Thursday, September 20, 2007

Good Intentions
I was going to post a while back about an interesting experience I had at a clock shop, but I couldn't get my thoughts together on it. Sorry. Instead I'm going to have to post another rant.
So I got a letter from Ursinus college in PA, and my dad and I spent a few minutes poking fun at the pictures and such. Their three pictures were of a random boring modern art sculpture on the grounds, some people doing what appeared to be mud-wrestling, and some guys looking at petri dishes. One of the letter's main selling points was that Newsweek had rated Ursinus one of the "hottest" schools in the country. Hot mud wrestling, chuckle chuckle. My mom was meanwhile looking up the college's website. Before I knew it she was saying I should look into it, because it has an East Asian languages major and minor that is mostly Japanese, along with a relationship with a Japanese university (not actually that unusual), and because they offer pretty good financial aid. I said no-way-jose because I didn't like the feel I got from the letter. It seemed like a small-town college trying to get by on its student population rather than any sort of outstanding academics or, as I prefer, a unique educational/involvement system of some kind. My mom got pissed because she says I was tossing out a college that could give me money, and I countered by saying that I would rather not go to college at all then go to one I don't like because it's cheap, which is true. She seemed understanding for an instant, then went back to saying that Ursinus didn't look bad, and I shouldn't be rejecting it so easily. I said I really wanted this to be my choice, because at this point she's starting to be too pushy, and the last thing I want is to go to a college my parents picked, and she gets really mad and says I'm not choosing at all and I'm doing nothing. WTF? Since when am I doing nothing? Mumsy, most kids don't even know where they want to go yet at this point. So I haven't completed my apps yet, NEITHER HAS ANYONE ELSE. It is still early, and I know I said I wanted to do early application, but thing is, most final deadlines are in December. It's not like we're coming down to the wire. Not to mention I just visited Gettysburg on Monday and did an interview, and I'm almost done with my college essay, and when I'm done with that I'm gonna do the apps right away. So what's with this not doing anything idea? Who is impersonating me and being lazy? Tell me so I can kick the shit out of her. I have enough BS going on right now with my books all locked in my locker because it won't open and no one in administration is doing anything about it.

Anyway, my mom apologized just now, I just needed to get this off my chest. There is too much going on right now, especially with my locker...I think that's what's backing everything up, really. If I could open it, most of my problems would be solved. Oh well. If you don't hear from me again I've probably died of an aneurysm trying to pry it open.
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