I'm writing [dun dun DUN!!] ANOTHER ENTRY!
Finals went by surprisingly painlessly. English was easy (as expected), Stat wasn't as hard as I thought (I think because of the long time we had...I still probably flunked it, thought), bio was time consuming (but not hard), and math wasn't hard either. I also didn't need to study as much as I thought I would. Hm.
Snow trip was last week. I have to admit that it was a bit of a disappointment. I didn't try anything new this time. I already failed at downhill skiing, cross country skiing, and snowboarding on other snowtrips. I was going to snowshoe, but I decided against it after hearing what other people said. Ver and Debb said that the snow was so hard that the snow shoes were unnecessary and just a burden. That was another problem this snow trip --- it didn't snow at all, and what snow on the ground was icy and hard. Freshman year the snow was powdery and nice.
On another note, the food sucked this snow trip. Actually, the food was exactly the same, I just didn't like it as much. hmm.
I really don't want to go to school tomorrow, but I'm sure it'll be fine. I just don't want to get up early. Silly me.
I've been thinking about colleges lately. I applied to 14 (yeah, I know, I'm crazy, but it seems fashionable to apply to so many these dayS): ucsd, ucsc, ucd, ucb, reed, U. puget sound, Whitman, Lewis and Clark, haverford, smith, carleton, pomona, scripps, Bryn Mawr. Of these, Pomona, Haverford, and Carleton are the "reachiest." Puget sound, ucsc, ucd, and Lewis and Clark are safeties. Looking back on it, I don't know why I decided to apply to so many. I will most likely NOT go to a UC. I will most likely NOT go to one of the 4 northwest schools. I am more likely to choose Smith over Bryn Mawr and Scripps (the other women's colleges). In fact, I have been really leaning towards Smith over all the others. I guess I'm being held back by the "CPS syndrome" of feeling guilty about going somewhere that's not uber-competitive. Smith has a relatively high admit rate, and sometimes I feel like i could do better. But isn't that lame?
Actually, when I said "I've been thinking about colleges lately," i was thinking of something else. Specifically, I want to know how much distinction there is in the academic goodness of colleges. I mean, people say things about the ivies, duke, stanford, etc. being top schools, but I wonder if they're really any better than other places. I bet that they're better in the sense that they're more selective --- more selective = more qualified students = more pressure to do well. However, in terms of the official work load, quality of the professors, and the amount you actually LEARN in the end, I doubt that top schools can really be called "the best." It probably depends, though. For instance, I have the impression that Princeton is mega hard while Harvard and Yale aren't bad at all. Also, techy schools like MIt and Caltech are supposedly brutal. I think the same holds true with Liberal Arts Colleges --- Reed, which US News ranks horribly, is one of the hardest schools in the nation. Swarthmore is hard too. But is Williams really better than Oberlin? I doubt there's a difference. Wellesley is ranked higher than the other seven sisters, but i doubt it's any better. It's got the most fame and money, sure. But Barnard's the most selective, for instance.
I think one problem is that people usually only take classes at one college with one major. Yeah, there are transfers. But people are too limited by their own experiences to make judgments. It would be interesting to see someone take all sorts of random classes at random colleges and compare. But even that would be misleading. So we're stuck with assumptions, at that bothers me, because assumptions are often wrong.
blah. I should spend my last night of vacation doing something else. All Done.