OLO ma beans!! Here is a quick change of scenery, I am going to quickly switch to a new blog called Pink Enclosure where I share my photography trips, sketches, and a lot of other things similar to that of this blog. I will continue to upload on this blog occasionally. I´m trying to transfer my content on here on to the other blog because I want to create high quality content and share my life from a new platform as I get closer to going to college. This blog will forever be active and going at all times. Until next time, stay cool ma beans.
OLO MA BEANS!! Guess why yo girl is hyped... She just finished all of her college applications and so she has a few experiences to share with all of you youngsters out there. I am pretty proud of how I did not procrastinate and happy with the application process, so let's get started...
- Start Early: This is what you probably hear every time you ask a Senior about college apps. I started all my apps in June when the prompts came out. Even then, I ended up turning in the weekend before apps were due. Give yourself plenty of time to edit. The system might crash if you procrastinate. Apparently this year two days before UC apps were due, the system crashed.
- Talk to a Professional about Your Essays: Find a college counselor. I know that not everyone can afford someone like this and that these college counselors might be a bit pricey but from my experience first I did not have to pay for a college counselor (I will link the post later) and he was the one who helped me the most. Here is why I recommend one: first, they do this for a living, so they probably know what they are doing. Second, it's another person to look at your essays and help you edit.
- Find a few people who have gone through the college application process to help you edit essays. They have already been through the process, so they have some idea on what college want. In addition, since they are already in college, they have more experience with writing essays.
- Check your application twice before turning it in. I learned this the hard way, as I forgot to change one of my courses. The thing is I did not know that my second semester history class is another class until after I turned in my apps, so I have to call both Common App and UC system to change it.
- If you are a Junior and you qualify for SAT fee waiver, get the fee waiver. This is actually a life saving tip, because of this SAT fee waiver, I saved money on sending in my scores. With the fee waiver, scores to four colleges are free.
- Research about the school. You want to know whether you like the student life, the campus, and the program there rather than just applying to a school with a prestigious name. It will definitely help you in the future because this is the only way you can passionately write about why you want to go to that specific college.
- Turn in apps around a week before the due date. This will allow you to work out any issues with the application.
- Ask for help. If you ever need help with applications or have questions about anything, go and email your counselors at school, they are there to help you and if you are ever confused. Feel free to email me. I'm always open to 8K of y'all.
Honestly, don't feel so intimidated by this process. Everything is actually not as complicated. Just breath and it will be over before you know it. Until next time, stay cool ma beans.
OLO ma beans!! Long time no chat, I´m actually posting this while I'm in history class. MUCHO TIME CRUNCH. But I seriously have to react to my wives' music video. Literally after watching the MV once, I had the song stuck in my head for the rest of the day. This is actually the first song that I heard after two weeks of no Kpop. I had to spend some time to catch up on some Netflix shows... Priorities ya know.
OLO ma beans!! If you all follow me on Instagram, you would have seen that I was at homecoming... Yes hunties... I finally went. Honestly, it wasn´t as bad as I expected it...
OLO ma beans!! I know this is long long long overdue and I know they came back with this song 3 weeks ago. I don't understand why JYP do not hype up 2PM's comebacks... Like look at GOT7, they have literally one short film, two teasers, and one album leak video for one comeback. 2PM haven't gotten any of this... At least promote them a little, even though they might be older. I swear 2PM is one of the most underrated groups. I really liked this song because it had that EDM for the chorus and it's just such a cool vibe. After this MV I have discovered the amazing human named Jun K. Literally he is the most attractive human being. I heard a lot of people dislike his eyes, but honestly his eyes gives him a nice smoldering look. All of them are perfect to be honest. The girl in the MV is the person I am most jealous of right now since she gets with all of them in a time period of 3 minutes... Here I am been trying for three years. #IKnowIHaveNoChance. The outfits for this MV was really elegant but I found it a bit out of place. I know that 2PM always do the gentlemen/elegance theme by wearing silk or suits. This one ended up as the same thing as House. IN MY OPINION. The song was similar to Jun K´s single. I give this song a 10/10 just because they haven't won a award since forever so I guess they won this award.... Don't know if that means much. I hope y´all can support them by watching their MV and until next time stay cool ma beans.
OLO ma beans!! Welcome to another College Confidential. I'm currently editing college/scholarship essays and I have so so much to share...
