International Pancake Day

I am sure it is going to be great! I plan on being at IHOP for the free pancakes at 8:30. Yum yum. Last year I don’t think I paid anything, but I found out recently that the money given is for donations to a children’s hospital. This time I won’t deprive the children of my charity.

Now who is the winner?

The bolded stuff is the Pros. And there are more pros for Northwestern. Not to mention there are some AMAZING people in St. Paul, but I also have some 2nd cousins in Ohio. So although Northwestern has more pros, but Bluffton is giving me so much more dinero! That is a lot of money to turn away. Necesito rezar.

NWC v. BU

Northwestern College:

• Private Non-Denominational


• 1,858 students
  


• Degrees of Interest:
  
  • Mathematics Degree
  
  
  • Engineering/Mathematics Dual Degree
  
  


• Minors of Interest:
  
  • Spanish
  
  
  • Computer Information Systems
  
  
  • Digital Media Arts
  
  
  • Electronic Media Communication
  
  
  • Science
  
  


• Biblical Minor/Certificate incorporated into Core Curriculum


• Cool Catalog


• Honors Program:
  
  • Minimum of 3.65 GPA
  
  
  • 19 Honors classes (Don’t need to be Eagle Scholar, but other requirements)
  
  
  • 2 needed classes to be in Eagle Scholars Program(the honors program)
  
  
  • Super Selective (about 15 scholars total)
  
  


• Academic Honors
  
  • Graduation Honors -
    
    • Summa Cum Laude 3.90–4.00
      Magna Cum Laude 3.75–3.89
      Cum Laude 3.65–3.74
    
    
  
  
  • Dean’s List -
    
    • Highest Honors 3.90–4.00
      High Honors 3.75–3.89
      Honors 3.65–3.74
    
    
  
  


• Scholarships
  
  • $9,000 first year
  
  
  • a bunch of others once in and have min. GPA 3.8
  
  
  • THIS ALL MEANS THAT: I pay at least $21,000 first year (excluding independent scholarships)
  
  


• Chapel: Mon-Fri, 1/2 hour, mandatory (Friday just praise&worship)

Bluffton University:

• Mennonite College


• 1,127 students


• Degrees of Interest:
  
  • Mathematics Degree
  
  


• Minors of Interest:
  
  • Computer Science
  
  
  • Information Technology
  
  
  • Spanish
  
  


• Not so cool Catalog


• Honors Program:
  
  • Minimum of 3.3 GPA
  
  
  • 5 extra classes required that are maybe Honors
  
  
  • 1 Class that is specifically Honors and also required
  
  


• Academic Honors:
  
  • Deans List - GPA>3.75
  
  
  • Phi Delta Society (upon graduation) - by vote and GPA>3.75
  
  


• Scholarships
  
  • Full Tuition + $4,000/year = I pay less than $5,000/year (excluding independent scholarships)
  
  


• Chapel: Every Thursday with Tig, no obligation

A Waiting List is the new Maybe

Why couldn’t Northwestern just say yes or no? And this next Saturday I have an interview for 2010 Outstanding Young Man/Woman of the Year for City Council District 3. Hope that goes well. 3 years in Academic Decathlon better pay off.

Oh boy, Full Tuition.

Well about 2 1/2 weeks ago I flew out to Bluffton Ohio for Bluffton Universities Presidential Scholarship Competition. About 75% of the competitors were from Ohio, and about 22% from Indiana, and then a girl from Nevada, and me. I came the farthest. Anyways out of the 91 students competing, I was one of the 2 to get the top scholarship which is full tuition. Just found out tonight. Well after tuition there is another $8,000 (not including books). Well just from other funds from Bluffton and my church, I think I would be getting an additional $3,000-5,000 yearly. And then that doesn’t take into account any outside scholarships I could get. Needless to say this would be quite inexpensive considered to any other out-of-state college.

But honestly, I am set on Northwestern. But that would probably be >$10,000 more. Yo no se que voy a hacer.

It has the same amount as memory as my computer.

Link: It has the same amount as memory as my computer.

Wow, the Nexus phone by Google.

kenleigh:

I kind of want to dress up and see this movie at midnight…

I haven’t traditionally been one for dressing up, but this movie looks quite fantastic.

Math scholarship here I come!!

Some people complained that an essay was not worth a mere $500. I figure that on all my English essays I get paid nothing, so this is definitely worth it. Not to mention that I don’t make that much money in a year.

I think it might be bad...

…if I can relate to how Raskolnikov, from Crime and Punishment, is thinking.  Not the part about murdering people, or when he considers himself a louse, or when considering himself as a Napoleon. More so with the scattered, super suspicious, paranoid thoughts of other people. How he over analyzes every little thing, and then will intermittently remind himself to calm down. He is thinking about this because he murdered somebody, I on the other hand am probably just insecure. I usually just try to push out thinking so I don’t analyze every little thing and start worrying that I did something wrong or blah blah blah… I push these thoughts out, but I think by trying to ignore my insecure thoughts I may be pushing out the considerate and deliberate thoughts. I am becoming one big irrational, random mess of actions without thinking. This then leads to more analysis after the fact when nobody but myself is probably pondering the matter. So instead of removing these thoughts, I am simply delaying them possibly. Or, even worse, I never think about my actions.

