I Got Accepted to College, Hooray
December 3, 2007
Filed under Accomplishments, Goals, Places, School, Worries
Tags: college UB buffalo Oswego Hilbert education SAT SATS gr
Well I got accepted into college. Pretty exciting stuff I guess. I sent in an application to Hilbert College about two weeks ago. It was free too, so I saved myself the normal $40 application fee that most colleges give. On Friday I got a letter in the mail from Hilbert. I figured it was just a form I had to fill out so they could find out more information about me. Unbelievably it was a letter and the first sentence of it went something like, “Congratulations on being accepted into Hilbert College.” I was very happy and proud of myself. There was never any doubt that I would not make it into college, I just did not figure I would find out so soon. At the bottom of the letter was a little side note from the Dean of Admissions that said, “Benjamin, Congratulations on this excellent achievement.” It was written in pen too, so you could tell that he put in a little effort in congratulating me on being accepted. I took that letter and put it right on the front of the refrigerator.
I looked up the school again online yesterday. It seems very nice. Its located in Hamburg not far from my old house. I plan on attending Hilbert for two years and transferring to UB for my final years of college, but that’s only the plan as of right now. That could change by tomorrow. I do not plan on boarding there. And unless I find an apartment that has a very cheap rent and roommate(s) to help split the cost, I will probably be living at home for the time being. I also hope to play hockey there. They do not officially have a team, but they have a club that travels all over New York and Pennsylvania to play hockey against other colleges. The captain of the team was my coach in the clinic at Holiday Rinks. The great thing about the team is nobody gets cut, so everybody makes the team. Which is good for me because I certainly do not have the skills at hockey to play at the college level. Basically if I really do terrible they will just scratch me from the game. Either way, that should be really fun and I will get to play a lot of hockey for real cheap. The only downfall of Hilbert is it seems fairly religious. It was named after a saint, and I am not really not the whole religious thing. I doubt that will interfere with my college education. Hilbert seems like a great place to go for college.
I also sent in my applications for UB and Oswego. They are both SUNY schools so I will have to wait till late January to find out if I got accepted there or not. I think I will make it into Oswego, but UB will be a long shot. You need an 89 average and a score of 1200 on your SATS to make it into UB. I have an 87 average with an SAT score of 1000, so I am just a bit short of their requirements.
Now that I have made it into college, I feel a disease eating me up inside. I think they call it senioritis.
Preface For Anthology
November 26, 2007 
I am writing the preface for my anthology on my WordPress web-log because I do not have a Microsoft Word or an AppleWord installed into my computer. So I will type it here for now and then I will e-mail it to my yahoo account and print it from there. I figured I could kill two birds with one stone by doing this.
The topic I chose for my anthology project is, “things that make me think.” All of the articles I did research on are based upon things that make me think, which is how I came up with the topic, along with the help of Mrs. Skotnicki. All of the articles I have done anthology cards on relate to my life. Whether I have done them at a certain point, or tried them, or just wondered about them, they just make me think in my mind. Without some of these things I would have nothing to wonder or think about. Life could be very boring without some of these things.
Some of the pieces that I have collected have very strong relationships with one another. For example I chose to do my two multicultural pieces on Kielbasa and Pasta. The are similar because they are both foods and both of their names rhyme. More importantly the both resemble my two heritages, Polish and Italian. Polish people love Kielbasa, which is sausage if you did not know, and Italian people love to eat pasta. Personally, I am a huge fan of them both. I love going to both sides of my family and eating the two very different types of cultural devised food. These two pieces were highly related to each other and a perfect fit for my anthology because I think about them all the time when I am hungry. I also took pieces that are based upon hockey, which is my favorite sport. I think about hockey a lot because I play it all the time with my friends and teammates. I also chose pieces that were based upon things that I do not have a chance to experience but things that I wonder about sometimes. Things such as the ozone, soy milk, and the Cold War. I have never had a chance to have experience with any of these things but I have thought about them once or twice before. I also added in some random pieces that have no relations to each other at all, and yet I still wonder about them sometimes. Such pieces have topics that include the movie License to Drive, which I think about because I hope to get my license soon. My friend’s math homework, which makes my brain go into overdrive when I think about it, usually giving me a headache. Along with a cell phone battery ad, which I think about because I need one for my phone. Add in some random web sites such as yahoo, msn, and wordpress and you have a whole pot of soup on all these different types of things that I think about.
I really did not learn anything to special about myself. They only thing this anthology project did for me is it put all the things I think about into an organized perspective.
