• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Colosseum
• Great Wall of China
• Taj Mahal
• Eiffel Tower
• Acropolis of Athens
• Grand Canyon
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Stonehenge
• Forbidden City
• St. Peter's Basilica
• Notre Dame
• St. Basil's Cathedral

• my own laptop!
• backpack/book bag
• bed sheets
• new wallet

• The Collected Oscar Wilde
• Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
• Room with a View (E.M. Forster)
• Arabian Nights
• The Beautiful and the Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
• The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
• Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
• The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The Inferno (Dante)
• Don Qu...

Homework

• Physics worksheet
• Stats practice problems
• Calculus practice problems
• Moby Dick reading
• Greek translation
• read Books 1-4 of The Aeneid in English
• read Introduction and Book 1 of The Ramayana

Events

• see Alice in Wonderland with Caroline (3/12)
• Breakthrough Saturday (3/13)
• St. Patrick's Day with my family (3/14)
• Eye appointment (3/16)
• UVM (3/18 - 3/19)
• South Carolina crew preseason (3/19 - 3/26)
• cookies wi...

• wood
• gray with pink/blue
• bridge
• pink/orange
• desk
• dark purple
• lined paper

Starting from when I was little...

• Inventor (of a time machine)
• Software Engineer
• Author
• Lawyer
• Teacher
• Archeologist

• photocopy the picture from Phil's birthday party for Rachel
• watch Season 1 of The Big Bang Theory
• read psychology books from Kim
• especially Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
• go to the bank and put money on debit card
• change song lyrics on back of planner

• momentum
• torque

Males

• Alan Rickman (young)
• George Clooney
• Ewen McGregor
• Hugh Dancy
• Matt Damon
• Harrison Ford
• Hank Green
• Chris Pine
• Kevin McHale
• Logan Lerman

Females

• Kate Winslet
• Jayma Mays
• Helen Hunt
• Meg Ryan
• Geena Davis
• Kate Beckinsale
• Emma Watson
• Carey Mulligan

• read a newspaper article at least once a week
• read the Wikipedia featured article of the day at least once a week

Featuring...

• Don't Rush Me Boy!
• In a Minute or Six
• Trickily
• When I Was Two (My Mommy Taught Me)
• That Would Be Sad
• That Would Be Sad: Reprise (That Would Be Peachy)
• Poosh It (Poosh It Real Good)

• My Bloody Valentine
• Angels and Demons
• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• Paranormal Activity
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Invictus
• Up in the Air
• Nine

• Mr. Moerlein
• Ms. Foster
• Trevor
• Mrs. Carter
• Mr. Barnard

• Phil
• Mr. Anthony
• Ms. Foster
• Claire

At Derryfield

• auditing a VAPA as my 7th class
• doing a varsity winter sport and the musical at the same time
• auditing an Independent Study as my 7th class

Grades

• stay on Highest Honors
• bring Calculus back up to an A
• do not let Physics get below a B+ (actually got an A-)!
• try to keep Latin and Greek where they are
• try to bring English up to an A-

Life

• keep reading outside of school
• keep watching glee!
• DON'T DIE during tech week/nordic state meet week
• get a good part in the musical?

College

• get into Middlebury (hopefully)
• get into U. Chicago

• jumping in leaf piles
• playgrounds
• making snow angels
• sand castles on the beach

• Aim high, time flies in bed.
• Achievement is one percent aspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration in bed.
• You will make a name for yourself in bed.

Season One

• Showmance (Ep. 2)
• Wheels (Ep. 9)

Choir

• “I want you to sit close enough so that I can hit you if I have to.” Mrs. Devino
• “It could be an evil woman-doer.” Mrs. Devino

Latin

• “If you don’t like gossip, this is not the class for you.” Doc
• “We like the awkward turtle in this class.” Doc
• “I know it’s embarrassing having a teacher who knows more about music than you.” Doc
• “Doc, you trained us for Cash Cab.” Kemal
• “...

• plain chapstick
• oatmeal raisin granola bars

• for the longest time I didn't wear tank tops when it was only 70 degrees out because this one time in 1st grade I wore a yellow tank top when it was 70 and I was cold during recess
• in 2nd grade I got points off on a spelling test for not capitalizing "Mr." and "Mrs." and spelling until "antill"
• on the first day of 6th grade, I sat with Ali Geffner-Smith at lunch
• Maeve was at my lunch table the first ...

Chinese

• “What, are they going to throw turkeys at us?” Aseeb
• “We’re learning about the Chinese and how fast they reproduce.” Aseeb
• “I can’t multi-task. I can’t even chew gum and walk at the same time.” Aseeb
• “Philip, you should not drink coffee. Soda. It makes you hyper.” Mrs. Liu
• “Sometimes I eat children!” Phil
• “Crew is so awesome, I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do c...

Mr. Mathes

• “Thought you were going to a private school and you ended up at a mental institution.”
• “I’m weird. I was born that way. My mother dropped me on a radiator.”
• “Now I’m living under a bridge in a garbage bag. I am beyond drunk.”
• “I was having pure-grain alcohol to forget my troubles from this class.”
• “You have a bigger mouth than a store of knowledge.” (best part - that ...

