<p>Harrison Bergeron!!!!! Excellent story. Kurt Vonnegut rocks my socks, and so does "Welcome to the Monkey House" (I read it for a creative writing class; just the right amount of weird).</p>
<p>sophomore, I thought you were a girl too. Sorry. :) I'm with Aida. I can't distinguish between genders. Though I DO know that roamorse is NOT a man! :D</p>
<p>p.s. CC is the death of me. It's 2 in the morning, I still have half of an English paper left to go, and I'm, of course, treating my TASP-obsession with this thread. :)</p>
<p>"Welcome to the Monkey House" was great, especially the story about the people who can leave their bodies.</p>
<p>I just found out that for senior year, I'll need about 5-8 dresses. Because god forbid you wear the same dress to a different event. Jesus...I have no idea where this money is going to come from.</p>
<p>In other news, my schedule for this new term is whack too. They put me in an intro-level art class (?!??!!!?!?) and forgot to help me finish my graduation requirements...like an english elective. My normal advisor is on sabbatical and my new one is never around the main building, so I don't know when I'll be able to fix this nonsense. Darn.</p>
<p>But on a good note, last night's dinner was cheese ravioli. That stuff is bomb.</p>
<p>I was torn between Shakespeare, Speech, Piano, AP Chemistry, Architectural Drawing, AP Calculus, and Human Anatomy and Physiology. That's just for one slot. I plan on being a drama major, which is why Shakespeare, Speech, and Human Physiology would apply so well, Piano and Architectural Drawing would both be mostly new for me (a rarity by year 12 of high school), and the AP classes would pay off what I'm learning now, be interesting, and save me some tuition money.
I decided on Speech. Do what you love! Shakespeare is not expected to have enough interest to be offered again next year, and I would have to dissect animals quite a bit in Anatomy. I can handle the occasional owl pellet, frog, or rat, but I'm not a meat-eater, leather-wearer or even bug-killer, and there's only so much I can do in the name of science.</p>
<p>Oh, and iriseyes:
Buy a plain but beautiful, light-colored dress with really long sleeves and a train or something, lots of fabric. For every new event, cut it up and rehem, dye it, embellish it, et cetera. By the end of the year it'll make a pretty little skirt to be worn with a nice top. You can even make a formal-pants-to-skirt conversion if your sew skillz are all there.</p>
<p>I really do have a lot of afterthoughts:
Coincidentally, just this morning I was craving tortellini in German class.
It really is the bombdijiggityigity.</p>
<p>Oh, uber. If you only knew about my online dating experiences...tsk, tsk. The pedophilic tone in the response scared me a little, too. :P</p>
<p>Uber excellent advice on the dress front, Lindeek. ^<em>^ You could also buy some cheap dresses. Marshall's has some pretty ones that are SUPER cheap. I have a long prom dress that cost $50 and a shorter, but still prom-y, dress that only cost $30 WITH a little velvet cardigan thingy. Unfortunately, we have no thrift shops in Puerto Rico (that I know of), and yard-sales are a rarity, so if those are available in your area, you should check them out as well. Some stores often have crazy clearance prices, you just have to check and/or ask. If a product is slightly damaged, they'll also regularly give you at least a 10% discount, too. So, if it's something you know you can fix (say, a small stain, a missing button, blahblah), tell the cashier, get the discount, go home, fix it, and voila! Things that are "out of style" often have the way lower prices, so pay attention to those. Style is relative anyway. ;P If you find a weird, retro dress at a thrift shop, get it. You can always play a part wherever you go. I sort of did that once with a dress I bought; I imagined I was a flapper from the 20's. ^</em>^</p>
<p>I'm all for the cheap-o/DIY route on this. ^_^
Yum. Pasta. I just had honey-mustard chicken and a strawberry airhead. Funny, random fact: we call Airheads "lenguitas", which means "little tongues," because when you take 'em out of the wrapper, they look like tongues. :D</p>
<p>P.S. - Damn you and your awesome electives! I want some. :'( Funny how at my school we pick our electives the week school starts. Our efficiency astounds me.</p>
<p>I fixed the schedule, way ahead....of schedule...and I'm taking romantic poetry and staying in the basic art course. Who can't use a GPA booster, after all?</p>
<p>Next year there's an elective on medievel questing and knights. =O I told my teacher, sign me up RIGHT NOW. Oh, this class sounds amaaaaaaaazing.</p>
<p>I can't stop thinking about my interview, all the things I did wrong, that I didn't say that I should have. I am torn between relief that it is over and horror at the prospect of waiting until May somethingeenth.</p>
<p>I'm taking mythology, art history, and hopefully shakespeare (i'll decide on this in december) I can't wait for mythology. I looked on ratemyprofessors.com and my teacher seems so amazing.</p>
<p>i just got an email from my interviewer. at first i was all happy because it sounded like i only had one (a princeton senior, who i thought was a guy from the name), but then i clicked on "show details" and there are two other email recipients. two princeton students and one from the princeton plasma physics laboratory. one girl, two guys. and it's at princeton university on the 12-14th. </p>