<p>Hmm, English Literature. You could write an essay on the characterization of Satan in Paradise Lost, that seems to be a nearly endless source of conversation in lit. Is he a hero, isn’t he, why did Milton start with his perspective, etc. Of course, I’ve been reading Paradise Lost on and off for about three months now, and I’m only half-way done, so you’d have to be up for some dense reading. It’s really good, though.</p>
<p>My first foray into Canada-Land will occur in July.</p>
<p>Edit: I didn’t read your post, scratch the beginning of mine. I will be going to Canada-Land, though. If you’re doing Joyce, Finnegans Wake is brilliant, even if it’s nearly impossible to read. I can’t say I was quite as big of a fan of Ulysses, but I only read a few passages to be fair.</p>
<p>James Joyce is good. I read the first twenty-five pages of Portrait of the Artist, and it seemed good. I just lost interest, like I do with most novels.</p>
<p>I’m installing Windows 7 tonight. If I don’t come back, you know why.</p>
<p>omggg you went BUFFALO. And, I like Madame Bovary, that whore.</p>
<p>I have been neglecting reading lately, and I must remedy that soon.</p>
<p>It’s now been over an hour, and I haven’t even finished making a new partition for Windows 7 yet. I guess it’s a good thing I decided to do this on a night when I have no homework. I’m liking my easy week at school.</p>
<p>Mike, I don’t want to do anything related to Paradise Lost because one of the high-scoring EEs my IB coordinator gave to us was about “echoes of Paradise Lost in Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.” It’s too similar and I don’t want it to seem like I stole my idea from someone.</p>
<p>I was considering Ulysses mostly because it has a soliloquy at the end that’s apparently (I haven’t read it myself) a perfect instance of a stream of consciousness narration. I could take that soliloquy and compare it to the narrative style of another book or excerpt or something.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the suggestions, everyone.</p>
<p>Snoop, do you have any suggestions for what I could do about Madame Bovary? It has to be pretty specific, like the analysis of a theme or something.</p>
<p>An analysis of her whorishness?</p>
<p>You could do something that ties Emma’s want of the finer things to the concept of upward mobility, but the more I think about it the more I can only think of examples within American society. Leon versus Rodolphe?</p>
<p>W00tness. I’m liking Windows 7 so far.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the IBO, in all of its vanity, would appreciate an analysis of Madame Bovary’s whorishness.</p>
<p>I’m getting my SAT scores tomorrow. No matter what, I am never taking the SAT reasoning test ever again.</p>
<p>I haven’t even started the SAT. Distractions, they are plenty.</p>
<p>So I have to memorize 200 questions in the next two days, and my presentation was pushed back to next Thursday. Good and bad.</p>
<p>Ooh! I know! Write an essay about the flaws in the IB programme!</p>
<p>I love Franz Ferdinand.</p>
<p>Eh.</p>
<p>High School Musical won’t get out of my head.</p>
<p>So my new SAT score in comparison to the old one:</p>
<p>CR: 770, up from 730.
M: 760, up from 750.
W: 710, down from 730. My essay went from an 11 to a 10, though.</p>
<p>I don’t want to retake, and I don’t think that I will, but I’m frustrated that my writing score went down.</p>
<p>Congratz Yak, nearly all schools super score so the writing’s no big deal.</p>
<p>I remember waking up early to see test scores. Oh, the good ole days.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s really exciting. But I’m so sick of the SAT that I think I’m never taking it again. I plan on applying EA to Yale, and I have subject tests to take in October and November, so even if I wanted to, the last time I could take it would be in June. And I don’t think I will, because I don’t think I have to. </p>
<p>I think my Extended Essay trouble is resolved. I think.</p>
<p>That’s good. So you’ll dominate French, Math II is easy, what other subject tests are you looking at?</p>
<p>Nothing makes you feel twelve again like a huge splinter in your toe. Why did I have to get the mail barefoot?</p>
<p>I’m going to do chemistry too. I like chemistry.</p>
<p>My one problem with math II is that the Ontario math curriculum (yes, our curriculum is standardized) is really dumbed down and lacking, and just generally stupid. Here, the classes aren’t called things like “Algebra 2” or “pre-calc.” Instead, there’s “grade 9 math” or “grade 10 math.” Since schools aren’t semestered for the most part, students who are good at math can’t get ahead of the level they’re “supposed” to be at. Thanks to the IB, I’m a bit ahead of where I should be, but I haven’t even learned a third of the stuff on the math II test. My understanding of logarithms, for example, is shakey at best. </p>
<p>So yes, I plan on studying a lot for the Math II test this summer.</p>
<p>Did you just end a sentence with “at”? Curses.</p>
<p>I did well on Math II even with my crappy math curriculum at school. Spanish and Literature, on the other hand…</p>
<p>Great job on your scores. They’re way better than mine, and I got into UChicago. I’m thinking that it was my ACT that got me into UChicago, since plenty of people with higher SAT scores than mine got rejected.</p>
<p>As I am not a member of the Latin-speaking aristocracy from the Middle Ages, I’ll end as many sentences with prepositions as I please. The other option is the ridiculous, “At what subject tests are you looking?” I refuse to speak or write that way.</p>
<p>My ACT score pretty much exactly correlates with my SAT score, so time was wasted somewhere.</p>
<p>I know that’s ridiculous. That’s why you say, “What subject tests are you considering?”</p>
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<p>Google says I’m right. Therefore I will continue to say, “Where you at?”, “Watcha lookin’ for”, and “What is it by?”, etc. If that’s O.K. with you, of course.</p>