Just Life

Spring Break!!!!

But of course, my mom decided to make it a living hell for me by scheduling my gum surgery yesterday. I'm OK right now, but it's supposed to get a lot worse in 3-5 days after the surgery. ....THANKS Mom. I'm pretty sure I described all my dental problems in a previous entry somewhere. Remember how my dentist tweaked my retainer and it screwed up 1 of my teeth? Well now I have to get invisalign. And because of the invisalign, I can't get my crown until August/September. The whole reason I was getting gum surgery was to be able to finish my root canal. And the root canal was being done so I could get my crown =P And then my dentists are like, since you're 18, we think you should go get an adult dentist. And they tell me to go see the dentist to get the crown, and to pick a dentist whose specialty is crowns and I will be going to them the rest of my life. In subtleties, you could tell they think I'm going to need more crowns in the future. God, I'm glad I'm leaving them. They're so mean to me... well, most of the assistants are.

I've been on this huge art block. I haven't done anything at school. I've tried, but I just rush it all. I feel like I have inspiration, but it's not working. I'm going to try to submit one of my artworks into my Congressional District's show. It might be featured in this upscale building called Strathmore which hosts the orchestra and other cultural events in my area. If my thing wins, which it won't, it would be featured in the US Capital!! Sometimes it's nice to live just outside DC haha. I'm thinking of submitting the Anyband one. Too bad the picture on this site isn't really representative of the piece... I think it's actually one of my best organized and cleanest.

So I totally got into Smith College, I just got the acceptance earlier in the week. I was surprised because on the website it said it would be sent on April 1, like the 4 other schools I'm still waiting for. But Smith offered me to be part of their STRIDE Scholars program, which I didn't even know existed @_@ This is kind of a surprise because I'm not a genius or anything, and my test scores aren't in the 700s. But they offered me a small scholarship and opportunity to get paid for researching with professors my first two years for 7 hours a week. I can't even imagine that... like, in 5 months I could be doing top-notch scientific research!! It's so crazy. And Smith was like my first choice. We'll see what happens because I applied to a stretch school I really like that is ""better"". I don't like the whole ranking thing, especially when it sounds like Smith isn't as good (because it's just as good), but it's hard to explain otherwise. I'm trying to make my mom grateful that I'm going to save her $20,000 in college by getting good grades.

I was missing a lot of school in February because of being sick, and I think I wasn't doing as well in Bio as everyone else because of it. I think senioritis affected it =P I wouldn't have missed as much otherwise. But I realize a lot that I was better in the more chemical biology units like cell respiration, photosynthesis, and water transport in plants. I didn't do as well in biotech (though I was absent a lot during the notes) and I don't feel as comfortable in evolution as I did in the other units.

Did I ever say here that I wanted to major in Geology? I think it's very appropriate for me. I don't want to be a pure chemist because I don't want to do chemical stuff in a lab. I'm not as good in biology and never wanted to be a doctor. I've always had a fascination with outer space and the Earth. I'm not a physics person so that and astronomy are out of the question =P I don't want to be an archeologist or paleontologist, and I don't want to get involved in the oil or gold industries. I'm not sure yet what kind of jobs there remain for geology, but I'm always open to a PhD. I just love Earth history, and this hands-on application of chemistry really appeals to me. It's funny because I have all sorts of rocks and shells in my basement that I've collected when I was younger...

Yesterday in art class, my friend Bobby brought in his George Foreman grill and cooked hamburgers. God, I'm going to miss high school.

I'm trying to watch all the Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes. I've seen most of the first book, but totally stopped watching that channel afterwards... and now its so hard to see them in order.

Oh yeah, if you have HBO, watch John Adams on Sundays!! Amazing. I'm going to have to make a layout out of it lolz.

I totally forgot to mention, but I just got a summer job! I've always been thinking about it, and I brought the topic up to my neighbor. She said that her preschool is hosting a summer camp for the young ones. I filled out this small application and went to the job interview, but the woman in charge already knew me from when I was in preschool, and knew 2 of the names on my reference list. I felt bad that that's a big part of why I got the job, but well... :P The hours are great -- like 5 hours for 4 days of the week. And my neighbor can drive me there (it's a little far).

AAAAANNNNDDD *drumroll* I got an ipod touch! Huzzah!
Silversun on 03.21.08 @ 05:40 PM CST [link] [No Comments]