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Ahhhh i am soooooo stressed out. argh!
too much homework + application stress & procrastination = not fun.
i hate how everything during these next few months is going to be all about applying to college. i'm sick of it already. i'm sick of thinking about it and hearing about it.
i'm so lost and confused in the whole process. my parents have no idea what to do or how hard it is. i haven't decided on all the schools i want to apply to, i haven't started my college essays. really, i haven't started anything. it's just annoying to me how you have to sell yourself to the school and try to seem like the perfect person who is smart, funny and still has time to save the world. and even then, you probably won't even get accepted.
i wish i could just enjoy my senior year. not like slack off, but just enjoy it like i did every other year and feel like i have at least SOME time to relax and not think about all the things i have to do. i look forward to the weekends and then when they come, i realize all i have time to do is work. and then i spend half of that time complaining and procrastinating.
argh i've just felt so bitchy and emotional over the past few weeks, and just about anything can tick me off. i reallllyyy hope this doesn't last.
even though school JUST started, i already feel like i need a vacation.

Are any of you guys planning on applying/attending a single-sex college? (example: wellesley, smith, barnard, etc)? Or do you know someone who is (planning to apply or already attending)? I need some quotes for my article regarding why you/they are drawn to a women's college. Comment as soon as possible!
Gracias!

1. what made you want to apply to a women's college rather than a coed college? (for both prospective and current students)

2. what do you think are the benefits of attending a women's college? what do you see as the disadvantages of attending a women's college?

3. What, if anything, do you think women who attend coed universities are missing out on?

4. do you feel that attending a women's college will help you in the future (job, leadership skills, etc). how so?

5. How, if at all, do you think women’s college attendees would interact/perform differently post-college compared to those who attended coed schools (in both social and professional life)?

6. Do you feel that women's colleges are more popular now than they were 5 or 10 years ago, or do you think that their popularity has pretty much remained the same? If you feel they are gaining popularity, what would you attribute their increasing appeal to?

