<p>I still have to read Othello, Wuthering Heights, and A Tale of Two Cities and write a paper. And work for AP Stat, Psych, and Econ on top of that. I don’t know how I’m gonna do all that on 3 weeks. Sparknotes and I are gonna become really good friends.</p>
<p>Anyway, on a good note, fingers crossed I’m gonna be part of Wharton 2018 :)</p>
<p>Oh wow. You have to read a lot. I do have one summer reading book, and it’s about 500 pages long. I’m on page 140 right now. I haven’t started annotating though, so I’m worried that I won’t get to do that until school starts.
I also have to finish 50 assignments for an online course before the school year starts (aka in 2 days…), but no stress, no stress. :P</p>
<p>I think the first person from our school in over 10 years went to Penn last year haha. Good luck! I’m applying SCEA and hoping to join the farm for the class of 2018 :)</p>
<p>Hopefully, I’ll join you all and be CAS 2018. And I do mean HOPEFULLY.</p>
<p>My top choices are currently a tie between CMC, UChicago, and Georgetown. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>We’ll see in mid-December though!</p>
<p>I have to read three books and write three essays for ap lit (currently on return of the native, bleh)…there are summer due dates too! And I have a bc Calc summer math packet that I already finished ^.^</p>
<p>Plus SAT/ACT prep, my internship work (anyone know how to program in PHP?), 5 early action essays to write, including my CA one which currently sucks/is too cliche at the end, and I must practice some clari pieces. </p>
<p>Oh summer</p>
<p>Just started my English essay. Idk why, I still have a solid two weeks left.</p>
<p>I have no dream school…
I mean there’s schools I can’t see myself at, and then there’s all the other schools.</p>
<p>I don’t have a dream school. My actual experiences at places never live up to my expectations. (I live in the future far too much.)</p>
<p>quidditchcat & halcyonheather: I guess I’m sort of in the same boat about “dream schools.” I thought I would absolutely positively love to go to one school (it was Penn like a month ago) and now I’m doubting my choices.</p>
<p>oh, summer work… it hurts just to think about it. four books, an essay, 14 articles plus writings, two frq’s, three packets in three subjects, and two other pages of writing I can’t categorize. plus work and teaching myself enough French for the subject test.</p>
<p>school doesn’t start for a month (September 9, I can’t wait! haha, is that sad?) but “fall” sports start next week – bit of false advertising if I do say so myself.</p>
<p>The college app process officially started today! Now i have to focus on the present and this summer crap i got to do. O wait im hundreds miles from home playing lacrosse, i guess i can put that off just another week. ;)</p>
<p>this is totally unrelated but… oh my god at the new Amber Alert texts.
I’m home alone and all of a sudden, I hear loud noises coming from the basement and a thud. I get super paranoid and start think someones there so call the non-emergency number and make the operator stay on the line so I can go downstairs.
It turns out that it was an Amber Alert text that makes super loud beeping sounds for 10 seconds. Due to the loud noises and the vibrations, my phone dropped on the floor. What the heck. Who thought this was a good idea to sign people up for this without telling them? I thought someone was going to abduct me, is that what they want lkajdfkladskjs</p>
<p>vivendium: and those weather announcements, my goodness. if you have an iphone, you can turn them both off (go to settings, notification center, and scroll all the way down). if not, there still should be a way, I just couldn’t tell you how aha.</p>
<p>I’m fine with them now that I actually KNOW that they’re going on, so I’ll just turn my phone on vibrate in the future. I think amber alerts texts is a good idea, but it was friggin horrible to add sound to them without telling people first. I could imagine it causing car accident or something. ugh.</p>
<p>Is it bad that I go to a nationally ranked high school and wouldn’t recommend it to many people? I’m just sitting here thinking about my experience and to be honest, I don’t like my school all that much. Yes, there’s opportunities there, but in a sense not really. We offer 28-30 AP courses, too bad most of them can’t be taken until junior year (and unless you have a 4.0, don’t expect to take more than 3 APs at a time) and our school has way too many prerequisites for them. We are under CPS, so there’s that struggle. There’s many extracurriculars, but only a few of them are truly active. The student body is very difficult to deal with and complain way too much. Most of these kids have been served with a freaking silver spoon in their mouths for way too long. Funding is all types of crooked. If you’re not on the math team or basketball, don’t expect your club to be funded. Some teachers are great, but most are there just to collect a check. Basically what I’m trying to say is get me the hell out of high school NOW. To be honest, I might have been happier at my local neighborhood school. The only positives about my school that I can think of is that, they really do know how the college admissions process works and the school has great connections to wonderful people. </p>
<p>Sorry I just needed to rant a little bit. My mom wants my siblings to go to my school and I’m trying to convince her that is THE wrong move. I wish I did go to this boarding school I got accepted in. Chances are I would have been much happier. My shadow day there was better than most of my days at my high school. Ok. I’m done.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather, I tend to live in the future far too much as well. Usually when I’m awaiting an important decision, I’ll imagine what it would feel like to get it. 99% of the times, I fail and the whole future thinking makes the pain even worse. <em>sigh</em> It’s a habit I really need to break. As you can imagine, applying to college is only making it worse…</p>
<p>^ LOL I do that too. It’s crazy how many times I’ve imagined of having an acceptance letter to Penn, Wash U, Northwestern, or Georgetown in my hands.</p>
<p>I live in the future and worry about the future as well. I always think of the worst thing that could happen as well as the best in general not just talking about college</p>
<p>I like living in the future but too much of anything is bad. Plus i like planning.</p>
<p>^ I love planning it’s an obsession it’s really bad</p>
<p>^ My contingency plans have contingency plans lol</p>