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Mind numbing panic is beginning to set in, which is incredibly stupid given what's setting it off. I'm beginning The Month of Incredibly Hectic Travel (henceforth TMIHT), visiting 4 grad schools and going to Anaheim for five days for the ACS conference. I need to round up some money for that damned trip (travel grant, please please please come through), and me and plane trips are not the best of friends.

I need to drive to Princeton, get home to Pittsburgh for CMU, fly to Boston to visit MIT, and fortunately a kind soul has offered me a space in a car that is driving to Cornell. And I need to figure out how I'm getting my furniture from my apartment in Lancaster to wherever I'm going to grad school.

Also, if anyone on my friends list or wherever happens to come across this entry and knows anything at all about the cities and grad schools mentioned above, I'd really appreciate a heads up on interesting facts or important things to consider re: housing, faculty, travel difficulty, and the type of town and what there is to do there.

Some days I think I should not be allowed to make decisions, because the angst I emit at times like this is probably enough to fuel a small light bulb.

Or maybe it's just the hamsters working overtime.