Has anyone ever noticed...

That if you change the first letter of their names to an 'F', a lot of the ivy league schools have very amusing names?


Yale->Fale
Brown->Frown
Dartmouth->Fartmouth
Cornell->Fornell
Columbia->Folumbia
Harvard->Farvard
Princeton->Frinceton
University of Pennsylvania->Fniversity of Pennsylvania

Obviously the first three are the best, but yeah. I'm late and I thought this was funny.

Results are in....

Composite: 34

English: 32--Screw this! No idea how this happened. Especially looking at reading.
Math: 35--cool
Reading:36--awesome
Science:34--eh?

English pisses me off! If i could have only had a 33, then my 137/4=34.25=34 becomes a 138/4=34.5=35!!

THEN I'd be completely set. As far as this goes, I have no idea what my opinion is. I think I'll cancel my SAT 1 retake, because looking at naviance this is average or above for our schools acceptances to most of my desired colleges. However, I also think I'll retake ACT, not looking much at studying except English! If I can pull that up a point or two I'll be quite happy.

Thoughts...? Worth retaking or no? Ugh. This score vexes me...even though it's by no means bad.

Holy shit.

Just like everyone to know that I'm freakin out right now x_x

I want my damn score! 7 minutes is too long!

--New post shortly detailing whether or not I failed...

Ramblings

Oh boy. What a strange time this has been. I'm honestly not sure what to make of this break so far..It's been odd.

ACT scores up in.....7 hours and about 10 minutes? I'm nervous. I really want to end the shit known as standardized tests.

I feel like it's already late in break, and I should be working non-stop to attempt to mitigate the amount of work I'll have to be doing in the coming weeks. Hm. Unfortunately, I seem to have left my anatomy binder at school...not sure if that matters to much though. I do have two editions of campbells as well as the internet, so that should be enough for the take home test.

I've also officially started the college process (In my mind), in that I have asked for and gotten confirmation for my first recommendation (from my IB History teacher, if anyone is curious). Only one more left, but i'm not sure if I want it from my physics teacher or my anatomy teacher. Choices choices.

I wanna do something soon...I'm going stir crazy in this house. It's so boring! And I have been out pretty much each day of break so far. Except today. That's how incredibly boring my house is. I need plans tomorrow. Maybe I'll go read something...I have enough time to finish a nice long book before scores come out. That might calm my nerves a bit. Yeah. Or, on the other hand....not?

Weird.

The Mets are pissing me off btw. Fucking out fielding errors are going to cost us the season? This is bullshit.

Okay I think I'll stop ranting now....I'm in a very odd mood right now.

BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK!

Not that I'm excited or anything. Really...I swear. Or not. Oh well.

So far in break, I really haven't done much. Except not turn in the lit essay (I couldn't register for the class!), learn a bit of programming in python and make my entire family hate me.

But none the less, the ability to sleep and not be worried about another day w/ certain teachers is a godsend. Well, a non-existant godsend. Except it does exist. So really, it's just fucking awesome.

Yay!

Reading posts on the internet by stupid people makes me feel better about myself.

"IT WAS NOT EASY!!! YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL SO STUPID!!! =[


I don't think I've learned anything about astronomy since like 3rd grade. And I had no idea that Saturn is big.

If the question were, say, what is the SECOND largest of Mercury, Earth, Mars, and Venus, I bet most of you would've had no idea."


Regarding one of the science questions on the ACT, which literally asked: Which of these planets is the largest?
A: Mercury
B: Earth
C: Saturn
D: Venus

People legitimately freaked out because of the "immense amount of prior knowledge it required" which was "absolutely ridiculous for the ACT to expect people to know".

Lmfao. Stupid people are hysterical.

I'm an Ass

Me:
leave me alooone
Her:
then what numbers do i use to calculate the initial resistance
Me:
i'm busy
Her:
noo.....i realllly need help
Me:
room temp

it should be easy
Her:
i ct do this tomorrow
Me:
AND I DON'T CARE

I'M BUSY

you're fucking lab

does not take precedence

over what i want/have to do

because i care more about me than you

kthnxbai

*end*

And I don't give a shit. Honestly, fuck you, I matter more than you do, and I care about my time far more than I care about yours. Agh.

In other news, I'm pretty sure I did quite well on the ACTs! I think I'll hit my 34-36 score range. And BOAT was awesome.

ACTs!

Ohhh boy. ACTs this weekend.

If I get a 34+ composite, I've decided that I'm done with standardized testing and I will NOT bother to take the SATs again in May. Then I can focus solely on the three SAT II's I'm taking in June. That'd be kind of a freeing feeling. Regretfully, BOAT is also Saturday, so I can't be there for the whole thing. Hopefully it'll be awesome though.

In other news, in a week I'll be on glorious spring break! And after that, only two months left as a junior. Wow. That's kinda neat. Although, college's intimidation is only getting more and more ridiculous! I'm seriously flipping out. (If anyone cares, my favorites as of now are: Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and a few others-doubt I'll make any of these though...)

