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so i went skiing today. it was really really really cold and freezing and…there was a lot of ice blowing around cuz they were making snow, and it caused horrible visibility and snow to go all over my face. so i put on goggles, but it still sucked. it’s fun to ski down those freestyle terrains but just avoid the jumps…then you get a smooth but wavy journey down that is easy and fun and not dangerous at all (despite being rated black diamond cuz of the jumps).
i submitted all of my college apps todayyy. i can’t believe that i didn’t apply to some schools that i was pretty sure i’d apply to a year ago. or maybe even in elementary school. lol. what if i get too afraid to go to caltech?
i have too many blogs and really should consolidate. but they all serve different purposes! lolol. meh, that just means that i’ll only edit the blog that i like the most at the time. that depends on my mood B). as long as…i … update them at least once in a while 0.o haha.
lol maybe, during caltech prefrosh, me and chezkuh can drive up to washington! that would be fun – i would be absent a whole lot of days, but hey i can say im sick or something and i’d be a SECOND SEMESTER SENIOR so…who cares !! 
DDDDD lol. we’d visit alex and it would be nice. chezkuh can drive so we can go anywhereeee. lolwowchezkuhcandrive and she is very able to drive she drives everywhere and sometimes even lives in her car 0.o and she’s only 17 wow so young she is not much older than me and i can’t do anything XPP but obviously she is wayy more mature/intellectual considering that her work ethic is really nice and she’s already been thru the rigorous courses of caltech lmao.
well – happy new year to everybody. i haven’t made my resolutions yet but i will, and they will sure include something along the lines of “i will work hard in school. if not in high school, definitely in college, so i wouldn’t be “traumatized” or fail out.” probably also “i will learn my calculus.” moar to come…later. LOL. i haven’t done anything remotely special for new year’s or christmas but dinner/birthday cake was pretty good. and i have a family dinner tomorrow with some family friends at their house. so yeah…yay 2009! our graduation year (:
on saturday, i went with kathleen to see avenue Q on Broadway in NYC. It was pretty interesting (and inappropriate!) which made it quite awesome. Then we went to a restaurant where we stayed for until 8 oclock and everyone fell asleep because they were all tired. however we had to run a few blocks to get to penn station in order to catch our train back home in time (otherwise we would’ve had to stay until 12 or something).
today i had a million tests and tomorrow i have a million tests and projects due too. i haven’t started studying for tomorrow’s stuff or done the projects. i feel bad for the juniors who are writing 7 essays per day right now 
but hey i had to do it last year (albeit a while later – the day before midterms). anyways, procrastination makes everything feel the same anyways.
i sent Yale and Princeton and Columbia. Yale and Princeton were kind of on a whim; instead of being checked over and over and fucking over again like my EA apps, i just sent them by clicking a button and hoping that i won’t catch any mistakes later on. i didn’t even get a teacher to read over my short answers and minis…i just hoped that jessica and alex and maddie knew what they were talking about 
. speaking of my princeton app, that essay was kind of completely random…i did not check it over many times and the intro was fashioned two minutes before i submitted. oopsies, i hope there aren’t many grammatical errors in that one.
wow…um…this is kind of a (bad) attitude to have after years of work and worrying about colleges. but blah. i dont really care about anything right now lol.
and i did my stanford apps too; instead of writing whole new essays for their two weird topics (intellectual vitality and letter to a roommate) i decided to just change my MIT essays around a little bit. for intellectual vitality i talked about web designing, which fit my creation essay for MIT (lol creation essay – what if i say i’m god and i created man, does that get me brownie points?). my community essay was silly, but i just tacked on “dear roommate, i think you’ll get to know me better if u know moer about my community and how it defines me.” i think that’s *ok* but will probably need a bit of tweaking. i am wayyy too lazy at this stage of the game to write new essays. fuck that. it’s interesting, though, because my MIT essays didn’t exactly work.
