shmivy.
BU or BC, i'm yours. and i'm so happy about that. can't wait to visit you both and decide which one i love more.
the college process is over and i've learned a lot from it. about a lot of things.
not that anyone will read all these, but here they go:
1. don't cut yourself short. might as well try for the hard ones. if you only settle, you'll never know what could have been.
2. don't be pessimistic. i thought i'd get no money from my favorite schools. and i did.
3. don't be too optimistic, either. don't get your hopes set on one place. that way, in the end, when you end up in that place it'll be all the more fulfilling. and if you don't, you won't break your own heart over it.
4.test the waters. some schools sound good, but aren't so nice up close and personal. cough cough holy cross people are jerksss.
5. accept rejection. no one can get them all. pity being waitlisted. never settle for being second best. if a school doesn't want you 100%, why should you want it back at all? look at it like having a crush on someone who wants someone else. ha.
6. don't take it personally. people, i've noticed, get the weirdest combos of accceptances and rejections, ones that are really unexpected. you could get into duke and not worcester state, for all i know.
7. put it in perspective. college is major. when you're going through the college process, once you get an acceptance letter or a scholarship notification, all of your other miniscule problems will fade into the distance, i promise. what really matters will shine through.
8. realize a place does not equal happiness. don't be sad if you don't get in somewhere. chances are, its not right for you and you wouldnt be happy there. not that im in college yet but, i have a feeling that where you end up is where you should end up if you let it happen that way. and happiness will follow.
9. don't be too eager. it seems like yesterday i was working all night on applications, revising essays to no end, and stressing deadlines. and boom, before i knew it i've heard back from all my schools and im about to make my decision soon about where i'm going. ah!
10. hard work pays off. even if it seems the homework, activities, tests, and crazy teachers aren't gonna land you anywhere... they will. i promise, again.
i should write a book. or maybe an article. hm ;o)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
in less than 24 hours
i will have heard from all of my schools and narrowed it down to my best possibilities.
this is all so unbelievable!
everything is working out for me lately. well, everything that matters in perspective.
so i'm not too worried. about anything.
if i don't get into the ivies, it's no big (even though it would be great to get in). im still wicked ridiculously ecstatically happy with BU and BC. i haven't been this truly happy about anything in a while.
high school's almost over. it's crazy exciting!
oh and i'm eighteen in less than a month. that's exciting too.
someone's planning a surprise for me, and i have no idea what it is, and i'm really curious. hint please? ;o)
this is all so unbelievable!
everything is working out for me lately. well, everything that matters in perspective.
so i'm not too worried. about anything.
if i don't get into the ivies, it's no big (even though it would be great to get in). im still wicked ridiculously ecstatically happy with BU and BC. i haven't been this truly happy about anything in a while.
high school's almost over. it's crazy exciting!
oh and i'm eighteen in less than a month. that's exciting too.
someone's planning a surprise for me, and i have no idea what it is, and i'm really curious. hint please? ;o)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
chopped and screwed
new found liking of that song. couldnt tell you why. maybe its t-pain. maybe its the beat. maybe its the lyrics.
who. knows.
who. knows.
Friday, March 27, 2009
reliving the past
is not fun. but it only makes me more excited for the future; where I'm going.
And, as of now, where I'm going might be my college dream, the first school i visited, which was love at first sight, exactly what i want and exactly what i need, exactly where i want to be physically and exactly where i want to go mentally... and exactly what i thought i couldn't have.
but i got into BU.
and i got decent guap.
and now i'm 9-0-1. still waiting on holy cross (boo, i'm already ruling you out because i hate your snobby white-bread-ness) and the three ivies: yale (eh, i'd rather go to bc or bu than that), harvard (i wanna grow up to be just like the harvard lady who interviewed me with her louis vitton bag &c., so i'm hopeful), and brown (which i am in love with almost as much as i am with bu and i know i'd fit in well there and i could take classes at risd which would be sick, so i'm double hopeful.)
