I’m kind of crazy about the holidays. I have multiple boxes full of costumes for all different holidays — other than just Halloween. I have light-up pins and springy headbands for the Fourth of July, sparkly shirts and reindeer ears for Christmas, clover-print shirts for St. Patrick’s Day, and egg earrings for Easter. Then, of course, are the Halloween costumes and trinkets.

May will be the last month of my high school career, and I can’t wait to finally graduate and go off to college at Washington University in St. Louis.

To me, my life has never been very exciting. All of it mostly consists of doing homework, hanging out with friends, playing chess, and sleeping.

When I entered my senior year, I found everything about classes to be basically the same except for one major difference: while I carried my backpack home with me every night, I never opened it.

For the last week or so, college admissions decisions have been pouring into my e-mail and mailbox. I won't go into any gory details, but suffice it to say that I neither got rejected from every school nor accepted to every school I applied to. I'm very happy with my acceptances, content but slightly disappointed at my wait-listings, and not overly crushed by my rejections.

We all applied to Uni High with the future in mind to some extent.

From the tender age of 12 or 13 we’ve all had college on the brain. After four years of challenging classes, strenuous homework loads, standardized tests, and hours devoted to extracurricular activities, the obvious step is to apply to a few elite colleges and hope for the best.

One of Uni's oh-so-many, adorably unique qualities is that high school students (subbies too) get to run around a college campus. We have off-campus lunch, and we can go anywhere during our free periods. So most Uni students have a good grasp of the general features of campus by the time we start our own college careers.

For the past hour and a half I've been overwhelmed by college. Why, you might ask? I'm just halfway through my junior year. I shouldn't be wanting to think about college right now. But one site makes the journey a little less stressful.

What’s on your iPod? On mine music mostly, and some pictures. Audio books? Not really. What’s the function of the iPod — something to relax with? Or is it an educational tool?