advertising one's college

[aamcnamara]

My friend-prospie has been and departed. I dragged her up to the lake and all around the library (including my rare book room! So much shiny, by which I mean old and falling-apart books). I also dragged her to our room-choosing event, which I was not participating in but went to anyway in a show of moral support and which was probably more a test of endurance than anything else. For all of us, but especially her?

At any rate, I've figured out that my sales pitch for this college basically begins "Mount Holyoke: there are awesome geeky queer women". I have friends who aren't queer, and friends who aren't geeky, but all my friends are awesome; and a rather high number of them are all of the above.

(It continues, and possibly ends, "Also, we have a really nice library." Clearly these are all the important things in life.)

(Out of curiosity: readers of this LJ, do you try to get people to go to your college/the college you attended? What is your sales pitch, if so?)

This evening I finally got back to work on some of the continuous projects I've been ignoring, and figured out something fairly major that was wrong with one of my math papers. So: yay! I would be happier if I'd managed to write it up, too, but progress is progress and I can't complain about that.

Next week will kind of be hell--I have an essay, possibly two presentations but definitely at least one, a handful of math papers I really ought to turn in, as well as my regular readings et cetera. On the bright side, our physics lab time will be spent talking about relativity! And, of course, after that, there only will be half a week left of classes (during which I will do the other presentation if I don't do it next week, and turn in the rest of the math papers), and I only have two final exams. So probably I will survive that.

And then there is summer.

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