Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list?還記得如何在感恩節之前休息，我說我已經盡我的散文和應用，為每所學校對我的名單？ I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic ’supplement open response’ essay.我有兩個雜文，然後：一個共同的應用徵文及一個通用的'補充公開回應'徵文。 Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. 14所學校離開，我還沒有準備申請。 Where do I stand now?我在哪裡，現在的立場？

No farther along.無遠。

Or, untrue: I know now exactly how much I have to do, which is a lot.或者，不真實：我知道現在到底有多少，我要做的，這是一個很大的。 Not unimaginably-much, but still a significant amount of work.不是無法想像得多，但我們還有大量的工作。

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）書面我所有的雜文和B ）降級為我的大學名單，從15日至不到超過突破， 我真的沒有！

It’s b there which annoys me the most.它的B有哪些煩擾我最。 I don’t have any legitimate reasons to take any school off my list right now, and reasons to keep them all.我也沒有任何合法的理由採取任何學校過我的名單上，現在和理由，讓他們所有。 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.我不認為這是風險，遏制或選擇有利的，正如"這些措施都是地方，我可以很高興應邀出席了會議。 "如果你有論據，為某一所學校，可能會令我更傾向於青睞，它比其他（無底片攻擊這裡！ ）覺得免費分享他們。 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，你去上學，在地方上我的名單，或者至少工作，所以我可以看見你，透過互聯網 。 So feel free to speak up.所以覺得可以自由發表意見。

In the meantime, I have essays to write.在此期間，我曾自撰寫。 Sorry to abandon all you readers to the inhospitable wastelands of non-updated blogs, but it’s purely temporary.對不起，放棄一切，你的讀者，向荒涼廢棄的非更新的博客，但它的純粹是暫時的。 If I write my goal of two essays by tomorrow lunchtime, I should be back on track.如果我寫我的目標的兩個散文明天中午，我應該回到正軌。 As it is, most of my essays for these schools (those that remain unwritten, that is) are of the short-response variety.現在的情況是，我的大多數文章，為這些學校（那些仍然不成文的，即是）的短期反應的品種。 Could be worse!可能更糟！