The English in the following post will be broken up, not follow logical flow and may be grammatically incorrect but I couldn’t care less as I’m exhausted and haven’t properly blogged in weeks/months.
Today I finished the last exam in my first year of university. I think I did pretty well. In HKUST it would mean “relative-to-the-mean well” since we’re graded on a curve. None of my grades are out yet but they’ll definitely be better than the disaster that they were last semester.
Tomorrow morning I leave for Manassas, Virginia (Washington DC suburb) for 3 months! That’s my whole summer break. So I won’t get to spend any relaxation time with high school friends coming back to HK for the summer or my friends from uni staying here for the summer. That really sucks. Yeah.
I had an interesting experience packing tonight. You see, Continental Airlines doesn’t like musicians (or aspiring musicians such as myself, haha what a joke) and do not allow you to bring anything bigger than a “small instrument” on-board. A guitar is definitely not a small instrument. I don’t have a hard case for it so the only option was to decapitate my Strat, wrap the neck and body in bubble wrap and pad it with clothing and stuff it in a suitcase that will be checked in. Here’s hoping that I will still have a properly functioning/sounding guitar when I put it back together on the other side. Please………….
My plans for this summer are to study for courses I’ll be taking next semester, practice a lot of guitar (given that I still have one once I land in the US), help my parents renovate a house, get a driver’s license and hit up all the museums in DC for a second time. And hopefully meet new people so I don’t die of social depravation or something.
I’m tired now but I shouldn’t sleep so I’ll watch that Prison Break DVD thing I blogged about previously.
I’m done with my first year of university! Only 2 more to go!
That’s right, just go notified of admission to Purdue University!
Dear Illya,
We are pleased to offer you admission to Purdue University as an undergraduate in the School of Management, with a major in Economics, for the session beginning August 25, 2008. The final day to schedule your classes will be August 22, 2008. Your academic record indicates we can expect you will continue to succeed and we hope you will choose to enroll at Purdue. Please remember to send us your final results from any course work that you complete before your arrival.
… (the rest is about accepting admission)
Especially funny was this: “…we can expect you will continue to succeed…”. Just for those that don’t know, Purdue is ranked as a top 25 public university in the US, #64 overall and it’s undergraduate business school is one of the top 15 in the US. Woot!
Now 6 more unis in the US I await decisions from and 2 in Hong Kong. The waiting game continues…
…is what I’ve been doing this past week. Here’s my list of where I’ve applied or have yet to apply:
University of Florida
University of Maryland – College Park
Purdue
Rutgers
University of Maine
Florida State University
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
I also took the SAT again on October 6th and my scores will be out on the 25th of this month and I really do hope that they are higher than my June scores (1940 cumulative).
Now it’s just time to sit and wait for the acceptance or (gasp!) rejection letters to come in. By the way, I can’t apply to the Hong Kong unis yet as their admission applications open in November.
So on Monday I’ll be starting my last year of High School. Is that a good thing or not, I dunno? But anyway, for those of you from my school or for those who are at all interested, here is my schedule for this year:
AP Statistics (Mr. Raybayud)
AP English Literature (Ms. Taylor)
Journalism (Mrs. Settle)
Global Studies (Mrs. Wing)
Honors PE (Mr. Sexton)
Art & Digital Design (Mrs. J. Chan)
Yeah, I’m taking it easy this year. Last year I was taking AP Calculus BC and World History and that was a load of work. Not that English Lit. won’t be but at least I’ve got less math this year. By the way, I got a 4 for the Calculus BC exam and a 5 (woot!) for World History. I just need at least one 3 in either Stats or English Lit. to get that AP Scholar award. Still gotta work on that GPA that I screwed over in grade 9 and 10. Wish me luck.
