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My colleagues and letter-writers, who were surprised by the 40-plus applications I sent out last year, might have doubted my sanity (and perhaps their own) after this years final count of 110 applications.
"Despite these [administrative] obstacles, I feel privileged for having had the opportunity to experience so many various ways of doing science and meeting so many different and dear people, as well as learning another foreign language."