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		<title>my face is breaking out majorly</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/11/18/my-face-is-breaking-out-majorly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[well i&#8217;ve never had the perfect clear skin and I&#8217;ve always had mild acne, but my acne seems soo bad right now! Probably because I am stressing over school and my life! lol it suckss and its soo embarassing because like my whole senior class has flawless skin&#8230;boo. I would kill to have perfecto skin! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well i&#8217;ve never had the perfect clear skin and I&#8217;ve always had mild acne, but my acne seems soo bad right now! Probably because I am stressing over school and my life! lol it suckss and its soo embarassing because like my whole senior class has flawless skin&#8230;boo. I would kill to have perfecto skin! anywho, nothing exciting or new has happened lately. I went up to a college in chicago and I loved it! except its $40,000 a year <img src='http://confabulate.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> I don&#8217;t know about this whole college thing, way too expensive and I always hear on the news about how the economy sucks and a lot of people can&#8217;t afford to pay for college anymore. I know there are loans and whatnot but I heard a lot of students aren&#8217;t even getting any because of the economy. Plus i&#8217;ll be paying them off all my life anyways. We&#8217;ll see though. I&#8217;ve applied to a couple universities and I will submit the FAFSA later on and see how much financial aid each college offers me. If that is still too expensive, I might just go to my local community college, which I have no problem with since I already have a backup plan there. I am trying to get my D in physics up to an A&#8230;Probably impossible but I&#8217;m going to try. Our thanksgiving break is soon! I&#8217;m excited but not really? I have a huge spanish project to do. it sucks. and yup thats pretty much it so far. I&#8217;ll try and keep this thing updated! lol</p>
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		<title>november</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/11/03/november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe its already november! sorry i haven&#8217;t updated in a few weeks. i&#8217;ve just been lazy now since my crazy busy life is kinda slowing down. Cross country is officially over for us. No one from our school made it to state, which is depressing. I&#8217;m just glad that season is over though, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe its already november! sorry i haven&#8217;t updated in a few weeks. i&#8217;ve just been lazy now since my crazy busy life is kinda slowing down. Cross country is officially over for us. No one from our school made it to state, which is depressing. I&#8217;m just glad that season is over though, because that is one less thing off my shoulders. I&#8217;m still worrying about college stuff. I really want to go to a private university, but I don&#8217;t want to take the million theology classes. I am not a religious person at all and it would seem very out of place for me to learn about a different religion ya kno? I dunno maybe i&#8217;m weird like that. Well i get like a week or two off and then I have to start back up for winter training for track.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I get out of school 4th hour to go to a lunch thingy! I got selected by some optimist club/organization to attend. My counsler said it was a pretty big honor since they only pick 2 people from each school. I was excited because I never get any awards or anything. She called me in today and asked what she should say about me and asked what things I were involved in. I felt stupid because I&#8217;m not involved in that much stuff. Like I don&#8217;t do community service everyday of my life and what not. Which is why i found it surprising I was chosen. so that should be coool. But we don&#8217;t even miss that much of school, we come back for our last hour. boo. But that is good because I have physics and don&#8217;t want to miss anything!</p>
<p>I need to go read for american novel, so I will write soon!</p>
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		<title>extreme makeover home edition!</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/23/extreme-makeover-home-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[soo exciting news! this family in our town actually got chosen to do the extreme makeover home edition! Jake Grys is a cute little kid that has brittle bone syndrome and he&#8217;s awesome! Our school is affiliated with easter seals and we raise money for them every year that goes towards their program. Anywho its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>soo exciting news! this family in our town actually got chosen to do the extreme makeover home edition! Jake Grys is a cute little kid that has brittle bone syndrome and he&#8217;s awesome! Our school is affiliated with easter seals and we raise money for them every year that goes towards their program. Anywho its pretty weird to know that they are filming the actual show in our town! Its been chaotic. I just got done making the flyer to post around town about raising money. We want to raise enough money to pay off the mortgage for the house which someone told me was $130,000. They want us to do it by next tuesday! Thats a pretty HUGE amount of money to raise in such little time. The reason for the time crunch is that if we do it, then we will be on national news and stuff! I was trying to convince my mom to set out a donation bucket at her work, but she said people are too cheap and stuck up to donate. Because they don&#8217;t have money themselves. I can never convice my mom with donating anything because she is too cheap..grrr</p>
