July 16, 2008
more fun from the maudit archives
College acceptance letters! I don't even know if colleges mail these via post anymore. I got my grad school acceptance via e-mail, and that was in 2000.
Can you believe how dated that font looks? And note they have their Telex number printed on the letterhead. Go MoHo!
Ah yes, the one that actually did welcome me in the fall! Smith's acceptance came in a deceptively thin envelope. I had gotten Mount Holyoke's thick one the day before and had set my mind to going there when I saw the thin envelope in the mailbox. But no! I've really never given any thought to what my life would have been like had I chose MoHo over Smith. I suppose I would have had an uglier dorm room and more sugar in my diet and that's about it.
All I know is, I question every day how much that "heightened expectation of success" has really served me in the long run.
Humboldt was my safety. I had a very nice phone chat with an English professor from Humboldt who tried to reel me into his department. I had no intention of going there, but for tuition purposes, my California residency would have saved me quite a bit of money.
Um, "a special welcome for admitted students of color"? What? It reads like they just this year updated the letter, last year it said "a separate colored mixer". Come on! 1994? Yikes.
Posted by: LaSuprema at July 16, 2008 10:29 PMYeah, my grad school acceptance came via email.
My teaching credential program acceptance may have been via mail, though. Don't recall.
Posted by: Amy! at July 16, 2008 11:18 PM