- Start making senpai friends earlier: This means be friends with older people who are 1-2 years older. This will help you so so so much during the college application process since they are experienced with the application process. They will be the best people to calm you down, give you the most amazing advice, and is much much more helpful than 99% college counselors. Plus more opinions the better. It might seem intimidating but most of the time, they are pretty friendly if you just speak... They are people like you and being older a few years older doesn´t change that.
- Send All of Your Essays to your English Teacher: As much as we don't believe it, teachers are here to help students. If you are too scared to send it to them, realize that after this one year, you will never see them again but still be super super respectful and realize that they probably get essays from all their past students also. I have the honor of having a AP Literature teacher who´s child recently went to college and so she knows what is required for essays. BUT ALL English teachers are great people to look at your essays.
- Know someone who applied to the same school: I have actually went on college class pages to see who I know goes there and I would kindly ask them what each college are looking for. This makes everything more straightforward. They will literally tell you exactly what you need without all the Google searches.
- Start Early: I checked out all my applications during the summer and yes Common Apps will roll over even after last years' applications are deleted. I started my scholarship application in May and now I'm still editing my essays. You don't need to start as early as me, but start soon sweeties.
- Read Other Essays: I get inspired from reading other people's essays. Sometimes they remind me that I forgot to mention a point and they might even provide me some help with how to phrase something better.
- Thesaurus is your BEST FRIEND: You don't want to repeat the same words and bore out everyone so you gotta use synonyms.
I hope all these tips help those who are currently applying or going to apply in the future. Until next time, stay cool ma beans!!
OLO ma beans!! Welcome to another Reaction Tuesday!! EXO came back again but sadly this time... They did not win since BLACKPINK just debuted. I'm actually really happy that BLACKPINK is doing so well and I'm not really disappointed that EXO lost either since they have been winning a lot for a long time. When I first heard the song, I found the song really auto-tuned which kinda of bothered me. This gives haters another reason to say that "EXO can't sing" WHICH IS TOTALLY UNTRUE BY THE WAY. When I saw D.O. smiling his Satansoo smile I almost laughed out loud... That was wayyy too funny. Another thing that I didn't get was probably the bondage stuff in the beginning of the MV and the rooster fight. All of them looked seriously good in the MV and the teaser pics. BUT CAN WE STOP A MOMENT AND TALK ABOUT BAEKHYUN. Legit after the whole "I got abs" thing... I cannot unbleach my mind of that image.
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| New member of EXO... Just because I'm a troll |
OLO ma beans!! After reading a depressing af spam post from me last night, I'm okay now and functioning. I wanted to discuss some recent events involving my bias in Girls Generation, Tiffany. To be honest, I didn't even like GG until really recently when I started listening to Taeyeon's solo songs.
OLO ma beans!! Yes, these are back!! WHOOOOOHOOOO!! I seriously love these girls and I know I'm like one week late but cut me some slack since they just had their debut stage this weekend. The first thing I thought when I heard their songs was the fact that some of them literally looks like 2NE1 members.
OLO ma beans!! In the spirit of back to school season, I have prepared another College Confidential post for y'all. As you are applying for college, there are many components of your application, recommendation letter being one of the most important parts after your test scores. Having a good recommendation letter means that there is one more person talking about how great you are and how much you qualify for the schools of your choice. I am here to share some tips on getting the perfect recommendation letter or getting one at least...
- Start early: I know applications are probably not due until November of your senior year but you need to start asking teachers at the end of Junior year. Teachers need time to write the recs and often times, if you think a teacher is awesome then twenty other students will think so too.
- Participate in class: Honestly, this is one of the hardest things to do. Trust me, I am so socially awkward and I know NO ONE wants to participate in class. The thing is, there is a column that asks about student's participation in class for the Common App, so teachers kind of have to fill this out. For those of y'all who just do not want to do that, I recommend participating in the class in another way to get the teacher to remember you. Take charge and create the class t-shirt, create parties, bring food on days when you are watching movies; all of these options work. Just get the teacher to have something to write about.
- DO NOT SLACK OFF: Some teachers might not even tell you that they are going to write about negative behavior on your recommendation letter, so make sure that you pay attention in every class. You never know who is going to write your recommendation letter.
- Be prepared for rejections: Maybe because you asked too late or because this teacher has too many recs to write so you might get rejected. This is why you need backup teachers for when the ones you want does not write your recommendation. This does not mean this teacher hates you, rather it's because they want their students to succeed so they will only write the best recommendation possible. I haven't been rejected by the teachers of my choice but I think if these teachers had rejected me, then my whole college plan would have messed up.