<p>Well they started the demolishion on the house today. I wish I coulda been there but I saw pics in our newspaper! lol the family was sent to disney land =p It probably won&#8217;t be on TV until like next year or so. Its going to be fun to watch it and know that it was in our town! haha</p>
<p>heres an article if anyone wants to read up on the family! http://designbuilthomesextreme.com/family.htm</p>
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		<title>feeling like crap.</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/22/feeling-like-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately i&#8217;ve been stressed out to the max. Whats new? I don&#8217;t know, I just feel so overwhelmed right now. Like I have so many things to do, I don&#8217;t even know where to start. School work sucks because my mind is never focused on it. My physical and emotional health is suffering from lack [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lately i&#8217;ve been stressed out to the max. Whats new? I don&#8217;t know, I just feel so overwhelmed right now. Like I have so many things to do, I don&#8217;t even know where to start. School work sucks because my mind is never focused on it. My physical and emotional health is suffering from lack of sleep and no energy. Cross country is stressing me out because i&#8217;m injured right now, but I&#8217;m hurting myself even more to run because we have 3 weeks left. College stuff is worrying me. I have to decide where I want to go for the next 4 years of my life. I&#8217;m not 100% sure what I want to major in. I don&#8217;t know if I can afford it, so I dont know how I will pay for college. I don&#8217;t know if I want to run in college. I&#8217;m trying to get involved in school because I haven&#8217;t been involved in many school extra currics. I&#8217;m trying to get all A&#8217;s to keep my top 10% rank. I&#8217;m trying to volunteer whenever I have time. I&#8217;m trying not to kill myself with stress. I&#8217;m trying to put up with immature and ignorant people I encounter everyday. I&#8217;m trying to avoid fights with my parents. I&#8217;m trying to do EVERYTHING because there is SO much to do!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been noticing its been getting worse lately. I&#8217;ve seriously been neglecting my homework. I got a 13/40 on my physics (which is like a 30%) because I didn&#8217;t do it. I slept seriously the whole night. From 7-7 in the morning. I tried to do as much as I could in school, but I didn&#8217;t finish it, so now I have an F in physics. I&#8217;m not going to lie though, it&#8217;s not the fact that I am so busy doing things. I made a personal choice not to do it, because I needed sleep. I&#8217;m not saying that I never have time to do anything. I think I have plenty of time to do my homework in the evenings. However, I just can&#8217;t get myself to do it. I spend 9 hours in school. Sitting there listening to my teachers lecture, do assignments, tests, etc. As if I haven&#8217;t already wasted all my life in school, I do not want to go home and work on some more school work! Seriously, my brain needs time to relax and I can&#8217;t constantly be doing school work every waking moment of my day. I need a break. I look at my home as a place to unwind and relax. After a long day of school and practice the last thing I want to do is repeat everything again at my house. I watch tv, lounge around, eat, take a shower, and just chill when I get home. I don&#8217;t go straight to working on my homework because I can&#8217;t physically get myself to do it. *sigh* what am I going to do&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>2nd team&#8230;again</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/17/2nd-teamagain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[so today was our conference meet and I dont really know what to say about it. I&#8217;m mad but i&#8217;m not? I got 16th so I got second team conference..again. Like I always do. The cut off for second team was 18, so I was glad that I at least GOT second team all conference. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so today was our conference meet and I dont really know what to say about it. I&#8217;m mad but i&#8217;m not? I got 16th so I got second team conference..again. Like I always do. The cut off for second team was 18, so I was glad that I at least GOT second team all conference. I almost missed it. Anywho, I ran 16:28, which is not my best. I hate the course though because its so flat and open. Well our FRESHMAN got 6th and ran like 16:02. He did amazing, and I was jealous. I&#8217;m not going to lie but I was pretty mad about that. As selfish as that may sound, but I have always been like the runner who never got any of the attention and was always outshined by others. This year was my chance to actually stand out and be our best runner. I mean the whole school knows me as &#8220;the runner&#8221; and that I am good. But now that a FRESHMAN got first team all conference and I got second team, that makes me lose my rep. It sucks. We have a winter sports assembly in like a month or two and they announce all the conference winners and such in front of the whole school. So I&#8217;m going to feel extremely stupid that I got second team all conference and a freshman got first team. Grr he&#8217;s really good though. I mean REALLY good for a freshman, so he should be amazing his senior year. It just stinks that I can&#8217;t ever be the one in the spotlight. I tried my hardest and as best I could, so I know there was nothing that I could change. Regionals are next week. I WILL be pissed if he makes it out onto sectionals and I don&#8217;t..so yeah hopefully I will place good enough to advance. Wish me luck!</p>
