First Post :]

I technically started this blog around two/three months ago...but I never really got to update it until now.  Well, I suppose that now I'm making my official first post, I'll tell you what the blog is about.


Hey, my name is Sharon.  I'm currently a senior in high school.  Yep, college applications are looming over me.  So basically, this is a blog about a regular senior's journey through the college application process (as well as the last year of high school).  Hopefully someone will eventually find this helpful when they go through the process themselves.  I guess they can reference this blog when they are sitting at home, writing those supplemental essays.


Yeah, so enough of that.  I was just finishing up a calculus extra credit paper.  Every week, for extra credit, we write about one mathematician.  It's a pretty easy extra credit assignment, and it's also fun, since I enjoy learning about the mathematicians' lives.  This week I was writing about Maria Gaetana Agnesi.  Ever heard of her?  I haven't until now.  I learned that she wrote the first understandable calculus textbook.  "Understandable calculus" is like an oxymoron.  Since when was calculus "understandable"?


Before that, though, I was at a tennis match.  I'm on my school's Varsity tennis team, and I have to say, it's a pretty great experience.  I'm not in a ranked position, but that's okay, since I don't have a lot of pressure on me.  The school we were against is a little less than an hour away, so it was a pretty long bus ride.  Long, but a bit fun.  Us girls were discussing class ranks, grades, boys, and anything really.


Speaking of class rank, I don't really feel that I should reveal my class rank.  I will say that I'm pretty satisfied with my rank, except that there's some people that don't take the most rigorous courses that are ahead of me.  It bothers me, but honestly, it's something to be expected.  You can't have everything in life.


Well, I'm starting to get ahead of myself.  Maybe I'll start talking a bit more about the college application in my next post.  Maybe I'll make my blog a bit more interesting by adding pictures (maybe some of my drawings, since I love to draw).  Who knows where I'll take this?  I may even quit after this post (hopefully not).


I have to work on my economics homework.  I almost forgot about that, and it's due this Wednesday!  I thought I had a week for that, but I guess I don't.  Oh well.  Until then, bye bye!