College

It's been a long time since I've had and regularly updated a blog, but recently, I decided to take it up again. I'm pretty sure the decision is a direct result of my recent obsession with watching vlogs. I saw John Green on his Will Grayson, Will Grayson tour with David Levithan in April, and first started watching Hank and John a couple of days later. Since then, my time spent watching things on YouTube has multiplied by...well, a lot.

Today, instead of doing my homework, I've spent the day in front of the computer and trying to narrow down my choices for colleges. All I'd really decided on was that I wanted to go out of state, (probably) and I wanted to study psychology. My mom gave me our copy of Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges so I've worked out a system for narrowing down possible states to look at. In the Psychology section of the book, I find all of the schools listed for a particular state. I then put them into this in groups of five. If any of the schools are listed as rural or having an undergraduate population of under 3500, they get deleted from the list. If all of the schools from a state get crossed out, it gets crossed out on my printed map. If at least one school makes the cut, the state gets a check mark, meaning I'll look at it later.

In total, I managed to cross out fifteen states, seven of which I crossed out because of the weather they get there. I'm a heat and humidity person, so chances are I'll be heading south for college, but I still have no idea.

The colleges in the book are organized alphabetically in three groups; there's a Most Selective group, a Very Selective group and a group that is simple Selective. After the name of the college, it will have the state's abbreviation in parenthesis. I was thrilled to find that, except for Maine (it's ME), I knew all of them. The surprising part about this is that I don't remember having ever learned them.