Some good news after a sea of rejections

Hey everyone, some of you might know me from other posts where I whined about being rejected over and over. Finally I seem to get a break in the writing business. Today I got an acceptance from the New Yorker regarding a story I had sent them about 9 months ago! I thought they had forgotten.
And I was also hired by my University newspaper to write on their "Features" section!
So yes I am feeling pretty good today about my writing life.

The reason I post this here is because once when I was very sad about being rejected by another magazine, and I was wandering about in here, I saw one thread about someone getting an acceptance letter. That made me very happy and helped me not to lose hope. I hope that now I can do the same for any of you who might have gotten a recent rejection. Take care friends!

Thank you all guys and gals for giving me hope

Sassenach said:

The New Yorker magazine?

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Yeah

Thank you all. But to be honest I am happier about the newspaper thing, because that is a steady writing job.

Sassenach said:

Are they paying you? With a New Yorker credit, why don't you pitch to some bigger outlets?

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No the University is not paying me because the newspaper is free. And about pitching to bigger outlets, yes I will keep writing and sending my work to magazines. If you mean will I look for a job on bigger outlets? Well, I don't know about that. I am a third year Computer Science student which leaves me little time to write. Perhaps during the summer.

Hello everyone. I am sorry I haven't been around to answer some of the comments. I have been busy as some of you may know that I am a University student. I have had so many assignments and midterms/exams is not even funny, plus as I said above, working for the paper.

Ok regarding Sassenach's comment on "not meaning to get suspicious". First of all you were suspicious from the get go, hence the many questions. One thing about this, I do not need to prove anything to anyone, you want to believe me fine, you don't, then fine as well.
To answer your question however, it is a story about world war one and its implication on the main character. I do not know when it will be published because I still have to work on some things the editor suggested. But I suspect that sometime next year.

Ok, now I want to thank all of those with positive comments in here, as well as those with negative comments as without criticism there can no achievements .

OK here is my article on the University paper, and yes
I am Kenneth Wenger.

article: http://theeyeopener.com/storydetail.cfm?storyid=2436

Sassenach said:

I'm skeptical because I'm a journalist and I know how people tend to embellish online.

If your story is sold, you have every right to be proud of yourself. It's tough as hell to get into the New Yorker,

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Thank you, what do you think about my article?