I applied to six graduate schools back in the fall of 1997, all of them for different disciplines. I guess I lacked focus. When April 1998 rolled around, I had gotten accepted into all of them except for MIT, and had decided to enter the astronomy program at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. After telling them I was coming, a mail room error in my favor revealed a month-late acceptance letter from MIT that had been lost somewhere. I had to call Wesleyan and tell them I wasn't coming after all; that I just couldn't say no to MIT. So instead of astrophysics, I went into nuclear engineering. It's only a matter of 30 orders of magnitude in scale, otherwise it's basically the same field... right?

Anyway, after taking a few years off from academia after graduating from college, Nina has recently applied to grad schools and just heard today that she's been accepted into the Earth and environmental sciences program at Wesleyan. So it looks like she'll be studying planetary geology in Connecticut come August. Congratulations!