This needs no further explanation.

[kyrasantae]

Dear [Tuuli],

I have the pleasure to inform you that your application for admission to the International Summer School in Human Sciences 2008 has now been considered and you have been given admission to the following course(s):

19-23 May 2008: Finnish Language and Culture
26-30 May 2008: Social Networks and Interpersonal Relations in a Multicultural World
2-6 June 2008: Introduction to Digital Culture
9-13 June 2008:

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Please confirm your participation by 15 April by replying to this e-mail message.

For those of you who arrive from abroad, we will also send an application for accommodation and information on the payment of the student apartment, an arrival information form and a registration form. This will be sent in a separate e-mail message. Please return the application for accommodation and the registration form to the International Office no later than 15 April.

[...]

[that's not a mistake; I didn't apply for a course in the final week, for they all seemed too politically charged and/or not really interesting to me.]

I lack words, symbols, emoticons, anything. While I never truly doubted that I would get this, there was always a nagging worry in the back of my mind that my "thrilling heroics" (as rpmullan might put it) at the Dean's office would be in vain; that, like every other time I worked to achieve some important accomplishment, I would fall just short. (cf. grade 10 piano instead of diploma; grade 11 Chinese instead of grade 12; 1.9 GPA instead of 2.0 last year; etc. etc.)

Well I gotta get this registration stuff set up as soon as possible, since my parents are going to be in Asia for the first two weeks of April. I need to calm down a bit (and receive that email with the required forms) before I call them about this.

I totally should make everybody there call me Tuuli. Just because I can.