Alea iacta est!

Haas stands guard by the mailbox...

Alea iacta est!

Latin for "The die is cast!"

Suetonius writes this is what Caesar uttered while crossing the Rubicon in defiance of the Roman Senate.  No, I am not plunging the Roman Republic into civil war.  All the applications are sent and now everything is out of my hands.  Some of the PhD programs may be long shots but as the Great Gretzky once said, "You can't score if you don't shoot at the goal!"

As Tom Petty once said, "The waiting is the hardest part."

I wonder how I can work that into a dissertation......