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Maxwell wrote:
did u think abt pizzabaker sauce

Basil wrote:
what are you applying to study!!!!!!!! thats so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

Basil wrote:
ohhhh that is such a cool field! is there a specific subfield of linguistics you are interested in?
sorry to hear it has been so hard! D: 

wug wrote:
i want to look at one specific ongoing change in a specific dialect group, phonetics/phonology/acoustics and sociolinguistics
i've been interviewed twice so it's not super unrealistic it's just very bitter when they interview 5 people and hire 2 people and you didn't get it and the year prior they interviewed 7 and hired 2
this year they've received 115 applications, although to be fair i don't know how many they received in the years prior, but i fear it's an increase so i think i've just wasted a lot of time on it, not only my own but also other peoples time through discussing the topic with them and having them spend their free time reading over my proposal and helping me improve it, it's embarrassing actually

Basil wrote:
that sounds like a really fascinating thing to study!!! are you applying to work with a specific professor, or just applying to the programme in general?

i don't think it is a waste of your time or other people's time. if people didn't want to help with it or didn't have the time to help, then they wouldn't have! it's that simple. obviously not getting the position several times is a big bummer, but i think it has helped you to grow as an applicant and i believe you will get it one day!!! that passion and dedication has to count for something!

wug wrote:
i've been applying for positions that are open in the sense that you can propose your own project, i've in the past talked extensively with one of the people working at one of the universities so he's at least semi-interested in the project
it's just very draining because the process is extremely slow in norway, i even applied to a position in september and last week they emailed us like yeah we're not going to hire anyone this time..
i think my best shot was last year so at some point i will just need to accept that it was never meant to happen because there's always going to be someone who is more closely aligned to what they want to work with or more trendy in their interests in the field or have better grades than me etc., it just sucks to apply for super competitive things all the time and being close but still miss

Basil wrote:
did you already send in your application for this year? or was that the one in september?

wow that does sound so exhausting though, i can definitely see why you would exhausted about the process. it really sucks that it's so competitive like that. i think your perseverance will pay off someday though!