h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts: pioneer of all things wondrous and strange in the arena of undergraduate engineering curricula.

I finished my application today; at last, I'm finished with this cursed process, as long as the teachers who are supposed to send recommendations in for me pull through. At any rate, I submitted the application, which they insist on being filed electronically unless extenuating circumstances absolutely prohibit, and was immediately notified that a hard copy of a signed affidavit was also required.

The postmark deadline for the affidavit was January 10, 2003. This wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't about 3:35 PM on said date, the final mail pickup at school hadn't already been made, and the nearest post office would close in 25 minutes.

After 300 frantic seconds of calling around trying to get a ride (boarding students really get the shaft at my school), I decided that desperate situations do indeed call for desperate measures, clutched the envelope between my teeth, splattered across the mud-covered field, and sprinted down the fog-laced two-laner to the post office.

I don't know what time I stumbled into the door at, but it was unquestionably uncomfortably close.

*dusts hands off*

That, then, would appear to be that.

lol, "said application"

Nick