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		<title>people need to grow up</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/11/people-need-to-grow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[so today we had a cross country meet and I did really good! I was so proud of myself woo I ran 16:15ish and got 23rd place out of a million. That was my best time everrrr in my wholeeee life! haha so I was super excited. I&#8217;m scared for next week though, because its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so today we had a cross country meet and I did really good! I was so proud of myself woo I ran 16:15ish and got 23rd place out of a million. That was my best time everrrr in my wholeeee life! haha so I was super excited. I&#8217;m scared for next week though, because its our conference! and I want to make first team soo bad but thats the top 9 people. I dont know if I am that fast <img src='http://confabulate.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> maybe if I could drop down to a 16:00 I would have a chance! but anywho that is the good news for the day.</p>
<p>As you can see by my title I am bothered by some other problems. I am starting to dislike people in general and I dont know why? I feel like I am hanging around toxic people too much and it is getting to me.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Who are the severely toxic people?</strong><br />
They are the ones who complain all the time. They are the ones who always blame you. They may always turn things around so things you felt they had done wrong are suddenly your fault. They overreact to bad events.<br />
They drain your energy. It may be that they get you to spend a lot of time and emotional strength trying to cheer them up. They may bombard you with their negativity so that you have to spend energy trying to fend it off. Perhaps their constant pessimism infects you, or they always make you angry. They may be leeches who feed themselves by making you give them your positivity.</p></blockquote>
<p>My friends aren&#8217;t my friends they irritate me more than anything. For example, we have a new psychology teacher and I think shes awesome. She&#8217;s is the happiest person you will ever meet, and is always smiling. My whole class HATES her for being so happy and energetic everyday, and they always crack jokes about her. I really don&#8217;t understand how someone being happy makes you hate them? It makes me happy and smile when I see her because she makes me laugh and puts off a good vibe, but my whole class hates her and I am the only one that likes her. People are just immature. Honestly we are adults now, so try acting like one? This kid on my team has like the most negative attitude and is just rude. He puts me in a bad mood cuz he always comments on everything I do. and is like &#8220;ugh dude thats stupid&#8221;, &#8220;your mom&#8221;, &#8220;this sucks&#8221; and curses every other word. I don&#8217;t even talk to my friends anymore because they just irritate me and don&#8217;t care about anything. For example, one of my friends totally ignores me when she is around other people. I don&#8217;t think she talked to me at all today in the whole 6 hours the team spent together. When we get back some of her other friends were outside and shes all like &#8220;hey we are going to a haunted house tonight, you should come!&#8221; and I was just thinking umm thanks for asking me once again? OH and another thing, she told me that I was taking her home and that we had to stop by her friends house to get stuff, so I was waiting for her to get done talking so we could leave. and then she was like &#8220;um your not taking me home, kyle is&#8221; and I was like what the fuck? are you serious right now? You JUST told me I was taking you home, and I was waiting for like 10 minutes when I could have left and she says shes riding with her ex. Shes stupid. Seriously, I hate her sometimes. and shes always wants to be the center of attention and she wants everyone to recognize her. When I do homework and help her, she gets a good grade and doesnt even say thanks. When I ask her to help ME, she says no and to do it myself. When I give her advice about things she would never know about, she just takes it and uses it to her advantage. When I ask her for advice about something shes done, she beats around the bushes and never tells me anything because she wants to be on top. I hate that. I&#8217;m never going to help her with anything again. She takes advantage of me sometimes, and what kind of friend does that? A selfish one.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m ready for college. I am hoping that there are people who act like adults. High school is stupid and filled with fakes. People pretending to be something that they aren&#8217;t. Cliques and favoring people. Sucking up to climb the social ladder. being used and ditched. sounds fun huh? The reality is, when you go off to college, you won&#8217;t see those &#8220;friends&#8221; again so why bother? Why bother to try so hard to please them, when they don&#8217;t care about you at all. I just want to meet someone in my life that is genuinely a good friend.</p>
