Save a tree, have an online application.

Not that it saves the massive necessity for energy that goes into making, say, computer chips, but watching reams of paper fly by as I struggle to convince letter sized things they need to print on A4 is just DEPRESSING.

And a note to graduate schools everywhere. Organize your websites. Fix your broken links. Look at Carnegie Mellon, they do an organized website RIGHT. Looking for information--BAM, it is RIGHT there, a rational number of clicks through.