I did. Writing a "statement of purpose" was like pulling teeth, but I got it done. I recruited Whitney to be my America expert and then Sylvain to fix my French. When he comes over on new year, I owe him a freaking cake. The amount of French assignments that that man has, out of sheer kindness, while being swamped in his own studies, looked over for me without complaint should make him a candidate for sainthood. >.