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.
Life Without Running Water
November 5, 2007 
Well what an interesting way to end my weekend. I come home from a long day of work and watching sports to find out that my house is out of water.
I walked home from my friend’s place and in the distance I can see four or five real huge dump trucks with yellow lights flashing and lighting up my entire street. When i finally reach the pavement of my street I find myself standing in a huge pool of water and as I get closer to my house the water becomes deeper. When I reach the front yard of my home I see a bunch of guys digging a big hole into the sidewalk of the house across the street. Apparently while my neighbors were out enjoying the Bills’ game at Ralph Wilson Stadium the main water pipe in front of their house exploded causing a huge flood on my street. Not to mention that all of the neighboring houses were completely out of water as well.
So when I arrived at my home I continued on with my normal Sunday afternoon schedule. Basically what I do is I will exercise for about an hour, take a shower, and have a snack. What I didn’t realize at the time is all three of these activities usually require water for me to do them. When i exercise I prepare myself a nice cold water bottle. When you take a shower you pretty much need water, common sense really, and I usually prefer a tall glass of water with my snack.
I figured that I could go on with my Sunday schedule without water. Simple enough right? Not quite. I pretty much forgot that the water was out about four different times. I would keep on walking up the sink during my exercising, grab a cup, and try to turn the faucet on. Basically what happened was the sink would make a very loud and strange noise, which was a rude reminder that the water was still not working. I felt like an idiot every time I did that. Yet I continued on with my afternoon activities. I figured that the longer i exercised the more time it would give the guys working on the broken pipe outside to get the water fixed for me to take a shower after. So i exercised a little bit longer than usually and went to the nearest sink to test it out and see if the water was working. Of course, not a single drop of water came out of the sink. Plus, now I had to go to the little boys room to take care of some business. Well without any water the toilet doesn’t flush. So I trekked myself outside and picked out a nice pine tree next to my garage to tinkle on. So this is what life was like way back in the day huh?
Well here I am now. At least the electricity is working. I have not showered since yesterday morning. Since then, I have gone ice skating, worked in a parking at at the Bills’ game, hung around with my friends, and did some exercise. Lets just say I don’t smell very terrific and I just feel dirty. Hopefully I will wake up tomorrow and have the water running. If not I just won’t go to school. I figure nobody will want to be around me if I have not showered in over two days.
“Accepted” Movie
September 26, 2007
Filed under Hobbies, Movies, Places, Worries
Tags: accepted movie college school grades
Over the weekend i came home in the afternoon and took a seat on the couch in my basement. I picked up the remote, turned on the tube, and hit the TV guide button to see what was going to be on in the next half hour of programming. I scrolled through the usual stuff, ESPN, MTV, FUSE, stuff like that. i had some time on my hands so i figured i would see what movies were coming up next on HBO.
The movie “Accepted” came up so i figured i would wait out the 5 minutes until it came on. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. It had many funny parts in it. I thought it was quite the coincidence that i was watching a movie about applying to colleges since i will probably be doing that in the upcoming months. I figured maybe i would learn a thing or two about college life by watching this movie. I turned out to be slightly mistaken that the movie would feature your average college.
The movie was mainly about an average high school kid ready to move out into the real world and take on the job of applying for colleges. Unfortunately his grades weren’t that amazing and he wasn’t accepted into any of the colleges he applied to. Instead, he comes up with the genius idea of creating his own college called, “South Harmon Institute of Technology.” (S.H.I.T. oddly enough). He rents out an old abandoned psychiatric ward to use as the campus for his parents to visit during open house and creates a fancy website featuring a fake college to fool his father into thiking that the school actually exists. His plan backfires when hundreds of kids come in saying that they were accepted to the college that he created due to the phony website. So he has to step up and take complete control over the operations of running a college. He let’s the students create, teach, and take their own classes which make for some hilarious scenes in the movie. “Accepted” made college look like a blast. Now i realize that college wont be anything like the one that the kid in the movie created but I hope it comes close.
Basically what i learned from this movie is that college should be a whole lot of fun. However, on a more serious note, i also learned that i should try to make good grades with my final year in High School. I mean imagine if the kid in the movie didn’t come up the genius idea to create his own college. He would be flipping burgers over at Burger King right now. Hopefully i will work real hard in the remainder of my final school year and get accepted to some great colleges. Or maybe i will just use the inspiration from the movie to create my own college.
