Visiting UMASS Boston (#4)

So last weekend I had the chance to visit the University of Massachusetts Boston. It was a pretty cool campus and all, they had a nice breakfast and the Chancellor was a great speaker. I'm not sure of that's really I would like to go, but I think it would be a good enough choice if I did decide to go there.

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Over the course of the opening speech, various people spoke including a senior student, the Chancellor and the head of the English department. They were all pretty interesting. What they pointed out most was how there is a lot of construction going on around the campus. I think I remember them saying that there is about three new buildings being built. They are also in the process of building some dorms, which will be available by the year 2015.

What I enjoyed most about the campus was the city environment and also how the school is right on the water. This picture displayed shows a great view of how the two come together.



Senior Stressing (#3)



I'm almost 100% positive that almost every single high school senior is feeling the same stress overwhelm them around this time of the school year. We are all having college essays, AP classes and the Common Application thrown at us, one right after another. It can get kind of scary. College is legit right around the corner, and I don't know about you, but I haven't made a final decision about that one college that I really want to go to. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have a few in mind and I'll apply to those few, but there isn't really one that I have my heart set on going to. I guess that can be both a good and a bad thing. Because that way, if I didn't get into that one college, I wouldn't be completely crushed. But then again it kind of leaves me at a vague standing point.



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Sometimes, no MOST times, I feel like somehow making my way back to my simple middle school life, where all I honestly had to worry about was actually waking up to go to school. There were no life-impacting decisions that I had to make, no college advisors I had to communicate with, and no expensive tests I had to pay for to take. Life was simple, life was easy, life was fun. Friends weren't so complicated and it didn't really matter who your friends even were because everyone got along with each other. Well, for the most part.

Now all that is ever on my mind is where on this earth I'm going to further my education and how exactly I'm going to pay for that education. Going to a private school sounds great, but paying for it and being in debt for the remaining part of my life, doesn't sound so great. Is anyone else feeling this way? Is anyone else feeling this burden, or am I just making it a bigger deal than what it is?

From Homeless, to Healthy! (#2)

What you are seeing in the picture is a before & after picture of my kitten, Kaleb. In case you were wondering , no she's not a male. At first we thought she was, so that's why my family & I decided upon the name. We discovered her outside our church building, young & malnourished. We knew she had to have come from the two older cats we had seen living around the same area. For about a month, my mom, little brother & I brought her food, in fear of her dying out there with no food. It took us all a while to agree if we actually wanted to take her in or not. You know how it is, when your parents obviously know its what you should do, but they come up with every excuse possible to cause you not to get what you want. That was my mom. "She'll get hair all over the house. She'll stink up the bathroom. What if she has fleas? I'm guna have to spend money to buy her all the essentials (food, liter box, etc.)". Blah blah blah & so on. But in the end she was the one who caught her & brought her home. Then she began again to tell my brother and I that we had to take care of her, feed her, bathe her & so on. All my little brother and I cared about was that we had helped a helpless creature, & we now knew that she would have a safe home, good food and all the love she needed. Of course we gave her a flea bath before taking her in, & made sure she wasn't carrying along any unwanted critters into our house. You can't tell in the picture, but when she came home she had patches where there was no hair but there were wounds due to the insects that were sinking their teeth into her. Those wounds are now gone, & her fur is thick and beautiful. I'm glad my family & I took Kaleb in, and I feel like we did a good thing for a living creature.