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1. Abridged list of colleges I got into:
- Beloit College
- Lawrence University
- Smith College
- Mt. Holyoke College
(Listing colleges I did not get into is now mostly an exercise in Paths Not Taken, so I will not do it.)

2. Questions I have for you:
a. What do you know about these schools?
b. Did you go here?
(i. What did you like about it?)
c. Do you have friends who went here?
(i. What are they like?)
(ii. What do they say about it?)
d. Whether or not you went to these colleges, know people who did, know anything about them, etc.: if you went to college, what was your decision process like? What ended up being the deciding factor?

I am mostly just curious, but I will admit that my interest is not without selfish intent.

Rejection today from Interfictions 2. I like to send stories back out again right away, but I can't think of a market for this one, and now I'm having doubts about if it really is any good, anyway, and shouldn't I just rewrite it completely?

Which way lies madness, of course.

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On the school front, about a million projects are due next week. And essays. Also papers. (And all the paperwork for applying for financial aid--it's enough to make a girl wish for standardized processes to get rid of all these weird deadlines, or at least for it to be next year, when I'll only have to deal with one college's crazy ideas of what makes a good financial aid timeline.)

Fleet on the heels of that will come the deadline for my Presidential Scholars application. One of 3,000 candidates in the country is, at the very least, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick; on the other hand, it means filling out an application that's as large as most of the college applications I did.

This next one is entirely my fault for finding: a physics summer program that looks awesome and to which I want to apply. Which isn't so much a chore, except that it's another thing to write in my planner and agonize over not doing.

And I wonder why I'm stressed.

(Tangent: Usually, I can work at a fierce and high level of concentration. I always want to have a higher goal than I've achieved; this is why teachers who give me A's on essay drafts and no comments on how to make it better frustrate me. This works, except when that fierce and high level of concentration lapses, and I still have those sky-high ideals of What I Ought To Be Able To Do. I am not sure what to do about this, except to try to remember this and treat myself kindly.)