17 posts tagged “school”
GOOD ASS BATTLE RIGHHURRR.
College orientation was awesome. I seriously didn't want to leave. Despite the 116* F weather (for serious UGH), it was well worth it.
Day 1: After my uncle dropped me off, I lined up to register, get my ID card and all of that fun stuff. It was interesting to see how diverse my classmates looked, and I'm not just talking about ethnicity (although I must say, I've never been at a school with so many Asians like moi :X). I saw before me a myriad of stereotypes (nerds, hollicrombie zombies, etc.) and was excited to see that. I was kind of expecting to be with a whole bunch of nerdy kids, but that's not the case ^_^ (BTW, I saw this Asian chick with the CUTEST Marc Jacobs bag. *envy*) After settling in, I met my roommates, learned the Aggie fight song and met my first friend. My new friend and I decided to get lunch together, where we ran into two more of my new friends. It was cool that while I was making friends and introducing myself like crazy, I had my own little group to hang out with the rest of orientation. Later that night, we had a night to spend at the gym. I got a henna tat with my name in cursive, played dogdeball and boulder climbed the rockwall. Oh my goodness...boulder climbing is scary...I knew the mat was under me to catch me when I fall, but I still couldn't go very high without freaking out.
Day 2: Had all of my meals with my new group of friends. To survive the upcoming six hour lecture after lunch, we gathered a whole bunch of cookies, oranges and rice krispies. During the lecture, we made fake joints and threw it at each other. We're ftw, I know. That night, there was a random function going on with bowling, pool, poker, video game tourneys and arcade games. If you've gone through this blog before, I'm pretty sure you can guess where CUTIE natrually gravitated to. DUH! Brawl friendlies! I didn't meet any serious smashers for Brawl, but I met one smasher who used to play Melee competitively. It was awesome to chat with him. (Never got his gamertag...but his name was Joseph. He mained Falco :X) So that night...despite meticulously working on my schedule, I stayed up until 2:30 in the morning to finish that shit. UGH. I really hope I'll get sleep in college. T_T
Day 3: Last day of Orientation...le sigh...It was fun while it lasted. I signed up for my classes and checked out of my dorm room. I'm really happy with my classes! I placed into Honors Calculus and Chemistry due to my placement exam scores that I studied my butt of for, but I decided to opt out of the honors courses for now. See, freshman usually take 13 units their first quarter. I'm taking 16.5.
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UGH. My adviser told me that if I want to double major in Japanese and Biochemistry AND travel abroad to Japan, I can't "do any classes for fun." I have to stick to a tight schedule of just my necessary courses and GE. Ah well. I enjoy both of my majors, so I don't mind too much. Anyways, I signed up for calculus, chemistry, remedial English and astronomy. Kind of pissed off about the remedial English class. I know that I don't belong there, but my high school counselors didn't tell me to take some writing test I needed to do in May. Now I have to wait until the start of school to take it. If I pass, then I get to drop the remedial English course and take the regular one--no big. I looked up all of my professors at ratemyprofessors.com and they seem ligit. YAY!
SO EXCITED TO START COLLEGE. I love the school spirit, my classmates, the beautiful campus...AHHHHH I didn't want to leave!
I got a fucking 4 on the AP Calculus AB exam. I'm SOOOO happy! :D All that hard work and calculus club lunches really paid off! Best of all, I may be exempted from my math placement exam on Thursday.
Honors Calculus at Davis--here I come! :D (Now hopefully I can say the same for chemistry...)
July 6 Dad's birthday/Greek Oracle's birthday party
July 8 Greek Oracle's birthday
July 9-11 Davis Orientation along; calculus and chemistry placement exams
July 11 Bagel is here!!!!
