am rather upset as it seems i am not getting a summer stipend afterall. i can't remember the terms of the financial package but i was under the impression, first, that there was, then that there wasn't, was again, and now, rather certainly not. i also hear conflicting things from people in different years. i had rather counted on it to buy a new laptop but i suppose now i'll have to go wash dishes in a restaurant for the rest of the summer. how does the graduate school think we'll live then? bah! she says, more annoyed with self than with harvard. .