lol Penn. lol MIT. i spent so much time on those apps but people have said that my RD essays are better. well…i hope? :O lol. ugh. college. is so not exciting. hah.
i’m pretty bored. i guess i could watch House, or i could get started on studying. holy shit econ is 2 chapters – and chem, coordinate chemistry and orgo are two fucking different chapters that i never had before. shit. and that gov project? i haven’t even started.
lol maybe i will watch house now or not
Jessica came over my house on Friday and slept over until today, where we drove her to her uncle’s house in New York and ate at a Japanese restaurant together. These few days have been fun. We went to Marshall’s and the Livingston Mall, and I bought her a shirt while buying some presents for other people. I’ve also bought a shirt for myself and some cool long knee-high socks. When we went to Marshall’s, she bought a nice Roxy sweatshirt/zip up that is really cute. at the restaurant, we took some pictures, but nowhere as many as the ones that got deleted 
Saturday was quite funny because we walked into GNC, a vitamin shop, and asked for Vitamin C and something to make someone look younger. The salespeople asked if it was for us and we said that it was for a 19 year old guy who looked 10 and was clinically depressed about himself so they recommended this cleansing program for us, and offered to discount our Vitamin C to 69cents instead of 5.69 dollars. and then they said that they would discount the cleansing program to 34.99 instead of 39.99. (And then Jessica was like, we know math, stop trying to bullshit us, which is kind of mean, and i felt bad, but who knows =P)
and i really wanted to get it, because it really would have worked probably, but i didn’t, because it was too expensive. so I just went with vitamin C pills and airborne pills. speaking of airborne, i want to eat one now.
That encounter was funny, because we first asked for 1) Adderall, which they asked if we wanted to kill this guy. and then we looked at waitloss hydroxy, which they said would really kill him if he was like 100 pounds. and then we were like, estrogen pills, which are just really really weird lmao.
seriously. but it was funny though. they probably thought we were real life trolls.
my friend got into cornell ED. that is so cool and now she gets to not worry about more apps (EAers don’t have such a privilege ), and not worry about tests, all of that! and go shopping and eat a lot and not care because well YOU’RE INTO COLLEGE! this is like…the ultimate pinnacle of everything you’ve done in high school and in middle school and even all those piano lessons or tutoring classes you’ve went to as an elementary school kid =p jk.
haha tomorrow is penn – i still have to figure out how to check penn decisions. (tomorrow i have to go tutor some girl at 6:45 AM. oh joyy:P) Caltech mail probably comes to NJ tomorrow. If not, I’ll probably have to skip columbia again to check them. MIT comes out on monday at 9 o’clock (hilariously so that no angry parents call the office and complain, or so says Mollie).
today it basically poured so much. and i need my trampoline fixed =P
haha yesterday was sort of a bad day and today was a good day. i hope i haven’t run out of luck yet. if i get my luck for the next four days, i swear i’ll give up luck for the next year or so and i’ll suffer under bad luck forever but i don’t care haha. on monday i’m thinking of not going to school so as not to get *bad* luck. because mr. safran is going to hand back our test that day and i think i did pretty bad. so yeah :p and so it would be a miracle if i did well – just like it would probably be a miracle if i got into MIT. so i guess one foreshadows the other? that’s the kind of luck i’m talking about–when i have the momentum, i basically feel like i can do anything. if i have a challenge in the next class after a particularly good class, i will attempt it because i know that i am probably right (riding on momentum!)
so yeah. i hope that tomorrow is a lucky day too, because caltech *might* come and penn definitely comes. i’m not too enthusiastic/excited about penn though because i’m almost positive i won’t get in. although it would be a little cool to get in but also a bit…depressing, lol. because then i’d have to give up MIT and MIT is my love ♥
so i promised that i would post every day about little things. today, we had sports awards, and it was in the main gym because the auditorium is under construction. i didn’t know where it was at first, but found it by following some sports people. basically we just went up to the front of the stage and got some plaques for iron hills all conference players. and then, as always, we went to the faculty lounge and talked about each individual player. that is always fun, because you can hear about the coach bragging about you, lol, and it’s always good to hear that, especially since the praise is modeled just for you.
