I keep forgetting, like Michael McDonald.

[raybear]

Yesterday in the mail I got my financial aid packet from Antioch AND (finally) my rejection letter from Bennington. I can't believe I forgot to mention either, probably because 1) I can't understand all the info regarding my loans other than what lines to initial, and 2) I wasn't surprised or hurt by the Bennington letter. In fact, I was rather appalled by what their obvious form letter said: "we are unable to offer you a position in our program. We know you are disappointed by this." Whatthefck? Um, actually, no I wasn't disappointed by it at all. I mean, maybe if it had happened several weeks ago or if I had been invested in your program, but not now that I'm excited by the school I chose. But thanks for playing, you pompous jerks.

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[writeli.livejournal.com]

hahahaa when i applied to schools undergrad, i applied to one school as a safety and their admin. process was so screwed up that i never heard back from them one way or the other. one day out of nowhere in JUNE after graduation, I get this really stank letter from them that boiled down to "so r u comin' here or not? other people want to come here and you're in their way." I had a ball calling and telling them I had never gotten the stupid acceptance letter and considering the tone of the letter I did get, they should never have gotten into education.

GO MONEY FOR SCHOOL! GO ANTIOCH!!! congrats. it's that much closer....

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I'm almost tempted to write them back and inform them that their rejection letter sucks, but I worry it would just be seen as sour grapes.

Thanks for the good wishes.

[thirdreel.livejournal.com]

That kind of makes me think of a form rejection I got once from a literary magazine. It went on for paragraphs about how nobody likes to be rejected, and being writers themselves the editors know just how much hard work I put into my manuscript and how they really hope I don't get discouraged by this rejection because unfortunately they just can't bring themselves to publish me.

And I was all like, bitch please.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA!

[lakenaiad.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fucking arrogant, in such a quintessentially Bennington way.