At last, the ordeal is over. After days of writing, weeks of agonizing, months of deliberation, the final application to OMSAS is complete. I always have such difficulty getting my act together when it comes to such large decisions; it almost seems as I've been stifled by the weight and enormity of what's at stake. But in the end, I always pull through--perhaps not with 100% of what I could do, but with all the courage, effort and gusto I can muster at that point. But what's done is done; there's no turning back anymore. And now the waiting begins. Oh, the agony...