Hooray! Oora! Yipee! Mom called John Hopkins this morning and asked where was my application in the process (it was sent in late) and they checked and I’m in!

Before you get the wrong idea and start thinking ‘wait, isn’t this kid 15?’ I should explain. Last summer and the summer before (and now this summer too!) I went to a camp for smart brats, called CTY (Center for Talented Youth). CTY is part of iaay (institute for the academic advancement of youth. JHU has a lot of institutes. They probably have an Ear Wax Institiute for Important Research (that’d be EWIIR, pronounced eww-ier. Now I’m just being silly.)) and is run by JHU. The part of the program I participate in in 3 week classes in the summer, at one of several colleges. I go to Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Penn which is the biggest and best site. It’s also a tree preserve and there are a lot of squirrels. (Did that make sense? I hope so!)

This summer I’ll be going to both sessions, and taking Math Sequence and Writing 2B: Writing and Society. I’ll see all my smart brat friends, many of whom I email daily. I’ll go to the dances, sing along to American Pie and freak out first-years and normal friends at home by lamenting that the boxer dance has died.

I felt terrible sick during 6th hour today and it was snowing on Wednesday but I’ll be spending the summer where there’s lightning bugs (they’re quite scarce in Alaska) so it’s all okay.