DarwinsBones

I had to hard copy send in my SOI and transcripts to one of my institutions and I accidentally sent them my draft where when I got to talking about the university I just had a bullet with "TALK ABOUT UNIVERSITY STUFF" and nothing else! I was in so much of a rush I did not check my file I printed. Luckily a student worker got my application before they read it to make sure it was complete and emailed me telling me this. They allowed me to email my actual SOI and just printed it and inserted it.

Runs longer then 90 minutes usually destress me pretty well. However, afterwards I am so tired that my brain won't function properly for me to get any necessary work done. Oh how happy I will be when this quarter is over and everything is done with.

I think they are manufactured by Mars....not the planet...the company......I think.

I think that the candy brands like M&M's and such actually just store up all there messed up shaped candies and rebrand them during easter as "egg" shaped. And the conspiracy theories begin.......

Don't do it! So many different kinds I think I'm in a sugar coma....

Speaking of stress eating......jelly beans.....damn easter jelly beans everywhere!

I just discovered I should be hearing from my last 2 choices relatively soon. Lucky for me my finals have been magically bumped up to next week and I can spend all my time writing my thesis and studying. Hopefully planning my trip to Montana doesn't enable too much procrastination.

At this point I'm ok with even hearing rejections. I have been rejected already and the thought of just getting the rest over with is quite comforting

I'm not a huge climber, but I have dabbled and being here in San Diego so close to Joshua Tree you feel bad to not take advantage, but yeah I'm more of just an outdoor guy and that impacted a major part of my applications. I need to be outdoors and most of all I need a place that I can just walk out the door and run. San Diego is nice because I can do that even being so close to the city, but its not the same.

I'm reading my friends self published book The Epimetheus Trial. I'm pretty excited to be reading something he actually published because I know he has been writing little books here and there since he was like 13. I also keep jumping between American Psycho, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, and John Dies at the End.

In the supposed words of Queen Victoria, "We are not amused!"

You mail in your personal statement and are in such a rush you forget to omit the part that says in big capital letters "INSERT STUFF ABOUT X COLLEGE HERE!" This totally happened to me.....luckily the first person to get it was an assistant and a student and they emailed and called me telling me to reply back with my ACTUAL SOP. So I did and I actually got my acceptance from them. I never thought I would be so grateful for hard copy applications being required!

Yeah I have the same from my mom just saying that she is still holding out for school A over my choice of school B because its closer to my family and I've been in California for far too long!

It's a little different, but now that I have acceptances I hate telling people because instead of a congratulations, they feel like they need to put in their 2 cents about which program they think is best. It's like they try to put this whole other stress of me making a decision. In the end it is about what is best for me and my family and I need to throw opinions aside unless they have genuine evidence or reasoning behind their opinions.

Whoa they're like adult versions of my pup

these are great

It'll come and go. I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking so much about the schools that I haven't heard from, but having at least one really puts you at ease.

Yeah, I would be hesitant because it is a PhD program I got accepted to a masters program and I know you usually pay for a masters more often then not, but they at least offered me a year of funding to take some of the burden off and even the prospect of just 1 year of student loans terrifies me.

I've thought that before, but I'm guessing by my 4 responses that they didn't care that I logged on almost 5 times a day lol!

I have this strange feeling I'm going to get all my answers in a matter of a period of a few days. I almost positive I'll have to play the wait list game with 1 or 2 of them.

Holy Crap! I just started using this SelfControl App and its friggin awesome!

Its still like this so I assume I'm just waiting for an answer...oh well... guess we'll see

Just ran the Tough Mudder today.....afterwards today grad apps were the absolute LAST thing on my mind!