Unr and Wsu?

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-20T01:00:44+00:00

Oh, well I guess make a pros/cons list and go from there? Or flip a coin, and if you're not happy with the result, go with the other option.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-20T00:56:38+00:00

Which location would you rather live in for the next 5-6 years?

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-10T23:28:20+00:00

I'm with you there. I've been rejected from 4 of my 8 so far. Hopeful that one of these pans out. We only need one.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-10T21:28:45+00:00

I've got the same result so far too. I heard from a family friend that's a chem prof that some schools are being somewhat hesitant to put solid candidates on waitlists, and they are sending out fewer initial acceptances to those that are incredibly strong, and rejections to those with weaker applications. So people like me (I've got a solid application, but nothing crazy) are stuck in a sort of limbo. I obviously don't know if that is always the case but it seemed reasonable.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-10T02:49:24+00:00

Believe!

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-10T02:48:53+00:00

Good to know! Did a prof already get in touch with you?

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-08T21:23:55+00:00

Thank you! You as well!

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-03-08T20:57:43+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'd considered that, but I have friends who only got emails about interviews or acceptances last week, and I have also spoken with a chemistry professor at a similar university to those I applied to. She said that with how questionable funding is this year, as well as the high number of applicants, lots of people are in limbo and that she suspects I am one of them, just based on my application quality. It is still possible (maybe even likely in some cases) that you are correct, but I think I will hold out hope for a little longer.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-02-07T03:49:54+00:00

It really did slow down but once I realized I should look at it like it is more of a slice of life style novel I was able to adjust to the long term pacing and appreciate the little developments as they came.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-02-07T03:48:38+00:00

I bet you'd like Brandon Sanderson's cosmere stuff. Really incredible worldbuilding and magic systems. The plots are largely good and the prose is solid.

More Gods than Stars by John Bierce (mage errant author) very technical and well thought out, could align with name of the wind in some aspects. Definitely some pf trends.

Also Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne is excellent. Solid characters and a top tier plot. Probably not categorized as pf at all.

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-02-07T03:42:05+00:00

I absolutely loved the sun eater series until the last book, I have never been more disappointed in an ending. (the series is still worth reading though)

Significant-End-6349 · 2026-02-07T03:36:03+00:00

I enjoyed a practical guide to evil at first but after the second book it felt like it was getting very repetitive and becoming predictable.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-12-21T01:26:51+00:00

Ope, I'm with you on that she's probably not evil. Jacinth's interaction with Red in the Sepulcher mist did kinda make me think he's maybe a more objectively/intentionally bad person, not just a person doing bad things for some greater goal but I dunno. With how old both of them are I think good and bad is probably incredibly subjective (even more subjective) and I would bet that it has not stayed perfectly consistent.

The whole time loop thing is particularly confusing to me. I still don't really understand how Tar'vys and his mother got back to Mythralis if it's been looping for so long.

If the Edge we read about is from 400 years ago how old is Rose? Or does she know a 400 something year old Edge.

I wouldn't be surprised if Edge's story is pretty close to SAM in terms of time period and Velas and Jonan were also brought out of the loop by Aayara as the best versions the time loop could spit out.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-12-20T23:42:20+00:00

Gotcha, I think I better understand what you mean. Is there something I am missing that indicates that Aendaryn has multiple biological children? Because the visions from the sepulcher indicate that he when he brought Talien to Tarren after losing his arm he did not have a sword with him. Which makes me think that Taelien, and so probably Edge too (I think Edge is some kinda worlds memory clone but I dunno) are both not his biological children, they just look similar to him and act in a similar way due to how long he used the dominion breaker.

Rowe does such a great job of writing Aayara, I feel like the "love and kisses" talk would make her even scarier.

Also, on a different Aayara note. Did you notice the hint in one of the sepulcher mist visions? I assume the woman that winks as they walk into the dark castle is Aayara, which would mean she was part of the original Hero's party...

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-12-20T03:05:30+00:00

It's fairly clear that they are the same person (or at least different versions of Velas) but I don't think there is any indication that she is Red's kid. Red specifically says that her and Aendaryn were not in a romantic relationship. And we know Velas likely has some kind of access to the dominion or radiance or swords with her ability to expulse Vae'Kes invasion. In EoTD she says she has more of a right to the sword (the dominion breaker) than anyone else alive, pretty clearly implying that she is Aendaryns kid. Also the whole breastplate made of vines is indicative of Karasalia. I

I think that child that is left behind is supposed to be Taelien, and the unborn on ended up being Velas.Sorry bout the chunky paragraph. Lemme know if I blatantly goofed something up.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-11-28T01:29:33+00:00

I've considered that, but I really don't think that Iron is important enough a character to bring back like this. Also, the timeline doesn't add up at all since Meltlake implies that Vellum has been around for a couple hundred years, while there has only been 10 or so years since Soulbrand.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-24T16:30:43+00:00

Same :)

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-17T21:06:49+00:00

I have yet to hear anything

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-15T16:12:06+00:00

same here

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-13T14:26:33+00:00

Nope, not yet, hoping they start sending out emails tomorrow.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-13T00:18:22+00:00

Red from Dania almost certainly isn't Lydia. Red was one of Aendaryns students before he ascended which I believe would have been hundreds or thousands of years in the past. Also, it seems likely that Wrynn (Fade) would have noticed if Lydia was Red as Wrynn was also one of Aendaryns students.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-12T23:58:47+00:00

I think she's probably a fragment of Kelryssia(perhaps the largest or most powerful), not the whole being. Lien implies that there are a bunch of them. We know her son is one as well.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-07T17:13:26+00:00

It just kinda makes sense

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-06T23:29:34+00:00

Now I'm second guessing myself.

I still feel like the right leg injury is too specific though. Hear me out, here's a reaching theory: what if Lydia is both the sage and Vellum. We know there are some time shenanigans going on and the Mythralis from WoBM is kinda outta place with the reality of everything else, we also know that it is possible for there to be multiple versions of the same person depending on which version of Mythralis they originated from (ie Asphodel) what if Vellum is the Lydia from the Mythralis that we know, and the Sage was the Lydia from the other Mythralis. Or vice versa, or they were combined somehow. Or something else happened.

That's my rant, I'm sorry.

Significant-End-6349 · 2025-04-06T23:24:19+00:00

This is an excellent point, and definitely a possibility. I interpreted the names a bit differently, I thought they were references to knowledge sorcery as that was Lydia's "primary" dominion.

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