School

Well, today I took my first concrete step in the college application process…
I started the online application to the University of Chicago. It has an excellent academic reputation, is in the nice part of an interesting city, and is pretty close to my mom’s family.
It was hard to take this first step; I’m shedding [...]

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I just got back from one of those college info sessions that pretty much everyone my age has experienced. I know that there isn’t really any guarantee of getting admitted to any Ivy League school, so I shouldn’t get too attached to the idea of attending any of them. However, I just have [...]

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My schedule for school next year is as follows:
1st Semester:
1 – Honors World Issues, 2 – AP European History, 3 – 4th year French, 4 – UW Extension Composition, 5 – AP Statistics, 6 – TA (hopefully for Mme Stiles)
2nd Semester:
1 – Honors American Issues, 2 – AP European History, 3 – 4th year French, [...]

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I got my SAT 2 scores back.
770 on the Chemistry one
710 on the Math Level 2.
Math is always my lowest score on everything!
Argh!
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So, I got back from Girl’s State at 11:30 this morning and promptly took a 4 hour nap. I’m still tired, but not enough to fall asleep; just enough to be really lethargic and lazy. Anyway, here’s a day-by-day account of my adventures.
Sunday, June 12th – Ellensburg doesn’t know what hit them
I got [...]

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Tomorrow I leave for Girl’s State, a big political nerd get-together. I’ll be back on the 18th; expect a full report.
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Today, we had the Academic Awards as well as the band goofy awards. I’m happy to say that I did rather well for myself, winning Top Scholar, Science department and English department awards at the former and Most In Tune, Most Likely to Hold Up a 7-11 and Most Likely to be a Gangsta [...]

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I just took the most horrible standardized test ever; I signed up for the most difficult of the math SAT 2s because I figured that, since I’m probably going to get a 5 on the AP Calculus exam, I’m pretty good at math.
I didn’t remember how to do any of it.
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