Scariest Thought in a High School Student's Mind: COLLEGE

Ever since I started this blog, all my friends have decided to make blogs too. Ha...started a trend I suppose. Well, today starts tech week for the play I'm in. For those of my readers who do not know what tech week is, tech week is the week right before the show when you're at the theatre pretty much every spare second you have doing run-throughs and dress rehearsals.

I must say that Tech Rehearsals are the worst. Tech rehearsals are the rehearsals mainly for the tech crew. They do lighting, curtains, set pieces, all that jazz, and the actors only show up those days to be the techies' actor dummies. The tech crew and directors move the actors around on stage to see what lighting best fits the scene. Lovely.

I do enjoy theatre quite a lot however. Being able to slip into the mind, personality, and attire of a completely different person for a little bit is exciting. You get to express emotions and react to certain things differently than you might react, yourself. Some of my goals in life are the following: to play Mrs. Lovett in a stage production of Sweeny Todd, direct a show, write, star in, and direct a show, stage manage for a show, direct a movie, star in a moive, write a movie, and so many other things. Acting is a major part of my life thus far. I have a feeling it will always be a passion I have. I hope i get to accompish some, if not (and probably not) all of my goals.

I've recently begun to seriously think about college. Where to go, how to prepare, the ACT, SAT, etc...the college that both of my parents went to has an excellent theatre program as well as a top-knotch psych program which are the two areas in which I'd be most interested. Plus, i'd get to be a legend in my mom's sorority. That's odd to think about...I never pictured myself as a sorority girl...but I'm almost exactly like my mother and she was president two (basically three) years running. I guess I should give it a try. Sounds like fun...except the idea of pledging scares me half to death. You watch movies like Sydney White (which actually wasn't awful) and that movie with hilary swank where the head haunchos of the sorority plegde and judge the girls so hard that one of them dies trying to complete a task, and it makes one wonder if the pain of pledging is even worth it.

College, I'm sure, will be fun...It's probably the planning and the first month or so that's the hardest and scariest. Most of my friend's haven't even thought about it yet...but then I sit back and I think to myself, "college is two years away...that's not that far from now..." and thats when the sweaty palms, fidgiting, and hyperventilating comes into play...

I do know one thing however...I do not want to stay in my hometown for college...uh uh. Nope. Last, very last, option. If I have to stay here for college...God help me and whoever gets on my list. JUST KIDDING! If I have to stay here for college, I suppose it won't be the end of the world or the end of my sanity. But probably pretty close.