Scheduling woes
Yesterday, I had a lovely day. I met Rianna and Deebs for lunch, harassed Deebs for part of the day and saw a bunch of Debate people when I dropped a couple things off with Pritschet. I then came home and pretty much collapsed, which I think was because I was emotionally drained.
But the best part of my day did not come until about 10 last night. After thinking I had a scheduling problem yesterday afternoon, I went to check my e-mail to see if my roommate had e-mailed me or something. Instead, I found a lovely note saying that my Honors Seminar class had been dropped due to "expected" circumstances, which I took as typo and they meant
unexpected. But, whatever, I had five days until classes started to find a new honors course.
Good news, I found one (after only an hour and a half of searching), it's called Races, Religion and Migration; bad news, I had to drop Jesus in History to take it, and I replaced Jesus in History with Intro to Fiction Writing. So, I now have an English course first semester, two Geography classes, one sociology course and one math class.
See, that's balanced right?
I'm just glad that it's done and completely finished; now I should go see what books I need to buy from them.
EDIT: I'm reading
Chronicle of a Death Foretold in my English class!!!!!! Hee! I love Niemi and I love that book!!!!
Labels: headaches, kara, school
Officially
Officially, I am attending the U next year (I even sent out the lovely little card thing today with the confirmation agreement). Both Stanford and Columbia decided they did not want me to attend, making my life considerably easier than I could have imagined. My mother is slightly heartbroken that I will not be at Columbia next year, but I don't think it will take her all that long to get over her grief once she realizes that I'll only be two hours away.
Overall, I am just relieved. I want to go to the U, but having to explain that I turned down Stanford or Columbia was not something that I was looking forward to. So, thanks to both admission boards for deciding I wasn't worth it.
I don't think it occurred to me how much the entire situation had been exhausting me until I arrived home last night after our little Debate get together, and I crashed for ten hours. I know the weather is not helping my mood, so I hope it's sunny tomorrow; otherwise, I am so going tanning. Fake sun is better than no sun at all; I don't care if I get skin cancer.
I saw Crystal on Thursday, and it was very exciting. I recommend
Children of Men to everyone; it is simply stunning, my little crush on Clive Owen withstanding. And the debate get together last night was quite fun; I miss the little ones even Tom, who talks more than my brother.
And to make the rest of you happier due to the nasty weather: a wonderful Costa Rica picture.
Labels: college plans, debate, kara, school
Who now?
Forever, yes, I know. Sorry, everyone, but look, I'm here, and I'm going to
try to post with more frequency than I have as of late. So here it goes.
I thought about doing a massive Costa Rica post, but then I realized, it would be way more fun to tell you everything in person with pictures and other fun things. I'll simply say, I had lots of fun, there were times when I missed all of you like crazy, the sun was nice, but I'm glad to be back home. You can see the pictures over on Facebook as I slowly load them since Facebook hates me right now and isn't allowing massive upload.
My college update is this: excluding the pretty-much-impossible scenario of Stanford accepting me when I check on Friday (1PM), I will be attending the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts next year. I'm really looking forward to it; my intended majors are two things that I know I will enjoy studying, English and Geography, and I've accepted the fact that I'm going to be poor for the rest of my life. Yay!
In other news, today we had to identify 133 out of the 192-ish countries in the world in Human Geo and I didn't do too badly, 125/133. Most of them I missed were in Asia, as in Lebanon and Syria, Georgia and Armenia and Qatar and UAE; I also confused two in Africa... Oh well. I aced the "stans" (Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc) and Central/Southern Europe; I do know the difference between Slovenia and Slovakia. Hey, this is exciting for me; see my intended majors from above.
Otherwise kind of a blah day and tomorrow doesn't seem to promise anything overly exciting other than the political geography discussion. I'm sick, I know, shut up.
Labels: college plans, costa rica, kara, school
