Screw the money, I have rules

Satsuki's Lament on the US college system

I got decisions from Penn State Berks and from University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Both came back as acceptances, Berks came about 4 days before Pitt. Now I'm stuck deciding where to go. I've made pro and con lists, but they don't seem to be helping too much. I've visited both campuses, Greensburg twice because I visited last summer but couldn't remember the feeling I got there.

Besides deciding, there's now the "how am I going to pay for this?" stress as well. Penn State has over 70,000 students across it's 20 campuses, and only about 14,000 (or 25%) get scholarships. 32% of those scholarships go to the main campus, but the other 68% go to the other 19 commonwealth campuses to be shared between them. Penn State tends to base scholarships (according to the College board) on academics and alumni association. I don't have any alumni associations anywhere but down in Texas, because my whole family lives there. That leaves academics. However, because they have over 70k students, their scholarships are very, very competitive and it's unlikely I'll receive one.

Besides the competitive scholarships from the school, FAFSA (Free application for federal student aid) hands them out, and things like work-study, but those are need based. Good and bad, assets have to be declared on the form. There's the college account I have, and my moms business she invested in with my cousin. Both will have to be declared, plus, I'm an only child, so my parents aren't paying for more kids to go to college and would need more cash because of that, which also has to be said on FAFSA. Because of those three things (and others I can't think of right now), it's possible I'll get nothing from our federal government because I wont be declared "need-based".

Need-based is calculated like so:
Cost of Attendance (COA) - Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = Need

I was also accepted to Pitt Greensburg, as I noted before. I feel a small connection to that campus, but it's nothing too large to go "HEY, GO HERE!" Plus, how am I supposed to know where I'll want to live for the next 4 years? I'm not psychic!

Then they've also offered me a 3k scholarship every year if I get a 3.25 GPA, if I get over a 3.5, the scholarship goes up. I don't want to choose my school based on financial things though.
At least they give me till May 1st to claim that scholarship and enroll, and get housing. It gives me some time to think about it, but I'd like to get this done so I don't have to stress anymore.

Why must America's college system be so expensive and so based on money? I don't want to be one of those students who drowns in debt and then defaults and ruins my credit. "STOP CALLING ME SALLIE-MAE. I DON'T GOTS NO MONIES"

It's time for,
Another Satsuki Parody!

Please welcome...Somewhere over the silver moon for adv+!
(Because of that wonderful over the moon feeling you get when you're promoted.)

Somewhere over the silver moon, way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the silver moon, member bars are rainbow
And the promotions that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a codex member
And wake up where the blue bar is far
Behind me
Where no user perks melt like lemon drops
Away above the advanced
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the silver moon rainbow userbars fly
Avd+ fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

If happy little adv+ members fly
Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can't I?

Like the title says, I did this at a friends house while waiting to go to the Renaissance festival. It wasn't too bad that first day, I could still walk, but it hurt a bit to sit down. It continued to get worse, though. Now it hurts to walk, it's hard to find a comfortable position for sitting, and "getting up"? HA! I have to roll over just to get out of bed now because it hurts too much to sit up normally. As soon as the pain radiates from my tailbone I'm very quickly sitting up straight. Hopefully this will clear up by the end of this week. Unfortunately, ice doesn't really help too much because there isn't much of a bump or bruise there, so it seems internal.
The fact that I can't walk makes everything worse, because I'm constantly running up and down our school stairs. Sometimes I have to run from the bottom up to the 6th floor, which is a huge flight of stairs.

Let this be a warning: Look before you sit down on a couch.

For my senior year of high school, our choir (along with our orchestra and wind ensemble) will be preforming at Carnegie Hall from April 11th-14th. This is going to be a really fun trip and a great opportunity to perform at one of the most iconic music halls across the US! However, trips cost money (of course), and this one is no different.
The holidays are coming up, (yes I know it's only September), but soon we'll see the turkeys in the stores and almost at the same time as those show up, the Christmas decorations.
Yankee Candle is a well known candle company in Pennsylvania (not sure about other places), and they help out a lot with fundraising.
If you like their candles, or gift wrap, or air fresheners, all I'd like to put here is that you do not buy their products from a store this season! Instead, please get those wonderful candles online, more specifically here, as getting them online gives me 40% of the profit for the tip, instead of it all going to the company,
https://www.yankeeca...froot/store.htm
(You'll need my seller ID as well)
Group Number: 990068389
Seller ID: Airen77
Thank you!
I just thought'd I'd leave this here incase any of you enjoyed this companies candles. (They smell quite delicious).

(I'm pretty sure this isn't against our rules, as I didn't find anything against it but if it is, feel free to remove this).

I had a seizure due to my medication in January of 2013. The MRI was fine, the EEG* and Video EEG* were both fine. Nothing wrong with my brain in any way...until now.

I randomly collapsed second period, which is around 9:02am. I had felt perfectly fine before I collapsed, just casually working on my English homework. I had also slept fine the night before. After waking up on the floor, there was a large termor running though my arms. It took our school nurse at least 5 minutes+ to get there, because her office is now in our science wing, which is not connected to the main building. (The schools undergoing renovations).
I was a bit disoriented for about 5 minutes. I sort of knew I was at school, but still had some trouble recognizing things. I went home and everything was fine, except for a small fever of 99 degrees.

The next morning: I eat breakfast and start to walk to school, and then become mildly disoriented during the walk. Just things seeming a bit out of place and some fuzziness. It went away by the time I got to school which was about 30 minutes later. Then again, around 9:02, 2nd period, the disorientation comes back.