but i have my options now. my best offer for money for ones i want to go to is suffolk (full tuition! and good location). i love bc (but dont know how much dinero ig ot yet). uconn's nice, not my fave. smith is such a good school (but all chicks and idk how i'd deal with 24-7 drama like that since i cant even deal with it six hours a day at school with only half the people surrounding me girls.) i basically ruled out due to my other options being so good assumption, emmanuel, clark(even though i got $$), and umass amherst(even though i may still consider their really good honors program).
i'm glad this work is paying off... finally.
on a less serious note, i hung out with melissa tonight and shes a riot i just die laughing every second because she comes out with the funniest things. and she knows so much about me without even trying, like how i prob have GAD and how my mom and i have a close relationship and how i get nervous in uncomfortable situations haha. then her and these two guys just HAVE to bring up my past and make me ultra uncomforble, but its all good. i'm just glad i've changed. and hope i have good enough friends to kick my ass if i ever act like i did back in the day. if you dont know what im talking about never mind.
peace!
And, as of now, where I'm going might be my college dream, the first school i visited, which was love at first sight, exactly what i want and exactly what i need, exactly where i want to be physically and exactly where i want to go mentally... and exactly what i thought i couldn't have.
but i got into BU.
and i got decent guap.
and now i'm 9-0-1. still waiting on holy cross (boo, i'm already ruling you out because i hate your snobby white-bread-ness) and the three ivies: yale (eh, i'd rather go to bc or bu than that), harvard (i wanna grow up to be just like the harvard lady who interviewed me with her louis vitton bag &c., so i'm hopeful), and brown (which i am in love with almost as much as i am with bu and i know i'd fit in well there and i could take classes at risd which would be sick, so i'm double hopeful.)
but i have my options now. my best offer for money for ones i want to go to is suffolk (full tuition! and good location). i love bc (but dont know how much dinero ig ot yet). uconn's nice, not my fave. smith is such a good school (but all chicks and idk how i'd deal with 24-7 drama like that since i cant even deal with it six hours a day at school with only half the people surrounding me girls.) i basically ruled out due to my other options being so good assumption, emmanuel, clark(even though i got $$), and umass amherst(even though i may still consider their really good honors program).
i'm glad this work is paying off... finally.
on a less serious note, i hung out with melissa tonight and shes a riot i just die laughing every second because she comes out with the funniest things. and she knows so much about me without even trying, like how i prob have GAD and how my mom and i have a close relationship and how i get nervous in uncomfortable situations haha. then her and these two guys just HAVE to bring up my past and make me ultra uncomforble, but its all good. i'm just glad i've changed. and hope i have good enough friends to kick my ass if i ever act like i did back in the day. if you dont know what im talking about never mind.
peace!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
eventful
so this week. pretty good so far.
tennis started, and my lifes just double as busy as usual, which is fine with me. monday was a bitch but it felt so good to run, hit, then have to make my sore self go to dance for two hours. i love the spring weather that's been around this week too, minus today, which gave me a break form the business, let me hang out with chewy at j^3 and chat about life, then take a nice nap.
prom is all coming together, and i'm relieved/really happy.
partybus+nice dress+great date+amazing friends=prom will be really fun
and i'm warming up to this 45 minute thing, i dont really even mind it anymore. an extra study here, extra art class there, extra time to plan prom seating in journalism. all good stuff.
but my car is a piece of crap. i had to coast the whole way home from school on monday? tuesday? whatever day that was. my breaks just liek died. so i've been bumming rides.
but it's all good :o)
tennis started, and my lifes just double as busy as usual, which is fine with me. monday was a bitch but it felt so good to run, hit, then have to make my sore self go to dance for two hours. i love the spring weather that's been around this week too, minus today, which gave me a break form the business, let me hang out with chewy at j^3 and chat about life, then take a nice nap.
prom is all coming together, and i'm relieved/really happy.
partybus+nice dress+great date+amazing friends=prom will be really fun
and i'm warming up to this 45 minute thing, i dont really even mind it anymore. an extra study here, extra art class there, extra time to plan prom seating in journalism. all good stuff.
