Updates and New Year's Resolution

It's been a while since I've posted something. I don't have much to say this time around, but I figured it's better that I update you all on some small things going on in my life rather than leave my blog abandoned for so long.

So, first thing's first. In my last blog, I mentioned that I was accepted to Tulane University on a $26,000 per year scholarship (I think that was the number; it may have been $24,000; I'll have to check again later). I also said I was waiting on MIT's decision. Unfortunately, I was not accepted there, but life goes on. Emory University in Georgia (the US state, not the country :P ) sent me an E-Mail asking me if I wanted to apply there. They already had my information from the QuestBridge program, and only requested I send them a short-answer essay. Emory was not on my list of schools. It's a top school, but I just never looked into them. However, since the application was free (courtesy of QuestBridge's reputation) and they only needed a short essay, I sent it to them. Now I have another school to wait for...great.

As for my personal life. I've been on Winter Vacation from school for about a week and a half (since the 19th), and I'm finally realizing just how lazy I can be. I actually stayed up until 7:30 AM last night (or, I guess technically it would be "this morning") and slept until 4:00 PM. Ah, sleep. Last night, however, I discovered something about myself. I always knew it on some level, but I confronted it last night as my insomnia led me to think about things I usually ignore. I realized that my one major issue--which some people mistake for laziness--is not following through on things. I counted over 20 stories I've started writing, and only 2 which I've finished. I've begun making at least 10 computer games, and never finished a single one.

And, I realized, this problem has invaded my personal life as well, as I've often told a girl I'd call her back, then not done it. Not because I didn't want to, mind you. Just because I can't follow through with...well, anything really. One of these events may even have cost me a potential relationship. So I made a New Year's Resolution to go back and finish my latest abandoned projects, and from now on to start finishing whatever I start. This actually began today when I did my Emory essay. I had ignored it so long that even the university was sending me E-Mails with subjects like "Wrap it up"! And the whole thing only took me a half an hour. Jeeze, the problem is worse than I thought!

So that's all there is to tell, really. If anyone out there is reading this (that is, if anyone is really interested in my thoughts), please comment. Post your own New Year's Resolutions. Maybe if your self-promises are out in Cyberspace for all to see, it will encourage you to stick with them :) .

-IMP ;) :)