• passport, obv
• camera + charger
• All the King's Men
• Kindle + charger
• iPhone
• loaded with movies/TV shows
• charger
• clothes, ha.
• iPhone in-ear headphones!!!

• 3/13: BTM
• UK trip!
• Finish yearbook (3/13 & 3/14 especially!)
• Scholarship applications
• Find out UCLA admission decision
• Find out UC-Berkeley admission decision
• Find out USC decision maybe?
• Make a Lost promo for finale contest.
• Read American Pastoral_ or _The Mental Floss History of the World

• March 16: depart for London
• March 25: admissions decisions released for UCLA & UC - Berkeley
• March 29: ISP begins
• April 1: admissions decisions released for Yale, Brown, and USC
• April 17: NYC Concert Choir Trip
• May 1: College deposits due...eek!
• May 5: AP Calc Exam/End of AP Calc class (hooray!)
• May 6: AP English exam
• May 29: Underground Prom
• June 9: Last day of high school
• June 12: Graduation

• Rum & Coke
• Gin & Tonic
• Cosmopolitan
• (Strawberry) Daquiri
• Margarita
• Guiness
• Broken Down Golf Cart
• Sangria
• Caribou Lou
• Appletini
• Mojito
• Sex on the Beach
• Walk Me Down Sweet Jesus

• the weather! need I say more? Warm enough to swim outdoors in the winter time!
• lack of any significant rain or snow, and instead plenty of sunshine
• there's always something happening
• it's totally gorgeous. especially the Hollywood Hills.
• it's on the ocean.
• Exclusive restaurants: In'N'Out, Pinkberry, Chipolte, etc.
• Entertainment capital of the world - the cinemas are nicer and movies are released earlier...

• affinity
• aquiesce
• betwixt
• circa
• conundrum
• denouement
• ecstasy
• effervescence
• enigma
• epiphany
• equinox
• euphoria
• faux pas
• hyperbole
• immolate
• impervious
• incognito
• myriad
• oblivion
• prelapsarian
• quintessence
• quixotic
• ravenous
• soliloquy

• moist
• minutiae (it's only when it's plural that it bothers me)

BOYS:

• Brad Pitt (pre-facial hair era)
• George Clooney
• Chris Pine
• Jude Law
• Matthew Fox
• Marlon Brando (Streetcar Named Desire-era)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt

GIRLS:

• Evangeline Lilly
• Natalie Portman

• 3 years old: cracked my lip open on the coffee table. Still have a scar.
• 7 years old: took off the skin on my elbow while attempting to skateboard for the first time. No scar.
• 8 years old: pierced my knee with super sharp scissors. Still have a scar.
• 11 years old: open heart surgery. Very large scar from surgery, small scar from chest tube.
• 16 years old: Type II concussion from falling down a set of i...

• The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
• Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
• Othello - William Shakespeare
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

• Aliens
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• Broken Embraces
• A Single Man
• Shutter Island
• A Serious Man
• New Moon
• Shutter Island
• The Crazies
• Food, Inc.
• Iron Man
• Alice in Wonderland
• Remember Me

IT'S DONE! These are the schools I will be applying to! In order of how badly I want to go. Includes breakdown of colleges within a university.

Okay, yes, I cut one off the list. I was paranoid about applying to 13 colleges, so now it's 12.

Edit 8.24: Switched Berkeley and NYU, and Syracuse and Chapman.

Edit 10.22: Added St Andrews, removed Carnegie Mellon, and switched the order of a few schools

Edit...

• Bed & Breakfasts
• having my arms confined
• the trees in Amherst
• driving behind log trucks
• heavy fog
• weird noises at night in the dark
• storm drains (thank you, Stephen King)

• Twin Peaks
• Damages
• Better off Ted
• Dexter
• Deadwood

1. Up in the Air
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. An Education
4. The Hurt Locker
5. (500) Days of Summer
6. Star Trek
7. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. Precious
9. District 9
10. The Hangover

• Fucking Boyfriend - The Bird and the Bee
• Empire State of Mind - Jay Z feat. Alicia Keys
• Crazy - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
• TiK ToK - Ke$ha

1. City of God
2. American Beauty
3. The Godfather
4. Kill Bill, Vol. 2
5. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
6. Chicago
7. Sunset Blvd.
8. Titanic
9. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
10. Wall-E
11. Apocalypse Now
12. Moulin Rouge
13. Psycho
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15. Up in the Air
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
2. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
3. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
4. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
5. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
6. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
7. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
8. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
10. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

I'm not one for resolutions, but I'm going to try this year to stick to them...

