Visiting Princeton: College Number Something Out of Far Too Many

As Ginny detailed here, we went to Princeton. Yay Princeton! I, of course, fell in love with yet another school. God knows how I'm going to manage to make any sort of decision when the time comes.

Avon slept over the night before, which mostly consisted of me trying to work secrets out of her and her responding with things like "well, this one time, I pretended I wasn't going anywhere so that he wouldn't have to drive me," and me being like "how are you so perfect?" in my head, but then I remember- Avon is Avon. We also spent a considerable amount of time on the computer. She had a conversation with Lysander in one window about banal items of interest, such as what they'd done that day. Andy and I, on the other hand, spent twenty minutes talking about the origins of the names of the various planets, with a few digressions.

Digression example:

Andy: Saturne in French, Saturnus is the Latin. Like "Marcus Aurelius" and such.

Tea: What, the French call him Marcu Aureliu? Oh, also, which came first, the names or the planets?

Andy: Probably the planets. The -us is Latin, I mean, like Marcus Aurelius, and the French call him Marc-Auréle.

Tea: Was he the Roman guy who killed Caesar?

Andy: err...I don't think so? Brutus?

Tea: Ahh, right. What was Aurelius again?

Andy: Marcus Aurelius was a stoic emperor, as in he was a Roman emperor and he practiced Stoicism. That's about all I know.

Tea: Everything from Western Humanities has blended together into a large blur of togas and "I WAS GOING A BUCK FIFTY ON THE AUTOBON"

Andy: ...uhhh

Tea: my western teacher was insane.

Andy: O_O

In the morning, Ginny showed up about ten minutes after my alarm went off. I believe I answered the door while brushing me teeth. Then I ate breakfast and then we left. Great story, no?

The big problem was that the GPS and google directions disagreed, so my mother dearest decided she wanted to just stay on I-95, but we somehow missed the turn, as all of the signs in New Jersey contradict each other, including signs telling you to make a u-turn at the next intersection, which is completely crazy, followed immediately by "RIGHT TURN AHEAD" for the same road. Very, very odd.

Anyways, Princeton was wonderful. I like that you don't have to apply to one school, and that the first two years of requirements for all science majors are identical, so you don't have to know going in what, precisely, you want to specialize in. And I like that, you know, it's PRINCETON, with all of the awesome academics and amazing undergraduate programs that comes with that. Oh, and the admissions office had extremely comfy chairs. That should be another factor in my school decisions: comfiness of chairs. They are, after all, an extremely important consideration.

The Universe

The massive tree chart at left is what I used to make certain that I had accurately determined all of my possible schedule options (I had, and they are included at the bottom of this post).

I spent most of my day watching history channel documentaries. The one about the history of and development of the Big Bang Theory was by far my favorite, but the one on the origins of the moon was also pretty cool. The one about the San Andreas fault was boring, but, in case you're interested, there is a 99% chance that there will be a major, building collapsing earthquake in the Los Angeles area within the next 30 years.

Good thing I don't live there.

Also, R.I.P. Ronald Takaki, who died last week. I'm currently quoting his text in my social studies essay, so I'll consider that my own form of memorialization. And yes, memorialization is an actual word. My spellcheck says so.

I also spent some time this weekend planning my schedule options, which are listed below.

1	Physics	Physics	Oil	Oil
2	Calculus	Calculus	Calculus	Calculus
3	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
4	Anthro	Anthro	Anthro	Anthro
5	Spanish	ASR	Spanish	ASR
6	ASR	Spanish	ASR	Spanish
7	Oil	Oil	Physics	Physics
8	English	English	English	English
1	Oil	Oil	Oil	Oil
2	Physics	Physics	Calculus	Calculus
3	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
4	Anthro	ASR	Physics	Physics
5	Calculus	Calculus	ASR	Spanish
6	Spanish	Spanish	Spanish	ASR
7	English	English	English	English
8	ASR	Anthro	Anthro	Anthro
1	English	English	English	English
2	Physics	Physics	Calculus	Calculus
3	Gym	Gym	Gym	Gym
4	ASR	Anthro	Physics	Physics
5	Calculus	Calculus	Spanish	ASR
6	Spanish	Spanish	ASR	Spanish
7	Oil	Oil	Oil	Oil
8	Anthro	ASR	Anthro	Anthro

everything that says oil painting is actually gov semester 1 and oil painting semester 2, and everything that says anthro is adv. drawing semester 1 and anthropology semester 2.