Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list? I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic ’supplement open response’ essay. Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. Where do I stand now?

No farther along.

Or, untrue: I know now exactly how much I have to do, which is a lot. Not unimaginably-much, but still a significant amount of work.

I was supposed to have a) written all my essays and b) pared down my college list from 15 to something less than that over break. I did neither!

It’s b there which annoys me the most. I don’t have any legitimate reasons to take any school off my list right now, and reasons to keep them all. I don’t think of it as risk containment or choice-enabling, just as “these are all places that I could be happy attending.” If you have arguments FOR a particular school which might make me more inclined to favor it over the others (no negatives attacks here!) feel free to share them. I know lots of you go to school at places on my list, or at least work there–I can see you through the internet. So feel free to speak up.

In the meantime, I have essays to write. Sorry to abandon all you readers to the inhospitable wastelands of non-updated blogs, but it’s purely temporary. If I write my goal of two essays by tomorrow lunchtime, I should be back on track. As it is, most of my essays for these schools (those that remain unwritten, that is) are of the short-response variety. Could be worse!