flow © Lilly Schwartz 2012

These last few days I have been mostly experimenting with abstracts, since I just didn’t have the time to get out much. It was one of these times when I wished that I wouldn’t do everything last minute. I had months to prepare this PhD application and it was all taking shape in my head, but if I had written it down a bit earlier, it would have surely been a lot less stressful. I also spare you the details of my odyssey attempting to submit the application in person on a Saturday. Suffice it to say that it involved sheer and utter panic as well as a friendly security guy who knew the door lock code to the right corridor …!