i also decided to paint my white boots that cassy got for my birthday last year. they were white and so kind of high-maintenance, but after painting them, they’re so pretty! the colors are kind of circusy and busy, and doesn’t seem like something i would wear outside if it’s fancy or if i don’t want to get comments on it, but it’s definitely pretty with all the detail and weird colors ;] i used acryllic paint and i hope that that won’t wash off after slushing through wet snow, lol.
i think i still have a bit of my creative gene left, although when i got to the second shoe of the pair (they aren’t matching) i had nothing to draw – no inspiriation – so i just took blue ink and spread it out and had it look like a beautiful sky on a half of the second. i’ll post some pictures up when i get them on my computer!
so…college dates are set in stone now 
Caltech mails out tomorrow, meaning that i’ll probably get the mail on friday, or i can wait for the email on saturday (while probably also getting the mail). lol. MIT is latest – out monday, december 15, at 9PM. MIT has always said that they would be the earliest, so as to relieve stress, but hey, can’t blame them for having so many applicants =p
penn is out on friday, at 3:00PM, meaning just right after school. it wouldn’t be anything exciting, because i would most definitely get deferred, so no good news to give to people or anything so there wouldn’t be a point to staying in school and checking email. it’s funny, i’m not even nervous about Penn…i most definitely will not get in.
I don’t know how I feel about Caltech. it is a bit of a confidence booster, I guess, if I could get in, but I don’t think that I would go. It’s far too intense for me. We’ll see about that, however. I wonder which one, email or snail mail, would I get first. If it’s snail mail, would it be the famed and coveted “big envelope?”
i wonder if caltech counts in my bet with jessica. i think it does.
lol a few days ago i had a dream that alex was here and we were taking him to go see a therapist. we took a train to the end of the track to turn back. and i was like you can use my dad’s insurance for the therapist. and then we got off the train and i went to this shop that sold shoes. and i looked around for shoes and there were cool flipflops and heels but i didn’t like heels because i have too many heels. then i found this giant stuffed whale and small stuffed fish toys and i bought them b/c i thought they would make good shoes. but then they were actually stuffed animals and i was like i think i’m going to give this to cassy as her christmas present. and then i went to the pet store place in the store and found this really cool looking fish that was like…hooked or something. it looked weird. i also saw this fish that was a large fish but actually made of bubbles of that contained a lot of other little fish. then the large fish that was made up of little fish came over and attacked the first fish and the pet store owner was like “its illegal to attack your fellow tankmates so im going to kill that fish” or something like that. IDK =P
and i also had this dream where i was in my ap physics class last year and i was supposed to do a presentation on a physicist and i did my presentation. and then my friend sam was like oh i dont have a presentation…give me something. and i looked for papers but couldn’t find any on a physicst. and my other friend penny was like omg who should i do? and i was like…uh i’m a physicist so do a report on ME and she did and they both failed. yah. and then the teacher was like “come over here i need to talk to you” to them and yeah.
Haha I just got out all of my old, useless clothing and the ones that always itch that i got rid of out of my old room. i took out the ironing board with the iron and ironed them (first time!!). it was really cool ironing cuz all the creases disappear slowly. anyways i plugged it in for like ten seconds and i didn’t know that it heated so quickly (glue guns are hella slow) and then i went to grab it and wasn’t careful at all and burnt a little piece of skin on my middle right finger…….it hurt a lot but now its ok. LOL burn scars last forever!! like years. this one will stay forever.
so i cut two knee-high “capris” from old navy into shorts and sewed the cut line in but the sewing is rly ugly and my mom says that maybe she’ll use the sewing machine on it tomorrow. i also reorganized my closet and i cut a heritage tennis discolored sweatshirt into two pieces. now i’m wearing the top half of the piece – so yay. it shall be used extensively for sleep, i guess. that’s the only way i’ll get use out of it and not feel bad for mutilating a sweatshirt (although it WAS stained/discolored! my mom stained it then used baking soda to get it out and the backing soda melted thru stuff. and thenn we ducked the sweater into paint and got back a dripping mess, but at least it’s better…i guess. but not, cuz the colors were different).
