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My mom's being here is making me realise how much more independent I've gotten while I'm here, which is a nice thing. And we're still getting along well. Although today some of the first criticisms started coming up... it's back to old times. Except more sisterly.
I am not going to be capable of finishing this 10-page paper tonight, but it must be done. Only 6 more pages, and it's 9:40.
I had a history test today, which is half of my grade, and of course it talked about France and not any other of the countries we studied, where I would be on equal ground with everyone else. Instead the professor pops a question about some sentence with grammar too complicated for me to understand which compares French politicians of the 1930s to Louis XIV and says Vichy politicians had learned the "sad wisdom of Louis XVIII". Excuse me, but who is Louis XVIII? I have no clue when he was king, much less what his "sad wisdom" is. And we stopped the course at Munich in 1938. It was so annoying, and I so would have known the answer had I been French. Arg. So much for doing well in that class.
I hate having this much work while my mom is here- I'm sacrificing doing fun things with her just to sit around on the computer and type.
I also found myself the administrator of the gigantic Harvard Class of 2011 group on Facebook, which I created to meet other gap year people, so that's taking up a bit of time too. Just don't tell my mom. And I don't know what to think about the fact that Josh Zagorsky is in my class at Harvard. Either it's going to be awesome, or it's going to be the frustrations of high school all over again. I think I could make the friends thing work- I think I've moved on enough.
I hope everyone who recently heard about college news is taking it well... remember I was deferred early, and although it was tough, I think it helped me in the end. I got a better appreciation of where I wanted to go during the year, and I learned how to deal with a hard situation. For those of you who were accepted, congratulations as well.
I am not going to be capable of finishing this 10-page paper tonight, but it must be done. Only 6 more pages, and it's 9:40.
I had a history test today, which is half of my grade, and of course it talked about France and not any other of the countries we studied, where I would be on equal ground with everyone else. Instead the professor pops a question about some sentence with grammar too complicated for me to understand which compares French politicians of the 1930s to Louis XIV and says Vichy politicians had learned the "sad wisdom of Louis XVIII". Excuse me, but who is Louis XVIII? I have no clue when he was king, much less what his "sad wisdom" is. And we stopped the course at Munich in 1938. It was so annoying, and I so would have known the answer had I been French. Arg. So much for doing well in that class.
I hate having this much work while my mom is here- I'm sacrificing doing fun things with her just to sit around on the computer and type.
I also found myself the administrator of the gigantic Harvard Class of 2011 group on Facebook, which I created to meet other gap year people, so that's taking up a bit of time too. Just don't tell my mom. And I don't know what to think about the fact that Josh Zagorsky is in my class at Harvard. Either it's going to be awesome, or it's going to be the frustrations of high school all over again. I think I could make the friends thing work- I think I've moved on enough.
I hope everyone who recently heard about college news is taking it well... remember I was deferred early, and although it was tough, I think it helped me in the end. I got a better appreciation of where I wanted to go during the year, and I learned how to deal with a hard situation. For those of you who were accepted, congratulations as well.