Busy Week

I haven't gotten around to posting here lately . . . and I was sooo going to be better at keeping this updated . . . I've just got to get in the habit I guess. Anyhoo I made it to my doctor's appointment on Monday just fine, even though the weather wasn't great at first, with freezing rain making the first 20 miles a bit slick. But the rest of the way was fine, as it had changed over to just rain. And my doctor visit was a snap . . . I was in and out in less than 30 minutes . . . and that includes giving my semi-annual blood for testing. Then it was off to the billing department to clear up a bill (it turned out that someone there had messed up).

On the ay home, I stopped and had lunch with my favorite aunt and visited Dartmouth College, which is one of the colleges that I was planning on applying to. After my visit, I decided that this is definitely not the college for me. The first thing that turned me off is the lack of diversity. Now I'm sure that there probably more diversity than what I was exposed to on my short visit, but I honestly felt like I was among clones: all white, well dressed, and in their early 20's. This is nothing like my college, where our student population is very much a melting pot (which makes my campus body sooo much more interesting).

The other turn off was that Dartmouth reeks of money . . . which made me feel very uncomfortable. Even the Admissions Building felt more like some kind of private club than a college administration building (in my school, admissions is just a couple of rooms within the main building on campus). When I finally was able to talk with one of the administrators, it was made very clear to me that this college is not interested in non-traditional student (and I'm like totally non-traditional, so that was a major turn off). But the deciding blow was that Dartmouth was unwilling to accept even a single credit from my (what will be) two years of college - which totally amazed me! I felt like my entire college was being insulted by this administrator, but it turns out that this has little to do with my school, as Dartmouth just doesn't accept hardly any college credits from ANY other college . . . the maximum that they'll accept is a measly 4 credits (I'll graduated this spring with 67, so 4 is like a single course). Oh well, one college crossed off my list.

Ok, it's late now, and I'm very tired, and it's very difficult for me to write when I'm tired, so the rest of this update will have to wait until later (hopefully I get to it tomorrow).