Woo! I got into UCSB's Materials program. UW and Cornell are also looking good, but nothing official yet. Nothing from Stanford or MIT either. Patrick's going to kick my ass (he hasn't heard anything yet)! Life is going very nicely right now...I hope it stays on this path. It'll inevitably get a little turbulent towards the end of March when I have to finish my thesis and my book (25 copies of it). But right now, all is well :)