• worked on Romeo and Juliet, Footloose, and A Streetcar Named Desire
  • made the best barbed wire for a prop
  • mastered the art of karate-chop splatter painting
  • stage managed for the first time
  • played in a John Philip Sousa concert for band
  • went to ITALY over spring break with the band
  • learned to play the Blue Shades clarinet solo after weeks and weeks of practice and squeaking
  • ate 4 cups of gelato in one day
  • saw the musical Hair
  • saw Calculus the Musical
  • was a techie for Focus on the Arts
  • my dad got married!
  • wrote 5 billion essays for college applications
  • applied ED to Brandeis and got in!
  • somehow survived college applications
  • write an essay for english class complaining about college applications
  • became obsessed with Dexter and Doctor Who
  • turned 18!
  • stayed out legally past curfew
  • started a book of lists
  • survived Chicago's record-breaking snow storm (over 2 feet of snow!)
  • sang a parody of the song "Friday" with my brother for my sister's Bat-Mitzvah
  • visited a landfill and sewage treatment center with my environmental science class
  • stayed up until 2:30am on a school night doing homework
  • stayed up until 1:30am on a school night, NOT doing homework
  • had my first cup of coffee
  • asked someone to prom by covering his entire locker in saran wrap and putting up signs that said "May 14th is the night" and "PROM?" covered in "blood splatter"
  • ...and then a week later put the head of a Barbie doll into his clarinet to watch him freak out. It worked.
  • did cartwheels down the hallway during school and got weird looks from kids in their classes
  • drove down a main street with my windows down, blasting John Williams music
  • actually participated in gym class for one day, just to say that I did
  • mastered the art of walking in 4 inch heels
  • had a complete mental breakdown because I failed a biology test
  • survived AP Biology
  • carved my name into a part of the school
  • climbed to the top of a ladder to hang a light and didn't die!
  • played capture the flag in the pouring rain
  • went prom dress shopping with my heterosexual gay best friend (don't ask)
  • went on a gluten-free diet for 2 months
  • had friends over at my house until 4am
  • broke a hammock by trying to fit 6 people on it
  • saw a double rainbow
  • convinced my friend to shave his jew-fro for charity drive
  • learned how to cook fish in my environmental science class
  • went to a genetic update conference with my AP Bio class
  • actually ditched on senior ditch day
  • played whirlyball
  • went to prom
  • GRADUATED
  • stayed up until 5:45am playing arcade games and laser tag with my friends for grad night
aug 15 2011 ∞
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