Quick Facts
Home: Fairfield, Connecticut Favorite Movie: Love and Death, Harold and Maude, and Amelie Favorite Singer/Band: Everything, mostly: Neutral Milk Hotel, Mindless Self Indulgence Favorite TV Shows: I do not watch TV Favorite Food: Asparagus and Veggie Corn Dogs Favorite Subjects: World Literature, Comparative Politics Intended Major: Undecided

" To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting"
-- ee cummings

I most definitely am not what I thought I was going to be when I became a senior. I guess in freshman year I, as most people have, made a picture in my mind of how I would look/be/act in my senior year, and I, as I am guessing most people also have, have not adhered to that vision. What I am now, though, is better.

I am Sarah,

I am 16, and

I am a senior.

I speak freely, think thoroughly, and I believe, and protect my beliefs, fiercely.

Thankfully, I have always attended schools that have given me the space necessary to grow into a freethinking human being. My high school is unique.I attend a magnet program inside of a public city school.

The magnet program has provided the best experiences I have ever had, it is an amazing place filled with amazing people and the best teachers around.

At this school, I have been studying Japanese since freshman year, and this year I am beginning to study Arabic as well. I took a Japanese history course freshman year, and then went to Japan, as a school field trip in May. I also went to Japan sophomore year, and will go again this year. It's...amazing.

Although I love school with a passion, I do not get good grades. I do not get bad ones either, but they are not perfect, a 2.5 out of a 4.0, maybe more, I think a little higher.

I read constantly. All the time. My lit teachers, the principal and pretty much everyone in school makes fun of me for that. But in a nice way. I am not antisocial at all, I am very outgoing, but I just love to read.

I have big course loads because I take what interests me, and what I think I would like to learn, for example, this year, I am taking 3AP classes, 2 Literature's, 2(actually3) languages, and I am attending religious school Tuesdays where I take two classes there.

Sometimes it seems like a lot sometimes it doesn't.

I am involved in a lot of extracurricular activities, about 6 or 7 of them, and I also do about 10 hours of community service a week, at a local community theatre.

I do a lot. I am still scared as anything for college apps, interviews, and rejections.

I want to go to a tiny, tiny liberal arts school.

My list so far is: (in no order) Marlboro, Antioch, Warren Wilson, Evergreen, Hampshire, Bennington, Prescott, Oberlin, College of the Atlantic, and Clark.

I think that I am going to apply to all 10. I am so scared. I haven't even written my essay yet. I don't know if we were even supposed to.

The common app seems very intimidating, I feel like it will get lost on the internet and never reach my schools, and that's sad.

I don't think that applications are going to be fun at all, I kind of want to skip the whole process and just arrive at may, for Japan, my license, and the end of high school and the beginning of COLLEGE!!!!

Nervous. How about you?

Sarah V.