Amaranthine Forever

and hopefully will stay that way for a while! I got interviewed this morning from my school and I'm sending the link to this blog as well. Hi, make me faaamouss please. This post is going to be really random so I warn you in advance. I miss the old blogging swag days. 1.) Life has been really really crazy. Stuff with boys, stuff with school, stuff with college, stuff with life. I really wanted to do NaNoWriMo again but couldn't :( 2.) I'm down 5/12 college applications submitted! MIT gets back to me in mid-december, only a couple weeks away...excuse me while I go scream and cry into a pillow. 3.) My instructor from E2 made an awesome documentary video about what we did at MIT and I"m in it a lot...I'm the Asian(the one with shorter hair and tanner skin). 4.) AMAZINGNESS HAPPENED in the form of I got to go the the LA red carpet premiere of the favorite movie adaption of my favorite book, Ender's Game! I went with Ender's Ansible and got t

at my house. Hence, me sitting typing in a Starbucks.  And I just realized I"ve spent the entire day without my glasses or contacts on(and don't have them with me now) Whoo..... How's life? My current situation is pretty symbolic of my life right now, unfortunately.  After I had probably the most amazing summer of my life, the school year kinda crashed down on me. So I'm a senior in high school! Only two semesters(really, one) left....I started this blog in 8th grade Surreal, huh? Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of time to reflect what on school, college apps, gold award, school.... School has been more challenging and with a larger workload than ever before. It's mostly my fault, what with my ridiculous overachiever schedule. I have five AP classes, and my teachers, though good, are prettyyyy hard graders. Here are my impressions of each class: AP Calc-My lowest grade. I screwed up the first big assignment, but got a perfect score on the last quiz an

Mostly I've been sleeping. The first day back I got 10 hours of sleep and it was maagicaal. I've been going to sleep early and sleeping in every day since then, and taking naps in the middle of the day. I feel like I've been catching up! Our last day at E2 was the symposium and dance. The symposium was really cool, and seeing all the different projects was awesome! It was really long though (from 9-3) and by then everyone was exhausted, so there were always a ton of people asleep during the presentations(including teachers and TAs). We got our little diplomas and class pictures(really cool) but were bummed to find out that our meal cards had expired a day early. I had $20 still left on there! After the symposium we had several hours of free time, which was the first time I had had more than 10 minutes of free time all week. I didn't know what to do with myself! I ended up trying to nap and then giving up and wandering through Simmons with some of my friends. We fo

1:12 AM. Happy late afternoon(for an MIT student) guys. So we finished our project and are presenting it tomorrow.  Here's how it went: Our lab hours to completely build the ROV from scratch were, as usual 1-4:45 and 7-10:30. We have never, ever, ever gotten back before midnight. Except this time, we were being "charged" for every hour we went over planned.  So we were super determined to get it done before then. We organized, planned, and prepared, and at 7 we attacked our pile of materials(which we calculated carefully and "purchased") with great zeal. And we actually did it too! I wired the control box myself, which was cool since on Monday it was driving me crazy and I didn't know anything about it. At around 10:30, we were by far first to finish and fluttering around getting ready to present to Ms. Schroyer. The TAs and instructor don't actually instruct us at all except on the tools the first day. They just answer questions and most of th

First break all day today! Fifteen minutes, let's go. Awesome things about E2: The people. They are incredible. Imagine your typical classroom with average kids, lazy kids, and smart kids who usually answer questions and do their homework and try hard and everyone looks up to and depends on. Then imagine all those kids taken out of their high schools and put into this program. That's how I feel when I talk to the other kids. Every kid here is smart. We work in groups. Normally I worry about being put in groups with "dead weights", lazy kids who rely on me to do all the work and just derp around and let other people decide things. There's nobody like that here. There's no bad groups because everybody here is the kind of person who contributes, who innovates, who goes beyond the expected. It's an electrifying  environment. Everyone works really hard, carefully notates all the steps, and thinks  about what they're doing. Small things. If their work is t

I guess the most important thing is that we finished building our robot! It was a lot of work. My group was the first to be done by far! :D We would have been faster if we hadn't blown a fuse XD. The wiring was the most work. Here are some in progress pics and a demo video I made XD. https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a. akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/ q71/s720x720/73588_ 151474631720026_1740879144_n. jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a. akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/ q71/s720x720/993337_ 151240538410102_1956811971_n. jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a. akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/ q71/s720x720/1150143_ 151240941743395_11336685_n.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wW1ST7151OE A picture of Trang and me in front of the dome! :D https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn. net/hphotos-prn1/q82/s720x720/ 625489_151474858386670_ 387249408_n.jpg Everyone here is very smart and nice and they really encourage us to get to know everybody. Since we were delayed in building the robot we were a lot behind an