GUESS WHAT
I THINK I MADE SOME FRIENDS!
I met all the new MA students today! There are six of us, and the professors say there were like 1500 applicants...
HOW THE HELL DID I GET IN?!
I mean, everyone's talking about their experience, and they all did field school somewhere fancy like oaxaca or greece or mexico, or they're older and have 10 years experience already, and did their undergrad in places like England and got accepted to PhD programs at good schools like UCSD... and I went to PURDUE, I dug up a schoolhouse in INDIANA, and the only place I got accepted was at Yale! I must have been a mistake. Not that I'm complaining!
I also found out that it's almost impossible to complete this program in a year. The good news is that if you're here next year you don't have to pay the $28,000 again, you just have to pay a $200-some per semester returning student fee. So I could get my coursework done this year, and if I don't get my thesis done I could still theoretically move away to Texas and live with Dave (which is cheaper!) and write my thesis there and only pay the little 200-dollar fee.
So, the moral of this story is, after all this time of people asking me if I was excited and me going "eh..." because I really wasn't, I'M FINALLY EXCITED.