<p>I think it was Churchill who said something along the lines, anent the restriction on ending sentences with a preposition, that it was a rule up with which he would not put.</p>
<p>Note, one can re-tailor a question ending with a preposition by adding some gratuitous verbiage, such as "officious one."</p>
<p>If by addiction you mean "avoiding memorizing the structures of the amino acids and prepping for Botany lab Tuesday," then yes, I am.</p>
<p>Yes, I check it often for bits of advice. Since there are so many biomedical sciences applicants I rarely have a question of my own that isn't already answered haha.</p>
<p>lylek - I'm with you. I check my gmail account absolutely obsessively. Beyond obsessively. Whenever I get an email, a utility in firefox (checking every minute) makes a dinging noise, along with another on my desktop that makes something of a "popping" noise (checking every 3 minutes). This is of course the case on both my laptop and desktop. I have all gmail emails forwarded to my school account. Further, I have the first 160 characters of every email forwarded to my cell phone as a text message. </p>
<p>"Cognitive processes underlying human mate choice: The relationship between self-perception and mate preference in Western society" as well as writing the background for an NSF grant, getting into the lab and working out have taken a backseat to refreshing this forum and my email in the event that, by some miracle, my email checkers have failed to function correctly or my grad schools have saw fit to alert me through this forum as to their decision. Yikes.</p>
<p>A thought just occurred to me: How did this all work before folks had internet and cell phones? And they had to go to work or school, away from their home phones (if they had one). </p>
<p>...</p>
<p>I can't even begin to imagine. The picture is too horrific.</p>
<p>You waited for the mailman. Telegrams were used for important business or something like someone in the family dying.</p>
<p>Thank your stars that you were spared doing hand-written applications or typing with carbon paper (for multiple copies) and correct-type or white-out for correcting mistakes on the original. And then we have the notion of changing fonts via changing the type ball on your IBM Selectric if you were so lucky to have one as opposed to an old-fashioned typewriter with keys that could get stuck.</p>
<p>I'm refreshing every minute.</p>
<p>In fact, i have the auto refresh on firefox set up.</p>
<p>Ahh, typewriters. I think I'm in just about the youngest generation that's had real contact with them--my seventh-grade typing class used IBM Selectrics, and I think they got computers the next year. I'm glad I got to have that experience.</p>