FELLOWSHIP!

So my formal acceptance letter from Bryn Mawr FINALLY arrived today, and they're giving me an amazing fellowship that's renewable till 2012 (wow. that seems a long way away), and then after that, for dissertating. I'll have full tuition remission PLUS a generous stipend (much more than they had originally anticipated) AND summer support AND health insurance!!!!

This has been such an incredibly tense week; with the Vergil paper/presentation, Greek midterm, getting formally rejected from Penn, yucky weather, this letter could not have come at a better time. Noon (when Preston brings up the mail) was becoming an increasingly stressful time of day.

Here was my favorite part of the letter: "We understand that highly accomplished students have many options." Actually, you're the ONLY ONE I have, Bryn Mawr, so I am accepting your offer with a resounding YES! I have a plan.