How is it only Tuesday? It should be at least Wednesday. I hate Tuesdays.

Application is due on Thursday, although I got an email saying that if I couldn’t make that date, then to email and they would make sure I was considered in the first round. I am 99.9% sure I will not take them up on this offer because

a) diminishing returns. I don’t think I could significantly improve my application with say, 2 more days of work, and then there is also the danger of overthinking it and screwing it up

b) I am categorically opposed to extensions. I hate professors who give them and I hate it when people take advantage of them (with requisite caveat for extenuating circumstances, lest I look like the bitch who wants you to turn your paper in on time, even though your grandma just died and you have cancer and your wallet got stolen). In grad school, there were people who got extensions for papers that went well into the next quarter; they just had an “Incomplete” as a placeholder. I always hated that. Because at some point, shouldn’t you just fail? Sure, you should turn in the best possible paper you can, but I think part of the assignment is completing the paper within the specified period of time.

c) I don’t want to be the girl who emails asking for an extension (even though its been granted) because I fear it will reflect poorly on me, even though I am apparently one of the few people who take deadlines seriously (see above).

I also managed to completely pysch myself out my reading some of the alumni profiles on the Fellowship website and also I am obsessing about the specificity level of my Statement-of-Purpose-of-sorts, because I’m afraid they will read it and be like “Well that’s lovely, but that’s not really what we do here. In fact, that’s not even close to what we do here.”  Yes, they will say that. With italics.

I’m going to go play another game of Wordtwist and try not to think about my SoP-of-sorts.