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Name: Aisha
Country: United States
Metro: Athens
Birthday: 12/1/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: I bake. I knit. I crochet. I write. I write. I write.(I write a LOT) I like taking pictures of things that are worth remembering. I like foaming milk. I have a thing for hello kitty, coffee, music, and motion, the picture types and the zoom zoom drive types.
Expertise: I'm not an expert. I just know enough about the majority of everything to look like one.
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AIM:  fusionofme
Member Since:
2/1/2005
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| There's been a lot going on the past few days, so I've been not posting, cause, honestly, as much fun as I have writing on here, I have better things to do. Like yell at my hair to grow faster!
I failed my test on Saturday. I'm re-taking it later this week, and I feel a lot better about taking it, partially because I failed it. I knocked over one of the back cones and that's an immediate failure. Could've been any cone, really, and I would've failed. It wasn't just that it was the left back cone and the tester had a particular appreciation of that cone. I also feel better about the test because Dad took me out and we set up cones and played around with backing up yesterday. I have a slightly better feel for where Ed is, when to turn the wheel with him, and ABOUT how far over I can be.
Today, I had orientation for taking classes and what-not at OU this fall. The orientation basically consisted of 'here's the rules. here's what you get as a participant. here's the site where you sign up for classes. this is how you sign up for classes,' and lasted an hour and a half, as opposed to the advertised 3 hours. Thanks to that meeting, I now can sign up for classes, know what I can do to get into/out of a class, and can re-join facebook, hopefully in the next few days.
Finally, I've been bloody bored this summer. So bored, in fact, that I've started learning how to apply make-up. Yeah. Watch out world, I finally am grasping the concept of how to use a stick of eyeliner.
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| I take my driver's test tomorrow. I could've taken it this morning, but given how clumsy I was upon leaving the house for work, it's probably best that I'm not taking it until tomorrow. (I fell off the porch, face first into the flowers I'd been trying to not step on.)
I feel like this should be more dramatic, more exciting. But mostly? I'm just looking forward to this being over. Even if I fail, I'll've tried once, and I'll have three more tries(even though I'll probably need to renew my permit, which is insane). I've had my permit for a year this Friday, and I'm taking the test as much as to avoid having to renew my permit as anything else. I am afraid of failing, of having to re-take the written portion, or killing a cone and failing altogether, but I feel like I'm ready, as ready as I can be.
This time tomorrow, I will either have my license. Or I won't.
This is growing up, huh?
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| I'm scheduling my driver's test today. Yikes!
That is all.
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| 1. I just realized that, in exactly one month, I will be back in school. On the bright side, I'm only taking two classes with ECOT, and all other credit(at least, if my plans go accordingly) will be earned with OU. Knowing I'm going somewhere where I might actually experience the tingle of a challenge is causing me to be excited about returning to that good ol' knowledge expanding institution commonly called school.
2. Part of the plans for my summer entirely revolve/d around painting my room, and then rearranging it. The flaw with said plan is that I have yet to pick out a paint color, or even a general color(blues? reds? what about yellows? will they feel like I shunned them if I don't make the place look like a lemon?). I just can't imagine having any specific color looking 'right' on my walls. That being said, anything would look right compared to the gigantic *Nsync poster I still have up because it's covering my attempt at a paint job that involved acrylic paints and a frog stamp. My walls say ribbit and crazy and I have come to despise and loath them for this.
3. This time next year, I will be prepping to leave for college. Where? I don't know. What will I be studying? I don't know. What will I do to the next person that declares that I am going to grad school when done with under-grad? Throwing things at them.
4. I have nearly accumulated all the hours I need to be licensed. I only need a few, a minimal few, of night hours, and I want to drive in C-bus with my parents once, just so they can tell me to not freak out. It helps that, after spending probably 5 hours practicing cones in driver's ed., I actually know where all parts of the car are. Amazing, I know.
5. There's not really a five. I just felt like putting it there.
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| Dear Various Universities Across the Country,
Okay, I get it. You're busy educating some of the 'best and brightest' of the country. This is important stuff you are doing. But if you're really educating the best and brightest, why can't you make your sites easier to navigate for prospective students like me? Surely someone must know how to add a few buttons to your site, remembering what it was like to be seeking out a great university or college, who also recalls the struggle to find information about the school on the school's website, and wants to fix this problem.
But no. Not at all. You want me to struggle, to get such a headache that it would take all the drugs in the world to help cause a dent.
I want information about your school. This means that I am quite possibly willing to give you money to have you tell me if you want me to attend your school, and you all really like money(or so the rumor goes. I heard it pays the bills). But can I find a link to request information about your school, so that I can compare it with other institutions? Nope. If I'm lucky, I find a PDF or download of some sort, a sad substitute for the thick paper books I've been getting from other universities. Something that I, as one of the few people who still has dial up, don't really have the patience to download.
Okay, fine, I can't get information. How about some stats on incoming Freshman? GPA, standardized test scores, etc? No, you'd rather just tell me what might give me an edge over other students that are begging to attend your school. You're asking me to write about my hobbies, why I participated in any and all extracurricular activities, those details that might not come across in the application. When I read this, do you know what it makes me want to do? Make up an elaborate but touching lie that both shows you my sparkling personality, and tells you exactly why I would make a good student at your school, like that one time I saved a box of puppies, on the highway, while in a t-shirt emblazoned with your name, and it was on the cover on the state newspaper. And then see how long it would take you to find out I had lied.
So I've given up on finding anything out about your university, whichever one you may be. I can't get stats, or information, or even a decent description of what, exactly, makes a particular program at your school better than another's school programs, other than it's nationally accredited. Um, do you know what that means to most high school seniors? All it's done for me is give me a line to tell people when they ask why I'm interested in your school. Clearly, you are more focused on your recognition than on describing how you got the recognition.
Finally, when you do manage to make it so I can get information on your school through your website(perhaps this lack of links is so that I am forced to listen to you talk about what makes your school so excellent, with no hope of escape from an overly-peppy student?), you ask for my social security number. And, half the time, you seem to get really irritated that I'm not willing to simply give it to you. Have you not noticed the amount of SSN thefts from various institutions across the country? SWITCH IT UP, and try something else. How about a basic registration of my name, address, school year, GPA/scores, and you all generate a number I use with your school, and get to access my College Board Account information, so that I don't have to worry about ID theft in addition to FAFSA and acceptance letters? Is that really so hard?
Apparently it is. I'm going to join the circus, so that they can start advertising that they have some of the 'best and brightest' in the country. Send me a letter when you make your sites more user friendly, and less irritating.
Sincerely,
One Irritable Rising Senior
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