So after months and months without internet my dad was finally able to afford it again. The first thing I do was sign up for the SAT's, how very studious of me. Senior year is going alright so far, I'm just glad I'm on track to graduate, not like some of my friends that have to go to night school and get a 0 and 7th period, that's shitty. It's exciting to get brochures and all that stuff from NYU, and then to have gone and visit the Berkeley campus this summer and have met all the head honchos and all that crap, it feels like I'm ready to leave.But my family is discouraging me to go any of these schools. My dad isn't in my face about it, he's more like, "can't you study this at (insert local school here)". But everyone else it's just "why do you want to go so far away?" "You can get the same education here for cheaper." And I do let this get to me, as much as I wish I wouldn't. Whenever I tell anyone what I really want to do is go to Oxford, they look at me like I'm joking, and once they figure out I'm not, they just kind of smile and look at me in a pitiful way. I guess it is pretty far-fetched, my GPA is a 3.2, which is nothing compared to half of the people at that school, but it doesn't hurt to dream now does it?
By the way, I've started a community service based club at my school. Any fresh suggestions on what to take on as a project? (We've got enough canned food drives, soup kitchen visits, animal shelter volunteering, and hanging out at retirement homes planned already)
Oleada
by OneGirrlRiot | 08/20/2008
Thanks, Daisy, I think I'm going to just try and get as much scholarships as possible, and as one of the marine recruiters at my school recently put it, I'll just be really "balls to the wall" with my GPA this year.
And also, the volunteering at a free clinic idea is great. Thanks!
My sister is planning to transfer in 5 years and such. It's tedious but it's worth it.
Yeah, I'm on the Students Run LA thing at school (as in the LA marathon, and other shorter ones along the way). I'll have to see if the organization offers scholarships to its members. Hey K, I've been getting a lot of stuff from NYU, Geneva anywhere near there? If I get in, I'll come around and help with the zine!
You could always start at a cheaper school, and then try to transfer on scholarship. My friend did that -- she went to community college and is now doing her masters at Georgetown on full scholarship.
As for Oxford or Cambridge, they aren't really going to offer you anything that Berkeley can't, aside from a certain snide smugness of countenance that seems to drape languidly over every graduate, thereby diminishing their likeability exponentially.
Oh, and a bit of rowing, I suppose.
Why doesn't your group volunteer at a free clinic?