Well, I certainly have a way of disappearing off the face of the earth, don’t I? I’m embarrassed by my excessive absence.

I finished two more college classes (trigonometry and macroeconomics- both fun!) last week. Sixteen hours of credit thus far- I love seeing the little list. So much more fun than high school!

I went to visit Stephen F. Austin State University with my mom last weekend, though I don’t really think I’ll end up there. I wanted to check out a forestry program, and theirs is amazing. I had a nice meeting with someone from that department as well as someone from the biology department. They seemed nice, and I like east Texas, but Nacogdoches is very small. No indie movie theatres or art museums… and small towns have a reputation for producing ‘party’ schools. My idea of a wild party involves mellow music and staying up all night to stare at the stars, so I’m not sure if I’d fit in with sorority winos.

Also… east Texas is rather ‘conservative,’ and despite my conservative view about what ‘conservative’ people believe (conserving resources, being economically conservative, conservative with the expenditure of innocent lives, conservative in the amount of strange chemicals and non-edible food products forced into human bodies) the general consensus of America today seems to be that ‘conservative’ means reserving power and knowledge for a select view while the masses waste their minds under the influence of buzzword messages.

Ahem, I’ll end my tirade there and simply say that I’m not so sure I’d fit in well in small town atmosphere. 

So the college search has officially begun… though I have a general feeling that no matter how many I visit, I will still end up at the University of Texas at Austin. While it seems boring to me as I get postcards from CalTech and literature from St. John’s College (well then, am I a math person or a philosopher? I cannot seem to decide), UT would certainly not be a school to be ashamed of.