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I actually meant to post a lot of pictures today. From all the fun in California, and on the Strip, and generally just from around the house. I also wanted to talk about how my sister is making my a tiny Chimaki out of clay for me. I'm going to put it on a keychain and carry it literally everywhere with me.

I was super enthusiastic about today, because I finally enrolled for my classes for this semester, and I've been planning to go on a trip to Japan for the Fall semester of 2014, to complete a ~SURPRISE~ double-major in Japanese, before I went to UNLV for the Microbiology junk. I thought I was all on track, and that next Semester I'd be taking English and so on.

Everyone already knows the kind of high school I went to, and though I adore the place and it changed my life and introduced me to almost everyone I know and love today, they can be kind of retarded sometimes. Like in a weird way. I was never told about SAT or ACT tests. My graduating class had literally never gotten an opportunity to take them, because we had no clue what they were. No-one explained them to us. There were none held at the school. I found out that they were testing at a high school across town, and that all of the seniors that still hadn't taken them were sent there so that they could complete them. But not us, for whatever reason. I don't want to give EKA all the blame, because my problems are partially due to my bad planning, but that little thing, not taking my SAT or ACT tests, is the central issue here.

Up until now I've taken classes that don't require English as a prerequisite, because I don't know how to take SAT or ACT stuff now, when I graduated in 2010. I guess that I can take a placement test to go into English and math. So today I found out that my political science class, along with all of the other histories, require English as a prerequisite. If I could've taken it, along with the anthropology class I have, I would be halfway to completing my associates, save for the English and literature classes. But, since I have to take a placement test now, and can't get into a class until next semester, I've pretty much been set back a year.

English 101 will be in the spring of next year for me, and I don't take anything less than being in that, along with the mandatory Japanese, and Biology, and Chemistry. What's funny about that is that usually Chemistry is something you take in high school, to get a basic handle on it at least. Yeah. None of that at EKA. I don't even know what the hell chemistry actually is, and I have to take a test to get into it. So, after I do that, I have two short summer semesters to try and poop out my other Englishes and get up to Calculus, and then the fall of that year and spring of next year to do two physics classes, two more (really hard) biologies, my final year of Japanese, a political science class unless they offer it over the summer, and... whatever else there is. Calculus. A literature class unless they offer it during the summer.

It's going to be really hard. Like, I know for a fact that the physics and biology classes get really stupid hard near the end. And I'm pissed, at my high school for not offering the tests I need, and at myself, for not thinking that I should have taken a test earlier, or just not planning it right, or something. I have to suffer the consequences, though, because the last thing I want to end up like is my sister's boyfriend, who doesn't even have a two-year degree and just turned 23. I refuse to not have an associates by the Fall of 2014. I really want to go to UNLV, and I really want to be an orthodontist before I turn 30. I know that's a really far-of goal, and that dental school is tough and competitive, but that's part of the appeal to me. I just don't want to fall too far behind. And now I wish I had done things differently, and I'm probably freaking out about this too much, but I'll probably wish that I'd done things some other way for years and years.

I'll shut up about this now though, since I am just making myself freak out about it, and I'll go back to getting my pictures ready to post sometime in the near future. At least, I can say that I'm thankful that I'm able to go to college at all, and when it comes down to it, I'm not giving up, and I'll tough it out and get my degrees no matter what. I want to put braces on people.

No lame-ass English class is gonna stop me from putting braces on people.