Pre-Thanksgiving mail

Sheesh! I leave the blog alone for a bit over a week and I have another folderful of mail!

The most recent was an Air Force ROTC brochure that I got yesterday. "If you think waiting tables to pay for college is difficult, what do you think about waiting tables after you graduate?" Nice. But no.

Got a postcard from a college near our winter vacation spot... a brochure from Antioch (it opens up into a poster?? Why?? And I don't think I'll go to Yellow Springs, OH for college... very involved in the occult.)... a bunch of scholarship info from Ithaca... an oversized brochure from Smith (women's college)... some more scholarship info, but this time from Patrick Henry... and, of course, the obligatory mail from colleges I saw at a college fair.

How in the WORLD did I get on so many NY colleges' mailing lists? (Other than the College Board stuff... that doesn't explain the disproportionate number from that state...)

Anyhow... I shall be mailing two applications this week... because, if I do, I don't have to pay the application fees. *grins*

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Opening the mail

I must now confess: notwithstanding the extensive practice I have had, I am still terrible at opening envelopes. Now, this doesn't seem to be a very remarkable defect, but when I cannot open an envelope without tearing it in half (or at least taking a good chunk off the stamp's corner), I say to myself... "why can't you just open an envelope like a normal person?"

On to the contents of these envelopes. I received another letter from Princeton today, saying that "the University prizes intellectual curiosity, creativity, and independent thinking." Very nice. They also have a professor there named Peter Singer. And they're on the coast. So I still say no.

Stony Brook also sent me a big brochure (big as in oversized - as thickness goes, it's only a fold-over thing) with another letter. And I got a very large postcard from a college in Michigan that I'm considering attending proclaiming its website.

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Mea culpa!

(And if there's a college named that, I did NOT get mail from it!)

Well, the last few weeks have been busy... so busy, in fact, that I scarce had time to get online, much less update any blogs... so I'll give you all (whoever reads this!) a rundown of the mail collected in my yellow folder since I last updated. At least, what I didn't lose; I may have overlooked one or two letters.

Just Friday I got a letter from Emery-Riddle Aeronautical University; never heard of 'em. Got a letter from West Point the day before! And the reply card was rather funny, in a weird sense: it states that the "public reporting burden for this collection of information" (which amounts to my name, address, and year of graduation!) "is estimated to average 5 minutes per response...." and goes on to tell you all the sort of legal disclaimers you find on a passport application!

Got a whole package from Indiana Wesleyan U.... a postcard from Tri-State U.... a note from Malone.... another letter from IWU.... a viewbook from Patrick Henry College.... a very large brochure from Ithaca College.... a small booklet from U. at Buffalo (why do I get so many letters from New York colleges???).... a letter about the honors program at U. of Michigan...

But I must digress. My neighbors (one little boy in particular!) would kill me if I went to Michigan. Remember, this is OHIO COUNTRY.

To return. I also got a note from Cedarville.... a large viewbook from Ohio State U.... a viewbook from Scripp (a women's college in California; I believe I recorded another letter from them earlier).... and a bit of a letter from Marietta College.

Thus I return for a short time; I may again next week, or next month. I cannot tell.

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