18 December 2012

On top of finalizing a few things on my common app - final deadlines are fast approaching - I continued reading "Stellar Nucleosynthesis in the Open Hyades Cluster."

12 December 2012

After a long struggle to get the internet working on my computer, I finally submitted and used an ethernet cable. Then I put in more work on my thesis presentation - I got some pictures off the internet to use and I began to flesh out my outline a bit. It'll be good to have this thing over with.

10 December 2012 (late post)

I looked over the thesis presentation guidelines and began outlining my presentation (I go on Friday). Some of the stuff I can take from my first presentation, but of course this one will be much more in-depth. I also put some work in on essays for my last few apps.

6 December 2012

I continued reading "Stellar Nucleosynthesis in the Hyades Open Cluster." As for judges and a mentor, I have started trying to contact professors at SMU's physics department.

4 December 2012

On top of making revisions to my UPenn essay, I began reading a research paper entitled "Stellar Nucleosynthesis in the Hyades Open Cluster." A lot of my project is going to involve just reading up on the subject in papers like this one.

30 November 2012

I have submitted my applications for USC, Northeastern, and Vanderbilt, and I also worked on my UPenn essay today. The only things I have left are the essays for UPenn, Stanford, Conell, and Harvard. It's a good deal of work but I have all of December to finish it all.

28 November 2012

I wrote all of the short answers for Stanford's "profile questions" - the only thing left for that school is the short essays.

26 November 2012

I finished up my UC application. Lots of work, but it's ready to submit. I want to make a few finishing touches to the essay but other than that I plan to have it in by tomorrow or the next day.

19 November 2012

Kept working on UC. I want to have it in well before the deadline, since UC is notorious for its site crashing during the days just before deadlines. Hopefully I can have it all done within another week.

15 November 2012

I spent the class working on my annotated bibliography. It's coming along well and with some more work and finishing touches tonight it will look pretty good.

13 November 2012

Essays, essays, essays... this is getting old. Kept working on UC today. I also need to get that bibliography done - I'll probably work on that next time.

9 November 2012

I worked on my online speech class. just a little more reading then two video-submitted speeches and I'm ready to test out.

7 November 2012

I continued working on my UC application. I'm having a little trouble adapting my common app essay for UC, but I think I can make it look pretty good with a little more work.

5 November 2012

I am trying to adapt my Common App essay to fit one of the UC essay prompts, and I'm working on a topic for the other one. I also completed all the "Future Plans" sections for all my Common App schools.

1 November 2012

I finalized my USC supplement and as soon as my recommendations are in I can submit it. I also revised the the intro to my UPenn essay and outlined much of what I want to write for the rest of it. Finally, I just found out today that the UC deadline is Nov. 30, so I will begin to focus my attention on that app.

30 October 2012

I started my UPenn essay and worked on the UC application (personal info, test scores, etc).

26 October 2012

I spent a good portion of the class doing my community service for Ms Johnson, and after I finished I worked on my USC essay and looked at the prompts for the rest of the schools I'm looking at.

24 October 2012

I finished a second draft for my USC essay and invited my recommenders to my Common App, then worked on my Tulane and WashU applications

22 October 2012

I went on College Prowler's "The Best & The Worst" section for many of the schools on my list, and I also worked on my USC short essay.

18 October 2012

I filled out my counselor recommendation form, put some final touches on my senior survey, and sent it all in to Mr. Villa along with my resumé. I also started my UC application.

16 October 2012 (late post)

After filling out my application progress report, I put the finishing touches on my common app essay and worked on the supplements for USC, UPenn, Cornell, and Stanford

5 October 2012

I made a few revisions to my common app essay and spent the rest of the class practicing for the SAT subject tests I'm taking tomorrow.

3 October 2012

I spent some time working to finalize my college list - I can't really do anything else until I know specifically where I'm applying.

1 October 2012

More presentations, and I went today. After we were done, I spent some time browsing schools on CollegeProwler.

27 September 2012 (late post)

We had more presentations today. I go on Monday.

25 September 2012

We spent the class doing presentations

21 September 2012

Early release today, so only a 45 minute class. I downloaded a research paper by Burbage, Burbage, Fowler, and Hoyle entitled Synthesis of the Elements in Stars and read some of it. But it's 108 pages long so it might take a while.

19 September 2012

After getting my internship badge, I spent the rest of the class redrafting my common app essay. It looks good, man.

17 September 2012

I spent this class looking at more colleges as well as application supplements for a few. I also used their essay topics as inspiration for a common app essay, and I am going to write an outline for my paper tonight.

13 September 2012

I spent essentially all class period thinking about new topics for my Common App essay. I'm really having trouble coming up with something good. However, I made a list of possible topics and I tried free-writing (just writing down whatever comes to mind) for 15 or so minutes at a time. I think with a little more work and focus I'll come up with something good. I guess I need to start thinking about my thesis topics a bit more too, so I have something good to present.

11 September 2012

I have been talking with Ms Maner about my recommendation, and sent her my resumé today. I also began to sort my college list into Reach, 50-50, and Safety schools and will go over this further with my parents. I began my NMSC application and updated some Common App info.

7 September 2012

I updated much of my Common App info, and made an ApplyTexas account. I then went on collegeprowler and researched USC, Stanford, and Brown. USC seems like a pretty nice school, and obviously you can't beat Stanford. Didn't really find Brown very interesting.

5 September 2012 (late post)

I wrote an email to Mrs. Maner asking if she would write me a recommendation. I had discussed this with her before the summer. Then I went to collegeprowler.com and researched Columbia, Berkeley, Tulane, and UT.

31 August 2012

I finished my senior survey, began updating my resume, and spent the rest of class working on my Common App essay.

29 August 2012

I spent a good deal of the class figuring out how to log on to the network and finding a computer to use. However, once I was up & running I went to both cappex.com and collegeprowler.com and made accounts, and finally I put in some work on my senior survey, which I will complete and send by next class.

first post!

So as of now my thesis project involves investigating the way heavy elements are created via fusion in the cores of stars. No real work on finding a mentor or anything yet, and I'm also kind of considering switching to something more philosophy-related. Additionally, I've spent some of the summer writing and revising my common app essays and touring schools.