After a trip to the neurologist, I now have to have another EEG to find out what the heck is going on with my brain. At first they thought it might be the medication, which I was allowed to go back on because it only caused one seizure and I'm not seizure prone. For some reason, it was supposed to be at 100m and we had it at 200m, but that's because we don't remember the neurologist from January ever saying anything about a dosage. I'd been on that 200m dosage for about a year now, and it has never caused any problems, so the neurologist (the new one from the collapse), doesn't think it's the mediation that caused my collapse.

On Monday, it'll be back to Children's Hospital to have them stick gunk in my hair to keep the nodes for the test on. That stuff took days to come out the last time.

Hopefully, this time we'll get some answers and not a "nothing seems to be wrong ", when it looks like something is actually wrong.

*An EEG is a test where they look at brainwaves. They flash lights, have you blow on a pinwheel, and you sleep (so they can see what your brainwaves do when you're asleep), to test for any kind of seizure or other neurological disorder. For the sleep part, you do have to be sleep deprived the day of the EEG.

* A video EEG is the same as a normal EEG, just done overnight in the hospital where they watch you with a camera. (No cameras in the bathroom though).
I had to have mine because I wasn't sleep deprived the first time they did the EEG, and thus part of the test wasn't done.

Got my macbook back and guess what?
Huge chip taken off the right hand corner that wasn't there when I sent it in
Webcam repaired when there was nothing wrong with it (I'm going to guess they broke that too)
Spinning Beach Ball of Death constantly and constant slowness

My computer isn't usable now because of this constant slowness. I can't send it back either because I need it for school, but not being able to use it is better than waiting 3+ weeks to see what they broke this time.

All I'm running is Chrome and it gives me that stupid ball every 10 seconds. I have no idea what they did to my computer but it's never been this slow before, not even when it was broken. If it has to be fixed again, I don't care anymore about price. All I want is a guarantee that my computer will be repaired correctly, and quickly, which is what I'm not getting from my repair company. The company isn't even an authorized Apple retailer/computer fixer!

A word of warning, if buying anything and they offer you a Sevice Net Warranty, don't get it. You won't get anything repaired correctly and repaired quickly. (I've checked their customer reviews, I'm not the only one who has gotten crap from this company).

We all have them, but sometimes they're not that great.
Mine grandmother is ok most if time,but...
1. If you buy something and you like it but she doesn't it gets taken back (never mind that you liked it)
2. She buys something that you hate, that you've said you don't really like (Never mind that you hate it and won't ever wear it)
3. She comments on everyone's fashion issues
4. She constantly calls my cousin fat even though she isn't anywhere close to it
5. She continues speaking on subjects we've told her we don't want to discuss
6. She can't figure out why you shouldn't say this out loud "is his wife white or black?"
My mom always says on trips that we always try and do what I want but that's wrong. We always do what my grandma wants.

You all saw my status upate about peopling chewing. Well, my annoyance actually has a name to it. Misophonia is when small everyday sounds cause an acute reaction in you.
www.newrepublic.com/article/113667/misophonia-treatment-what-if-chewing-sounds-ruined-your-life
http://www.nytimes.c...annoy.html?_r=0
http://www.psycholog...everyday-sounds

I have this. I can not stand being in the same room as my mom when she eats her jaw pops all the time, I want to strangle people over loud crunching notices, and I detest, absolutely detest, the sound of smacking.
I want to punch things, scream and strangle people when I get set off. And sometimes I can't tell them, "for the love of god stop smacking/chewing/crunching/ect!!!!" So I suffer in silence, digging my nails into my palms and trying to pretend I'm somewhere else. (Which never works by the way)
How hard is it to eat with your mouth closed??? (Which can be the source of the sounds, usually the source of loud smacking).
How bloody hard it is to not chew like you're a tiger ripping the skin of an animal?
If you are behind two closed doors and down the hallway and I can hear you...YOU'RE BEING TO DANG LOUD. I should not be able to hear you eating/chewing/slurping/smacking from another room!

And when you're on a flight that's 3 hours long, and they just won't stop. It's torture. I want to throw myself out the plane window.

Apparently Tomo gives a question like this:
Where does the Tidelord live?
A. A Pineapple (not the answer, just an answer choice)

So, I made a paradoy because apparently the Tidelord lives in a pineapple under the sea!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
The Tidelord!
Blue and aqua and Caribbean is he!
The Tidelord!
If oceanic wonder be something you wish!
The Tidelord!
The jump into the ocean and swim like a dragon!
The Tidelord
The Tidelord
Theeee Tidelordddd!

By now, most of you have heard that my computer breaks...alot....
We sent it in 3 weeks ago to be repaired and got it back today. The work form says they replaced the keyboard and logic board.
However, upon start up the fan sounded like a jet engine and continued to do until the computer was shut off. Due to that, I took it in to Apple. Only to find out that the logic board, the part they say they fixed, IS STILL BROKEN. The fans were acting up because it was taking up far too much of the CPU's power. (Plus the whole computer was slow, slow graphics, spinning beach ball of death....). The logic board is the heart of my computer, making this a very large issue.
Now I have to send it back again. I have a trip comming up in 10 days, I have online school work to do, and many other things. Now I'm probally going to have to wait another three weeks to get it back. Hopefully, they actually repair it correctly this time and don't break anything.