"Really witty title"

So France was basically amazing. As in, the greatest experience of my life.
I saw:
-the Arc de Triomphe
-the Eiffel Tower
-the Rodin museum (the Thinker, the Gates of hell, the kiss)
-the Dome des Invalides (Napoleon's tomb)
-Notre Dame
-a real live French open-air market
-the Louvre (but basically only WInged Victory, Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, some jewels and some Davids)
-Montmartre and Sacre Coeur
-Chartres
-Paris by Night
- a real live restaurant
-Versailles
-the orsay Museum (Monet!)
-Giverny (MONET!)
-several supermarkets
-a chateau (Napoleon's first wife's chateau, in fact)
- the Opera Garnier (Phantom of the Opera!)
-the galeries lafayette (six floors of expensiveness)
- Sainte Chapelle
-Church of Saint Denis (marie Antoinette's heart...and stuff.)

My host family was great, even though it was just a husband and a wife (with three grown-up sons.)  The food was amazing (I gained five pounds, no joke.)  I ate meat while I was there, but am exceptionnally glad to not be eating it anymore.  The baguettes, the cheese....great. I understood a lot of what my host parents said.  We even had a political discussion one night (Host mother: How could Americans be so dumb as to elect Bush twice? me: Umm...I don't know.)
We had a long delay on the flight on the way there, but we got there eventually. Everything is cleaner there. You have to pay for your grocery bags, and they all have recycling messages on them. I bought a million books. (Actually, only about 9 or so.)  I spent 15 euros (about 22.50) in the airport on the way home on magazines. the exchange rate was crapppy.  It was so exciting to be there during the elections. (the first round is today.) 
I loved it so much!
Pictures on Facebook soon.

France in TWO DAYS.  I am so incredibly excited. (And I'm stealing my brothers camera since it has more megapixels.)

I got into Brown!!! Ah!! 
But they only give me $3000 which is kind of disappointing.  But still, Brown!!!
And Yale rejected me (which they will regret when I am the president...) 
AHHH!!!
Brown!!!

So I got into Johns Hopkins (I checked my e-mail seconds after you left, David) which is YAY!  But they are giving me zero money, which means I'm not really that excited.  It also means that I'm going to BU, because I strongly doubt that any school is going to give me money.  (Although I haven't gotten financial aid info from Brandeis, or Dartmouth, so who knows.)
Summary of my college info:
1.Harvard   ?
2. Yale    ?
3. Brown  ?
4. Williams  ?
5. Wellesley got in, negligible money
6. Bowdoin see Wellesley
7. Brandeis, got in, money ?
8. Dartmouth got in, money?
9. JHU, got in nothing whatsoever
10. UVM got in, bunch of money
11. BU got in, tons of money so I love them

This is so so ridiculous.  I just don't get it.  The idea that my parents could afford $50,092.00 a year (Johns Hopkins expected cost of attendance) is so dumb.

AH!

So I am going to college somewhere other than UVM for definitely sure.  Because Boston University decided to be really really nice and make me a Trustee Scholar, which is a free ride.  I am incredibly excited, especially because I wasn't even expecting a letter, and I really wasn't expecting to get the scholarship, because I think my essay for it sort of sucked.  So it hasn't sunk in yet, at all.  But I'm still really excited!

I hate being sick so so much.  Mostly because it is yucky but also the fact that I have to miss school.  I hate making up schoolwork and falling behind in Calculus because I am probably failing, plus Mrs. Tally said that we were learning some big important thing today.  I went to bed last night at 8:30, slept until 5:30, and then my mother forebade me to go to school.  
Normally I would tough it out, but I was miserable in school yesterday and I don't think I could have handled a repeat performance.  I had a temperature of 101 this morning, and I think I'm gonna fail all of my AP tests.
On the bright side, I got into Brandeis yesterday.

By the way, I'm not really so neurotic that I actually think I'll fail all of my AP Tests, I just hate that this is out of my control. I like control, I NEED control, damnit.