but my car is a piece of crap. i had to coast the whole way home from school on monday? tuesday? whatever day that was. my breaks just liek died. so i've been bumming rides.
but it's all good :o)
Thursday, March 12, 2009
not good enough
i guess five acceptances in a row was my limit. and now i'm kind of nervous, i won't lie. wait-listed to a school in probably my top five choices of the fourteen i applied to, and the one i wasn't worried about at all for some reason, and one less difficult to get into than the other ones. i was completely chill about this college thing until now. now i'm anxious and scared for march 31 when brown publishes their decisions, and around that time when harvard, bu, and bc publish theirs. if i'm below par to be fully accepted at northeastern, then what should i expect from the oters...
i shouldn't think like that. i didnt really want to go there anyways. i guess i'll have to sit and sweat it out until the end of the month.
then i'll see if all the hell i put myself through in highschool was/is worth it or not.
by the way, i had to recap my senior year in one page due tomorrow. its not over yet, how am i supposed to know how i'll feel on class day reading this speech that will forever lay in the yearbook? i legit choked up a few times writing it. but ms. s and mr. l are helping me revise and edit it to be amazing thank the Lord. i can't believe high school is just over 2 months to being over. what the hell am i going to do with myself?
i shouldn't think like that. i didnt really want to go there anyways. i guess i'll have to sit and sweat it out until the end of the month.
then i'll see if all the hell i put myself through in highschool was/is worth it or not.
by the way, i had to recap my senior year in one page due tomorrow. its not over yet, how am i supposed to know how i'll feel on class day reading this speech that will forever lay in the yearbook? i legit choked up a few times writing it. but ms. s and mr. l are helping me revise and edit it to be amazing thank the Lord. i can't believe high school is just over 2 months to being over. what the hell am i going to do with myself?
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
it's been a while
but i'm here now.
yet again i'm finding myself with nothing to do on yet another snow day, cool. so, i'll tell you what's been up in my life.
february vaca was unexpectedly wicked good. went to new hampshire for a few days and spent some quality time with my cousins, the snow, and fresh air. went to boston with a yeseni adrieanna donald and hung, and had a wicked good time walking, talking, shopping, train-riding, laughing, eating, and meeting johnny cupcake himself (who i decided i will in the future marry, and open "andrea cupcake" stores attatched to his where i'll sell my delicious cupcakes. what a match made in heaven.) saw friday the 13th and jumped too much. had a bust of a get together at my house for all the people in dancing with the stars, but whatever because i made some legit quesadillas and cupcakes for it (even if they werent good enough to make johnny cupcake marry me.) watched and made fun of high school musical 3 on yessy's floor while on a double date with ben and jerry. ate sushi, didn't watch the breakup, gossiped and made up an unforgettable cheer with yessy and michelle. then came the waves of homework which i of course let go til the end, but it's okay because i wasn't alone and t resulted in a couple other procrastinators came over to share their misery in academia with me... and watch the oscars.
this week was ridiccccccculously busy for me. but it ended ever so well. the senior class has been planning "dancing with the stars" for a while, and it just this week all came together. i thought it would be pretty shaky, and i was terribly stressed out over it, even breaking my "no work past ten" rule for this thing (lol). i even missed going to the fitchburg game to finish wrapping up loose ends the night before the show.. then friday came, i ran around school all day covering details needing attention, went home, loaded up my car, burned my forehead with a curling iron, freaked out for a while, then went to school and set up, then had to do my makeup and get dressed in a south high bathroom. and from there everything was golden. everyone looked so good! and had such fun. kyle and i MC'd and i must say we did a pretty fab job. all the dancers were wicked good AND HILARIOUS. the audience ate it up. we made mad guap for the senior class. i didn't hear a single complaint. and now everyone's restored confidence that this year doesnt completely suck. so i think it was beyond successful :o) and i was so relieved and happy.
