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Why are so many good things happening to me? :)
I won a scholarship. It's a scholarship for biracial kids. I had to write an essay about being biracial. I showed it to my English teacher and she said that when she read it she started to cry. She also said she understood me a lot better now. I guess it was a good essay, because I got the scholarship. They'll give me 20,000 a year as long as I keep my GPA in college above a certain point. (It's adjusted for schools--they demand a 3.0 or a 3.2. or something.) That's a relief, because I don't even have to list that on my financial aid stuff, and my guidance counselor and I calculated that I could get anywhere between ten thousand and twenty-five thousand, depending on the school. So I can relax about paying for school.
My guidance counselor let me see my transcript so I could see my GPA. 4.87 suckers. (max is 5.0.) I'm a bi-racial kid with a high GPA, high SAT scores, who speaks a different language at home. =)
It kind of upsets me that I get an advantage in college because neither of my parents were born in America, but I'm not going to lie and say that I'm fully white when I'm not. I can understand the whole 'speak another language at home' deal though. Until I started kindergarten I could barely speak English because we never spoke it at home, luckily I learned well--for some that might present difficulties.
I'm debating which of the essays I wrote I should submit. Maybe my bi-racial one, I don't know. My essays tend to be depressing or incendiary. I don't want incendiary, not really. I have no idea what to write about! I want something really different, I don't know.
Also, supplements. Oh, supplements. My Arts Supplements are going to be mailed Thursday, Overnight Express, so they arrive by Monday. I have two arts supplements: My AP Art portfolio (the slides), and my theater-work portfolio. That one is full of beautiful pictures other people have taken of my work. :) Then I'm also submitting a Research supplement (abstracts of my Intel, and my published piece, and one other that I have to select, so it's between a paper on American patriotism and economic growth, and one analyzing possible scenarios of nuclear standdowns between the U.S. and other established nuclear powers and nuclear rogue nations using game theory), and some of the articles I've written for the school newspaper, including a brilliant one that I won a prize for about governmental lying about WMD in Iraq, and another one about chocolate and vanilla that I won a prize for.
So
I don't know.
I should sleep, in 5 1/2 hour I have It's Academic practice, which I a) didn't want to be on b) don't know why I'm doing this.
p.s.
I'm going to kill Joey, I'm just going to beat him senseless until he is dead.
I won a scholarship. It's a scholarship for biracial kids. I had to write an essay about being biracial. I showed it to my English teacher and she said that when she read it she started to cry. She also said she understood me a lot better now. I guess it was a good essay, because I got the scholarship. They'll give me 20,000 a year as long as I keep my GPA in college above a certain point. (It's adjusted for schools--they demand a 3.0 or a 3.2. or something.) That's a relief, because I don't even have to list that on my financial aid stuff, and my guidance counselor and I calculated that I could get anywhere between ten thousand and twenty-five thousand, depending on the school. So I can relax about paying for school.
My guidance counselor let me see my transcript so I could see my GPA. 4.87 suckers. (max is 5.0.) I'm a bi-racial kid with a high GPA, high SAT scores, who speaks a different language at home. =)
It kind of upsets me that I get an advantage in college because neither of my parents were born in America, but I'm not going to lie and say that I'm fully white when I'm not. I can understand the whole 'speak another language at home' deal though. Until I started kindergarten I could barely speak English because we never spoke it at home, luckily I learned well--for some that might present difficulties.
I'm debating which of the essays I wrote I should submit. Maybe my bi-racial one, I don't know. My essays tend to be depressing or incendiary. I don't want incendiary, not really. I have no idea what to write about! I want something really different, I don't know.
Also, supplements. Oh, supplements. My Arts Supplements are going to be mailed Thursday, Overnight Express, so they arrive by Monday. I have two arts supplements: My AP Art portfolio (the slides), and my theater-work portfolio. That one is full of beautiful pictures other people have taken of my work. :) Then I'm also submitting a Research supplement (abstracts of my Intel, and my published piece, and one other that I have to select, so it's between a paper on American patriotism and economic growth, and one analyzing possible scenarios of nuclear standdowns between the U.S. and other established nuclear powers and nuclear rogue nations using game theory), and some of the articles I've written for the school newspaper, including a brilliant one that I won a prize for about governmental lying about WMD in Iraq, and another one about chocolate and vanilla that I won a prize for.
So
I don't know.
I should sleep, in 5 1/2 hour I have It's Academic practice, which I a) didn't want to be on b) don't know why I'm doing this.
p.s.
I'm going to kill Joey, I'm just going to beat him senseless until he is dead.