I am officially smart! (apparently)

I just found out that I got into at least one graduate school starting in January for Applied Mathematics. This is an amazing thing because I did not get into George Washington, which is a significantly worse school. I had myself convinced that I would not be getting into grad school in the spring.
So, I could be headed toward getting a PhD at University of Maryland in a few months. Now, according to a 2002 US News ranking (which doesn't necessarily mean much), this program is I think 11th in the country. You might note that this is a better ranking than is listed for both Harvard and University of Washington, among other schools.

I have one more school that I do not know about, and that is George Mason University, for a PhD in Computational Sciences and Informatics. I am in Boston right now. Will and I have been touring Boston, a beautiful and, compared to DC, homey-feeling city with TONS of college students. It has a very historical yet not enormous feeling here (like it feels like in DC with all the huge buildings). The point being, I can't check my mail until tomorrow when I fly back to DC. I will find out then, hopefully, more details out about the impending semester and whether or not I got into George Mason.

I have been able to see and stay with David from Whitman this weekend, which has been tons of fun. Will got to hang out with Oliver, his friend from St Andrews, who has a great sense of humor. It has been really a perfect trip and I am sad that I have to fly out tomorrow morning, and even sadder that I have to go to work shortly after that flight! But, Thanksgiving is soon! Will and I will be testing our pumpkin cooking skills in order to bring both pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread to festivities at Will's step-aunt's house. Wish us luck!

Anyway, I need to go to bed since I have to get up just as early as ever tomorrow and it is getting quite late! Thanks for reading and thanks for everyone's support in this whole education thing! I will put out some pictures later.