• purse
• clear converse
• new wallet

School

• winning senior survivor because of Phil
• the crazy middle schooler ("Did you ever meet Hitler?")
• going to Bertucci's for lunch with Phil
• bringing a chair and lamp from the senior forum into the physics room and making Seiger sit in it with his feet up
• when the whole school got swine flu
• the Mr. Anthony spooning Doc story
• the days in AP English when we don't talk about the book except for 5 minutes
• t...

Because I am a normal person!

• I have been to two sleepovers in the past two weekends
• I watch TV now (glee!!)
• I read books during the school year
• I can finish my homework at a decent time because I'm not taking a history class

• Slaughterhouse Five
• Breakfast of Champions
• Cat's Cradle
• The Enchantress of Florence
• The Satanic Verses
• Shalimar the Clown
• Midnight's Children
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• Sense and Sensibility
• Persuasion
• Frankenstein
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Dracula
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Great Expectations
• The Tale of Two Cities
• Catch 22
• The Book Thief
• Anna Karenina
• Robinson Crusoe
• Jane Eyre
• Wuthering Heights
• The Age of Innocence
• The Hun...

• Memorize Book 1 of the Aeneid
• Memorize pi to at least 100 digits

• Walking with friends through a city in the winter, dressed in fashionable clothing
• Sitting in a huge comfy chair in front of a fireplace with a book
• Walking alone through a small town in the summertime
• Christmastime in Boston/NYC
• Taking long naps outside on the grass in the sun
• Catching snowflakes on your tongue during the first snowfall
• Ice skating outside at night
• Swimming in a lake alone during sunset...

• It's known for languages and I love languages
• The J-term: a month in between semesters where you only take one class, and it's super awesome
• They have a winter carnival!
• It's absolutely gorgeous and there's so much green grass
• They have their own ski mountain
• They started College Quiddich
• They have a super awesome program where about 100 students start in February and graduate in February (class of 2014...

• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Middlebury
• Mamma Mia! - camp 2008
• When I Grow Up - crew carpool fall 2008
• Happy Ending - crew carpool fall 2009
• Don't Stop Me Now - China trip

• Live Like We're Dying (Kris Allen)
• Tik Tok (Ke$ha)
• Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
• Sexy Bitch (David Guetta)
• Love Drunk (Boys Like Girls)
• Down (Jay Sean)
• Replay (Sean Kingston)
• Let's Just Fall in Love Again (Jason Castro)
• Love Today (Mika)

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In the past

• You Belong with Me (Taylor Swift)
• Lollipop (Mika)
• Fireflies (Owl City)

As chronological as possible

• Dartmouth
• Middlebury
• Bates
• Bowdoin
• Connecticut College
• Clark University
• Tufts
• Colgate
• Hamilton
• University of Chicago

From most to least favorite:

• Middlebury
• Bates
• Colgate
• Chicago
• Bowdoin
• Connecticut
• Tufts

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• Dartmouth

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Schools my mom is making me apply to

• UVM (because something might happen, and it's cheap)

• Much Ado About Nothing
• Romeo and Juliet
• Julius Caesar
• Othello
• The Tempest
• The Merchant of Venice
• Twelfth Night
• King Lear

• The Princess Bride
• The Probable Future

• Looking Backward

• "What is life other than a collection of moments, some moments you want to remember, while others you try very hard to repress."
• "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
• "A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time."
• "Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."
• "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely ...

• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
• One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
• Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
• Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover whe...

• waterfalls
• sunsets
• snowflakes

• smoker/druggie/super alcoholic
• excessive facial hair

• intelligence
• humor
• easy to talk to, be with
• not totally physical
• understanding

• taking naps on the grass outside the link during warm spring days after school

• Latin
• dill sauce
• long car rides

Pre-K

• Tim ... something

Elementary School

• John Strampfer

Middle School

• Philip Melanson

• the junior hallway
• the link
• the Melvil Room
• Ms. Foster's room
• the library
• the computer lab
• the Green Room

According to my family tree, these are some common family names.

• Joanna
• Ellen
• Mary
• Cornelius
• William
• John

• my favorite things
• my middle school days
• things I miss about being a kid
• elementary school friends
• quotes
• basically everything Elise and Kaitlyn have lists about
• lots of about me lists

Girls

• Natalie
• Rebecca
• Jane
• Emily
• Meredith
• Phoebe
• Maggie

Boys

• James
• Jasper
• Colin
• Michael
• Andy
• Timothy
• Stephen
• Jeremy

• always putting on and tying my left shoe before my right
• my shoes always have to be evenly tied tightly
• always doing the exact same thing as I dry off after showers
• always putting my contacts in and taking them out in the same order

• MOTHS
• the dark (sometimes)
• severe weather (when it's really windy)
• death

• Queen
• ABBA
• U2
• Rush
• The Beatles
• Journey
• .38 Special
• Talking Heads
• Scorpions
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Sting
• Boston
• The Zombies
• Jason Mraz
• Katy Perry
• Rihanna

• Go sky diving
• Visit 6/7 continents and all 50 states
• Read all of Shakespeare's plays
• Watch IMDB's top 100 movies of all times
• Read a good majority of Barnes and Noble's Classics
• Become fluent in at least 3 languages
• See a drive-in movie