I would love some distraction tips! Haha. Last time around I applied to 20 programs because I could at the time. Didn’t get into any of them. This time my advisor told me to narrow it down to 5, so that is what I did. I also have a masters, two actually. I thought that would be a good thing, but apparently not. I hope we all get interviews in January too! I don’t want to do this again. Did you hear back from the PIs that you reached out to?