- 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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