<p>Hello.</p>
<p>The storm has settled and I am on break.</p>
<p>Hello to you. I go on break week after next, but I visit Vandy Wednesday to Sunday, so there’s that.</p>
<p>Also, I’m way confused by this whole National Merit first choice college thing. I guess I have until May 31 to change it from UT-Knox, but they just sent me a letter about their National Merit scholarship. So. I guess I’ll wait to see where I got in, then change. I guess. Maybe I’ll go ahead and change it to Vandy. Hmm.</p>
<p>Unless the good colleges offer scholarships for NMF, it’s a bit pointless to let them know formally once you’re in. Only send it to the schools where they’re going to give you $$$$ for it.</p>
<p>Blickity bleck Marxists. They make paper writing impossible. Because their arguments make absolutely no sense.</p>
<p>You could say the same about neocons. At least you don’t have to write about neocons.</p>
<p>Yeah, some (Vandy, UChic, a couple others) give $2000 for National Merit. You have to put them down as your first choice to get the scholarship though…I have until May 31 to change it, at least.</p>
<p>So MIT’s decisions came out today, and they were SO brutal. There are hardly any acceptances on the CC decisions thread, and this is CC, where all of the Ivy/MIT/Stanford-bound students live.</p>
<p>JESUS.</p>
<p>Also, I saw Up in the Air, and it was good but the end sucked and is undoubtedly the reason it lost all its Oscars. Silly.</p>
<p>Up in the Air lost because it peaked a month early and Kathryn Bigelow has a vagina.</p>
<p>Real talk, trust. I’m the one who’s going to work in that business.</p>
<p>Also, now I’m going to read the MIT acceptances thread and panic.</p>
<p>It should be called a rejections thread, actually. </p>
<p>And Kathryn Bigelow may have a vagina, but she has nothing else.</p>
<p>I’m going to buy The Hurt Locker then tell you my verdict. I won’t watch it with my dad; I’m afraid watching war movies with him will trigger PTSD or something.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll just be a movie critic. Make my bones the Ebert way.</p>
<p>Yes, that is a definite possibility.</p>
<p>I AM DREADING APRIL 1 BECAUSE HEARING BACK FROM 5 SCHOOLS WITHIN THE SPAN OF AN HOUR IS TOO MUCH.</p>
<p>A definite possibility of PTSD or making bones the Ebert way?</p>
<p>I don’t even want to know when I find out. I’ll just find out when I find out, I guess.</p>
<p>Snoop. UChicago decisions are out. Did you apply there?</p>
<p>YOU DID. Jesus. But you’re at stupid Vandy… Stupid, stupid.</p>
<p>Eff Chicago. </p>
<p>EFF IT. But Vandy is nice. :)</p>
<p>They got to be super picky this year, what with the 42% surge in apps. Picky bastards.</p>
<p>Did you get waitlisted? Because that is arguably worse than a rejection.</p>
<p>Rejection. Bastards. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Well, at least you can lol at this: [Prince</a> joke issue really stresses out College Confidential posters | The Ink](<a href=“http://www.universitypressclub.com/archive/2010/01/prince-joke-issue-really-stresses-out-college-confidential-posters/]Prince”>Prince joke issue really stresses out College Confidential posters | University Press Club) LOL</p>
<p>Wait, what?</p>
<p>I just reread my Chicago decision letter; guess I’m on the waitlist? Weird. I guess I can’t read.</p>
<p>Also, apparently I got into NYU? Weird. If I had to apply to college all over again I wouldn’t apply to NYU, but still. This doesn’t suck.</p>
<p>NYU is an awful school, so I understand what you mean. Did you get one of those weird emails that are like “You are part of a select group of students to whom we are sending early invitations to our admitted student days”? </p>
<p>Are you going to accept your spot on the waitlist? I always wonder what I would do if I were waitlisted… I think I’d decline, because I wouldn’t want to prolong the rejection process.</p>
<p>I did accept my spot, it’s not like it’s binding or anything. And yeah, that’s the NYU email I got. </p>
<p>I know NYU aid will be awful and that whole no campus thing sucksss; plus, I don’t like it that much. I don’t remember why I even applied. NU is kind of my top choice right now, but then I think about Pomona and get wistful and whatnot. And my mother is back on the Harvard train after saying she didn’t care; I think knowing that I’m going to hear back soon made her see this as concrete.</p>