College Search

The thought that I'll be graduating next year makes me jittery, and I'm almost 100% certain that with the right "hype" and the right thought, I could just throw up thinking about it. That's how queasy I'm getting.

The search is still ongoing. I've recorded the names of some prospects, or as I like to call them, suspects. But, I've also come to the conclusion that I'm going to apply to some colleges just for the sake of seeing whether or not I'll get accepted. I think it'll be a good analytical study on what certain colleges look for and where I stand among the huge molasses of 2008 high school graduates. Yes, molasses, because I'm predicting that the turn out for quality students in the coming year will be sweet, the numbers will be great and thick, and resumes will be competitively enticing. Oh, sugar, sugar.

As much as I hate the present conundrum with the PSS budget and the possibility of us starting school in October, if our efforts to prevent such a catastrophe fail, I should like to be prepared. Who said "preparation is key" again? Anyway, in this case it is. I plan to take NMC classes, get a part-time job, and maintain extra-curriculars. Since next year is my senior year, I'm going to be damn sure that I make it count. I'll salvage my academics, use NMC classes as a way to show college admissions officers that "hey, I've taken college-level AP classes, but I've also taken college classes! What better way to see how well I'll do in your college then looking at how well I did in college?". I'm also planning on starting up a few organizations/clubs here on island, one is a chapter of a US-based youth organization (more on that later), another will be an original, and a 3rd won't be a club. The 3rd would be a coalition of students who would meet on a planned basis for community service activities. I don't want to make it an established club because then it'll be under club activities and not personal undertakings to help the community.

And now that I'm all hyped up and even open-minded to playing that Rocky Balboa soundtrack so as to run up and down the 3 steps of stairs that lead from our living room to the bedrooms, I say, hear ye, here ye, here is my declaration that 2008 will be a great year, and so will 2007 being that it leads into that year. Like, cheyah duude.