thanks y'all

hello everyonee!
woowzers it feels like i haven't seen you forever. but anyways, let me give you an updateee
-my roommate is from Iowa and can whistle ANY tune (she says she will teach me to whistle by the end of the 5 weeks. that, and learn how to do the revenge-of-the-nerds dance thingy). she also knows the lyrics to any and every song. whenever we put on a boombox or ipod, she can sing all of it.
-okay so monday was hazing day, literally. they were trying to scare the crap out of us (and torture us, they later admitted it) so we were forced to do an all-day 8 stories type thing. yes. EIGHT! we were running around the whole day, getting "interviews" and listening to press conferences/asking questions to: the Pixie Chix and Michael Shacksen (Dixie Chix, Michael Jackson) who had just been hit by a tsunami in lake michigan, Dick Shamey and Anne Colder (Dick Cheney and Anne Coulter) who had gone on a hunting trip and Coulter got shot, Donny Ruinsfeld's (Rumsfeld) new curb-the-canadian-immigration law, called the SSSDCBP, Coulter's extreme makeover, Supernanny edition with K.D. Holmes (katie holmes) tom lose (tom cruise) britney tears (spears) and angie jolie (angelina jolie) to help tame holmes' child, michael shacksen being rescued from the river but a woman named billie jean took his son, but he thought "the kid was not his son," and Dick Snamey getting shot by the laser beam installed by the SSSDCBP. the instructors, who had to act out the scenes and conferences, were freaking HILARIOUS. we were all laughing our asses off. ( or at least up untill each press conference finished, and we were given only 25 minutes to run back to the computer lab at the end of the campus and finish our COMPLETE story. it was crazy!!!!!)
-that night, we did this thing around 11 with all the kids called "i've got mail for," and basically i found out that one of my floormates is a twin who goes to milken (now we've got a major connection, that, and she believes that somehwere in her all-americannes she is a hidden persian) and another girl is also a twin. and then my friend, who we called baked alaska (her name is bc) has sisters who are twins. crazzyy!!
-yesterday, we got our stories back, major critiques ahhh red pen all over everybody's paper. but my instructor, i have rachel stults (the students are divided into about 8 instructor groups) is really sweet about it and put stickers on our papers. but she was pretty sarcastic too. like for our first roommate interview story on sunday, as soon as we arrived, i wrote about my roommate in a good light and my instructor's like, "she's a journalist-in-training, not mother teresa!" haha. but she said overall she liked my work so it was all okayy
-omg the guy instructor (editor of newsweek) is SO HOT! okay so his name is brett, he's like late 20's early 30's, sooo funnyyy and witttyy and sarcastic and geek-shit (band t-shirts, jeans, cool glasses, and flip-flops. but everyone loves him). his impersonations were freaking crazy funny.
-we played firehouse with the "facebook" (its sort of like a mini yearbook we just created, they took all our pictures, put it in a packet with our adresses, adn gave it to everyone) and so i picked the nerdiest guys for my friends to choose from. so i'm like, ooh kerry (friend who lives in chicago, obsessed with vintage/thrift stuff, joined the gym with me) this eric guy is such a match for you (he has orange hair, nerddyy voice, nerdy clothes, pimples ALL OVER, and braces! yuck. so she's like, sarcastically, "yeah totally he's all mine!" so today we went to field's museum (we saw the king tut exhibit! wednesdays are alwasy fieldtrip days) and we went to mcdonald's afterwards and we see dork boy looking for a place to sit, so i'm like, "over here!" and sit him right next to kerry, who was more than willing to play along. haha. it was hilarious.
-my floor is like dead after 9:30 (i'm on the first floor) but 2nd floor is where its happenign so we all go hang out there till we have to be on our own floors at 11:30. and we listen/sing along to cher, britney, mariah, all the divas, play cards, do these crazy retarded games that i am so good at, eat popcorn, and find "hotties" from the yearbooks. so sad, the hottest guy from my friend's school in kansas looked like a MONKEY. literally. and so i'm like, "no way! no way is that the hottest guy." and she' like you wanna bet? so she calls her friend, and asks, what would you do to to danny (monkey boy) and she's like, "EVERYTHING! what wouldn't i do? he's soo freaking hot!" and then we were laughing our asses off cuz you just had to see this kid, he makes people at beverly look gorgeous.
-anyways today was great because we got to relax a little after the hectic schedule, even though we go right back to working tomoroow. but for tonight, we just have to watch citizen kane and then we're free, unless they've got some group activity planned. we got our group assignments for the teams that we're going to be competing in in crazy/wacky activies, adn i loooveeee my group so im tres excited.
-i learned my lesson about chicago weather today cuz i wore like 2 huge sweaters cuz it was raining/thunderstorming/lightening in the morning when we started our fieldtrip, and by the end of the day we were all down to our undershirts and just sweating our asses off. and i earned the nickname "bite size." haha yes it has to do with my height. haha. and yesterday, i was like talking about how it sucks to be short, and so then when we were doing one of the press conferences and i was in front, one of the instructors was like, 'people in front, kneel down so others can see," and so this guy who was listening to my conversation about being short taps me and says, "bend down, i can't see a thing!" and he pretends to be tyring to look over my head. hah it was hilarious.
and a final note (poem from friend's myspace of person she stalks named kim)
literature
t.b.
the f.c.
caffeine. nicotine.
vodka.
night. overcast.
autumn.
friendship.
insomnia.
nostaligia.
simplicity.
tell boys.
and facial hair on them as well.

pure genius.
you guys, email me and call me. seriously! i love hearing messages when i get out of a 2-hour lecture!!!
i can't wait till the weekend. we are literally RIGHT next to the beach so some major laying in the sun and relaxing, then off to evanston to check out the cool thrift stores and have movie nights. and i can't wait to tour newsweek, the chicago tribune, and do the column-writing lectures. toooddless!!
-desireeeee

YES!! AP's are overrr!!!!
Thank God.

ew i'm really upset about my new schedule. at best, i'm going to have a sucky p.e. class where i don't know anyone and i'll have madaris as a math teacher again (last semester, not a single person got an A in his class). at worst, i'll have the schedule they gave me without even asking me: a first period at 7:00 in the morning, VOLLEYBALL, and no 7th period. but without a parking permit, its not like i can just go home. i'd have to stay there at the library or something for an hour every single day. its just not fair how they dumped this on us, and they weren't even going to tell us. when shapiro told us about it, it sounded so distant and only a far-fetched idea that would never happen. and then two days later, the change had taken place. i saw two other kids on friday who, like myself, had been thrown out of 7th period without even being told. one was just wandering around the front lawn, and the other was sitting on the steps of an apartment nearby during 7th period, waiting for school to end. ugh this just suckss. i just don't really like my new spanish class, exept that saysay is in it, and i know that's its only been a day, but i can already tell it'll be different. it isn't relaxed any more and shapiro isn't nice any more. its just really intimidating, going from a class of 8 people who barely know anything to a class of 34 who actually do. and i miss my p.e. class with everybody. it was so much fun, and the first time in a while that i actually enjoyed p.e. we watched videos, did homework, made up songs, made fun of wierd haircuts, big butts, and stupid dance moves. it was the best. ughh stupid Dr. Step. i'm not the only one this happened to, because according to him, there are about 70 other kids going through the same thing. but who's really happy in all this? the students who get their schedules and teachers messed up certainly aren't. the teachers who now have to take on additional classes and have even MORE students to teach definitely aren't.

