Well, here I am over Christmas Break, and it feels like I'm still in school. I have three college applications to complete before the first of January, and I'm slogging through them. I'm going slow because I want to do my best, and it seems like the effort I put into the last one wasn't enough. I feel like I have all the necessary requirements to attend these schools, I just need to communicate well. Of course, if God doesn't want me somewhere I won't get in. (I'm still struggling with Mr. K's comments on my last blog about predestination, I need to reconcile my beliefs on this.)
Anyway, I knew this would happen if Stanford said no, it was really a bet I took and lost. I try not to complain because this is my own fault for not doing the apps earlier. I am doing some fun activities, though. I have been to a few parties, played basketball, and went duck hunting. And Christmas was awesome, of course. I got a bunch of cool presents, now I just need to write thank-yous.
My reading has suffered the most from being busy writing essays over break, thus the dearth of more intellectual postings. This isn't so much a blog post as an explanation of why there haven't been any. I hope ya'll had a great Christmas and are relaxing over the break.
The epiphanies, rants, wonderings, and events in the life of a former student of Petra Academy, now at Caltech.
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- Richard Gianforte
- Bozeman, Montana, United States
- I am currently attending Caltech in Pasadena, though I will always be an alum of Petra Academy.
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win" - JFK
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions