- i hope you had the time of your life -
here it is.
summer before my senior year in high school.
my last summer in high school.
im so excited.
the packets from colleges are piling in. all their information booklets - about campus, applying, even freaking applications. i have them.
i got a packet from Yale yesterday.
how AMAZING would it be to go to Yale?
i think i could get in. but paying for it? that's a whole different issue entirely.
i also have packets from Sarah Lawrence College, and NYU set aside.
the east coast is looking promising.
too bad i really want to go to the west coast.
but id never get information from a UC.
my mom told me to apply for Harvard. i laughed at her. she thinks that because that professor was totally sexist about girls and science+math, that they'll be accepting tons of math/science girls. and hey, i go to a math science school. i told her that if she doesn't want to pay for me to go to a school in California, then how in the world does she expect to pay for Harvard.
i need to visit colleges this summer. and i don't want my mom with me. i just want to get up and go. i want to be ON MY OWN for once in my life. i'd love it. i'm tired of being overprotected. sure, they have lightened up a bit these last few years. but i've still never been ON MY OWN. no one thinks i could do it. and i mean no one. and i just want to prove them all wrong. show them that i can be independent, and that i can be my own person. i don't need other people.
oh how that paragraph can have double meanings.
i'm saving half of my first check for college trips.
money sucks.
last summer i saved up for my car. i only have about $700 saved.
this summer i still don't have a car. are my parents gonna buy me one? am i EVER going to get my license? those are some good questions. i don't know what to save for.
i need to save for college. if im getting out of Michigan - i need to start saving. i almost need to work during my senior year.
i need to save for college visits. ill pay for my plane ticket to anywhere. i'll save up and i will.
i think i need to start working 4 days a week. i won't be making enough with only 3.
how many schools is/did all of you apply to?
there's so many i would consider.
how many in Michigan?
one
Kalamazoo was tempting - but i don't want to study abroad. it'd be fun. but i wouldn't want to do it. id like to be no more than a country away from those i love.
I guess this is what im considering:
1. UC Berkeley
2. UC Davis
3. Sarah Lawrence
4. NYU
5. Yale
6. Columbia
7. U of M
so basically, if i could pay to go anywhere out of state, i would. in a heartbeat.
and two of my wants are ivy league. kind of pathetic when you think about it. i prolly wouldn't even get in.
Michigan is my last choice.
im sick of being here.
i hate it here.
even though im finding myself getting along with people i used to despise, i still hate it here. more than anything.
and i know im being unrealistic. i know that there's a 90% chance i'll end up at Michigan. but its not where i want to be at all.
i can get scholarships. i won $100 for an essay about why the patriot act sucks.
sorry for the random college babbling. you really didn't have to read all of that. and sorry for sucking up space on your friends page.
senior pictures are coming up fast.
oh the joys of senior year.
i made my appointment on wednesday.
went shopping yesterday.
did i buy anything for my pictures?
of course not.
did i buy things just for me?
of course.
i have a hair appointment for tuesday of next week. i cant wait - my hair hasn't been cut or highlighted since christmas. that's way overdue.
i wanna go a bit blonder than before - but not a lot blonder. im happy being brunette.
the pistons = amazing.
i love them.
pictures coming soon.
and on a sickeningly exciting note - im getting a 20GB iPod. b/c i definitely got an A in physics.
thanks for listening to the babble
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