I real­ize that I haven’t been blog­ging con­sis­tently for at least half a year. I’m hoping this will change soon. Which is a bit of a cop out, since blogs don’t mag­i­cally write them­selves. But in a ll seri­ous­ness, between apply­ing to grad school and other things, I just haven’t had much that I’ve wanted to share.

And quite frankly, shar­ing my opin­ions on world events seems like a lot of naval gazing. So for the moment, the post­ing drought con­tin­ues. Though it does feel strangely good just to type this.

I think win­ters almost over.

matthew bernius: super genius

or at least inven­tor. I got word last week that a patent that I was a co-​inventor for was approved by the US Patent office. Cool beans! Between that and Chicago you’d think I’d be feelin’ pretty smart.

I guess I do, I’m still over­whelmed and trying to figure out where this is taking me.

I’m in

I got word last night in the form of a big envolope.

Dear Mr Bernius:

On behalf of the Divi­sion of Social Sci­ences, I am pleased to offer you admis­sion to the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago for grad­u­ate study in the Master of Arts Pro­gram in the Social Sci­ences for the 2004/2005 aca­d­e­mic year.

Per­haps more surpis­ing was what came next:

In addi­tion, I am pleased to inform you that we can offer finan­cial assistance

They are fund­ing 1/3, approx­i­mately $10,000 of my cost.

I don’t know what to say, I’m scared and excited at the same time.