after, thirteen of us went out to eat at t.g.i.'s. i was soo tired and starving, then i realized it was friday and i cant eat meat because it's lent. cool. so i got fish and chips, and they were straigtup fishsticks. not yummy. never get them. but if fishsticks were the only bad part of that night, i was satisfied. lol.
then i went to this party saturday night. and didn't really have fun at the moment but when i look back theres a few things that were pretty damn funny, and it wasnt too bad. i guess its just kinda hard to not fall into peer pressure, and i kinda hate it yet won't back down from what i do (or don't do). but that's just how i am and its no one's fault but my own :o) and i'm happy with that.
did i mention i'm not eating food between meals at all during lent? so for 40 days and 40 nights. that's my life at the moment.
oh and, i ordered my prom dress and its shipping out tomorrrow and i'm so excitedddddddddddd. can;t wait for prom. oh wait, i'm dateless and have a ton of planning ahead of me. whoops! we'll figure those details out soon enough. the dress is what really matters ;o)
peace out guys. i know this is wicked long and i could write foreverrr!
<3
yet again i'm finding myself with nothing to do on yet another snow day, cool. so, i'll tell you what's been up in my life.
february vaca was unexpectedly wicked good. went to new hampshire for a few days and spent some quality time with my cousins, the snow, and fresh air. went to boston with a yeseni adrieanna donald and hung, and had a wicked good time walking, talking, shopping, train-riding, laughing, eating, and meeting johnny cupcake himself (who i decided i will in the future marry, and open "andrea cupcake" stores attatched to his where i'll sell my delicious cupcakes. what a match made in heaven.) saw friday the 13th and jumped too much. had a bust of a get together at my house for all the people in dancing with the stars, but whatever because i made some legit quesadillas and cupcakes for it (even if they werent good enough to make johnny cupcake marry me.) watched and made fun of high school musical 3 on yessy's floor while on a double date with ben and jerry. ate sushi, didn't watch the breakup, gossiped and made up an unforgettable cheer with yessy and michelle. then came the waves of homework which i of course let go til the end, but it's okay because i wasn't alone and t resulted in a couple other procrastinators came over to share their misery in academia with me... and watch the oscars.
this week was ridiccccccculously busy for me. but it ended ever so well. the senior class has been planning "dancing with the stars" for a while, and it just this week all came together. i thought it would be pretty shaky, and i was terribly stressed out over it, even breaking my "no work past ten" rule for this thing (lol). i even missed going to the fitchburg game to finish wrapping up loose ends the night before the show.. then friday came, i ran around school all day covering details needing attention, went home, loaded up my car, burned my forehead with a curling iron, freaked out for a while, then went to school and set up, then had to do my makeup and get dressed in a south high bathroom. and from there everything was golden. everyone looked so good! and had such fun. kyle and i MC'd and i must say we did a pretty fab job. all the dancers were wicked good AND HILARIOUS. the audience ate it up. we made mad guap for the senior class. i didn't hear a single complaint. and now everyone's restored confidence that this year doesnt completely suck. so i think it was beyond successful :o) and i was so relieved and happy.
after, thirteen of us went out to eat at t.g.i.'s. i was soo tired and starving, then i realized it was friday and i cant eat meat because it's lent. cool. so i got fish and chips, and they were straigtup fishsticks. not yummy. never get them. but if fishsticks were the only bad part of that night, i was satisfied. lol.
then i went to this party saturday night. and didn't really have fun at the moment but when i look back theres a few things that were pretty damn funny, and it wasnt too bad. i guess its just kinda hard to not fall into peer pressure, and i kinda hate it yet won't back down from what i do (or don't do). but that's just how i am and its no one's fault but my own :o) and i'm happy with that.
did i mention i'm not eating food between meals at all during lent? so for 40 days and 40 nights. that's my life at the moment.
oh and, i ordered my prom dress and its shipping out tomorrrow and i'm so excitedddddddddddd. can;t wait for prom. oh wait, i'm dateless and have a ton of planning ahead of me. whoops! we'll figure those details out soon enough. the dress is what really matters ;o)
peace out guys. i know this is wicked long and i could write foreverrr!
<3
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