News on the College Front and the rest of my life
Ithaca so far has only pissed me off. I don't mind snow, but I do mind people pushing undeclared majors. I don't mind waiting for a April 15 deadline, but I don't like it when they are vague about the system. I got my acceptance early (this week), which was nice enough, but now I'm only confused. They included a nice $9,000 from their health school, but the deadline for the leadership scholarship was Jan 31st. There's more scholarship money that I could've easily earned gone. How was I supposed to apply for that thing before I was even accepted into the college? I HAVE NO IDEA.
Usually with colleges I go with gut feelings. I'm sure that it won't get me into some of the fancy schools, but, hell, I need to like it. LVC earned huge points for having oatmeal by their pastor's office. It's stupid, but I like it. I didn't get any kind of gut feelings from Ithaca, NOTHING. And that's weird as hell because I look at college's with a microscope. Ithaca had some things I liked, the arts, the campus, but where was that feeling-- that this was home? Not quite there. Just open and chilly.
I'm going to give Ithaca another chance, one more visit. If they can make me fall in love that's good for them :D
By the way, Wicked rocks my life. You're not getting half of it if you just listen to the music. The costumes, the scenery, the story (and, yes, the music too!) just blew me away. I adored Glinda and Nessarose. I thought it was adorable how Glinda's actress (who's name I don't remember off the top of my head) stared at the standing ovation for a second, obviously surprised and ran over to grab Elphaba's actress. Very cute :3
If you go to see it don't expect it to be anything like the soundtrack. The original cast is great and all but this cast has a different spin, using more character voices than the belting voices of the original cast recording. In the end, that worked just fine for me :D
I don't know if this will give me any type of motivation to start up the old Elphaba portrait again... probably not, but it was still really good.
Usually with colleges I go with gut feelings. I'm sure that it won't get me into some of the fancy schools, but, hell, I need to like it. LVC earned huge points for having oatmeal by their pastor's office. It's stupid, but I like it. I didn't get any kind of gut feelings from Ithaca, NOTHING. And that's weird as hell because I look at college's with a microscope. Ithaca had some things I liked, the arts, the campus, but where was that feeling-- that this was home? Not quite there. Just open and chilly.
I'm going to give Ithaca another chance, one more visit. If they can make me fall in love that's good for them :D
By the way, Wicked rocks my life. You're not getting half of it if you just listen to the music. The costumes, the scenery, the story (and, yes, the music too!) just blew me away. I adored Glinda and Nessarose. I thought it was adorable how Glinda's actress (who's name I don't remember off the top of my head) stared at the standing ovation for a second, obviously surprised and ran over to grab Elphaba's actress. Very cute :3
If you go to see it don't expect it to be anything like the soundtrack. The original cast is great and all but this cast has a different spin, using more character voices than the belting voices of the original cast recording. In the end, that worked just fine for me :D
I don't know if this will give me any type of motivation to start up the old Elphaba portrait again... probably not, but it was still really good.