College...

Starting this week, I will begin my college essay. Even though I have no idea what I am going to write about, I am looking forward to getting it over with. My parents hired a college planner, that will help me with applying to different colleges, will take me on visits to colleges, and, most importantly, will make sure that my essay is as strong as possible. I am not very good at putting my own thoughts on paper, especially thoughts that have to reflect myself. As for what I want to go to college for, I am trying to decide between pharmacy school, or medical school. Both are very good fields to go in, or so I have heard, but both are very competitive to get in. UK has a very good pharmacy school, but only a hundred get in out of a thousand applicants. As for out of state schools, I am very conflicted. I don't know if I want to go 5-6 hours away from home during first couple years of college, even though uuniversities like Butler and Mercer have great pharmacy schools. But, the benefits of going to Butler and Mercer are almost too good to pass up. At both of those universities, I would automatically get into there pharmacy programs and not have to worry about not getting in. But, I am still not certain where or why I want to go.

Blog #1

A couple of years ago, a new TV show came on HBO called A Game of Thrones. I had seen a couple of commercials for it, but wasn't too interested in it. But, a night that I was scrolling through the channels, nothing good seemed to be on, but I saw on HBO that the pilot episode of A Game of Thrones was on. I watched the first episode, which actually caught my attention really well. After that first episode, I set my dvr to record all the remaining episodes of the season. After I watched a few episodes, I got very invested into the story and all of the characters, and looked it up online to see who a couple of the actors were. Since I like to read, I was ecstatic to find out that A Game of Thrones was actually the first book in a book series named A Song of Ice and Fire. I immediately went and picked up the first couple of books, and dug in. These books were probably the longest books I had ever read, and all of my friends thought I was  crazy for actually wanting to read that much without it being required by school. I read the first book in about 2 weeks and the second in about the same amount of time. The series quickly became my favorite, and I actually got to meet the author, George R.R. Martin, when he came to Lexington for a book signing on the day the 5th and latest of the series was released.