grr, and to think this semester's new schedule is actually the schedule i had originally wanted in the beginning of the school year, and would have gotten if the classes hadn't closed.

I GOT MY LICENSE!!!

So, i'm back from ensenada. it was..interesting. but i really do think that is our last family vacation with like the entire family. i don't think i can stand another one. haha. i wanna go on vacation with friends, dammit! its just hard to get along with the family when its six different people, and all of our opinions clash.

but anywaysss. i'm excited for movie night. and i wanna do something on new years too if anyone is freee! i really don't want to stay home. that would just be way too depressing. haha.

wow, i can't believe today is christmas/hannukah. for some reason, it just doesn't really feel like it at all.

on another note, i listened to peaches today in the car (my ipod ran out of batteries so i had to steal tiffany's) and let me say that i just don't understand how anyone could like it. i really don't! haha. and her lyrics...um....

edit: for some reason, watching Being Bobby Brown always puts me in a better mood. (:

omgg that bazaar bizzare craft fair was amaazzingg. i just want to live there! and oohhh i got prezzies for peeps. i'm exciteedd to give and exchange giftsss!(: mmm i feel like having somee hot chocolate with candy caness. winter holiday season is the best. and i can't wait till the Sasparillas do a Holiday Album. lol

haha okay so we go to temple for the installation dinner for the officers of the temple, my dad was re-elected as vice president of personnel (whatever that means). haha and all was well and boring as usual..that is, untill this WEIRDDOOOO crazy guy comes for the "entertainment" portion of the dinner. okay so he spends half an hour talking about the spirituality of piano and blah blah blah. and then he starts talking about how one day he was playing piano, and his cat, ketzel (what kind of a name is that???" all of a sudden started running across the keyboard and made the tune to a song, and he wrote down all the same exact notes the cat played, and it was like a "spiritual epiphany from god to his cat." he supposedly enters this in a competition and it gets honorable mention, and all this media attention. so tiffany and i are expecting something extraordinary, right?

and then he plays it. and it is only 4 notes long. like c e a b. or something. haha we just BURST OUT LAUGHING. and could not even control ourselves. and here are all these people that know us and looking at us and we just can't stop. and it gets worse adn worse when he goes on about his next piece and we can't stop laughing then either. and it didn't help that there were these two extremely sarcastic & funny men at our table and kept saying to us, "you guys, this is serious. its amazing! listen, doesn't it make so much sense to you. wonderful! brilliant." haha. haha and after the entertainment host finished his "ketzel song" one of the guys said, "wow. i could do better than that while im practicing. and i don't even play piano." haha. right before we left (early, cuz we couldnt stop laughing and it was humiliating) he said something to the effect of, "whoever brought this guy as entertainment should be locked up". it was hilarious. and then my parentss. my mom fell asleep four times, and then she said, in persian "this is so boring." but she said the boring part in english, so everyone understand exactly what she was saying. haha. and then when the entertainment host was talking about another one of his speeches, my dad said really loudly (but unconsciously) and in ENGLISH, " who cares?" haha and EVERYONE heard. lol.

I am definitely going to this again next year. haha.

Tonight Tiffany saw that stupid, racist, pretentious asshole from SAT Prep who always singled us out, teased us, and made racist generalizations/ jokes about how we were persian. He once said that we shouldn't be trusted on how to pronounce a word because we were persian and had "thick accents." I told him if that was supposed to be a joke, it definitely wasn't funny. His reply was, in a serious tone, "who's joking?"

Anyways, he was with his girlfriend.

WHO WAS FUCKING PERSIAN.

Life's really funny, isn't it?