Decisions, decisions.

[urania]

You guys, I need your advice!

My "problem" is this:

I applied for an Erasmus place in Norway. Twice. One application was with my own institute for Bergen, and the other one was with another institute in Tromsø.
I always said I'd rather go to Tromsø (though I'm not sure why). Today is the deadline and the institutes should tell you whether you get an Erasmus place or not, and now I got a yes for Bergen. Which is cool in and on itself, but it says I should write them whether I would accept immediately. And I haven't heard anything from Tromsø, and now I'm so unsure.
What should I do? Just say yes? Do I really want to go to Tromsø rather than Bergen? I guess Bergen is bigger and not as far away. *sighs*

Heeeelp! D:

If my English is wonky I apologize! I have spent the last days writing/reading almost exclusively in Norwegian... it shows. xD

Comments

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

If it was me, I'd say yes to Bergen initially and then if you hear back from Tromsø, say yes to that too and then cancel Bergen. A lot of people do that with job offers - when my mother went for a job last year, she said yes at the first interview even though the second job was the one she really wanted - it turned out that she was offered the second job too, but because she had said yes to the first one it guaranteed that she had at least one. I can't see how there would be anything stopping you from doing the same thing, provided that you get a positive reply from Tromsø ;) Just because you accept a place initially in Bergen doesn't mean you definitely have to go.

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, I just happened to get my acceptance mail this morning from Tromsø, too, so I said yes to them today at 12 o'clock already! :D Now I have to get some complicated stuff sorted out because it's at another institute, but I totally have a place in Tromsø! :D
And I think what you suggested would have been what I had done, hadn't the Tromsø people answered so fast, but this way, now it's easier of there are any people who want to go to Bergen and initially didn't get a place. :)

So excited! :D