The Stars are Closed to our Quartet

I'm glad i decided to go swimming. even if our pool is a bit, er, murky, after getting out of the pool our house feels pleasantly warm as opposed to stiflingly hot and muggy (we still haven't turned the air on, for some insane reason). plus, the water isn't cold, its actually very nice.

I turned in my english portfolio today. now the only thing i have left to do is one essay and one article for newspaper, and then i'm Done! ah. oh, and rachel, i hope you did good on your spanish exam- *crosses fingers for you*. when we went up there, i was going to stop at the mall to pick up a skirt i saw on friday that i really liked, but there wasn't time because we had to get back for amy's doctor appointment. so my dad's going to take me up on thursday instead.

ack, i can feel the heat creeping in again.

yesterday i went to turner's graduation party, and the day before that i went to ashley drake's. i had a good time at both, but probably more fun at turner's because it was mostly family at ashley drake's, so i knew more people at turner's. her family has an awesome plot of land- ponds and woods and fields and a nice house, too.

i've been looking at my college stuff a bit again. a few minutes ago, i was looking through a viewbook and application that harvard sent me. my mom got all excited when they sent it, because i didn't send them anything asking for information, at least not that i remember. when i was little, i always wanted to go to harvard or yale or some ivy league school, just because they were so selective and renowned. but as i was looking through the viewbook, i began to think that i don't really want to go to harvard. in all honesty, except for the name, there was nothing really special that caught my eye. there were a couple minuses: the freshman class size is 1700, or somewhere around there- i want to go to a school where the total population is around 1700; and there were, if i remember right, around 60 courses with more than 100 students. in fact, two courses had more than 500 students. Five Hundred students in one class. and i also remember a sign i saw in my english profs office that said "can harvard hope to become the beloit of boston?" beloit is a tiny school in wisconsin, that i was considering until i decided i wanted a school with environmental science and writing, and they only had writing. anyway, the point is, there are plenty of great schools out there, that are equal to if not better than ivy league schools, and are well known for it. i still might apply to harvard though, just to see. :-D



Prime Numbers are like Life- logical, but you can never figure out the rules.