Preparing for graduation

Tomorrow is my Black Hawk College graduation - classes ended yesterday and grades are being worked on now. The afternoon has a rehearsal; the actual event is tomorrow night. After school (high school, that is), I'll pick up the suit to wear under the graduation gown, with plenty of time to return home to grab the cap and gown. All invitations are already given out. Exciting times!

AP exams over

Today I took the AP Statistics exam. I feel that it went well. More importantly, that was the last such test I will take. I am officially done with AP exams; my next college-credit-granting class will be an actual college class. Exciting times.

Nearing the end

The printer just spit out the first copies of the invitation to my college graduation next week, at which I will receive an AS. The practice run of high school Senior Project presentations are Thursday, as is my last AP exam. High school graduation is shortly after the real Senior Project event a few weeks later. In between, this month will be largely uneventful.

In general, things are getting ready to conclude. Then the next deluge of items to handle floods in: actual (four-year, UIUC) college registration, placement testing, no shortage of forms to fill out.

Decision is sealed

Today is May 1, College Decision Day. I already decided on a college - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - but since the decision, a few more things are now handled. I successfully set up my internal credentials and institution e-mail account. (That makes five separate e-mail inboxes for me to check. I should consolidate these somehow.) I have applied for on-campus housing. My registration session, in which I will meet with an adviser and get registered for my first semester's classes, is a month away.

Meanwhile, graduation from Black Hawk College (with an Associate of Science) is only a couple weeks away. The graduation from my high school is two weeks after that.

Exciting times.

Decision is made

I made my college decision yesterday:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The enrollment deposit is made. I notified the other schools that accepted me so that they can admit students from their waitlist. My major is Biology.

Gathering Blue concludes

This was the second and final night of my school's spring play, Gathering Blue. As intended, it proceeded like the opening night. There was a new (possibly larger) audience, with somewhat different reactions to different scenes.

After the show concluded, as is tradition on closing night, the cast stayed on the stage instead of leaving, calling up our director so she could be recognized. Since blue is a centerpiece in the play, I found it appropriate for us to give her a bouquet of blue flowers as well as a blue pendant.

This was my last play at the school - I'll be graduating in about a month.

Opening Night 2017

Today was the opening night for my school's spring play, Gathering Blue, based on the novel of the same name by Lois Lowry and turned into a drama by Eric Coble. I played the role of Jamison, a member of the Council of Guardians. This was the first play in which I wore a wig, so that was an interesting new thing to manage.

Left: the actress playing Kira; right: me