Today was an interesting day. Mrs. Raiford lectured our class on not missing study sessions before the AP Bio test, and how in the two weeks prior to the test, we better be at every single one. 
Which is bad, because in those two weeks I have four dance classes that conflict with review session.  And we'll be really close to recital, and I really really can't miss four in a row.  So I went after class to tell her, and she got a little mad, and I told her I could miss two dance classes, and then I'd miss part of two review sessions.  
So then I went out to my locker, and when Marissa asked me how it went, I started crying.  Partially because of that and partially because of everything else, and I didn't want my favorite teacher mad at me, and either way I'd have Mrs. Raiford or my dance teacher or both mad at me.  
The thing that I guess annoyed me the most (but I could never say it to Mrs. Raiford) is that I will do fine on the AP Bio Test.  In fact, I could probably get a 5 without any review sessions. I know that sounds arrogant, and bitchy, but I know it's the truth, because I am darn good at bio. So I'm a little frustrated that while I'm the best student in the class I have to worry about missing the review sessions for something I've been in love with since I was three.
So I ended up talking to Mr. Markie for awhile, and then when I went to help wash the paint off the windows from the (aborted) Winter Carnival, I got sent home by Jamie, Jess, Jake, and Ben, who all ordered me to eat junk food.
In a way, I am a little more relaxed about the whole thing now, because as Mr. Markie said, it's likely that Mrs. Raiford's frustratedness might mellow.
I guess the most annoying part is that I have to deal with this.  I am busy and worried enough without getting in trouble in my best class. Seriously, AP Bio is the only AP Test I'm not worried about at all, and it's the only one I'm getting any grief from.
In other news, I still haven't heard from Brandeis, which makes me a little frustrated.

So.  I got into Bowdoin, which is on the face of it, is very exciting, even after getting into Dartmouth.  Less exciting is that they are giving me no money.  None.  Zero dollars.  Now before you go thinking I'm super rich, realize that my father owns his own business and for that reason they probably think we can actually afford to pay $40,000 a year.  So I'm not going to Bowdoin, because there is no way I can come up with $40,000.  Period.
Also, I am mad that I didn't hear from Brandeis (I'm supposed to have a two-week admission decision) and I really really really want to hear from them because Brandeis is one of the only places (other than UVM and BU) where I'd actually get merit-based scholarships, since it's one of the only places that gives them.
I kind of feel like crying, because if Bowdoin is giving me no money (and I know my FAFSA expected Family Contribution is, literally, more than $40,000,) then it is very very likely that Harvard, Yale, Williams, Brown, and Johns Hopkins will give me no money if I even get in.  Damn it.  Damn it.
And Dartmouth probably won't give me any money, either.  And I'll end up going to UVM which wouldn't be the worst thing in the world except for the fact that I have worked my butt off and lost sleep and missed fun things and studied and studied and been in Student Council and Jazz band, and volunteered and won awards and very rarely slacked off and taken five years of French and basically put in a lot of effort for four years and it will be for nothing because I'll end up at UVM not any of the places I've dreamed of.  I don't think I'm being picky here.  I'd be happy to go to Wellesley or Williams or Bowdoin, none of which are that big or fancy, and I just don't want to go to UVM because, well, everyone does.
I hate this so so much.  I'm not even excited about getting into Bowdoin anymore.
Sorry about the whining.

I love this.

That's it.

So, on Tuesday, I got a letter from Dartmouth.  Basically saying I will be officially accepted at the end of March, when they send out the real admission letters, and that they're telling me now in an effort to ease my mind.  I'm actually really really excited.  Also, I got my Early Evaluation letter from Wellesley, and I'll likely be admitted at the end of March as well. 
It's so nice to know I'm going to get in somewhere other than UVM.  Granted, Wellesley wasn't a huge surprise, but it's nice.  Also, I am extremely excited about Dartmouth, and I'm probably going to visit on Friday the 16th that we have off from school.  
Because of all this, I'm stressing out a LOT less.  Mostly because I know I'm in somewhere, even if I don't know if my family can pay for it yet.  And yes, I still care about Harvard, Yale, Brown, Williams, and Johns Hopkins, but it wouldn't be nearly as bad if I didn't get into them.
Also, YAY! for snow days.