PROPOSAL SUBMITTED!!

So I submitted my IDIM proposal yesterday afternoon (after angsting for most of Monday about whether or not I would actually get my third letter in time...)! Now I wait to find out if they'll approve it. Apparently the committee meets every Thursday, but no one knows (or at least no one will tell me) how long they take to decide. But fingers crossed!!

Also, campus is a winter wonderland--gorgeous, but weird.

 (Also I saw an actual cardinal. Like in real life. !!!)

SPRING BREAK PHOTO MONTAGE OF AWESOME

Or, Yet Another Moment Wherein Lily Fails to Live Up To Media-Induced Expectations Of the Average College Experience and Does Not See a Single Frat Boy, Beer Can, or Pool Over the Entire Week of Spring Break, Though She Does In Fact Go On a Road Trip

We decided to stop at the Hoover Dam Bridge "on the way" to the Canyon.

ON THE BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL!

 Indian Gardens

 Plateau Point!!

 (the Colorado River!!!)

On the way back up...

 (It's a long haul.)

The next day, hiking Tanner Trail:

(an ingeniously constructed trail, but much less hiker-friendly than the Bright Angel)

Fossilized bird footprints!

 The incredible variety of the rocks where we stopped to turn around:

 (Pretty rocks...)

(...and bark...)

 (Hello there, old friend Kaibab.)

 At Yavapai Point, for some Rim Trail walking.

The Bright Angel looks even more intimidating from above...

 Last morning at the Canyon--Rim Trail explorations.

P.S. Before you ask, YES this is a tiny amount of the pictures I took. I really did try to limit myself! This set is only 4.34% of the pictures I have from this trip (I just calculated it out of curiosity). So, really, you should just be grateful that I have at least some restraint.