• read at least 45 books (school books count)
• exercise 2 times a week
• don't eat fast food more than 2 times a week
• be more proactive with ~things~
• use all the skin products daily...don't get lazy and stop using them like I always do!

• cinnamon
• apple pie filling
• bubble bath
• honeysuckle
• pantene shampoo
• old books
• waffles
• maple syrup
• London by Burberry (my cologne)
• Old Spice
• spearmint gum

• don't get senioritis - at all! leave that for term 3 if you must
• get into college
• have all applications done before the official start of winter break
• ENJOY YOUR CLASSES. no more IHW = less stress!
• keep grades where they are, but work to bump calc up to an A-
• bumped calc up to a B+, but got AP English to an A so I think I can cross this off
• stay in the triple-h club
• watch new trailers on traileraddict we...

• "Oh, I see your point, but..."
• stfu bitch, your point is stupid
• "I fell down the stairs"
• I fell up the stairs
• "Grey's Anatomy was SO good last night!"
• Grey's Anatomy made me cry last night
• "I literally peed my pants"
• Except in very rare instances, this statement is usually a hyperbole
• "RAPE!!!!"
• Please get away from me
• "That fart wasn't me"
• It was me
• "I overslept"
• I slept until 6:45

1. Lost
2. The Sopranos
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Arrested Development
5. Veronica Mars
6. 30 Rock
7. Six Feet Under
8. True Blood
9. Friends
10. Grey's Anatomy

• Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• The Liar's Club - Mary Karr
• American Pastoral - Philip Roth
• Blindness - Jose Saramago
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The Handmaiden's ...

• FREEDOM!
• Living with another person my age
• Being able to study what I'm interested in
• MEN. HOT MEN. LOTS OF THEM.
• PARTIES!!!!
• I'll be able to do anything I want to without needing to ask permission
• Living in a city (for most of my colleges)
• I'll be surrounded by smart people
• No curfew
• The opportunity of bartending
• No more of my mother's unenthusiastic cuisine!

• November 20: Last day of Fall Term
• November 21-29: Thanksgiving Break
• December 15: Yale decision notification
• December 18: My 18th Birthday!
• December 22-January 3: Christmas Break
• December 24: Christmas Eve
• December 25: Christmas Day
• December 31: New Year's Eve
• February 12-14: Upper School Musical
• February 21: End of Winter Term
• February 22-28: Winter Break
• March 15-26: Spring Break, also college decisions g...

• I crack my knuckles a lot, especially in the winter
• I bite my nails sometimes, then I break them, then I try to fix the broken nail by biting it, only to make it worse
• I thread my fingers through my hair when I'm stressed
• Facebooking at red lights
• Checking my phone constantly when eating dinner
• Judging people for liking really bad movies

• Bertucci's on Day 2s
• The first time Mr. Holland said my name
• DON'T RUSH ME, BOY!
• Zoe ripping off my flannel shirt during Chinese
• pseudo-breaking into Mer's with Olivia
• Ms. Liu complaining about a certain freshman
• The day Olivia cried during the carpool + ZOMBIE!
• "I TOLD YOU I NEVER LIE. THESE ARE TEARS OF PASSION!"
• The 1st Friday Night Lights
• and subsequent Ben & Jerry's run
• "HOLY FUCKBALLS! What goes throu...

• Up (11/10)
• Star Trek (11/17)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (12/8)
• Inglorious Basterds (12/15)
• The Hangover (12/15)
• (500) Days of Summer (12/22)
• District 9 (12/29)
• The Hurt Locker (1/12)
• Paranormal Activity (2/??)

