Blogging at Airport -- Dental School

I'm opening up my blog. yep you probably didn't know I had one. Oh well.

I've been absent in updates. I have had DAT drama (which i did amazingly on) and other life drama :( going on.


I like blogging. When I get back from my trip I wanna blog about books, news and politics. I'm so excited. :)


Looking into Dental Schools, I can't stop thinking about prices. IU continues to look mighty good as far as cost goes, and I'm so afraid of loans, I don't want to live my adult life in debt, I would rather enjoy myself and travel. My only fear is that if I stay here for dental school, I might find a reason to stay in Indiana after I graduate.



Did you know USC is more expensive than Harvard? At least according to http://www.predents.com/. I would never go to Harvard, but that has me thinking even though i'm love with USC's program, maybe I should reconsider my options?? I want to eventually look into Columbia too..

Having a Baby

I'm sitting here watching "16 and Pregnant" sorry if the answer is apparent, then please forgive my ignorance: What's so freaking great about sex at 16, please man honestly? Sex at twenty-something has enough roller coaster emotions and screwy feelings connected to it already. What kind of masochistic teenage girl wants to go through that? Anyways I'm glad I knew I wasn't mature enough for sex in HS.. I don't know if I could’ve handled any consequences that would spur from it, I can’t today. My freshman year there was a girl who found out she was going to have a baby, and committed suicide. How horrible. Anyways, back to the show it’s so sad seeing how drastic these girls’ lives change. I really commend MTV on how they show some girls going though all this with the father in the picture, and some without, both of which I can’t imagine to be easy at all.

And what's up with the "Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family? Let me repeat ABCFAMILY. All this show talks about is sex!! On a family channel, what!? See, I blame the media for warping young girls minds. Warping them to think that as a 15 year old girl if you do get pregnant, it’s okay because you'll meet somebody who's not even the baby's father while you're carrying a baby and he’ll be so in love with you that he doesn’t care that the baby's not his and treat the baby like it’s his. Common, this rarely happens to adults, much less high school freshmen. Honestly I’m sure that most teenagers have enough since not to believe this, but there’s always that few…

britol palin..don't even get me started. I shall rant about the GOP later, lol

Again I continue to be impressed by somebody.

But like all things i'm walking on ice, there's always my luck or something that says. "Uh-oh, Traycee's about to be happy, let's stop this!"

I'm crossing my fingers though.

My 'Christmas' is in July

I don't like Christmas one bit, in fact that's the one day out of the year I allow myself to be a total Grinch. One day if/when I have a family, I hope there isn't a big emphasis on the holiday, I mean I don't see the harm in buying a few presents or whatever, and educating them why Christmas (along with other December holidays like Hanukkah and Kwanzaa) are celebrated. But if I have kids, in no way shape or form are they going to believe that stupid idiotic lie about the fat guy in the red. I came out fine..I mean sure some kids probably hated me in elementary school when I told them that Santa didn't exist. But I have a strong inkling that didn’t ruin their lives. If I did, then they have much bigger issues at hand.I'm not quite sure where my dislike for the Holiday lies, one think I can't stand about it is that its too commercial. And I really don't like Christmas muisc (except the sad ones "Little Christmas Tree"- Jackson 5, and "My Christmas Tree" - Diana Ross). I think the only good part about the day is seeing family members and eating good food. Um, I think that's why I think Thanksgiving rocks, all of the food, none that dreadful music.

My first and foremost favorite holiday shall be and always will be 4th of July. I LOVE fireworks. The sounds, colors, even the smell.. Even though its pretty equivalent to taking a dollar bill and lighting it on fire. Too bad this year I'll be in England. Maybe I'll stand outside of Buckingham Palace and scream the Start Spangled Banner, and yell at the guards (who really can't do anything) "HA HA PUNKS, 203 years of being free from you guys!!". The only problem I seen in that is that I'm not quite sure that being arrested internationally will look to good on my resume to dental schools. Definitely a total consideration though.

Brave New World

I’m writing this entry really really fast, so if I don’t make since.. deal with it. Lol. It’s for me anyways, not you. Haha.

I love reading! It's my passion next to playing the piano. I have an active imagination that seems to only be fed by fiction. My favorite book of all time since High School is Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. I was one of those nerds in high school who actually liked the assigned books, with the exception of some of that Brit Lit written in old English (Like La Morte D'Aurthur and Beowulf). I would however like to give the Canterbury Tales a second chance.

Anyways I've read Brave New World so many times and marked it up so that my original copy literally disintegrated a few months ago. I’m rather in love with the subject of genetic engineering, a big part of the book. And it’s also really cool to see how Huxley wrote this book in the early 1930s, yet some of this stuff is actually not only starting to happen, but actually starting to become socially acceptable. For example in the book, it is highly encouraged from a very young age to experiment sexually with peers, any emotional attachment, monogamy, relationship totally is unheard of. (Crazy, right). Not just sexual relationships either, in fact the idea of families, love, and passion for each other is simply unheard of as well. I can’t help but notice that slowly occurring in our currently everyday lives as families spend less and less time together, mom and dad split up, get remarried and you have all these new different tangles and knots in your family tree. Who belongs to whom, and to what extent? And people develop more of’ relationship’ if you would call it to their technology than with actual other physical human beings. What’s even cooler to see transcend from the book into today is growing populatirity of the ‘hook-up culture’ starting to make it permissible for umm, how do you say it ‘friends with benefits’ and one-night-stands. Interesting? To me, yes

The book also deals with totalitarianism, collectivism, and surprisingly the idea of happiness hmmm…

Anyways here’s my new favorite quote from the book. I’m not going give any contextual information, on purpose, think about what it means to you!

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesquesness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”