I need to find some balance. Don’t be impulsive. Don’t over analyze. Be considerate and deliberate. Simply, I need to focus on how I am impacting others. Well that is stupid; that is not simple at all. How do I know how I am impacting others? I cannot know everything. What a fool I am. How can I analyze my actions but not let my thoughts drag myself down into a spiraling descent of despair? Arg… I fear this is probably because of my lack of time spent with God. I feel the gap growing, and I hate it. But if I hated it, wouldn’t I stop it. My lazy inactivity of school has transferred over to every part of my life. If my homework was on worksheets instead of having to open a text book and get my own paper, then I would do it; if my Bible was open already by my bed, I would read it. At least I finally found my Bible. It has been missing since I moved (beginning of January), and I found it in my Emergency Backpack. Logical place, I just happened to forget. Well I am going to pull it out of my car after I click “Create post.” I will bring it to bed, and I will probably doze off because sleep is overtaking me. Hopefully I wake early enough to read it, or maybe I’ll finally go back to Youth Alive.

Lord, give me the determination.

Nothing like spending Valentine’s Day babysitting 3 crazy kids. Hmmm… maybe I should start saving money for when I do have somebody to spend it on.

What is Love?

Baby don’t hurt me… don’t hurt me… no more.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. The actual question is in reference to a peer who said she didn’t know what love was. I was appalled and tried to give some sort of general answer, but I don’t think she found it that satisfying. I asked her what it meant when her parents said told her that they love her, and she stated that it was something that parents just say to their children, and the children mumble the meaningless statement back. Tragic. Though, maybe she is just thinking about it more. How many people actually have a grasp on what love is?

I don’t think it helps that we use one word to express something that the Greeks and Jewish expressed in multiple words. Through brief, possibly unreliable, online research, there seems to be basically 4 main types as described in the other languages:

• Familial love, committed; affection


• True friendship, “platonic”


• Deliberate but unconditional; selfless, sacrificial


• Impulsive, often romantic, deep appreciation

Obviously these do exist, yet in English we’ll usually express these ideas with degrees of like and love.

For something so important to a Christian, how is it that somebody I interact with nearly every day cannot see what Love is? This bothers me a bit.

When my life seems really hectic...

I’ll just take a peek at Hallie’s. haha. Awesome book sale this morning, but I should have gotten some of those Twain books…

Is this the first year they started calling Valentine’s Day “V-Day?”

To add to this, I heard some middle schoolers using this abbreviation in written and spoken form. I guess it is just like when people started saying OMG and LOL. Using shortened versions of texting in their spoken vocabulary. You just happened to remind me of that Brookandlyn =D

Senior Year - Academic Decathlon State = 12 Krispy Kremes

Yes, Google wants to get free internet to the world

Link: Yes, Google wants to get free internet to the world

Here is where it starts. Ask for it to come to your community!

Having a blast in school

This is one of my funnest semesters ever. The kids are great. The teachers are great. We have the best discussions in English, Econ, and Gov. And Calc is just fun. Yes Kendra, I say this even after being nearly halfway through Crime and Punishment. We are pretty much in unison with Butler trying to push a few things, but I think the whole class enjoys it, especially me. No vicious arguments, just great discussions.

Go see "To Save a Life"

Amazing it is. (Mrs. Butler is pushing us to use periodic structure to increase the syntactic tension)

Oh Google!

It takes my breath away at every chance it gets. Now unless tumblr starts to integrate with the new Google Buzz, I may eventually have to leave. Everybody, get a Gmail. Do it now. You get Google Docs, Youtube account, Google Reader, Picasa Web Albums, and many many other great FREE things.

Happy to be back on Tumblr and Facebook

and Hulu. Spent quite a bit of hours today on a combo of those 3 (mostly Hulu), but that was after an intensive 2 weeks of little internet stuff, so I thought it was okay. Though, watching X-Men Evolution and Sweet Life on Deck on Sunday was not a good use of my time. Stupid Dish TV.

Oh, it is not over.

My brother said something today that I think is so very often true, myself including. Christians often will discuss obstacles and problems they overcame and used to have a problem with. I feel that often those temptations still exist but we may refuse to admit it is still in the back of our mind, or it is something that we still have to pray about repeatedly. Not saying it is always like that. Sometimes miraculous changes happen, and I say miraculous because they happened only because of Him.

God, thank you for helping me through my struggles and thank you for helping me through my daily temptations and shortcomings. You are my constant strength.

brookandlyn:

michaelpeter:

fleek:

Reblog if you don’t give a [poop].

I care only because it is giving me a babysitting job, so that means $. So thank you for that.