Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list?还记得如何在感恩节之前休息，我说我已经尽我的散文和应用，为每所学校对我的名单？ I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic ’supplement open response’ essay.我有两个杂文，然后：一个共同的应用征文及一个通用的'补充公开回应'征文。 Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. 14所学校离开，我还没有准备申请。 Where do I stand now?我在哪里，现在的立场？

No farther along.无远。

Or, untrue: I know now exactly how much I have to do, which is a lot.或者，不真实：我知道现在到底有多少，我要做的，这是一个很大的。 Not unimaginably-much, but still a significant amount of work.不是无法想象得多，但我们还有大量的工作。

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!我是假定有一）书面我所有的杂文和B ）降级为我的大学名单，从15日至不到超过突破， 我真的没有！

It’s b there which annoys me the most.它的B有哪些烦扰我最。 I don’t have any legitimate reasons to take any school off my list right now, and reasons to keep them all.我也没有任何合法的理由采取任何学校过我的名单上，现在和理由，让他们所有。 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.我不认为这是风险，遏制或选择有利的，正如"这些措施都是地方，我可以很高兴应邀出席了会议。 "如果你有论据，为某一所学校，可能会令我更倾向于青睐，它比其他（无底片攻击这里！ ）觉得免费分享他们。 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 .我知道很多，你去上学，在地方上我的名单，或者至少工作，所以我可以看见你，透过互联网 。 So feel free to speak up.所以觉得可以自由发表意见。

In the meantime, I have essays to write.在此期间，我曾自撰写。 Sorry to abandon all you readers to the inhospitable wastelands of non-updated blogs, but it’s purely temporary.对不起，放弃一切，你的读者，向荒凉废弃的非更新的博客，但它的纯粹是暂时的。 If I write my goal of two essays by tomorrow lunchtime, I should be back on track.如果我写我的目标的两个散文明天中午，我应该回到正轨。 As it is, most of my essays for these schools (those that remain unwritten, that is) are of the short-response variety.现在的情况是，我的大多数文章，为这些学校（那些仍然不成文的，即是）的短期反应的品种。 Could be worse!可能更糟！