College Woes

November 30th, 2007

tomorrow i’ll be sitting for what i hope are my last SAT papers. i swear i feel like i’ve been taking the SATs my whole life o_O but after saturday afternoon, there will be no more 2B pencils and no more feeling like my life exists in blocks of one hours! no more trying to squeeze 15 questions into y10 minutes! no more taunting figures of 800 bouncing around in my dreams!

er that is if i dont decide to take Physics in January.

:D *kiasu*

after my papers, it’s gonna be full speed ahead for my college applications. the amount of work there is to put in is so daunting :( essays after essays after personal statements after personal statements… geez. and just to put things into perspective, i’m not applying to 3 or 4 schools. or 5 or 6.

i’m applying to ………. 12 schools. yeah 12. just kill me lah :( the reason is because i didnt do any pre-U, and international students are generally required to have pre-university qualifications before applying to college in America. sigh to this day i still blame songjun for not MAKING me register for A Levels. so, i’m just hoping that by applying to more schools, i increase the chances of getting my academically underqualified butt into college. very slim chances lah but i will just hope for the best.

below are the 12 schools i’m applying to :

UPenn
Yale
U of Chicago
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
Swarthmore
U of Michigan
Duke
NYU
Northwestern
Rochester

*exhales*

yeah i feel pretty miserable looking at the list already. LE SIGH. if anyone wants to volunteer information on any of the above schools, pleeeeeeease feel free to do so. your help and opinions would make me a very happy girl :)) and i would be the world’s MOST EXCITED person if any of you were to tell me that american colleges dont really give two hoots about pre-u qualifications (!!!!)… but for some reason i just dont think that’s happening :P

i’m actually really scared about this whole college thing. it all just seems so remote.. wasn’t it just yesterday that i was 14 and in the comfortable folds of high school? and i’m also sad that it’s December and i gotta spend the whole month on my applications. it’s a sacrifice i wouldn’t hesitate to make, but that doesn’t stop me from feeling sad about not being able to spend time with my friends who’re back in Malaysia for the winter/summer holidays. i’m missing out on a lot of trips too :( and not to mention on a lot of Christmas fun as well. while everyone gets to steep in the joy of cookies and carols and christmas shopping, i’ll be writing an essay for UChicago on the topic of tables :(

and i still am not able to sleep. WTF. if at this time tomorrow i’m still awake, i’ll be repeating my November SAT problem all over again - falling asleep during my Literature paper. arghghhghghgh

oh and Catastrophe alert : my house is out of Milo and instant noodles!!!!

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