected
Arkansas &#8211; waitlisted
Arizona &#8211; rejected
Arizona State &#8211; waitlisted
Vanderbilt &#8211; rejected
*updated 4/7/09
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		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/the-tally/</link>
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		<title>Q &amp; A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[someone on the Poets &#38; Writers speakeasy message forum put out a questionaire for MFA applicants with acceptance offers. I bit the bait, and here are my answers reposted here:
 
what genre are you ? poetry
which schools were you accepted to? This is my second year applying so I&#8217;ll break it up that way.
This year: I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=183&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/q-a/</link>
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		<title>March brings good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found out today, via the online application status check, that I&#8217;m in at Texas State!! I hope there&#8217;s a letter in my mailbox at home to seal the deal. Then I&#8217;ll have to get some questions answered about funding and other details before deciding if I&#8217;ll plan a trip down to San Marcos.
This good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=181&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/march-brings-good-news/</link>
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		<title>tick, tock, tick, tock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;still waiting to hear from other schools. Minnesota&#8217;s website says they&#8217;re mailing notices today. I&#8217;ve already heard that Alabama rejection notes have gone out. My returned postcard from UT-Austin said decisions will be made late February/early March. Acceptances have already gone up on the boards for Alabama, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and ASU. The rest of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=179&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/tick-tock-tick-tock/</link>
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		<title>Worth the wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phew! It has hardly been a month since I last posted, and so much has happened. Thanks, Jeannine, for snapping me back into Reality. I just returned from a mini-vacation and I should have posted this before I left&#8230;because it is really good news&#8230;it just hadn&#8217;t settled in yet&#8230;
I got into UNC Greensboro&#8217;s program!
I found out last Friday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realitywrites.wordpress.com&blog=925059&post=173&subd=realitywrites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/worth-the-wait/</link>
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