Hmm... two days straight was the last run that I had. That's a bit disappointing. Well, I'll go ahead and write some things about how I am so far. I'm sure you don't really care, but I mostly write for myself anyways. By the way, I have a little less than 2 hours to write this because I promised a friend that I would write something today. Along with that, he told me to write fat, sexy paragraphs... I don't really know how to do that, so I'll just go ahead and write as I usually do.
College news so far:
3 for 3! I've been accepted to Georgia Tech, University of Southern California, and Virginia Tech. I'm thinking of going to GT, but if Sam doesn't receive enough monies, Sam may have to go elsewhere. As unfortunate as that would be, I'm just glad that I haven't been rejected from a school yet. Unfortunately, tomorrow, Pi Day, at 6:28PM, I will, most likely, be rejected from MIT, so stay tuned. I might just go ahead and write about my thoughts after that experience. Along with that, I'll be at taekwondo right after learning whether or not I got in, so that will be a way to let out any negative emotions that I may feel after learning of my rejection. I understand that I have no chance of getting in, but for some reason, I think that I'll still be a bit unhappy after learning of my rejection. That's how positive I'm feeling about colleges so far. I believe UPenn has decisions on the 28th as well, so that will be fun.
School related things:
English is not as bad as I imagined it was going to be. The worst things for me are harknesses, which are basically where the class talks about the novel that was just finished, because I just have trouble thinking of what to comment on or how to reply to questions directed at me. Talking is just a challenge for me and I don't really know why. Also, I have these reading logs for every book that I read, one of which happens to be due tomorrow, where I have to write down my feelings as I read the book. Currently we are reading Heart of Darkness, which I've heard is a challenging read. I didn't think it was that bad, but after I finished reading, I checked the SparkNotes (shame on me) to see if I properly understood the book and I was completely off. I though that Marlow was a posh dude who really didn't like the black people in Africa, but it turns out that he just refers to them in that way because of the people he is hanging out with. I guess he just doesn't want to be seen as being too strange? Anyway, I'm going to have to get back to that log after this.
AP Economics. I have to say that of all the classes that I've taken in high school, this has got to be the worst. The teacher doesn't teach and instead tells us to read the book. Just like Dr.Felts, except that this class actually counts as a full grade not just part of another class grade. Ugh. The structure of the class is supposed to be that there is a chapter every week in an online textbook that we are supposed to read. Then, we are supposed to do some problems out of the online book and turn them in. After that, the teacher is supposed to give feedback on these and from that feedback, we are then supposed to do the problem set that she gives us. Unfortunately, what ultimately occurs is that she assigns all the work, we turn in the chapter review on or before Sunday. She doesn't grade them at all. We turn in the problem set on Tuesday and finally get results back on Wednesday for the chapter review. Then on the following days we get the results back from the Problem Set. We don't have any extra credit and the only thing that keeps us from getting B's and C's is the Reflection and the Open Forum. These are just little discussion things that the teacher has that are 20 points each. Tests and Problem sets kill my grade, but that's fine. I'll figure out micro and macro alone at home the weeks before the test. This class doesn't help me at all.
AP Chem is getting better, I'm understanding it more and it's getting a bit easier. APES... is just a bunch of work, but I'm learning everything, which is never bad.
I'm going to go ahead and abruptly end this because I have to finish this reading long. As I said before, I'll try and remember to update tomorrow on my MIT decision.
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