the stuffs

so last night i attempted to finish two of my letter of recommendation request forms, which involves answering questions to help teachers write a letter for you. from the attempt i created a ridiculous set of answers for my art teacher. when i write, i often find myself at a loss, maybe i should mention i hate writing and resist it so much it is often done in the last 30 minutes before i'm supposed to get up for school... anyway so i just let my mind vomit go and turned that into him. this included me taking parts seriously and answering the questions, but at other times i just wrote about my day or how i had no idea what to say. putting in little details that were important to me will give him the extra view he needs from my side to write the letter, which i know he could write without my input. as for my questions for my physics teacher, i will actually take more seriously and give him good information to write about. well, not that my information for smith was bad, it just was all jumbled and not very deep.

anyway, time is closing in. UCs open on sunday and i have no essays written basically. and in a month from then i have my early action application due. guess what i will be doing over thanksgiving? besides eating pie every day.

the good news is though that my mom and i have been making "appointments" to work on college, the week before this last one, it worked, we got my CSUs done. yesterday though, my mom had work and could not help me so i was on my own for the work. i was supposed to have found out about where i needed to send SAT scores, work on essays, and finish the teacher request forms. sadly, i only got part of one of these things done.

in addition to all this, since i will be applying to my first art school, MassArt, i need to figure out my portfolio and actually start printing the application stuff out. for all my art schools, i am applying the old fashioned way, on paper. i am doing it this way because it feels more personal to me and for art schools, especially with my portfolio stuff, it is important for my personality to come across in my application. writing things by hand is more my style because i can do it anywhere and i prefer to write in bed rather than sit on the computer and type.

lastly, i have decided to apply for financial aid, yay! which means my mom and i will also have to work on FAFSA! oh goodie! i don't know if i necessarily qualify, but that is for other people to decide, not my mom or me.

the csus

yay! on wednesday october 21st, i applied to CSU Long Beach and Cal Poly. cal poly was a random, why the hell not application.

it was nice to actually get things more towards done, although if i get in i still have to send in portfolios in january of february. i had been ignoring college stuff, as mentioned before, and it was super nice to jump in and get that much done.

this week my mom and i have a "date" to jump in and start working on the UCs. i feel better about getting all this done with my first two out of the way, even though they were the easy ones. now i just have to focus and get things done. i will begin working on essays soon and i need to finish my teacher rec forms asap, but i feel like things will be okay. YAY!