Word on the street is that a lot of people have already dropped out of the B-school. (It's the fourth week, and so far I am not one of them. - Hangin' tough.) Professors are sending out emails acknowledging the stress levels and telling the students to chill, that this is just boot camp and things will settle down.

They wanted to admit 480 students this year, but 521 accepted an enrollment offer, so I think some extra pressure has been put on our class in order to thin out the herd a little. Harsh, eh?

I'm starting to think that email levels can now be used as proxies in a stress indicator. There were 4 emails in my Inbox at 9:30 this morning. Right now there are 83 on my Columbia account and 13 on Yahoo. 96 emails in 12 hours. . . How is that possible?!