|
cndianskater
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Name: Danielle
Birthday: 6/25/1990
Gender: Female
Interests: Speech and Debate, Choir, Guitar, Piano, Iceskating, Volleyball, Soccer, Friends, Family, Chuch Peoples, Music, Phantom of the Opera... Les Miserables, Wicked, Chicago, Rent, New York, Coffee, Dashboard Confessional, Titanic, LOTR, Pirates of the Carribean, Project Runway, The Apprentice, and ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!
Expertise: None whatsoever
Message: message me
AIM:  crazyblonde931
Member Since:
4/28/2004
|
|
| Xanga's gotten a whole lot snazzier since the last time I used it.
Anyways, I don't want to be a senior yet. I don't.
I feel like I'm too busy with everything else in my life.
I don't want to apply to college.
I don't want to write a senior thesis.
I don't want to move away from everyone I know.
I don't want to get stuck in a sucky class for my senior year.
I don't want there to be any drama... but there will be.
I don't want to be so busy with work and Speech and Debate that I barely have time for anything else.
Yeah, that's about the "I don't" list for now. I've been trying to write college application essays, but they aren't going so well 
In memory of 2006-2007? Well, normally I write a long post, remembering it all, but I didn't this year. So, what shall we remember?
Remember stupid, drawn-out discussions in humane letters. Remember joining speech and debate and being so nervous for my first tournament. Remember the trip to Harvard--which was amazing. Remember taking ACTs and SATs and vowing never to touch them again. Remember writing down colleges and majors, only to change them in the next day, or even hour. Remember break-downs, and craziness. Remember friendship. Remember too much pizza. Remember caffeine highs. Remember people growing older, but not becoming more mature. Remember our wonderful drama plays. Remember art sketches. Remember our last french class ever. Remember the time we cajoled our french teacher into so many french feasts? Remember stress and essays. Forget about stupid Thucydides. Remember Hamlet. Remember Aristotle. Remember the NY cantamus trip. Remember Broadway. Remember Carnegie Hall. Remember NSD Debate Camp. Remember lab leaders. Remember Model UN meetings-always as productive as the UN. Remember sarcasm. Remember mistakes. Remember getting a Facebook and Myspace and abandoning Xanga. Remember turning 17. Remember the seniors. Remember 11B.
Here's to 2006-2007, a year of change, maturity, and ever-present stupidity.
| | |
| Poor little xanga...
Anyways, I've learned a lot of interesting things here in Boston! Interesting thing numero 1: Harvard doesn't have a mascot!! No cute little bear, or monkey or anything... Weirdly, they're just called "the crimsons".
Depressing tidbit numero 2: New York is, according to some locals, just as cold as Boston. This I will adamantly refuse to believe, so that I can whole heartedly apply to Boston.
Obvious info-bye number 3: Boston is cold. Now, granted that sounds a bit retardly obvious. But it's not. See, we all come to Boston thinking that "oh, yeah Boston's cold.", but really, we have no idea at all that it is cold. Note the emphasis. Josh said that hell probably isn't hot like we all thing it is, but cold like Boston.
So, yeah, besides that, we learned that the USS Constitution is made from some super thick wood, and that the US navy employed boys as young as 8 to carry around canon powder. Oh, and then there's Paul Revere. And Mike's Pastries. You can even order these things online at (something like) mikespastries.com [I recommend googling it].
It's kinda funny going to the tournament at Harvard, because you see evidence of the Harvard-Yale century old fight. Like, at a blood drive, they have posters saying "We all know Harvard is better than Yale", somehow leading to the conclusion that giving blood will make this true. Logical? No. Good market centered advertising? Probably.
Typical american mindset number 4: Harvard actively recruites minorities. All of the Harvardians (hahahaa.. I just made that up) that I've seen are pretty much either Asian (the majority), some minority mix (the next majority), or black.
Delicious information numero cinq: Boston has excellent pastry shops. Even besides Mike's infamous Pastries, your average run of the mill coffee place has great food stuffs. I'm seriously addicted to hot chocolate and chocolate fudge brownies.
So, the hotel room is kinda small, considering there are four of us in it. But there is internet! Yay for the 21st century.
