Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Ho Lai (and it came to pass)

I was watching a show pretty late last night, and at about 12:30 I had a feeling to check my email to see if BYU had sent me any thing, and they did. As soon as I saw the email was from them I had a sinking feeling in my gut. I followed their instructions, went to the site, logged in, and I saw the word "Denied" before anything else. It's really weird, cause I wasn't shocked at all, just hurt, upset, confused. I figured, if I work really hard, and do everything within my power, Heavenly Father will help me get into Yale, and if that doesn't work, then that means I was meant to go to BYU. The truth is, after the whole drama with ACTs and Yale, I already knew I wasn't meant to go to BYU, my instincts told me "no". But I figured I would wait and see what happened. And I was not surprised by the results.
So the plan for now? After talking to a trusted friend and sorting things out, I've decided to check out Taiwan teaching English. I know, I was just there three years ago, but I feel like I might have some unfinished business there. Plus I miss it so bad and I haven't been able to experience it as a normal human being and not a missionary.
Don't worry I have a back-up plan for Taiwan too. I'm thinking maybe Washington. I'll keep you posted.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How It All Went Down

Applying to Yale was to me the equivalent of a part time job on top of my real job, school, and all the other extra curricular activities I thought I could handle this semester. I had to bully a couple people and turn into a stocker to one of them, but I got everything properly submitted...except for my ACT scores. Since the ACT headquarters hadn't cashed my check in a month, I called to see what was up and if they were ever going to send my scores to Yale. Long story short, they can't. It turns out when I took the ACT test, it was a residual test which after a lot of phone calls I found out means that ACT and Weber State have some kind of contract (conspiracy) with each other stating that they will not share my test results with any other school, therefore making my application to Yale incomplete therefore, void. Needless to say, I was heartbroken. I pouted for a good week and a half, and am now refocused and scraping together backup plans in case my backup plan of BYU also falls through ( I should hear from them in the next couple of weeks).
My current train of thought is just to buy a one way ticket to somewhere (London, Taiwan, Hawaii) and see what happens. If there are any great ideas out there, shoot them my way.