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[bedlamsbard]

On a reread of Deathly Hallows, more closely and slowly this time, to be followed by a full reread of the series from Sorceror's Stone to Deathly Hallows.

Have a week before apocalyptothon submissions are due, so have to rewrite the latter part of my story sometime before then.

Have been writing a lot of SW fic -- the sequel to "What is Lost", currently nameless, in much the same style I wrote WiL -- which is to say, with bits and pieces all over the place. I have a vague plot in mind, but I have to figure out what to do with Luke and Leia; I'd thought I'd had it figured out, but apparently not. And also do a little more research into the EU, specifically with Quinlan Vos, Aayla Secura, and Mace Windu. Possibly Yoda.

As well, I'm halfway through the summer before my senior year, so I'm having to seriously start narrowing down schools, start my essays and applications, look at scholarships, et cetera. I narrowed my list of schools down slightly, but I also added some; I still have the problem that most of the schools I'm looking at are reach schools; I need more safety schools if I want to be able to go somewhere other than the UW if no one on the East Coast takes me. And guys, I really hate Seattle, so I'd rather not go to the UW.

Current list of prospective schools, in no particular order (okay, that's a lie, it's in alphabetical order):

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Boston University (Boston, MA)
Brown University (Providence, RI)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
Duke University (Durham, NC)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Prescott, AZ/Daytona Beach, FL)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)

I'm looking at an anthropology/archaeology major with a possible double major in music/music ed, although my experience at Brown has me looking at a creative writing major or minor -- leaning very, very tentatively, I might add -- except at ERAU, where I'd probably be going for global security and intelligence studies or homeland security, and UNC, where I'd probably go anthropology and peace, war, and defense.

I'm thinking about writing my essays on writing, music (specifically, my experience with symphonic band vs. wind ensemble), or fandom. I'm not sure how that last part would work, but it's unusual, I hope.

I need to start practicing bari again -- I need to have my music memorized for marching band, and I need to have my music down for All-State auditions in the fall. And start practicing flute, so my teacher doesn't kill me.

Don't even get me started on having to do scholarship apps.

Or summer reading. Which isn't technically required, because it's homework for the main school year, but I'd like to do it now so I don't have to do it then.

Also, knitting, because I actually have a commission I need to finish.

I'm going to edit my final project story -- now renamed to "And All the Saints are Sinners" -- a little bit more, then possibly send it out somewhere.

Yes. My life really is this boring. *rolls eyes* I haven't been out of the house in three days, no wonder I was sad to come home.

ETA: Dude, Boston College CREEPS ME OUT. My comp was on the BC website, my mom walks in with the mail including the BC "come here! we rock!" guide and application, I say something about being really uncertain about BC for various reasons, and then BC e-mails me not two seconds later. What the hell, is this school stalking me or what?

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[tessfawcett.livejournal.com]

Politically, it is very important at Wellesley to be liberal-friendly, but if you are actually a Republican and you don't talk about it, people won't notice. There is a largish lesbian population, although not as much of one as most people think, and socially the tendency is to be pretty progressive (pro-gay marriage, etc.). However, for the most part it tends to be very un-politicized, so much so that when/if someone starts getting up in arms about political stuff, the rest of the campus tends to get wildly uncomfortable. The basic thinking seems to be "keep your mouth shut." That was one of the reasons why I hated Smith College, actually-- the politics seemed wildly liberal, and while I'm pretty liberal, I didn't need to see pamphlets on animal vivisection in the dining halls. That would never, ever happen at Wellesley. There are also a large number of girls from socially conservative families, whether or not they share those beliefs, so there is a fair amount of tolerance. And really, I found that overall a sort of 1950's WASP ethos prevails about politics there... you just don't need to discuss it with people you don't know. There is a small but vocal campus Republican party and for the most part everyone was dreadfully civilized. And I was there in an election year!

I am not a musician, you are correct. I have no idea about band but one thing to keep in mind is that there is a lot of musical cross-over between MIT and Wellesley-- there are several choir groups that are joint MIT-Wellesley, I know-- and cross-enrollment at MIT is really, really common for pretty much anything. (There is an hourly, daily shuttle between the Wellesley and MIT campuses.) So checking out the MIT options might also be useful; enrolling in anything MIT is literally simply a matter of filling out a form and then attending.

Don't worry about it, I remember what picking colleges was like. I'm from California and all the places I wanted to go were on the east coast. I ended up applying to places more or less at random... stress-free, it was NOT!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

That rates a deep sigh of relief. I don't care what people are so long as they don't try and shove it in my face -- although, as I'd be starting in a scary, scary election year -- *shrug* Not that major a factor, hopefully.

Oh, wow, I hadn't considered that MIT would be where the musical crossover occurs because, well, MIT. *waves hands* I'll definitely have to look into that.

I'm from smalltown Washington and desperately want to leave the entire west coast except for my first choice school (Stanford), so my college search mostly seems to consist of waving my hands and trying to convince my grandmother that I won't be raped and lynched for being half-Asian and a brunette if I go down South. Yes. I'm not making that up. Or exaggerating.