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		<title>sick soon?</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/05/sick-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AHHH oomgsh I think im starting to get sick!  I can feel it already. I&#8217;ve been cold this whole week because of the weather shift. It went from being hot to super cold and I wasn&#8217;t used to it. Plus we were out of water at my house for like 3 days and I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AHHH oomgsh I think im starting to get sick! <img src='http://confabulate.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> I can feel it already. I&#8217;ve been cold this whole week because of the weather shift. It went from being hot to super cold and I wasn&#8217;t used to it. Plus we were out of water at my house for like 3 days and I didn&#8217;t drink any. So that probably wasn&#8217;t good since I couldnt flush all the bad stuff out of my body. and I&#8217;ve been running in this cold weather has been hurting my throat. I also haven&#8217;t been taking my vitamin C stuff, so that makes me very vunerable to germs right now! I just got out of the shower and I was seriously taking a boiling hot shower because I couldn&#8217;t feel anything. Im going to try to load up on some vitamin C and be extra hygenic now hopefully to stop a sickness from coming on! I&#8217;m going to make some tea and hopefully that will make me feel better&#8230;This is a bad time for me to get sick! aHh</p>
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		<title>whats neww</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/10/03/whats-neww/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dont really have anything exciting to share lol but I guess im a LITTLE less stressed out right now. I&#8217;m just glad its the weekend! Me and my friend kirsten went to take pictures downtown today for photography. It was fun. The assignment was to take pictures of architecture. I didn&#8217;t know what exactly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dont really have anything exciting to share lol but I guess im a LITTLE less stressed out right now. I&#8217;m just glad its the weekend! Me and my friend kirsten went to take pictures downtown today for photography. It was fun. The assignment was to take pictures of architecture. I didn&#8217;t know what exactly classifies architecture, so I took pictures of a bunch of stuff that probably isn&#8217;t! lol oh well. Oh and she kirsten got stopped by a policeman because they thought she was a terrorist or something? haha i dunno I wasnt there with her cuz I was taking pictures on the other side of the building. But he said that that was were the terrorist hangout was and she looked suspicious. haha</p>
<p>So everyone has been getting acceptance letters to their colleges already and I feel left out cuz I haven&#8217;t applied anywhere yet! Why? Because 1) I&#8217;m probably going to a local community college and transfering 2) not many colleges have a major in radiology. so Its not really my fault. I really do just want to apply somewhere randomly and see if I get accepted because that would make me feel better! haha</p>
<p>I&#8217;m having second thoughts about that btw. Not sure if I really want to do it after my observation. Not that I dont want to, but I don&#8217;t think I would physically be able to. Like lift the patients off their beds and transfer them to their table and all that stuff. So that makes everything more confusing. I&#8217;m not sure if I want to do it 100%. Although I did tell people I was 99% sure I wanted to do it before my observation, and before I didn&#8217;t really know what they did. hmm</p>
<p>Tomorrow we have a meet in Jacksonville, IL. Its a flighted meet and I&#8217;m the second runner. That means I will run against all the other teams second runners. Hopefully I will do good! Last year, we got a perfect score but since we lost all our good seniors last year, that probably won&#8217;t happen. My shin has been hurting lately which is not good. I get shin splints every year so its pretty much unavoidable. I dont know what Im going to do cuz I can&#8217;t take time off. All our bigs meets are coming and conference. AhhH that worries me. I need to get better.</p>
<p>I have to tape my spanish dialogue on sunday! ahh its going to be horrible. My partner is  EXTREMELY quiet. She never ever ever talks to anyone. I think i&#8217;ve heard her speak like 10 words in her whole life. So our dialogue is SUPPOSED to be funny, but I think she will kill it. Shes very monotone when she talks and doesn&#8217;t show emotion so i&#8217;m not sure how that will work out. Plus I have no clue who is going to tape us since we both need to be in it. That could be a problem. This weekend will go buy fast, I know it already. Tomorrow i&#8217;m going to be gone all day. Literally. I wont be home till about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Then I have saturday night which I will most likely sleep since I will be pooped. Sunday is our dialogue which I will be working on all day. Then I have to do my tonsss of homework. boo</p>
