OMG COLLEGE
Well, my first week of school went spectacularly. My creative writing class requires that, for example, I spend part of the class period describing a set of stairs, and the rest of it for discussing my description. My calc class is going to be challenging, but Mr. Biggerstaff seems like quite a great teacher who will make things interesting. My english class is an afternoon book club!! How cool is that?!?! And I have no homework this weekend. I honestly don't think that has happened since sophomore year. This year is going to be too much fun to be right.
In other news, though, my college dreams appear to be washing down the drain, as NYU, with possibly the best jazz program of any regular college I've looked at, is going to be a) far too much money, and b) in New York City, where my dad is convinced terrorists are going to hit again and would probably kill himself with worry if I went there. And to be perfectly honest, I'm a little afraid of that myself. I just . . . gahhhhhhhhh . . . New York, and culture, and a phenominal jazz program and . . . perfectly out of the question. And I'm goin back to visit east coast schools in the last weekend of this month, but I couldn't get to NYU if I visit my two Massachusetts schools, Tufts and Amherst, and I feel like I just need to experience NYU, take a lesson, see the city, etc. If I visit NYU, a place I almost certainly can't go, I won't get to Amherst and thus won't be able to visit Courtney Schirr, my good friend who's currently going to Williams. And I'm not even sure these are the schools I would like the best. I only have three bloody days, and since one is in NY and 2 are in MA, I apparently can only visit two of them. And it's not like my parents won't support me if I decide to go to NYU; I just don't think I could do that to them, and I myself am a little scared, too. NYU might very well be the perfect place for me; I just don't wanna die. Is that too much to ask?????
And then there's college fucking applications and financial aid and practicing and traveling for auditions and my dad lecturing me on how student loans are the devil and I should just go to Eastern or GU. I'm so pissed right now. I just . . . yeahhhhh . . .
Matt
In other news, though, my college dreams appear to be washing down the drain, as NYU, with possibly the best jazz program of any regular college I've looked at, is going to be a) far too much money, and b) in New York City, where my dad is convinced terrorists are going to hit again and would probably kill himself with worry if I went there. And to be perfectly honest, I'm a little afraid of that myself. I just . . . gahhhhhhhhh . . . New York, and culture, and a phenominal jazz program and . . . perfectly out of the question. And I'm goin back to visit east coast schools in the last weekend of this month, but I couldn't get to NYU if I visit my two Massachusetts schools, Tufts and Amherst, and I feel like I just need to experience NYU, take a lesson, see the city, etc. If I visit NYU, a place I almost certainly can't go, I won't get to Amherst and thus won't be able to visit Courtney Schirr, my good friend who's currently going to Williams. And I'm not even sure these are the schools I would like the best. I only have three bloody days, and since one is in NY and 2 are in MA, I apparently can only visit two of them. And it's not like my parents won't support me if I decide to go to NYU; I just don't think I could do that to them, and I myself am a little scared, too. NYU might very well be the perfect place for me; I just don't wanna die. Is that too much to ask?????
And then there's college fucking applications and financial aid and practicing and traveling for auditions and my dad lecturing me on how student loans are the devil and I should just go to Eastern or GU. I'm so pissed right now. I just . . . yeahhhhh . . .
Matt