I got email from the admin of the Berserkely dept. saying that I was missing a rec letter and one form. She emailed me the form and said to send it back, no big deal. (!) and then a couple hours later wrote me again and said that one of my 2 missing rec letters just came in, so the 4 one would be "just the icing on the cake" if it came and if it didn't no worries.
Goodness.... icing on the cake... that sounds promising!
Oh help! I leap into situations beyond my ken! if i am going in as Professor F.'s pet radical I am going to have to live up to it and I will need to kick serious ass.
The form I had to fill out was all about my language background and breaking my gpa into undergrad, grad, lower/upper division, language/linguistics/literature. It looks kind of pathetic when you break it into all those categories and it makes it clear that my spanish is pretty weak and didn't improve much. Aaaaagh!
I put in the "explanations of informal study" category that I've dabbled in translating other languages and co-translated a little from H3brew... ack but I will always have less legitimacy than the people who like, grew up being dragged around europe all their childhoods... or at least lived overseas.
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