LOLZ living in the library.

I really don't appreciate my mom telling me I'm going to flunk out of Swarthmore; it's not very good for my self-esteem.

I've been meaning to update - there are always so many things I want to say because I like to talk about myself, damn it  - but when I try to find words, it's as though my head is filled with cotton.

My list of things that need to be done, both for school and for life on the whole, is largely untouched.  Of course, my mom's compulsiveness has made ( Read more... )

For breakfast today, I made myself a bagel with cream cheese.  I took a few bites and then realized that there was an oddly tangy, sharp aftertaste in my mouth.  So I went to the fridge and pulled out the cream cheese and discovered that the expiration date was March 29.  I told my mother a bit later, and she said, "Should have checked that ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it feels like my life is one big lie, only I don't know the truth.

I woke up at three in the morning thinking that the apocalypse had come, with a flash of light and an almost instantaneous rumble that shook the world.  It took a moment or two before I realized that I was in fact in the exact middle of a thunderstorm.  Thankfully, my tired brain had enough good sense to roll out of bed and unplug my laptop before ( Read more... )

All I can say is, well, it's over.  It's sort of surreal but not in a bad way to be done with high school.  For now, at least, there's a distinction to be made between being done with school and done with seeing classmates.  I'm really trying not to think about it ( Read more... )

The idea of high school ending, I think, is very strange.  It's part of the fact that I've done, in essence, the same thing every day of my life for six years.  There's something comforting that comes with a routine.  But also, I think that high school, by and large, was not what I expected.  So looking back at an experience that, beyond friends ( Read more... )

If my life were iTunes, and I put it onto shuffle, these would be the songs that would come up:

1) The AP French Exam Is Tomorrow, And Maybe You Should Have Studied by CollegeBoard Inc.
2) Come to Swarthmore by Jim Bock, Dean of Admissions (feat. the Long Family)
3) UChicago is Very Scary But Also Exciting by My Neuroses
4) What Should I Tell You? by ( Read more... )

There should be a rule among college admissions officers that goes something like this:

Thou (yes, you, Dean of An Elite Undergraduate Institution) shalt not telephone a student who has just decided to attend a Different Elite Undergraduate Institution because it causeth confusion.