a few days ago i went to buy a northface with $25 off $100 and $10 off $50 sports authority coupons. i came home with two northfaces, one khumbu that was $60-$10 = $50 (my sister hates that shape and design) and one denali that was $100 – $25 = $75. lol i bought a boy’s large denali because they ran out of girls’ larges and also the youth was like $70 cheaper than the adults.
i also have to talk about my two interviews, one for penn and one for MIT. for penn was kind of unremarkable, just like any other interview should be, except for the fact that he called me to see where in the food court i was so we could meet and he totally sent us in the wrong direction =P but my phone SUCKED and i couldn’t hear a thing besides bababazbasbzbzzsdf etc.
haha i am sooo sleepy and i really should do that sleep experiment before i go to sleep! i promise to explicate more about everything and my interviews. i hvae a math competition tomorrow and i need to leave at 8:30 so i totally need to sleep. but i want to play that game where i type up random words when asleep and try to make meaning out of the words so i’ll do that first. bye..
yesterday i went to the livingston mall with virginia and cassie and i bought shirts from aeropostale and charlotte russe lol. i am really in need of tshirts. even though it’s winter. and lol i decided to knock some stuff off of my shopping list because i am running out of money LOL.
and then i went to sleep over their house and we played neopets games first. then we watched 21 on youtube and it was soo hawt. and then we had some nice deep conversations and went to sleep the next morning we all copied cassy’s chem hw from last year and played more neopets games. and cassy tried to force us to watch animes with her lol.
ooh and after two days my interviewer finally got back to me. and…wants to schedule an appointment at starbucks at 8pm tomorrow. i’m so excited! i can just get this over with, and hope that he doesn’t hate me, and i’ll actually have a chance at MIT this time. AND EARLY ACTION TOO! i’m so excited. i’m so excited. what would be even more exciting if it was during school or at the library. but i’m not about to complain! i was totally going crazy because i’m EA and my interview window has totally passed.
there’s a new episode of hannah montana LOL. =P …miley is totally not as pretty as before although she is really nicely made up now that she’s older. but she is fatter now i think and she sucks at acting although i LOVE hannah montana lololol. it’s not funny anymore either. lilly/emily osment is prettier. haha.
i kind of can’t wait to drive and get a car, but i can’t drive and i’m not going to get a car =[ but it sounds so exciting to be able to swing car keys and have a nice new car…and getting places without people driving me and I GET TO DRIVE OTHER PEOPLE!
lol. tomorrow i have a makeup chem test and a makeup euro test and a gov test =[ and i…don’t care about the chem test, but i have to study for that euro test and get at least a 95 on the gov test to get an A in gov if i do get an A in gov i would have 3 As and hopefully 2 A-s in Euro and Calc but that’s if i don’t fail this euro test and i didn’t fail the calc test -_-).
wahtever lol grades suck anyways and i’m EAing MIT which i am obsessed with omg. BUT that sucks that my MIT interview is my first ever interview because….i didn’t get to practice!! but thats ok…as long as he doesn’t have a horrible impression of me…=/ gah. and none of my schools do interviews besides alumni ones anyways.
i totally missed the deadline for ED financial aid package estimation lol. but…thats ok rite b/c at least i’m earlier than the RD deadline and for ED they give you an estimate anyways. and people on CC say that i should just send it now and fax it over. i’ll do it tomorrow because today is sunday and it’s late. i kinda guessed for a lot of the stuff i told them that my estimated available contribution is $20,000 which is of course wayy too low. i doubt i will get any FA anyways but…it doesn’t really matter, right, because i’m not getting into Penn anyways. but i’m still super high on life and excited ^_^
