So moving onto Boston: did some college visiting which was very insightful. Lesse, first I went to UMass Amherst which was ginormous--the campus is very vast. VERY vast. They have the tallest library [36 floors!] in an educational institution in the U.S. er, that's my recollection of what the tour guide said . Hampshire College was very small--very contrasting to the previous. I had an interview and that went alright I suppose--there were many hyperbollic comments I made about my "academic life" if you will but hey; I forgot to mention a couple of things so that compensates, right? They have a really intensive 4-year program where the core focus of your education is on what you want to persue--it't like a masters programs which was rather attractive, but demanding simultaneously. Am I willing to sacrifice for that challenge? I do not know. I guess I'll apply though. Then I went to B.U.--ultimately, no matter how much I complain about the ridiculous ASIJ student acceptance rate, it is my dream university. Gorgeous campus and impressive facilities. The weirdest thing about the campus tour though was that I ran into Jamie Berkowitz! I didn't notice her at first but then out of the corner of my eye, I saw this girl examining my face and she was like, "OMGsh!!! HEYYY!!!!" and I was like, "WOAH! HEY!" Hehe. This world is very, very small--no matter what the statisticians say. She was doing this camp with Northeastern University--looked fun. She said that she was doing some college visits [I can't remember where] but she ran into E and "some girl from my math class--I feel really guilty tho cuz I couldn't remember her name!!" haha soo Berky :) But yeah, that was kewl. Then, I visitied Tufts [Medford/Sommerville campus] which was ah-maaa-zing...but seemingly impossible for me to get into. NICE campus, WONDERFUL facilities, and SUCH a kewl dean/president! Our tour guy [who was kinna cute] said that he invites the entire senior class to his house at the beginning and then end of the year just to talk and stuff! How cool is that?! Oh and get this: for the cafeteria, if you have like a really special home-made meal that you wanna eat, you can send that recipe to the Tufts cafeteria and they'll make it for you!! Now THAT'S what I call pamperment to the max. Impressive though, I must admit. But wow. SO nice. They want you to complete as many APs as you can though and blah blah blah...so that's sort of where I lost interest lolz but yeah. Twas nice to see a higher institution of education that I will never get into--let me dream for a sec nonetheless :)