August 1-2 Going with Greek Oracle to Breaking Dawn party *excited!* We're going to make shirts and bookstore hop the whole night...and then stay up all night at my house reading with lots of junk food at hand
August 3 BISF Tourney in the city...ZOMG EXCITED. I'll be tired as fuck because I'm going to read Breaking Dawn over and over again
August 14 My birfday =3 I want to spend one day with family (Greek Oracle=family :P) and one day with Dii-chan<3<3
September 22 Davis here I come!
Amongst these dates, I want to go shopping with Greek Oracle. I can't believe she told me that there's a Betsey Johnson boutique at Westfield in the city...I'm totally going to go broke nao...
In general, my summer will consist of this:
work + studying + Smash
Yeeeeeeee.
I really need to just...calm the fuck down. I need to take a deep breath and just let things fall into place. I'm so nervous about whether or not I can afford Davis, whether or not I'll finally get a job (Starbucks interview tomorrow!), whether or not I'll get more scholarships, whether or not I'll make yummy, kawaii onigiri for the Art Festival...ugh. The fact that I've been spending a lot of money lately (stupid prom) doesn't ease my mind about the whole money predicament.
I've been distracting myself lately with reading, piano and Smash. I've been reading Street of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama and I'm enjoying every single page of it. That's what I get for being a history nerd. I love reading historical fiction, especially about World War II. Also, I've been working on "Planetarium" by Otsuka Ai. It's coming along nicely and I want to play and sing it to Dii. ^_^
Oh, and Smash? I'm getting better! Even Diisays I'm getting better! Yee! My Ganondorf fucking rapes...the end.
All right. I really just have to enjoy the last days of high school. I have prom, the Disneyland trip, Senior Breakfast, Senior Slideshow and, of course, graduation. I can't believe I'm going to finallyget out of this place! YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I'm starting to get scared of college. Before I wasn't, but now I think it's finally starting to actually sink in how hard it's going to be for me. A double major in Japanese and Biochemistry? Am I crazy? Today when I went in for my job interview (nailed it!) the lady there said that biochemistry at UC Davis was really hard and she actually switched majors because of it. She also said that if I've had a good background in chemistry during high school, I should be fine.
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Dammit. If you go to my high school, you'll know exactly why I say this. I will not name the school, but seriously our science department needs major improvement. I loved my biology and AP biology teacher, but chemistry and AP chemistry? Oh my goodness, someone help me. I'm pretty sure the biology classes will be a piece of cake for me (yes, even human anatomy.) I'm fairly confident in biology related subjects, and (not to brag) but my memorization is amazing. Now, chemistry? While I may have memorized the atomic weights of the most common atoms, that's not going to get me far...ugh.
This SUCKS, but I really want to get a leg up in college and not slack like I did in high school. College will not be a repeat, and I'll do the best I can. So here it is...MaryAn's Summer Study Plan:
(1.) Do Kanji flash cards everyday...Try to learn at least 200-300 before placement exams in September (for Japanese)
(2.) Memorize periodic table
(3.) Brush up on basic chemistry
(4.) Brush up on basic Japanese grammar/vocab (tutoring Dii could help)
(5.) Brush up on Geometry, Algebra 2 and Pre-Calc stuff before placement exams in July during Orientation
AZA AZA FIGHTING!!!!
I am SO frusturated with how unprepared I am with all of these scholarships I'm doing. I felt organized and prepared, but what's the use if I procrastinate? I feel like punching myself in the face. I can't even do one of my scholarships because I forgot to get something. I'm going to send a partially incomplete scholarship because I forgot to get a letter of recommendation signed. I have already sent a partially incomplete scholarship because I forgot to put the contact number for one of my letters of recommendations. I found two scholarships that I was too lazy to do and now I regret not doing them. It's too late to get everything together and just...WTF IS WRONG WITH ME? AHH!!!!!
Obviously from the title, I didn't get into Berkeley. Ah well! I'm actually not sad about it. I just wanted bragging rights. USF here I come! But you know what? I'm pretty proud of myself to get into the schools I got into (especially UC Davis.) This article talks about how this year is the biggest graduating class in history and that the admission process was extremely difficult this year. (Well, if UCSC's average GPA went from a 3.2 to a 3.8...I don't want to know what Cal's is now.) So I'm happy with what I have.