Already released:

• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Harry Potter 1-5

• i'd own a shitload of burberry/banana republic/j (gay) crew/martin+osa/etc.
• especially this coat: http://us.burberry.com/product/index.jsp...
• i'd have contacts and 5 pairs of glasses to match various outfits
• i'd actually own all the tv shows i watch on dvd instead of downloading them
• same with music
• i would go to the movies as much as Mr. Anthony
• i'd drive a Lexus SC in Golden Almond Metallic
• i would own...

words/phrases I say a lot:

• classy
• omg like that one time on Lost...
• bitch, please
• oh shitmonkeys
• xoxoxo
• darling
• don't get your panties in a knot

THE GOOD:

• 2 hour naps on the UniBed (four beds moved together to form one giant spoonfest)
• the feeling of being in a warm sleeping bag when the outside temperature is in the 30s
• end of day yoga
• Olivia, Meredith, Meg, and Margeaux
• THE TIT
• Lisa's (the coach's) funny remarks while climbing Mt. Cardigan
• Meredith: Oh Jesus Christ help!
• Lisa: He isn't with us now...
• scaling the bare rock of Mt. Cardigan WITHOUT ...

stolen (lovingly) from youarethemoon!

ETA: wow, I cry a lot.

Books:

• The Amber Spyglass (I was like 10)
• The Grapes of Wrath
• East of Eden
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Corelli's Mandolin (I was practically sobbing for like 20 pages)

Movies:

• Titanic
• Brokeback Mountain
• Million Dollar Baby
• The Lion King (even to this day...)
• Little Children
• United 93
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Saving Private Ryan

TV:

• Six Feet Under
• E...

don't judge...i have a thing for mythological names

Boy:

• Ian
• Ewan
• Ares
• Clive
• Caleb
• Hayden
• Topher
• Holden (PHONY! jk)

Girl:

• Persephone (if I ever have a girl I'll probably name her this)
• Athena
• Meredith (stolen from Erin)
• Julia
• Eva

• UC - Berkeley
• Stanford
• Harvard
• BC
• Emerson
• BU
• Brown
• Yale
• CMU
• UPitt
• GWU
• UPenn
• Syracuse
• UCLA
• USC
• Columbia
• NYU

stolen from youarethemoon!

• Manchester Boston Regional Airport
• Logan International Airport
• Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
• Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport
• Newark Liberty International Airport
• Miami International Airport
• Honolulu International Airport
• Los Angeles International Airport
• John Wayne Airport (Orange County, CA)
• Bob Hope Airport (Burbank, CA)
• San Diego International Airport
• Sa...

• Opening Shot
• prime photo
• Country Fair
• Senior Headshots
• Senior Pages
• logins
• Senior Candids
• Faculty/Staff
• Non-senior candids
• Junior Headshots
• Sophomore Headshots
• Freshman Headshots
• 8th Headshots
• 7th Headshots
• 6th Headshots
• Fall sports:
• FH
• pics
• roster
• XC
• pics
• roster
• Golf
• Crew
• Boys Soccer
• Girls Soccer
• MS fall
• Under the Lights spread
• Winter Sports
• Swimming
• Boys bball
• Girls bball
• Alpine
• XC Ski
• Yoga/Weight Training
• MS Winter
• MS Candids
• MS m...

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966)
5. The Dark Knight (2008)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. 12 Angry Men (1957)
11. Casablanca (1942)
12. Star Wars (1977)
13. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the...

• skydive solo
• watch all of the IMDB Top 250
• visit every continent except Antarctica (because it's too cold)
• meet a celebrity
• ons
• drive the autobahn
• go on a date in Paris
• see the 7 wonders of the world
• live on a private island
• drive a car above 120 mph
• be a skilled drink mixer
• ride in a hot-air balloon
• water ski
• toboggan in the alps
• ride the world's tallest roller coaster
• learn to trapeze
• fly a plane
• ride in a helic...

1. facebook
2. twitter
3. listography
4. gilt
5. tumblr
6. netflix
7. apple trailers
8. IMDb
9. rottentomatoes
10. last.fm
11. darkUFO
12. amazon
13. yearbook avenue

Asia:

• Great Wall of China
• Tokyo
• Bali
• Moscow
• Hanging Temple
• Mt. Everest (but not climb it)

Middle East:

• The Pyramids
• Jerusalem
• DAMASCUS! (lol)

Europe:

• London
• Stonehenge
• A castle
• The Louvre
• Monet's Garden
• Berlin
• Rome (and all of its sights)
• Pompeii
• Venice
• The Vatican
• Swiss Alps

Africa:

• Animals in their natural habitat
• Morocco
• Ivory Coast
• Cape Town

Australia:

• Sydney
• Great Barrier Reef
• Uluru

North America:

• Death Valley
• Grand Canyon
• Are...