{"id":1405,"date":"2003-03-17T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/03\/17\/1405\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:44:09","slug":"1405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/03\/17\/1405\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a long, relieved expulsion of breath. I got into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uc.edu\/\">UC<\/a>, and I got in with full tuition.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no stipend or anything, as far as I know, so I&#8217;d be working or borrowing heavily&#8211;I&#8217;m not clear on how using student loans for cost of living works, exactly. UC is also not my top personal choice, but it&#8217;s a choice, and it&#8217;s a very good choice, departmentwise. It comes recommended from not only Dr. Shannon, but my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dixondesign.com\/\">uncle John<\/a>, the man who first bribed me (with Monopoly money) to &#8220;think about Centre.&#8221; And obviously that turned out okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting to hear from (in order of likelihood) UK, U of L, IU, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, and Dartmouth. UW has already said no, if not officially. I think that&#8217;s what had me nervous about it&#8211;the fact that my first response was declination. It was very easy to believe that they&#8217;d just keep coming in.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t, though. One way or another, I will be in grad school in the fall. It&#8217;s nice to have a little ground back under my feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a long, relieved expulsion of breath. I got into UC, and I got in with full tuition. There&#8217;s no stipend or anything, as far as I know, so I&#8217;d be working or borrowing heavily&#8211;I&#8217;m not clear on how using student loans for cost of living works, exactly. UC is also not my top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}