I hope you all, my readers, have a wonderful holiday. Enjoy the time away from the scary world, and embrace your family.
That is all.
I hope you all, my readers, have a wonderful holiday. Enjoy the time away from the scary world, and embrace your family.
That is all.
Last Thursday night, I submitted all of my college applications. I’ve been too sick and busy Christmas shopping to make the post with the good news. I plugged in the last piece of information, my SAT chemistry score, checked them over, and pressed submit.
I now wait.
Originally, this post simply read:
750
That’s the score I read when I woke up this last Thursday morning at 5:05 a.m. and checked the CollegeBoard’s website. I was exhausted and sick, due to a terrible cold I’ve been dealing with, but had the presence of mind to make that simple post. Now, some analysis.
750 is 50 more points than I anticipated from my practice tests. I’m very pleased with the score, and have to again thank my friend Mike and my high school chemistry teacher for their help. They helped me study for a test that corresponded to a class I had not completed yet. It’s an interesting story, and I hope it has a happy ending…
This is only the beginning.
I was mentioned on East Meets West! I submitted a comment about The Golden Compass. I’m still hoping for a sequel.
Direct MP3 link. My comment is 23:36 in.
The next few days are huge for me. I get my scores from my SAT Chemistry test on Thursday. That night, I plan to submit all of my college applications online.
Posts will follow.
On This American Life episode #48, Ira investigates The Apology Line, a phone line that anyone could call up and anonymously apologize for just about anything.
Quoting from Jason Kottke:
“The way it worked was that you could call and confess to anything that you wanted, and you’d be recorded, or you could call and listen to other people’s confessions.” Sounds sort of like a phone-based message board.
Now quoting the apology project:
Over the course of the project, the Apology line received more than ten thousand confessions, for misdeeds ranging from pulling pigtails in grade school to a series of sadistic ritual murders. Click here to read a small selection of some of the messages recorded on the Apology Line. In a period prior to the emergence of the Web and online communities, Allan pioneered the use of telephone technology to permit confessions to be recorded, played back and commented on by an ever-expanding virtual community.
I think we need The Apology Podcast. If it doesn’t exist already (I’ve looked, didn’t find it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t out there), I’d love to see someone create it, or create it myself.