Have been reading student blogs at MIT's colourful but alas, still confusing website. (For all none of you who care, Brown thus far retains a significant lead in college sites whose layouts I can actually navigate, most of the time. Also, from a web designer's point of view, it is classy and understated, unlike some other school whose name escapes ( Read more... )

That unnecessary hour in the grey drizzled morning (& isn't it weeks ago already?) means that we can call ourselves seniors now. Optime, mi amici; laudate! We made it. We deserve it ( Read more... )

Guess who just finished retroactively tagging two years' worth of entries ( Read more... )

I checked my journal just now, partly because I'm still vain enough to admire the graphics, more because I love it when you give me things to consider, mostly because it's twenty of eleven and what do you do? You sleep, I know, but I don't just now - I feel so alive, which is rather ridiculous and rather wonderful, but ridiculous. And I realized, ( Read more... )

What do you believe?

Sometimes it feels like we spend so little of life living and so much trying to survive in all these superfluous ways. So:

What do you want to do before you die? If you knew that you would die soon - a day, a month, one year, ten - would you say or do anything differently?

I always hate turning the clocks back. It's the darkness, I think, and how early it comes - I don't mind waking in the blue-shadowed dawn, for I usually do, but it's the darkness at five and darkest at seven that I can't stand. And the night's not even longest, strongest yet; that will be Yule, that will be in two months almost and winter will have ( Read more... )

The tentative art meeting today never materialized; I was left with far more "free" time after school than I'd intended or wanted, a situation exacerbated by my mother's lateness. Expecting her arrival any time, I waited outside - it was warm and relatively peaceful ( Read more... )

Mail today: a newsletter from SJA, which was my middle school, and feels obliged to send me, as an alumni, both semi-yearly updates and (more frequently) requests for money. As an impoverished high school student, I don't know what exactly they're expecting, especially given the amounts of money we're paying the school which I am actually attending ( Read more... )

A strange sort of weather today. It was as steamy this morning as any of the past few days, but the heat broke imperceptibly sometime during the morning, a cooler wind that carried that humidity softly away, that left cool crisp grey air and breezes behind. colder enough by the time we walked out of the assembly that I was almost cold, outside - a ( Read more... )