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		<title>radiographer observation!</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/09/25/radiographer-observation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[so yesterday I did my 4 hours of medical observation at the hospital! I was obeserving the radiologic techs which is what I wanted to do. It was pretty awesome. I was in fluoroscopy forever cuz nothing else was really going on. Some lady got her tubes tied, and I couldn&#8217;t go in there since [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so yesterday I did my 4 hours of medical observation at the hospital! I was obeserving the radiologic techs which is what I wanted to do. It was pretty awesome. I was in fluoroscopy forever cuz nothing else was really going on. Some lady got her tubes tied, and I couldn&#8217;t go in there since I was a guy. An elderly woman had dysphasia and I got to watch them do tests on her. The gave people barium of mixed with different consistencies and on the x-ray screen you could see the liquid traveling down the esophagus and into the stomach. Then they had them roll around to coat the stomach and you could watch it travel through the small intestines and stuff. It was really cool. Then I saw some lady that had gastric bypass surgery and they wanted to see if her stomach was ok. She was screaming of pain the whole time I felt bad&#8230;anywho they gave her the barium and on the screen you could see that it was all staying in stomach and wasn&#8217;t moving into the intestines so something was wrong. Then a saw a baby get a &#8220;cookie&#8221; which is like a test to examine whats wrong with the esophagus or something? I dont remember lol but the baby was gagging and throwing up a lot so thats why they brought him in. They made the baby drink different consistencies of things and watched on the screen as it traveled down and for some of the liquid would leak into the trachea. and then I saw a bunch of other stuff too since I was in there the forever, basically the same things. Then I went down to like the regular x-ray room for second where they do stuff for like hands and chests and stuff. Then I went down to the ER. There was a little blood because people just got surgery and stuff but it wasn&#8217;t major. The hospital I went to was trauma II which means they don&#8217;t deal with the major gory accidents, so that was good. Overall my whole experience was really helpful. It changed my outlook about the job as well. It was definately a lot more work than I expected. I didn&#8217;t realize you had to do the things they did. I know that you have to have a high tolerance level for this job. For example, this elderly woman could not move onto the table. So the tech was trying to tell her to lie down and she couldn&#8217;t hear anyone that well at all. She was not cooperating or following directions when trying to take the actual x-rays. They had to spend like 30 mins trying to x-ray her foot because she kept moving. I would have lost my cool because of frustration, but you have to stay nice and calm and all that stuff! Thats the one thing that I can see myself struggling with is the elderly patients. The students I talked to were really cool and funny. They were telling me about how the doctors are all douches. Which i could see. This tall skinny indian doctor walked around with a cocky attitude. With his lips like purposely puffed out as if he was going to kiss someone and talked in a very monotone voice when talking to others like he was too good. it was pretty lame. I probably couldn&#8217;t deal with that either. I&#8217;d get pissed at doctors and probably punch them since almost all think they are superior than you. hmm I dunno. I liked seeing everything, but I now know that it is not as easy as I thought it would be.Hopefully I can still do it!</p>
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		<title>why do people have to be so smart and overachievers?!</title>
		<link>http://confabulate.org/2008/09/20/why-do-people-have-to-be-so-smart-and-overachievers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ughhhhhh so I want to apply to some universities in my state. Specifically Northwestern and University of Chicago. Has anyone been to the college confidential forums? Well I was looking at the subforums for these schools and these people have amazinggggg profiles. Like 30 on the ACT, a millions extra curriculars, a million volunteer hours, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ughhhhhh so I want to apply to some universities in my state. Specifically Northwestern and University of Chicago. Has anyone been to the <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/">college confidential forums</a>? Well I was looking at the subforums for these schools and these people have amazinggggg profiles. Like 30 on the ACT, a millions extra curriculars, a million volunteer hours, top 5% of the class, 3.99, etc. and people are just like &#8220;ehh thats not good enough to get in&#8221; and i&#8217;m like WTF, if THAT isn&#8217;t good enough to get in, what is?! I was thinking about applying but I do not even compare to these people that want to get in. I would say i&#8217;m average, and I would prefer not to share my details because they aren&#8217;t spectular lol. sheesh. This sucks. I dont know where I want to go to college now. I&#8217;m thinking I will just go to community college and transfer to some average school. As much as I would love to attend a top school, I probably have a 1% chance of getting accepted. <img src='http://confabulate.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> what to doo, i&#8217;m too stressed. This weekend is going by too fast too. I slept all day and I have lots of homework to do. I&#8217;m trying to write some essays for the colleges I was going to apply to..but im too lazy</p>
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