College Essay or Rust

I choose rust! Meh, as you may have noticed, my main concern today is procrastinating on my college essay. I've reanalyzed the prompt and pronounced it lacking. The stated goals of "evaluating your own thinking about problems and problem solving, your ability to express yourself in writing, and you as a leader, scholar, and citizen" seem to be poorly accomplished by the vague, inane prompt (choose science/technology, arts/literature, or business/politics and apply them globally. Assess a specific aspects benefits and problems. Given unlimited human and financial resources over the next 10 years, how would you promote and develop a specific aspect of your area of choice to maximize its benefit to society.)

The parameters are entirely too large. Given unlimited financial and human resources, you could take over the world, brainwash the entire populace, and establish and blissful utopia where everything was perfect. Obviously that is not the answer the scholarship givers are seeking, but you see the flaw. The prompt neglects to mention how specific, nor does such a broad topic leave much room to properly express one's self. For instance, I'll probably do mine on environmental efficiency. But do I apply it to just emissions, or go further? Certainly it doesn't restrict one from creative ideas, but with unlimited funds and manpower anything short of a complete utopia is limited and wrong. Being unlimited almost creates another limitation in and of itself. Joy.

So... Friday night, not too shabby. West lost, but I don't mind. We go to the playoffs, more football drama. We don't, free Friday night! Kegger at Easterly's, woooh!

Saturday morning wasn't that bad. The SAT was not my best test, but it was almost certainly better than the ACT. The Math part probably killed me, though. Not any particular question, mind you. But I looked back at my answers on the little section with only 10 problems and two were wrong. I changed them, but it doesn't bode well for the other 60 or so math problems that I wasn't able to check. If time wasn't a constraint, I might very well be able to ace the thing. As it is, 700s on Verbal, 600s on Math seems feasible. Not too bad, although I'd like better. Ah well. No use speculating until I get my scores, eh?

Saturday afternoon was alright. Driving to Crossville was... interesting. Sarah's father seemed to be like a kid in a grownup costume, but I liked him all the same. Interacting with people's parents is rather enlightening as to the origins of one's personality. Not their bodymass, though, as evident by both my parent's obesity. Another story. The marching competition was alright, the highlight being when Ian and I were discussing alternate blurbs to have the announcer say over the intercom. (Background: at Cumberland County, you can pay a fee and the announcer will say cute/dorky little snippets in between bands like "I love you guys" "McMinn County rulez!" and "There is lead in the hotdogs, stop eating them NOW!") Our idea was a simple "God is dead." Not because we believed it, but because it would be quite humorous. "Connie, Shirly and Loraine, you guyz rockzorz!" "God is Dead." "Cumberland County Seniors rock!" Parity.

Saturday evening I went to a play with my sister (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Martha's play, for those interested). The play itself was alright; nothing too great, but good nonetheless. Carrie and Martha remind me of two old women gossipping and acting like their drunk whenever they're together. Some people...

Today I've just procrastinated. I can't wait until I finish all this college hullaballoo. I need to finalize my application, ask Mr. Petko and Mr. Combs to do my letters (Mr. Petko because he was my inspiration in his method of teaching, and Mr. Combs because his class was where I was the most creative and he's sort of my inspiration in terms of personality), and write my essay. I'll just have to think on it, I guess. Maybe something will come to me.

Also, anyone know a good time/place to volunteer at a campaign? Right now I'd even work at a Bush rally just for laughs. I just need 4 hours for Government, and fast! After this semester, everything should be so much easier... Until I actually get to college, that is. For the interested, polls are showing UT Honors surging, but it's still on the fringes of the margin of error. If anyone thinking of rooming in the honors dorm wants to room together, let me know. Male, preferably, but with the right adjustments to my hair I might be able to pass as a Dylina. I've got the figure, sans endowment. Hmm, the adam's apple may be a problem... Maybe I can "convert" to Islam and wear a scarf? Hey, it's an idea! Ah well. If you have time, do the silly survey. If you don't, then you're probably doing what I should be. Bad you! Bad! And yet, oh so good. Harumph. Until next time!