Application season

Application season With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin New Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available for financial aid applicants (and remember, MIT is need blind for all applicants). These forms can be pretty confusing, so if you have any questions, direct them to Daniel, MITs Director of Financial Aid. Application season Just thought Id reiterate, for anyone whos applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years whatever, I dont discriminate), that I feel your pain on the application deal. Im applying to graduate programs in cell biology and/or neuroscience for admission in fall 2006 (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks. Who would have thought Id need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? Im trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed before the school year starts (because Im going to be taking too many classes and working too many hours at the lab during term again, oops) Im taking the GRE general test on July 19, and the biology subject test in November. After I take the general test, the rest of my summer evenings will be dedicated to writing statements of purpose, filling out online applications, and reminding my favorite professors that theyre writing me recommendations. And its stressing me out like crazy. I had a dream the other night that I got to the GRE test center, froze once I got to the computer, and got a 33rd percentile on the test. The next night, I dreamed that I had gotten into grad school, but in biophysics (and trust me, if theres one thing I hate in this world, its physics). So, applicants, gripe away I am right there with you.