Well...

I know that I have a big load of homework ahead of me when I get home from school, look at the clock, and realize that there are only 10 hours until midnight.

Yay for taking 20 credits when your college is on the quarter system. Yes, I decided not to audit physics and to just take it. And it has been pleasantly wonderful...ly HARD. But it is my favorite class so far. Surprise. :-)

And I am taking the SAT on Saturday and have no time to prep for it. I don't even have time to write a decently tied-together blog post.

Excited

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be turned on in three hours and ten minutes!!!

Life

My silence on the blog has been extremely prominent! Quick update on what's going on and why I am absent:

APPLYING TO COLLEGE

That explains it all.

I had a great time down in California and wish I was still there. I had a wonderful time with God and began painting again; that was a blessing. I paint about once or twice a week now; life came back with responsibilities after I got home. I also brought painting back to my church, but I want to train other people to do it - it doesn't just need to be me painting every Sunday!

After Cali I threw myself into college searching. I am looking for small colleges with a strong physics program; Russian is a plus. I have a fewl colleges that I am definitely applying to and am trying to narrow my list to about five; I am currently considering - in alphabetical order - Beloit College (WI), College of Wooster (OH), Furman University (SC), Reed College (OR), Western Washington University (WA), Wheaton College (IL) and Whitman College (WA). In no way will I specify my top college (I do have one that I am madly enthusiastic about) on the public internet. :-) Enjoy guessing.

Thus, I have gone campus visiting on the ones closest to home. But I must remain silent about that too. You never know who might google my name.

College interviews are fun. They will only be the scary thing that everybody worries about if you are not yourself. The point of the interview isn't to show that you are Miss Perfect whom they've GOT to have; it's simply to determine whether you would be a good match for the college or not, whether it would be a good match for you, and to put a face to the application. It's not a pass/fail test. And it is extremely fun.

I am also preparing to take the ACT in eight days.

And I am trying to get through self-taught geometry...can't do it quick enough for the ACT and SAT...

And I am taking macroeconomics, precalculus, and chemistry this quarter - as well as auditing a physics class. 20 credits!! Five won't count though...

College deadlines are in January. I don't have long to write those 14 essays (or however many I'm going to need)...