I'm vexed and confused and don't know if I should be excited

[guanin]

I just got three e-mails, one each from the universities I applied to. One of them is a generic invitation to an Open Evening, which they'd already sent me and is pretty uselesss since I'm across the ocean. (These are in London, I'm in Puerto Rico). Another one is asking for a more detailed personal statement about why I want to study there. What do they want, for me to praise the glories of their university? I'm interested in speacializing in the Americas. Your specialty is the Americas. Why do I have to state the obvious? The thrid one has me really confused. It's from the senior fees officer. It says: Further to your application to study at Goldsmiths, University of London I am writing to you with regarding your options for funding your course. I haven't received any response as to whether they've accepted me or not, unless it's in the mail, which might take a while because of the distance issue, although the course catalog they sent me took only a week. Anyway, how am I supposed to interpret this? I mean, they wouldn't be bothering to guide me through the steps of getting student loans (I'm not interested in any, but still) if they hadn't accepted me, would they? Plus, it also says this:

Once you have accepted your place at Goldsmiths, University of London, and you have decided on a lender, you should either apply on line via your lender’s website or send the MPN to me, as soon as possible so that I can process your loan.

That first part seems to imply that they've already accepted me and are waiting for me to pick them, and why would she be so eager to process my loan if they hadn't? I'm literally bouncing in my chair, but I don't know if I should just assume and be happy or I don't know. I need to e-mial her back anyway.Should I ask her straight out if they've accepted me? I think I might anyway. This is one of my top choices, too. God, I think I'm getting dizzy.

Comments

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

First, congrats! *G* Nice to have choices!

Second, the acceptance letter may be in the mail. I'd wait until Monday at least before worrying about it. Then I'd email her and explain that you haven't been officially accepted yet as far as you know.

As for the 'personal statement', yeah, essentially, they want you to stroke them. Plus they will be looking for concise writing, organisation, etc. *wink* Yup, it's a test. So just pull up your bootstraps and go to it, making sure you mention how their curriculum matches what you looked for when you started applying to colleges. *giggle* One of the great things about the whole educational process (as opposed to education itself): it's a game---they want you to basically regurgitate what they've told you and it helps a lot if you do it with an elegant pen. *snickers* How in hell d'ya think I graduated Magna? LOL!

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've calmed down now. I guess I'll suck it up and write the damn thing. It's not hard, really, I just hate doing these things. I always get this huge urge to write fiction, but that's all the time. ;)

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

DUDE! You applied for Goldsmiths?! SO DID I.

They haven't gotten back to me yet, though. I'm like total WTF; it's been AGES.

And yeah, the "we notice you still haven't applied to attend one of our open days" emails...>< I get them a lot too. And I can't even answer back going, "I'M IN AUSTRALIA!" because I'm pretending to be in France to not have to pay extortionate fees. =P Don't tell anyone!

Not that I'm going to England, anyway. But you know. I was going to, for a little while.

Ha ha, personal statement. Dude, I had to do "online interviews" => a BUNCH OF SHIT...write a poem about mirrors with exactly 6 syllables in every line of the first stanza (?!)...answer a bunch of stupid questions about Why You Want To Study Here (because you're amazing!) & then write an argumentative essay saying that "imagination is essential to writing" --- and then another, arguing the OPPOSITE.

>< This is what I get for wanting to do Creative Writing.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Waiting for a response from universities is so nerve wracking. I was really stressing out about it like two days ago, then I get this.

It'd be so great if I could pretend I lived in the EU, but I don't know anyone in Europe. But just seen the price difference for overseas and EU students kills me. It's like the "in-state" versus "out of state" difference in the US, but these are pounds, which is even more expensive. *sobs* I wasn't going to even apply at first because of the price, but I want to go so bad and my friends kept telling me, @If you want to go, go for it," so I did. Now it really looks like the dream might become real. *bounces*

That is so ridiculous. I have to send a recent essay for the university that asked for the personal statement, but I hope no one asks for anything else. I was considering Creative Writing, but since I don't have an ORIGINAL fiction portfolio, I wouldn't be able to. I was supposed to be working on an original novel now, but Adam, Hiro and Ando decided otherwise. *headdesk*

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

Well, GOOD LUCK GOOD LUCK GOOD LUCK, anyway! =D

I really wanted to go to uni in the UK as well (Ireland or London, really), but...I don't know. I've sort of settled here. At least I'm doing the courses I -want- to, here. Maybe I should just move on from all my friends and my old life rather than trying to recapture it but picking up and moving off, yet again.

[/angst ramble]

Hah, I had that thought too! Could I, perhaps, send fanfic? =D (Thankfully though I have some original stuff. THANK GOD. XD)

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I lived in Puerto Rico from birth until I was eighteen, so moving around is a new experience for me. I haven't gone very far, either, just to Chicago for a year, then the suburbs for the next two and a half, then back here. And I lived with my family in Chicago, so London would be the first place where I'd be alone, which is a little scary and I know I'm going to miss all my friends terribly. So I want to leave and yet at the same time I don't.

Sending fanfic would be brilliant. Though I do need to write some original stuff. I'm supposed to be writing a novel, goddamn it!