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Letter extraction mission from Jim met with success. However, no word back from Lenny. Also, I discovered that I spoiled Jon's letter yesterday -- I didn't know that it was supposed to be sealed until well after I had torn open the envelope. Whoopsie.

Jim went to California, following the pattern of my other letter-writers, except for the fact that so far nothing's gone wrong with his.

It definitely looks like I'm going to be asking for a semi-extension on getting all my auxilliary documentation together. I hope they grant such things in the first place. Foo. I will be sad if it happens that I can't apply because of fubared administrivia.

Well, anyway: must finish application now.

Applied

Gave up on Lenny's letter and turned in what I had. It turns out that my application is missing even more pieces -- I was supposed to get a list of all the textbooks I used in my undergraduate classes. Eh. Well, my academic record is the weakest part of my application, anyway. Since I didn't start thinking about graduate school until a few months ago, you can understand that I wasn't overly concerned with my GPA when I was in the thick of things. (And anyway, it was all so many years ago, and god knows how many personalities ago, that I almost feel I should use scare-quotes around "I" when referring to distant-past-prog. I appreciate that he did manage to turn into me eventually, but, boy, that kid made some truly boneheaded decisions.)

So: I hit 'submit' on the online part of my application, and then shlepped to Kendall to drop my college transcript and the two letters into a carboard box on a desk in the Lab. The lady said that was OK; they'd match everything up with my online application. Very good. I didn't bother asking about all the stuff I was missing, though I will follow up with an email noting that I am aware of the sloppiness, and stating I'll turn in Lenny's letter when I find it, some days from now at most. (This gives them the opportunity to tell me not to bother, if that's how they play.)

There is yet more follow-through to accomplish, mainly in making sure that there are websites at the other end of the URLs that I mentioned in the statement of objectives, heh. But before that, I'm gonna take the evening off, having fun, whee laa. Good night.