Today I have gone up and down and up and down, just like, as my Facebook status says, an undamped harmonic oscillator approaching resonance.
I was having a really crappy day involving AP English and government essays and molecular orbitals, and I thought I didn't get the writing award for that stuff I posted a while back, so I was rather grumpy when I went to Carroll to take my math semester (which I think went well, by the way).
After the semester, though, I found out I am a presidential scholar, meaning that my parents and I get an all expenses paid trip to Washington DC this June that is actually not during national debate! (It's the week right after.) Only 120 people got the academic presidentail scholar status, out of the whole nation. It was first based on SAT/ACT scores, and then I had to fill out this long annoying (but well worth it now) application in January. Now here I am! I get to see Washington DC for free, a city I've always wanted to visit! (And the fact that it's free makes me feel better about not going to Australia/New Zealand.)
After that I found out I actually did win the Harrison writing award, which is what I was applying for when I posted that story and those poems a while back. This means I get $250, which is the most money I've ever gotten for writing a few poems.
So that was happy, but I'm still stressed to the max and I feel like I'm drowning.
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"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
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- Lindsay
- Everything in my life is about to change, and I'm absolutely terrified. I breathe one instant at a time.
5 comments:
See, you ARE a genius, and you DO deserve to be at MIT.
I am going to DC this summer too, I sure wish my trip was paid for!
What will you be doing while you are there?
I am SOOOO proud of you.
So incredibly proud of YOU.
thanks! the letter says i will be attending recitals and looking at museums and other DC attractions and talking to government people. the final recognition thing is white house sponsered, so i guess white house people will be there.
it did make me feel slightly better about MIT. :-)
I just saw that in the IR this morning. Congrats!
remember, my offer is still on the table, $500 and the biggest hug of your life ;-)
oh pat, you're such a bad influence on me... :-)
it might just be enough to pay the bail to get me out of the white house jail.
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