Yay summer! I can't wait to be an EMT. I want this to happen quite badly. And speaking of next year, I think I've decided on an internship oppurtunity-the Stevens Institute of Technology Optics Lab. They do a lot of work with different kinds of lasers, and it sounds incredibly cool. I was originally thinking a rotations one, but I'm already doing EMT training this summer and will be working with my local ambulance corps. at least once or twice during the week, so I wanna focus on some of my other interests.

Wow, this post had a lot of digressions. Yay for spewing what ever is on my mind?

P.S.-Ms. Fuentes made $473 in the time it took me to write this.

An Interesting Weekend

I had a great time at WAMUNC! My first real conference, I won honorable mention (3rd) for my committee and had a really good time overall. Good food, fun committee sessions, and I even went to a mosque (mandatory excursion, kinda strange but neat). The bus rides were a little long (7 hours the way there! curse you, traffic!), but we put together a decent time out of them. In some rather eccentric ways, for the most part.

However, part of me is incredibly pissed right now. I can't stand my family at the moment! I was on such a high after coming home, I had such a great time, was in a great mood. And then, within 30 minute of coming home, I'm pissed off and hiding in my room. Why, you ask? Because I can't deal with my family at all! I just can't deal with them. We clash nearly perfectly, in that no matter what we do we have spectacular fights on. I'm honestly getting sick of them. College! Come!

Weekend!

Should be quite fun. I have my second model UN conference, and my first trip....which I should probably write the position paper for. The topic is fascinating! I'm quite glad I switched, because Geithner....not so much. Also, my mom is freaking out about me going, what I should bring, whether I'll be okay, etc. Really, it needs to stop. Overall, I'm quite excited, I think. Though nervous about missing some classes (read: orgo). I'll update later with how it goes, though I doubt I'll win anything.

In other news, Mr. Mendelsohn once again gave me a B+, with an 89.7 avg, for the second trimester in a row. The exact same average. Luckily, it means I only need a 90.6 to convert to an A- for the year. Like that's happening. My other classes seem to be pretty much all A's, except for an A- in spanish (but like everyone dropped this trimester because Seltzer is evil!) I have ACTs in like a week and two days, which is mildly nerve-wrecking, but overall not so much. I guess that's because most of the material seems easy and I'm doing well on the practice tests. Also, I have SAT part two coming up in May should I fail ACTs. Though after that, I'm stuck with taking in October if I don't do well, which I REALLY do not want to have to do. Sigh, tangents.

I feel like I have to ask myself this question, constantly, made popular by Heath Ledger: "Why so serious?"

Time to get to work! (or pack).

I hate the administration!

Due to their bullshit, BOTH of the electives that I REALLY wanted to take were cut.

Molecular Biology III (Gastroenterology) and 20th Century Russian History. Honestly, what the hell. I wanted to take both of these, and they both manage to get canceled? Gah! I have no clue what I want to take now. Maybe I'll try for band or orchestra, just to fill a spot. This is seriously pissing me off though.

Burned Out

I'm completely burned out. I can't gather any motivation to do ANYTHING right now. I have a 10 page paper on AIDS due tomorrow for my Immunology 2 elective that I can't make myself continue. I have much more work than I anticipated, and instead I'm watching youtube videos and chatting. I have "early-onset" (comparatively) senioritis, and this is bad. I still have a full trimester in which I have to get owned by lit, after all. Can't quit too early. Honestly though, shit. I need to get through this fricken year and rehab over the summer....but I'm finding it incredibly hard to make myself do anything. Fuck me.....This year needs to end. Post-haste.

First real quiz bowl tourney, and a the horror that is next week.

Fun!

I had a great time at the quiz bowl tournament, despite rather numerous pit falls: some fail questions (grammar check, anyone?), a repeat of a bonus question, bad organization, some fail readers and a ridiculously large amount of down time (for me). But, I had a great time; some really funny moments, ridiculous answers, and as always, the lawlz that is Watson Ladd.

Highlights: AMATERASU (rawr), Buenos Aires (still ridiculous), and some incredible negs. Also, props to Watson for getting highest points per game AND most negs for round 1.

As far as next week....FML. Seriously
Spanish Test-ugh
Lit Presentation-I don't even have a poem...fuck
Spanish Presentation-ugh
History Test-eh...
Math Test-easy
PPAOx2(days)-FML
Trip from Sunday->Monday (Yay!)

And then a physics test monday, as well as a 10 page immuno paper due sometime next week that I have no CLUE when I'll be able to start.

I want the new trimester to start.....


On a lighter note, this is my last trimester of not-seniorness! Yay!

A brief rant regarding certain classes.

I. Enjoy. Getting. Grades. Back.

For real. This is not a drill. I want my grades back. I slave like a cotton picker in the 18th century and for what? To not get a single grade back since I turned in the first assignment of the trimester in early december? That's such shit. And it's not only for one class-history and anatomy. I just don't get shit back. I could be completely failing, and would I know to bring my grade up? Of course not. GAH.

Also, my math class is going to drive me insane. The sheer amount of stupidity in it aggravates me. For example: In the time it took for my teacher to go over law of cosines, I figured out two ways to prove it that I hadn't seen before. Also, when I do calc in class I get yelled at to put it away because it's not math. What the HELL. I so wish I wasn't placed into this bull...

And while I'm ranting about classes, my lit teacher makes me cry. End of story