If you’re anything like myself, you’ve probably entered high school with the mindset to do whatever it takes to get into your top choice school—even if it means spreading yourself thin. All you could think about for +3.5 years is attending said school and using connections made at your future profession. Well, sometimes things don’t always work out and rather than getting accepted and joyous beyond your wildest dreams, you’re faced to decide between your other schools.
I’m not going to lie; getting rejected from NCSU was probably one of the worst parts of high school. (more…)
Obviously, my most recent college acceptance was life changing for both my future and present, but it’s also blog changing. As both a student and a writer, I no longer have to try to prove to universities that they want me on campus—three out of the five colleges I applied to want me despite my transcript flaws! A collection of people in various areas in the state of North Carolina want me for being me! Such a great feeling 🙂
That being said, I’m going to try to chronicle the home stretch of high school and make this blog a bit more useful for upcoming and current high school students—perhaps even throw in the occasional video or two.
In honor of this blog reaching this milestone, enjoy the bathroom selfie timeline of the past four years which covers mortifying freshman year to relaxed sophomore year to stressful junior year to serene senior year.
Nearly two years after starting this blog later, I finally have something to prove for my many sleepless nights, anxiety riddled moments, +13 extracurricular activities (that hit almost every subject area possible), hours spent forming opinions into posts, and working my ass off:
I am attending a college I loved since the moment I stepped foot on campus. Although I got rejected from my first choice school, I am without a doubt thrilled to be attending said college next fall. I’m still a bit overwhelmingly thrilled to be translating my emotions coherently, but I just wanted to take the time and thank everyone who has ever read this blog or supported me as either a writer, student, peer, or mentor—I wouldn’t have made it this far without your encouragement.
Expect a much more thorough post from me later in the week but as for now;
Since discovering Coursera while it was in beta testing, I’ve been determined to take at least one class through it—but school always got in the way. So as finals were coming to a close in June, I decided to enroll in two classes: Food Sustainability- A Global Perspective and Introduction to Public Speaking.
If you’re unfamiliar with Coursera and other MOOCs(Massive Open Online Classes), such websites provide free classes in practically every subject imaginable taught through a college university. (more…)
Hello internet and welcome to the world Common App 2013-2014!
I’d just like to apologize for my sudden burst of absence from blogging because in the words of one of my favorite College Wise articles, I’ve been busy being busy. Since my last post, A LOT has happened and I’ve been loving what I can of it.
I’m officially employed for the first time in my life…still in training, but living that fast food worker life.
My two Coursera classes are in full swing. One of which, I’m highly considering dedicating the rest of my life to because the field is that interesting to me. The other class is Introduction to Public Speaking taught by the fabulous Matt McGarrity at University of Washington. While my other class is thrilling to me, Intro to Public Speaking is helping me overcome social anxiety and speech preparation in general. In the near future, I plan on implementing what I learned from both classes into blog posts.
My laptop broke. My beautiful HP that I treasure dearly has been unusable for about two weeks now and I’m typing this post from a crappy family laptop. Once I get a new laptop(hopefully this weekend), I plan on posting much more often between then and the start of school. I’ve actually had 3-4 posts outlined since returning home from Florida a month ago that I need to get around to making into reality.
Rereading Omnivore’s Dilemma for APES and couldn’t be happier with my choice 🙂
I joined a gym and have almost stopped running completely.
Alright blogosphere, it’s time for me to come out on an issue I’m pretty passionate about. With recent political action dealing with this issue causing a bit of an outburst on the internet, I guess it’s time for me to finally get a little bit more political on here. And as President of my schools Democrat Club and VP of Feminist Club, here’s an announcement that shouldn’t come off as too much of a surprise.
My original plan was to avoid talking about prom since it just seemed too corny to write about, but after reading my friend Katey’s post on the topic, it feels appropriate to finally discuss this “right of passage”. And I know there’s far more important/interesting issues I could be talking about thanks to California and Texas, but I’m currently on vacation and this seems light-hearted to write about while recovering from a food coma.
For me, prom was completely about lifting my parents spirits—both of my grandmothers were in ailing health conditions as well as some extreme family drama on the other side of the family….so the joys of prom seemed to make sense. I even had a fantastic date who was extremely laid-back to the point where most of our prom conversations went like this:
Hey Colleges Read This! 