Now it's time to study hardcore for AP Calculus! I NEED an 89% on this test to get back my A-.
Trust me Twilighters (errr...Twi-hards???). Click the link. If you ever had any doubts to any of the casting...I believe that these pictures will change your mind.
Ahh...nothing like a couple Twilight photos to brighten my mood after failing at AP Calculus homework.
Oh! And Cal is going to announce admissions tonight at 12:01 am! (I think!) I'm staying up. I HAVE to know if I got in.
Edit: 10:32 pm
Ugh, Cal doesn't announce until TOMORROW evening...c'mon now!!!! But good news? I FINALLY FINISHED CALCULUS HOMEWORK. AND I GET IT. YESSSSS.
On Sunday, Dii came over in the morning and we played Super Smash Bros. Brawl. My goodness. I am in love. That game was awesome. Even though Shiek's speed got nerfed, I actually like using her a lot more than in Melee. Other characters I liked playing as were Pitt, Poke'mon trainer (Squirtle & Ivysaur only :P) & Zelda. I really sucked as Samus & Link, two characters I used to be really good as in the original Smash Bros. Link just seems a lot harder to play as...Anyways, Kirby's up B attack is CHEAP. It was really annoying when Dii did it over and over again. I seriously couldn't get out of it. I really need to practice short hopping, dodging, fox trotting etc. At least there's no more wavedashing (which I compeltely SUCKED at!) I need to start using the X and Y button (on GC controller) instead of the analog stick to jump. I've done that for the original SB & Melee, so it's hard to change habit...Ah well. I'll get it. Foxtrotting with Shiek is hard though because of her speed. That'll be hard to practice. Dammit. I really want a Wii. My uncle did get me one, but with college around the corner I have to save up for a laptop and just try to avoid being a poor college student in general...Oh well. I can always bother Dylan! :D
Okay, enough nerd talk. I'm really happy with my college process so far. I applied to six schools, and so far I got admitted into four: UC Davis, University of San Francisco, UC Merced & SF State. I can't find my ID to check if I got into UC Santa Cruz, but I'm pretty sure I did. UC Berkeley is next week...AHHH! I'm trying to arrange appointments with my counselors to see which school would be best to do a double major at (Molecular Biology & Japanese).
Lately I've been thinking. What I really want to do is fashion design, but big problem: I suck at sewing. Yeah. Go to design school and be an r-tard at sewing? And I can knit but not purl. Yeee. I know. I'm a failure. And all of the clothes I design are video game orientated (but I swear they're awesome!) I have this big dream (and I actually did dream this) that with my Japanese major I'll get an internship at Nintendo. At a big board meeting, I showed them protocols of my new Nintendo fashion line, "Nintendo Village." All of the clothes do relate to Nintendo characters, but they're not very cosplay-esque. In fact, they're actual clothes that people would wear (ie Princess Peach heels! haha). Anyways, I was able to open a store in Union Square and it was awesoem and I was rich and famous and my fashion line was even featured on the New York and Paris fashion week runway. I really loved my "Peach Couture" line. Damn, that was awesome.
Le sigh...yes. That'd be the ultimate career.
I thought that the LOWES scholarship was due today (March 15) and that I missed the deadline, so after I got out of the shower (where I made my revelation) I ran up the stairs, turned the laptop on and found out that today's actually March 14.
In other news...that Sharkboy is going to be Jacob. Like a lot of fans, my little pet peeve is that he's not Native American! I hope they made the right decision.
Matt and Dii scolded me about my plan to bitch out the freshmen. They told me to be polite. Thanks for being more mature and thoughtful than I am guys! I guess I do have no tact sometimes...So sorry, Box-chan. Nothing videotape worthy.
