The End of an Era

That's all folks. Today Life at Antelope Valley College has officially closed for business.

June 02, 2011 at 8:50 p.m. --the official date and time concluding my studies at AVC. Now it it time to get ready for the next three years of my life in awesome La Jolla at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  :D

Goodbye desert!

I am going to miss my professors and friends very much. Good thing Skype was invented. :)

As one blog ends, another blog begins. **Click here to be transferred to the next installment.**

Thank you for being a dedicated reader.

Four More Days!

Four more days and my studies at AVC will be complete. I cannot wait for the summer to get here so that I can start planning for UCSD. :D I'm going to be a La Jolla resident for three years. :D

In other news, I now have 400 songs worth of Trent Reznor's work. I have loved NIN for over a decade. Now I have just about all his music (with exception to movie music). Also, I finally got around to getting more music by Sia -- three albums to be precise. She's so talented.

I'm going to get back to studying for my finals.

One More Week!

Next week is my final week at AVC! I have three finals to take and I am finished. My last ochem lab was this past Thursday. It's a bittersweet feeling since I loved that class. I loved going everyday and having a blast with my classmates/friends and Dr. Newman. The experiments were awesome too. I made nylon last Thursday:

I am excited and nervous at the same time for UCSD. I hope I can snag some great research opportunities. Also, I really hope housing will allow me to live with my AVC friends. We shall see.

Well, good luck on finals!

Two More Weeks!

There are two weeks until I finished AVC! My finals are on June 1st and 2nd. Wow....the end is in sight! That's what is new with me. UCSD classes start in the mid-September. :D

UCSD Smörgåsbord

This is what I have been waiting for. All my years of hard work are represented by this image:

There are three weeks left in my semester at Antelope Valley College. Yes, I am sad to say goodbye to my favorite professors (Nisani, McGovern, Agahari, Newman, Jaffe, etc) and my best friends, but I am excited at the same time because I finally get to attend a university. An excellent university at that!..............*Click to read the rest*

UCSD Transfer Admit Day 2011

Transfer Admit Day was officially last Saturday. I know I know….I’ve pretty late getting this blog post submitted. There are no words to describe how amazing the campus is. UCSD has, in a way, become my dream school. I am honored that UCSD accepted me. I feel that I have been given a real opportunity that many people in this world would love to have. So, how was my Transfer Admit Day? Awesome!..........*Click to read more*.

Transfer Admit Day

Tomorrow is UCSD's Transfer Admit Day. Woohoo! I have my schedule planned out and can't wait to see the campus more in depth. Earlier today my mother, sister, and I ventured into San Diego (UCSD is located close by in La Jolla) to find a place to eat. I was very happy to see that the area next to Horton Plaza had lots of Indian food restaurants. :D We decided to try Royal India in the Horton Plaza..........*click to read the rest*

Official Transfer University

After much deliberation (a lot), I have decided to pursue chemical engineering at UC San Diego. I accepted their offer of admission earlier today. :D
I decided to post the new blog right now. I will use it for the time being to post anything UCSD-related until this blog officially ends on June 04, 11.

Drum roll please!

*Life at UC San Diego*

Go Tritons!

I'm EXCITED!!!

I just checked my email and I received this message:

Dear Stephanie,

Congratulations on your admission to UC San Diego and the Jacobs School of Engineering!


OMG. Bioengineering accepted me! That's one of the nation's top bioengineering programs. I'm in shock. This is the best news I have received all semester. My family came upstairs to read the email and we all did a jumping group hug. lol

MIT Decisions 2011 Released Today!

Okay.....I had this huge post I wrote up and I accidentally deleted it all. OMG >___< Blogger then decided to auto save the second that happened. Today is not my day. My product yield in ochem earlier was incredibly bad because I have been mentally detached waiting for this decision.

Okay long story short -- I was rejected. I typed out my response better but yeah.

I am very disappointed that I didn't try harder but whatever. C'est la vie. I'm 21 and have family members who have lived past 100. All in all, I have at least 79 more years to experience MIT. Now that I have been rejected from MIT a second time you're probably wondering if I am going to keep applying until I get in. The simple answer to that is no. As previously stated, this is my final time applying to MIT undergrad. It is time to move on and find out what that other path brings. In my case -- paths.

MIT wasn't the only university I applied to. So far I have been accepted to UC Santa Cruz for Bioengineering and I am waiting for UCI to confirm my TAG standing for Biomedical Engineering. UC Davis, UC San Diego, UCLA, and UC Berkeley will release all decisions at the end of the week or next (definitely next for Berkeley). Stay tuned!

By the way, congratulations to the extremely lucky people who were accepted! Let me know if you don't want your spot. hehe