Well! :-)
Samurai just got an email from Northeastern University saying an admission packet was on its way. A year ago this time, Northeastern was her first choice -- and still was until just a month or so ago. It's flattering that she made the cut. (On paper, she looked right in the middle of what they were looking for.) We'll have to see if their "lettuce" offer (
daily_rant calls financial aid "lettuce") is more lavish than Suffolk University's miserly $3500 a year loan. It will have to be really lavish, though, for her consider attending. (Northeastern is $8000 a year more than Suffolk. )
She has received one rejection letter -- from UNC Chapel Hill! I find this kind of bizarre, actually, since its English Department folks came a'courtin' HER back in October, when she wasn't even thinking about UNC. It was a nicely written rejection, though, noting that 21,000 students had applied for 3200 first year slots. They also encouraged her to consider applying again as a transfer student, but she's done with them. For four years of free tuition (the scholarship they dangled in front of her), yeah. But otherwise, she'd rather stay in the northeast.
Also, this now indicates that if she wanted to transfer to Northeastern after a few years at the much-smaller, more intimate Suffolk, she'd likely be able to do so.
Taxes are done! I can pick them up this week and use them to update the FAFSA and CSS Profiles! Whee!
Samurai is on vacation this week. The car wash manager called this morning to tell her they weren't going to open today because of the snow/sleet/rain (no one in his or her right mind would wash a car today), so she had a day off (with no earnings, either, of course). She's going to Anime Boston on Saturday and wanted to buy a shirt at the mall to use as part of her costume -- she had a coupon for a particular store, and she can wear the shirt other places, too. So we went out together to eat a late lunch and shop for clothes.
This morning, a guy from my heating company came out to evaluate our heating needs... we really should replace our ancient (mid-1960s vintage) furnace before it dies. Our tax refund will just about pay for one of the two systems he suggested; but the other system, about $1230 more, will make up the difference in cost in energy savings in 3-4 years. If we go with his company (and I've been with them since 1985), he will "erase" the bill for the $227 repair job we needed on March 10, and use the new expansion tank that was part of that repair with the new system.
We can't do anything right now because a snowbank is blocking access to the backyard and the basement door, but he understands that. (Same reason why I haven't replaced the basement freezer yet, even though I have it picked out.) PLUS... we will REALLY need to clear JUNK out of the basement to allow access! It's high time for a cleanout, anyway. This will be the incentive.
I'll update on other things later.
daily_rant calls financial aid "lettuce") is more lavish than Suffolk University's miserly $3500 a year loan. It will have to be really lavish, though, for her consider attending. (Northeastern is $8000 a year more than Suffolk. )
She has received one rejection letter -- from UNC Chapel Hill! I find this kind of bizarre, actually, since its English Department folks came a'courtin' HER back in October, when she wasn't even thinking about UNC. It was a nicely written rejection, though, noting that 21,000 students had applied for 3200 first year slots. They also encouraged her to consider applying again as a transfer student, but she's done with them. For four years of free tuition (the scholarship they dangled in front of her), yeah. But otherwise, she'd rather stay in the northeast.
Also, this now indicates that if she wanted to transfer to Northeastern after a few years at the much-smaller, more intimate Suffolk, she'd likely be able to do so.
Taxes are done! I can pick them up this week and use them to update the FAFSA and CSS Profiles! Whee!
Samurai is on vacation this week. The car wash manager called this morning to tell her they weren't going to open today because of the snow/sleet/rain (no one in his or her right mind would wash a car today), so she had a day off (with no earnings, either, of course). She's going to Anime Boston on Saturday and wanted to buy a shirt at the mall to use as part of her costume -- she had a coupon for a particular store, and she can wear the shirt other places, too. So we went out together to eat a late lunch and shop for clothes.
This morning, a guy from my heating company came out to evaluate our heating needs... we really should replace our ancient (mid-1960s vintage) furnace before it dies. Our tax refund will just about pay for one of the two systems he suggested; but the other system, about $1230 more, will make up the difference in cost in energy savings in 3-4 years. If we go with his company (and I've been with them since 1985), he will "erase" the bill for the $227 repair job we needed on March 10, and use the new expansion tank that was part of that repair with the new system.
We can't do anything right now because a snowbank is blocking access to the backyard and the basement door, but he understands that. (Same reason why I haven't replaced the basement freezer yet, even though I have it picked out.) PLUS... we will REALLY need to clear JUNK out of the basement to allow access! It's high time for a cleanout, anyway. This will be the incentive.
I'll update on other things later.