MIT App. is OUT!!

Hooray!

After 4 terrible days of rumors flying around about MIT not excepting any freshman in the upcoming ‘09 year, we can finally relax.  MIT is not usually late, so this is concerning to some who were ready to finish their MIT application the day it came out.  Its finally out and in the open, so hurry up and finish those apps before November for early admission.

Read/Write.

I just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. It is a good series, but it is very long, and quite complicated. Not sure what I am going to read next; I don’t currently have any books I haven’t already read. I’ll probably reread The Diamond Age or Zodiac; however, I might reread Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love, which I haven’t read recently.
I’ve been working on my college applications; I’m currently focusing on writing an essay about a project I’ve been working on this summer, and I think that my next revision will be good. I should get started on filling out the fiddly bits of the applications, too. I think that I am on top of the process, though, which is a good thing.

Drive Through the Midwest

I got home from my epic drive through the Midwest of America on Wednesday night. The purpose of the trip was to move my Grandmother (on Dad’s side) from Des Moines, Iowa to San Antonio, Texas. We used I35.
We drove through beautiful parts of the country, and I have pictures. I think I will post those pictures both here and on my facebook. I twittered the journey (using my fancy little cell phone: thank you Dad!). Check it out.
Anyway, besides leaving my bag at a Days Inn hotel in Wichita, Kansas, it was a successful, if exhausting, journey. Dad will claim that he drove at the speed limit the entire time, even though we made the 1000 mile journey in about 14 hours of road time.
I looked at University of Texas at the Texas end of the journey. It is a huge place, but it is a good looking, clean campus. I will apply and I think it would be a good place for me.