Patience is a virtue

I've decided in the last three weeks that the process of filling out applications for graduate school is nothing compared to the process of waiting to get an answer from those graduate schools. I reached a point yesterday where I decided that I'm fine with whatever answer I get, I just want to know so that if I need to make alternate plans I can do that. So, if I haven't heard something by the first of April I'm just going to start looking for a job and a place to live - then I'm going to hope that I don't get accepted somewhere after I sign a lease.