Proscratination all the way number 6: I'm not doing any hw until the plane ride home. Yay for five hour plane rides!
And the final info-bit number 7: my feet *hurt*... Really badly.. They hurt from the cold and all the walking on ice. Almost all the streets are completely covered in ice. Imagine a newly iced skating rink. Now imagine that smooth ice all over every single sidewalk. Sounds fun, doesn't it?
Love from Boston,
Moi.
| | |
| After creating a Myspace account, I think my Xanga has felt a little neglected and jealous.
Anyways, life's pretty good. I've just been busy with Speech and Debate Stuff. Dobson's this weekend [Dobson = 5A tournament], and I'm kinda spazzing out. I really should be perfecting my debate cases, but I never can find the time (probably because I distract myself so much and procrastinate... which leads me to stay up really late to get them done). Oh well, I work better under pressure.
Speaking of working better under pressure, my take home test as of Sunday, November 5th, 3:45 pm, currently looks like this:
Danielle Bäck
Humane Letters, 11B
Take Home Test
November 6, 2006
Cleon
and Diodotus, two Athenian orators, both explain the role of interest and
justice in their speeches to the Athenian assembly during the Mytilenian
Debate.
Yeah, I should probably work on that. It's supposed to be two pages by
tomorrow, without "awkward" phrasing or "word choice" problems, that I
am so prone to having. See you all later!
| | |
|  | Currently Watching
Lost - The Complete Second Season
By Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Josh Holloway, Malcolm David Kelley, Daniel Dae Kim, Yoon-jin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Watros, Ian Somerhalder
see related |
Good Old Xanga... I have written in over a month... I blame Speech and Debate. Seriously, it takes up so much freakin time. But, when they're recruiting you, they don't tell you that. Oh, no, then it's just, "one meeting on Mondays, for two hours". Yeah, right, just one meeting. Anyways, I've been to three tournaments so far: Snowflake, Apache Junction, and Glendale (which was yestarday). Snowflake was the most fun, because it has both debate and IEs. While I love my IEs (well, not Extemp), I think I'm actually better at debate. And since this is my first year, I end up debating other novices (basically, I debate ninth and tenth graders, and then really bad juniors/seniors). Oh, and Glendale was pretty interesting because a) I was sick and could barely talk and b) I was quadruple entered. Please, for the love of God, someone remind me never to do that again. It was quite awful, as they randomly decided not to run it in flights, but as a normal tournament. Sprinting in heels across Glendale Community College is not exactly fun, let me tell you. Oh, and I would have pulled off 12 prelims, if my very last Impromptu judge hadn't left without judging me. : (
Oh, and I'm going to New York!!!! We get to sing at Carnegie Hall this summer, and stay in NYC from June 8-12. I'm actually going to stay longer so that I can see Elliott, and also visit Columbia University, NYU, as well as visit the Met, the Museum of Modern Art, Ellis Island, and see Wicked on Broadway. The only thing is that I have to pay for it, which is kinda a bummer. Oh well. I also want to see another musical, maybe Les Miserables while I'm there. But mostly, I want to see Columbia-- it's so amazing. I'm pretty sure I want to go there. I hope I can get in... they have like 20,000 applicants, and only about 1,600 freshman spots, the overall Columbia College admit rate being around 9%, which is incredibly low, and very frightening. It's when I see statistics like that, that I think, "Well, MCC isn't so bad."
I nearly forgot about this. When I was writing my Odyssey essay, which was about the generalizations about women in the homeric world, I was looking for a good quote to use in my conclusion. Well, I couldn't actually find a suitable one (that fit the essay topic), but I did find this one. "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as
good. Luckily, this is not difficult." ~Charlotte Whitton (a Canadian feminist). Hahaha... I must say I agree 
| | |
| Andrew just left to catch his plane to Rochester. I'm going to miss him 
It's kinda weird the way time passes. In just two years, I'll be flying off to college too (provided I get to go where I want). I feel oh so old.
School is good. So is life. I'd write more but I have a French test about grammar and an odd story about a pregnant bowl. Hmm.. that's the french for you.
| | |
|
