Well let’s see here. The last post was in March, and we completely skipped April. Poor April. We can’t live without you. If only you had the time and/or energy to make a blog post. We miss you so much, and you still live on in our hearts. So I suppose this will be a summation of April and of May so far. Hopefully since I won’t shouldn’t be so busy in the future I can update this more regularly. Ah, wishful thinking.

So, let’s begin where we left off on Oh well. I parted with a little blurb on my Eagle Scout project, and before the suspense kills you, everything was in before my 18th birthday (I guess that means happy birthday to me). So here’s how it went. I got the project approved, and went over to one of the adults in my troop. He has an infamous detached garage that was converted into a complete wood-working shop. We asked him if it was alright to use it for my project, and he said alright, but he had a limited timetable. Surprisingly we were able to get lots of people to help only 5 days before the event. Everything in terms of cutting wood and assembling went down smoothly. We had a second day to stain the boxes, and then my family and I finished them up. Spent a lot of time slacking on them since Polycrylic needs to dry, but they were delievered, I got the project signed off and turned in. The boxes were nice and so were the school kits, if I may say so myself. I was also able to finished off the last two merit badges I needed and once again turned in everything 2 days before my birthday. Exciting, no? As of the moment I’m waiting for my personal “Candidate Appraisal Forms” to be returned to the council so I can schedule a Board of Review, the last thing I need to do before becoming an Eagle Scout.

Also, another issue of similar importance: college. It appears that I have since made a decision about which school I will attend. In fact, if you’re reading this right now, I’m sure you already knew that I am going to RIT. Now, there’s a lot to this. Let’s start off by noticing how much I limited myself. I only applied to 5 colleges, RIT, UCI, Cal Poly SLO, UC Merced, and Kettering. I got into all but Cal Poly, largely because they are fail, and they probably think I am too good for them. Anyways, by limiting myself I knew that I would be able to make the decision-making process easier, but now I realize that I may have limited my opportunities. Blast. Anyways. RIT has a plethora of pros, and about two or three cons. Goodies: First Software Enginerring major (which is what I’m doing), co-op, a far away land, new facilites, chock full of nerds, dorms, unlimited seconds, same price as the second most expensive option, renowned, awesome, and generally cool. Bad: no girlfriend, plane trips are expensive, cold. The cold, no problem. Just because I’m a warm-blooded native Southern Californian doesn’t mean I can adapt from my climate. The cost of the plane? I doubt that the cost of gas will be any much cheaper driving to say, UC Irvine every day. So perhaps, it’s maybe a pro. And of course, my girl. We’ve managed to talk about it (over a period of weeks) and we are fine about keeping the same relationship we have now over the next 5 years. Of course, it won’t be easy, but in the end I think we’ll come out a lot stronger and a lot closer. So that’s that. Heading off to Rochester, and looking forward to it.