Parents: Do you know where your cats are?
I just heard on the radio that people are advised to keep all pets indoors this Halloween. The thing that made me laugh was that people with black cats are ESPECIALLY encouraged to keep their pets inside because if people see black cats on Halloween, "It promotes the idea of occult activity going on..." In other words, people will freak out and both cats and humans will never be the same again. It made me laugh.
In other very, very happy news, I got my SAT scores back this past Monday and I got an 800 ON THE CRITICAL READING!!! Formerly known as the verbal section, fer those people who haven't had to think about the new SAT at all. I still say we pillage and burn the College Board, but I'm very, very happy about my score nonetheless.
Almost all of my college applications are DONE! Bard has been sent out, Pitzer is done, Scripps is very very nearly done (just have to put together supplementary material), Earlham has been done for awhile, Carleton needs one more question answered on the app and it'll be done and Marlboro is... definitely not done, but I'm working on it. I seem to finish all of the ones that are due a long time from now (in January, for instance) way ahead of time, and the ones that are due, say, in October and early November still need some work. At least they did before today, when I sat down and wrote a ton of stuff for the Scripps app and finished it all. Whee. I'm excited!
This Friday I leave for Bard to do their Immediate Decision Plan. Basically, you visit on a Friday or a Saturday with a bunch of other prospective students, you get an interview, tour, and have a Bard-style seminar based on two books that everybody has read (Plato's Allegory of the Cave from The Republic and The Starry Messenger [my favorite] by Galileo). You have to send your application a week before the date you come, though the Bard people INSIST they meant "postmarked" when they wrote "received" on the form. The really exciting this is that on the Monday after you visit, they mail the decision about whether or not you got in. Yeah. Crazy. Wild and crazy exciting stuff. I don't have to decide about going until May, but it's a really cool way to find out. Much more sane, actually. A lot of sensory overload, yes, but it makes so much more sense than waiting three to five (or six) months before you find out and THEN you have less than a month to mull it over. Getting back to the topic at hand, I'm visiting Bard for Immediate Decision on Friday and Saturday (leave here on Friday, hang around in New York, do IDP on Saturday) and then later on Saturday/Sunday we (my mom, dad and I) will drive up to Vermont to visit Marlboro College. I'll be interviewed and I have a class visit scheduled. The people there are really nice. Somewhere in there I hope to visit one of my friends from camp who is in Vermont and I think my dad will visit Troy, NY, which is where he went to college, and reminisce. Ahh, the good old days.
At the moment, I am very, very happy about all the work I did today, my college applications, my SAT scores and the fact that I'm going to Bard in a few days. I have purposely kept myself in denial about Halloween being so soon (er, tomorrow) because I knew that if I worried about it, I would stop working on other (sigh) more important stuff, and yes, it is more important. I'm thinking of digging up and old fairy costume from a few years ago that I never wore and using that. It's a nice dress--very short, one-shouldered, green, sleeveless, leafy looking. There used to be wings but they were a terrible fiasco involving a meltdown on Halloween because they didn't fit the way they were supposed to. I can go wingless. I went wingless this summer. And I think I'll wear a thin shirt and jeans under the dress because otherwise I'll freeze and be very, very self-conscious.
There. That's my Halloween costume (during the day anyway). Another problem solved!
Happy Halloween/College visit prep day/Application work day/SAT celebration day/ to all, and remember: keep those cats indoors!
In other very, very happy news, I got my SAT scores back this past Monday and I got an 800 ON THE CRITICAL READING!!! Formerly known as the verbal section, fer those people who haven't had to think about the new SAT at all. I still say we pillage and burn the College Board, but I'm very, very happy about my score nonetheless.
Almost all of my college applications are DONE! Bard has been sent out, Pitzer is done, Scripps is very very nearly done (just have to put together supplementary material), Earlham has been done for awhile, Carleton needs one more question answered on the app and it'll be done and Marlboro is... definitely not done, but I'm working on it. I seem to finish all of the ones that are due a long time from now (in January, for instance) way ahead of time, and the ones that are due, say, in October and early November still need some work. At least they did before today, when I sat down and wrote a ton of stuff for the Scripps app and finished it all. Whee. I'm excited!
This Friday I leave for Bard to do their Immediate Decision Plan. Basically, you visit on a Friday or a Saturday with a bunch of other prospective students, you get an interview, tour, and have a Bard-style seminar based on two books that everybody has read (Plato's Allegory of the Cave from The Republic and The Starry Messenger [my favorite] by Galileo). You have to send your application a week before the date you come, though the Bard people INSIST they meant "postmarked" when they wrote "received" on the form. The really exciting this is that on the Monday after you visit, they mail the decision about whether or not you got in. Yeah. Crazy. Wild and crazy exciting stuff. I don't have to decide about going until May, but it's a really cool way to find out. Much more sane, actually. A lot of sensory overload, yes, but it makes so much more sense than waiting three to five (or six) months before you find out and THEN you have less than a month to mull it over. Getting back to the topic at hand, I'm visiting Bard for Immediate Decision on Friday and Saturday (leave here on Friday, hang around in New York, do IDP on Saturday) and then later on Saturday/Sunday we (my mom, dad and I) will drive up to Vermont to visit Marlboro College. I'll be interviewed and I have a class visit scheduled. The people there are really nice. Somewhere in there I hope to visit one of my friends from camp who is in Vermont and I think my dad will visit Troy, NY, which is where he went to college, and reminisce. Ahh, the good old days.
At the moment, I am very, very happy about all the work I did today, my college applications, my SAT scores and the fact that I'm going to Bard in a few days. I have purposely kept myself in denial about Halloween being so soon (er, tomorrow) because I knew that if I worried about it, I would stop working on other (sigh) more important stuff, and yes, it is more important. I'm thinking of digging up and old fairy costume from a few years ago that I never wore and using that. It's a nice dress--very short, one-shouldered, green, sleeveless, leafy looking. There used to be wings but they were a terrible fiasco involving a meltdown on Halloween because they didn't fit the way they were supposed to. I can go wingless. I went wingless this summer. And I think I'll wear a thin shirt and jeans under the dress because otherwise I'll freeze and be very, very self-conscious.
There. That's my Halloween costume (during the day anyway). Another problem solved!
Happy Halloween/College visit prep day/Application work day/SAT celebration day/ to all, and remember: keep those cats indoors!