AiriZel: Thoughts

So a comprehensive post may come later, but hell I want to talk about this…

I was accepted to Yale, Stanford and Cornell! That on top of my acceptances to Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona to round out my liberal art college acceptances. I also got into a bunch of other great places such as U Chicago, UCLA, and Cal.

So what am I looking at? I’ll be completely honest when I say that Yale and Stanford were my top choices from the beginning. I never thought I’d get into both so I never thought about any scenario where I did get into both. This makes this deciding process just that much more interesting haha.

As of right now, here’s where I am at with my deciding process. I’ve narrowed it down to five schools. Yale and Stanford are at the top of the list, followed by Pomona, Amherst, and Williams (these three schools I’m going to visit in case they offer something amazing and I fall in love with the school).

I’m really happy to have this choice and now the only think I’m waiting on is the NSLI-Y thing coming out the day taxes are due.

Just a quick thing. My College Admissions Status page became password protected.

Two reasons:

#1, I figured I didn’t want random people to know that much about where I plan to go in my future. That seemed a bit creepy.

#2, I was really interested on how passworded pages worked.

To be honest, #1 is a sort of (in that, I have a blog for Christ’s sake. Of course people can find out about me if they really wanted to). But DEFINITELY #2 . Man I love testing and figuring out how new things work.

Oh also, in closing, I went to lasertag today in support of the Robotics team at Granada (and just to have fun). Two things I learned about Lasertag:

#1, Sin Amigos, the tag isn’t as fun. I had a lot more fun last year with Meyerhoff, Ober, Bryan Pine,  and Matt Park (well Matt didn’t like me, but hell w/e).

#2,  I totally owned! I won 2 rounds, took 2nd in 1 round, and then proceeded to dance and exaggerate my death in a couple of rounds. Never finished outside the top 8 though (lowest was 7th, and in fact in one round I outscored the #2 person by about 5k points)

Heh finishing off, I leave you this point

• Lists are amazingly cool at getting across the point.

-Sebastian

EDIT: For the record, when I said I totally owned. I was referring to Lasertag.

This is what happens when I post at 1AM.

As part of my blogging, I’ll be going over my weekend in review. The weekend will encompass 3 days from Friday to Sunday.

So the weekend is over, and I’m now onto my last week of break.

So just a few general musings from the weekend in list form!

• Gundam 00 didn’t release a new anime. This is the first weekend I haven’t seen a Gundam 00 episode in months ( I even watched them when I was swamped with apps and finals!)
• Naruto the manga got really really good really really fast. Naruto became more epic very quickly. I have this weird sense that it’s ending though.
• Bleach on the otherhand seems to be going the other direction. How is it that Ichigo can go from losing to the same guy to having a chance at beating him within the span of maybe an hour… Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, since the storyline is set so that the events in which he seeks his revenge and to protect his friends occur at the same time as when the rest of the Gotei 13 fight people in the other place.
• I finished all my apps on the 30th, but didn’t finish my FAFSA until yesterday. Apparently I have to wait to receive my EFC until I can finish the rest of my FAFSA (IE sending it to more schools).
• The CSS profiles are getting done!
• I met up with Ryan Meyerhoff, Minh Dan, and Betty. That said, I saw Elliot and Jeffrey Koury randomly more times the weekend than anyone else.
• Greg Trigub likes Zero Punctuation. That earns him a point in my book.
• Rune’s Ramblings: The Pauper Burn Standard went up (although never occupied the top slot).
• I got a wireless headset (Logitech USB wireless) from Best Buy for about 85 dollars. I had a gift card so that covered about 60 dollars of it.
• I ate at CPK, specifically pepperoni and BBQ chicken pizzas with a Shirley Temple (which cost me about 20 dollars), had sweetened (well it was supposed to be) Black Tea Boba from Boba City, and a Passion Fruit Iced Tea Lemonade (Grande size, which is like a regular drink elsewhere) from Starbucks along with some coffee cake, and a slice of Pumkin Pie at the Kourys with Cool Whip.
• I finally saw someone play Gears of War 2. That game looks really cool.
• Ironically, post is in every category with the exception of General-Random
• I went to Collector’s Paradise for FNM for the first time in months. I finished 7th due to the lack of  a 3rd mountain needed in order to cast Violent Ultimatum. Other than that 1-2 loss, I went 6-0 over the next 3 matches.
• I playtested against Affinity (Eric) on Saturday. I went 3-7. So I added Shattering Spree to my board.
• Elliot, Jeffrey, Justin, and I tried to play basketball at 7AM @ Northridge Park. That failed, we packed it up and went home by 8AM.
• I fell asleep Sunday watching the Lakers play the Trailblazers. Slept around 8PM waking up around 5:15AM.
• I dreamt about racing with my father, and mused over the state of my life.

And that’s the weekend in review!

As I gear up and submit my applications, I thought I’d make a page about which schools I got into. Since I haven’t finished applying yet, I’ll leave the page fairly blank for now, and then deal with it as it comes. As the page says, the list of colleges I applied to will go up on January 1st (most likely, unless something happens).