DISQUS

wow ... i'm late. i was just reading your latest entry thinking of what an amazing and interesting life you lead, and then i started thinking if you had heard your college decisions yet. and so i scrolled down and whaddya know! congratulationsss

su ann and martian - have a good time in london! hahaha =)

lol i love the contrast in #15
happy new year su ann =)

i was thinking to myself "o man ... wot should i write, wot gets me out of bed in the morning"

but i'm still in bed at 1:30 pm lol. i guess ... others needing me, encouragement, and fear of failing :(

oh man i guess my comment didn't go through yesterday
hope you feel better su ann
being able to focus on gratitude to so many people when you're down is hard to do

blatant corruption/injustice/racism .. sigh =((

this is why you need the personal # of that sweet cabbie that went home for his wifey hehe

i agree that swarthmore is one of the best liberal arts colleges in the US. i also agree that field of study is only one factor you should consider when applying. more than half of my friends have pretty drastically changed their major within the past 3 years. even i changed from business to physiology. if i had gone to a school specifically for its business program then that would probably be a regret of mine ...

at the same time, you don't have to go to a liberal arts college to get a well-rounded education. i'm personally a fan of liberal arts colleges, but i attend a public university, and i feel like i've gotten a pretty well-rounded education. from your list, there is no "best" ... in my opinion at least ... it's too hard to say "why would you go to x when you can go to y" they all have so many things to consider. ex: can you handle a very cutthroat, competitive environment ... what's your ideal class size ... are you familiar with how different the physical surroundings will be from what you're used to (ex: chicago and cornell), how important is it for you to be actually taught by the professor and not his graduate lackeys (lol). you will get a good education at any of the schools you have listed there. like countless people have said, it is possible to get a good education almost anywhere ... but you'll just have to make the choice about what suits your personality the best - on many different levels.

anyway it's too early to be worrying about this stuffs! worry about applications first, and THEN about choices ^-^ .... hope your exams went well.

p.s: i also applied to like 11 colleges and i don't feel that it's a waste. costly, but not a waste

u of c's essays generally give you a lot of freedom and room to be creative from what i remember. i've always felt that the whole personal statement process on college apps overall was a really great opportunity - esp. for someone who can write like you! as long as you set aside enough time to do it all, i'm sure you'll pass with flying colors =p try to enjoy it (writing about yourself/telling your stories) neh because all of those schools are of such high level of prestige ... if/when you get into them, i'm sure the academic courseload will be just as daunting as what's set in front of you now. i think the only way to deal with it is to love what you learn =) pretty soon i'll be going through the medical school application process, feels like the tests never end sighsigh

p.s: no love for the west coast? :( pretty much all east coast and midwest schools huh

good luck on your SAT ! hope you find a lot of support here from your readers ^^

cabbie story continues to play out in my mind after he drops you off. picking his wife up and then jokingly asking her to pay fare, and shes not in mood for jokes - lol. i wonder what his wife is like in person

sucks that all my cab experiences are bad so far sighsigh :

over 100 comments and you still take time to reply to everyone ... very kind suann =p ... i never got to really experience the whole blogging world (mostly just read some rbj people's sites) to know that theres this kind of stuffs associated with it ...

chick restaurant or not ... four of those cupcakes vs coffee. mmmm cupcakes

#4 makes me feel like i have no depth perception lol
#7 is nice =)
and your mum has a nice smile ^^

harry potter one is perfect ...

the best picture is the fries one haha
you look so confused!

happy belated su ann!
sat ii subject tests yeuch ...

i love naps where you sleep for two hours and then you wake up and you look at the clock and you don't even care what time it is because it may as well be the next morning considering how relaxed you feel

am i first to comment?
poor, poor jackie chan ........

death is always difficult to think about when it's that close, physically or emotionally. you see death all the time in the newspapers and on tv that you begin to get a little bit desensitized to it, at least i know that's the case with me. it's weird how even seeing a dead stranger will put things into perspective sometimes

your drunk stranger reminds me of a guy in the psychiatric ward of a hospital that told me that i belonged there as much as him ... haha.

it's funny how silly little things like cards can change the mood of a day

wowwww ... jealous T_T

im afraid to think how many shoes you have if you say that cabinet isnt done justice in the picture ...

your friend sounds a lot like me, actually. i get along with people pretty easily (or so i'd like to think) but when it comes to hanging out all the time, i'm not really that type. sometimes it's too overwhelming for me ... or maybe i even get too anxious while hanging out with people, even if they are friends and i'm pretty comfortable around them. most times though it's just that i have this affinity for being alone ... and the only person that's really exempt from that is my girlfriend.

i've lost a lot of friends this way, actually. it makes me really sad to think that. they jump to the conclusion that i think i'm too good for them or that i'm just no fun. it hurts, but it's understandable i guess that they think that way. in reality, of course i'm being a little bit selfish not going out with my friends all the time but it's not because i don't like them or it's not that i don't want to be there for them as a friend ... it's just that like ... i can't do drinks and parties and go out all the time .. it makes me feel uneasy .. kind of inexplicable. if a friend needed me to be there for them and it wasn't just like "hey, let's hang out" of course i wouldn't tell them "no, thanks" but im guilty for saying those kinds of things when asked out for fun all the time.

maybe it's because when i was little my mom never let me go out with my friends and stuff, so i got used to saying no to kids and spending time alone lol ... sigh. this is like a novel of a comment su ann im sorry!

it's good to see the other side of this kind of relationship ... thanks pinkpau (heart)

stretchy fletchy ... easy-peasy .... lol ^^
looks fun
and looking good

a little bit of pent-up anger hmmm?