why i hate yale from now on:

1. this was the only school that was a pain about deadlines. everyone else (cal, ucla, brown) says as long as you postmark by the due date, we're cool. yale says: if we don't get ALL your stuff BY the due date, we won't read your stuff at all.

2. i mailed off the supplemental materials (or at least i hope jenie did) a while back. i followed the directions on where to mail it to on the grad admissions website. just now, i e-submitted the rest of the app. THEN they emailed me the directions on where to send my supplemental stuff to. i did not follow the directions. but they didn't send the directions until NOW. JERK.

3. this was the only school that had a totally different writing prompt for a writing sample. everyone else says "10 pp of something you've written." i turn in a blot from my 101 thesis. yale says: 1000 words or less -- book review on a book that has profoundly influenced your research interests.

4. everyone else's app fee is like $55-$60 dollars. yale says: give me $80.

5. all the professors i've heard back from so far have been very kind and positive. mad props to prof. omer bartov from brown. he was SO NICE. i get an email from a yale professor who tells me: you will write on the research of your professor. you will not be accepted if you do not have command of russian, and french or german. i mean, really. when do they expect you to become an expert on 3 languages? are you supposed to plan from the womb which languages you should take in college????????

i hate yale. i hate her. the only redeeming quality about yale is that cowboy goes there. mary -- get out of there. yale is the devil.

happy new year to everyone.