my harvard application is completely screwed up. first, i try to submit my application online, and it keeps telling me they can't verify the credit card and to choose another payment option. i don't see why not, because other schools on the embark system have been accepting it. and then i track the writing sample and signature page which i sent them, and it tells me "delivery failed." whatever that means. and that was last week. i call the admissions office to see if they can tell me if they've got my stuff afterall, and they can't trace anything since i haven't submitted the main part of the application, but like i said, i can't because the system wouldn't let me submit! so i wrangle a street address from the woman (who was very nice tho) so that i can fedex them a new set of information first thing tomorrow morning. that's cutting it very close as it is: since they're closed dec 24-jan 1, i have to get a new package there by tuesday next. in the meantime i'm frantically doing the paper application which comes with a bubble sheet, dammit. i hate shading those things. perhaps i could call bob reeder and ask if he could let me use his credit card, and i could wire him the money instead in the morning... all this is terribly tentative though, and all depends on getting very much done by noon tomorrow...