Please please please let me take back all of my negativity over the past week, because it was unfounded. Three very exciting things in the mail, in order of excitingness: 1. Acceptance to Harvey Mudd (whew) 2. Acceptance to Stanford (ACK! Stanford…STANFORD! EEE!) 3. The Buck Scholarship (NO WAY. OH. MY. GOD. I got it. […]
Down the Rabbit Hole
Monthly Archives March 2003
Victorian poetry, bombs, and college
I’ve gotten into all three UCs that I applied to now, which is good, I guess, even though it wasn’t my goal in life to go to one. On a different note, since no one reads this, I’ll just use it for my own benefit by prioritizing this weekend: HOMEWORK Chem presentation – powerpoint (get […]
A cappella ecstasy
As my friend Alex would say, there has been “so much happiness!” today. It was an okay day until I got to choir and discovered that the Yale a cappella group “Out of the Blue” was singing for us today! Thank you so so so so so much to them and to whomever arranged this! […]
Irony
So hours and hours of rehearsal and six performances later I’m finally done with the school musical. It went remarkably well. The real reason I’m posting though is that I got into MIT. Yay! The irony is that one of my best friends didn’t get in. Although I probably do have stronger academic credentials overall, […]
The sunshine almost makes me forget…
I wish I could forget the fact that I missed the Cal Grant deadline. I did manage to correct my FAFSA to send it to two more UCs, but still…*sigh* Oh well. Despite that, it was such a lovely day today. I went on a walk with Paul, which always makes me happy. Sometimes I […]
The horror of unmet deadlines
Here I was thinking my horrible week was finally over. I was even enjoying an evening with my friends. Then something really depressing occurred to me: February only has 28 days, which means that as of today, it is March 1st and I have probably missed at least 3 financial-aid related deadlines, not to mention […]