College Admissions

College essays are by far the most irrational thing I have ever attempted to write. And this is after multiple years of submitting utter bullshit for lit essays.

The essence of the issue, as far as I understand it, is that we are attempting to convey our identity to a school, so that they may gain a deeper understanding of us. Instead of numbers, we are supposed to jump out of the page and form something more real. However, the essays are extremely contrived. How is it showing who we really are if the entire point, as far as the student sees it, is to make themselves stand out even more? Most everyone attempts to discuss their flaws in such a way that they show their own path to splendor, or else they take the other and equally as cliche route, in which they simply detail one of their true accomplishments. How does one judge a person when all they are presenting is their most intriguing, interesting sides as vetted by everyone under the sun they could get to read their essay?

"Oh! I know!" said the colleges. "We'll alleviate the contrived nature of the essay by having people interview with us. That will show us their true selves!" Except not. It's the same inane bullshit, tooting one's own horn for the purpose of engaging the interviewer. It is not a true representation of one's character, and I fail to see how colleges can even pretend that that is the case.

I'm not sure if this post is the product of a rational, logical thought process or whether it's merely me expressing my discontent with the strive for attention that is the college process, but regardless it is rather infuriating.

Time to go write my own contrived essays!

Too soon??

But hysterical none the less.

Not sure I can keep up with all this

There's just so much to do this year. I already have legitimate homework assignments for nearly every class, as well as presentations and papers already assigned. I have quizbowl, which runs for a few hours every Thursday. I have karate, which is 2 hours on Sunday and ideally 2 hours twice during the week. Soon, I start riding with the local ambulance corps, probably a 6 hour shift once a week. Then, I have college apps.

Oh, and did I mention I'd like to see my friends occasionally?

I'll manage of course, but I can't see how the first half of this year is going to be anything better than hell....and I thought last year was hard. Hahaha.

lit

i rite gud mang stop makin me proof it ;-;

Lola

What an amazing, hysterical song.

The Kinks-Lola



Lyrics:

I met her in a club down in old soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola [lp version:
Coca-cola]
C-o-l-a cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said lola
L-o-l-a lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well Im not the worlds most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well Im not dumb but I cant understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said dear boy wont you come home with me
Well Im not the worlds most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well thats the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well I left home just a week before
And Id never ever kissed a woman before
But lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy Im gonna make you a man

Well Im not the worlds most masculine man
But I know what I am and Im glad Im a man
And so is lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Sleeping...

Is at once a most-welcome and most-infuriating thing.


Lately, I find myself staring at a computer screen between the hours of 2 and 5 am, wishing I could sleep. But there's an issue with that-I'm not tired. Why? Because I didn't sleep until 5 am the day before, of course! This is a rather aggravating cycle, brought upon myself via what amounts to fear. That is, fear of experiencing memories of some of the worst experiences I've been through. And despite my relatively young age, I can say that I've been through more traumatizing experiences than most my age. Said memories seem to take a gruesome delight in bombarding my consciousness while I dally in the dreary world between states of being awake and asleep. With such experiences awaiting me should I try and fall asleep, I generally spend my nights staring at a computer screen until I am 2 minutes from passing out, at which point I will gladly drift off. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen until far later than I should be sleeping.

Something is going to have to change...I have to be awake in about 9 hours, and then for the next five weeks I have to be out of the house at 8:40 Monday-Thursday for EMT training. So my options are down to confronting my memories or doing what I do through out the school year-working on a mere four to five hours of sleep, every single day. Sigh.

Car!

I has!

My hobby:

Overusing ridiculously asian emoticons in your average AIM conversation:

"I just had dinner! \(^o^)/ "

Fuckin' Chemistry

1) MLIA -------------------> MILA
MLIAIsomerase

2) MILA + FML ---------------> MILF + AML ( Mother I'd Like to fuck at my leisure)
Arctic Ocean

So, if you life is both average and being fucked, you get a nice surprise.
Yes I'm very bored.
Also if you understand the Artic Ocean being a solvent than ^5 to you.

Fathers day

Second worst day of the year? I think so.

I had the wonderful experience today of my grandma coming up to me and asking all secret-like, "How come you guys aren't doing anything for fathers day?"

Wow, what a great idea! How could I have been so blind and forgetful as to not getting anything for fathers day. Obviously I should have gotten my dead father & 2 grandfathers breakfast in bed and a nice manly gift on this joyous hallmark holiday.

Oh wait. Not.

Agh, what a stupid bitch. I really want to hit her.

ow

School is almost over, finally.

But holy shit I've been busy. And I have like 5 tests in the next 2 days, but this weekend I should be able to make a real post.

Not that the interwebs care.

Byes.

I don't get it

:(

I hate this stupid confusion. And yet I'm not entirely what I'm confused about since the result was entirely expected. Maybe I'm just foolish.

Ah well, 10 days!

ALAS

This is some hysterical stuff:
http://authortree.com/almcd999

"This book builds on the works of Arp, Bauval, Childress, Collins, Cremo and Thompson, Dunn, Felix, Hancock, Hapgood, Joseph, LaViolette, McTaggart, Pye, Radin, Rux, Sheldrake, Sitchin, Van Flandern, Von Däniken, and others who question common knowledge

- to develop a theory of nearly everything, without Relativity,

- that explains what science, history, and religion have not.
Discover scientific evidence and new theory that:
- The universe is not expanding from a Big Bang.
- The Theory of Relativity is not valid; light is not a speed limit.
- Define how the ether produces gravity and electromagnetism.
- The ether consists of subatomic "spheritons" that travel faster than light.
- Light-conducting spheritons are Dark Matter; Dark Energy does not exist.
- Explain that life came to Earth from another known planet every 60 million years.
- All 20 Egyptian pyramids had similar industrial functions.
- The Sphinx and Great pyramid were built in 62,100 BC.
- The water for Noah's Flood in 10,800 BC is in plain sight.
- Identify the origin of our biblical God and the science of Universal Intelligence.
- Explain how spheritons store and transfer the memories of man and God.
- Explain how spheritons may enable paranormal mental capabilities."


It's excellent. I wanna go buy it.

I really have no qualms...

With people being religious. In fact, it's nice that some people can find comfort in something no matter how badly their life sucks. Some times I wish I could do something similar (and then I think of how awesome I am and it's all good).

So yeah. I have no qualms with you being a religious nut...until you start throwing it in my face. Then, it gets fucking annoying. Like seriously, refrain. I don't need to hear you squealing about god in the middle of class. I don't need your facebook statuses to be proclaiming that you're crying out joyously because your redeemer lives. You can be religious, that's cool. Just don't be so god damn annoying about it (phrasing intentional).

RAWR.

I'm annoyed.