i will be your accident

discovering the school of your dreams and knowing that there's very little chance that you wont get in is such a good feeling.

this school in santa fe and annapolis that i've been looking at and talking to my friend sally about is so interesting. there's a set curriculum, you basically don't have any choices when it comes to picking classes, there aren't really any classes at all, or proffesors. instead they have tutorials and tutors. their whole system is based on reading, writing and thinking about the great works of the western cannon. euclid, plato, marx, locke, einstein, those are your professors, and you learn by studying their works firsthand. there are no textbooks, no lectures. you take four years of seminar, which is the main discussion group pertaining to the literature you read, three years of laboratory science tutorial, in which you read first hand accounts of experiments and then duplicate them whenever possible, four years of math tutorial, in which you start by reading euclid and move on progressively through algebra all the way up to calculus and non-euclidean geometry, four years of language tutorial, two of which are greek and two of which are french, and then one year of music tutorial, which is basically a music theory class.

if i got in to st. john's and harvard, i don't know which one i would choose, even though statistically speaking st john's is in my "safety school" range.
essentially finding this school has taken most of the pressures of the college process off of me, because i know i can get in there and if it's the only school i get into, i will be perfectly blissful.

so that's awesome. in other news i am addicted to cryptograms. and i get my own room in one week!