I hope these tips will help everyone who is going into Junior year and those who are applying for college. Until next time, stay cool ma beans and good luck.
OLO ma beans!! Welcome to another part of my life where I decide on the colleges I want to go to. Sometimes I use this blog to plan out my future and I guess I'm just getting a bit stressed out since I'm currently applying for college. I wanted to share with you guys my top choices and backups.
- Claremont McKenna College
- Pomona College
- Pitzer College
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Cornell University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Stanford University
OLO ma beans. I woke up this morning to a beautiful picture of Yugyeom drunk as a chicken nugget in dipping sauce, Mark's tattoo, Bambam using the N word, and a picture of Jessica Koh with Junior with the caption "I'm complete" and a whole bunch of his snake friends.
Mark's tattoo is honestly not that big of a deal. He's in his twenties and he's human. If JYP doesn't have a problem with his tattoo then why should we? It's surprising that he did have a tattoo at all since he is the face of the group but so what, he still can work properly so calm down everyone.
Allkpop actually covered this next issue in one of their articles: Bambam using the N word. I'm pretty sure that Bambam just though the N word meant "bro" "homie" and/or "dude" but again I'm surprised no one pointed it out to him that this is a really bad word. I mean, Mark had his friends there and his family there. These are all people who have lived in the United States for a long time so why didn't anyone say anything. They probably all know that their being snapped and filmed... Again they are celebrities. As sad as this sounds, they should pay attention to their actions at all times. If Bambam apologized on camera right after, then there would be no issues at all.
I want to save the Jessica Koh + Mark's snake friend post as the last tidbit of today. I seriously do not understand how they can use his fame to get famous themselves. Andrew Chan even asked this fan to screw him to see Jackson and he also taught Bambam that the N word just means bro. Holly Vvong kept on asking Mark for gifts and using his fame also to get what she wants. Jackson unfollowed all of Mark's friends and was seen going to the airport by himself. I seriously hope Bambam will be okay because it is Mark's friends' fault. Until next time, stay cool ma beans.
OLO ma beans!! Today is more of a rant than an update on where my weight is. If you follow me on Snapchat. Do you follow people on Snapchat or do you add them?? Hmmmmm I'm not sure...
The first rant is probably a rant about how weak I am. I had a point with Snapchat... If you follow/added me on Snapchat, you probably know that I have been on vacation for the past week so I have not kept up with my diet. The thing is, when I'm road trippin, I just have snacks next to me that aren't necessarily healthy. You guys will be like "Why don't you have healthy snacks then?" Well it's probably because I want to enjoy my vacation and not constantly worry about what I'm eating so just count it as a cheat day(s). So sadly when I came back, I didn't lose any weight. This kind of makes me angry because last year when I did this challenge even during vacation, it sucked but at least I felt accomplished. Kind of disappointed in myself for the lack of improvement.She's me everyday even though I won't be as fierce
OLO ma beans. As you all know, I am known for going on road trips around CA (known as in, only y'all know). I recently took a trip to the great place known as Sequoia National Forest, I spent around 2 days there just hiking and enjoying the great place known as mother nature. Let me tell you something, mother nature has not been kind to me. My mom checked the weather before we went and she told me it is going to be around 68 degrees there... So I brought super cute cut out jeans and cute t-shirts... NOPE!! That place was literally 105 degrees when the sun was up the highest. I wanted to cry. The first day I wore my pj shorts and a shirt to hike and the second day I had to wear my jeans. The heat made me want to cry. I wanted to give you all a updated version of my road-trip essentials or you can use this guide for any time you want to visit anywhere in CA during the summer so you don't end up like me:
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| This is the pair of shorts that I would have brought with the crazy warm temperature... Honestly just bring whatever shorts you can find |
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| I bought this pair of shoes recently but I'm probably going to return it since it's too big but I suggest bringing two pair of shoes |
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| Of course I had to bring this pair of shoes since I'm super basic now... Nah it's just really comfortable and I didn't wanna wear high tops |
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| I brought a few baggy shirts like this just because I really don't like fabric sticking to me |
I have two college counselors looking out for me right now and I gotta say... They give some pretty solid advice. Since y'all are family, let me tell you what I have learned...
- Choose your colleges: Do not choose the colleges for the prestige, choose it for your major. When picking your dream school(s) make sure you like the students and environment there.
- Create a college list: This is basically a list of colleges you want to attend. Make sure that it matches up to the major you select.
- Create a spreadsheet: On the spreadsheet there should be the tuition of the college, deadlines, what type of application software they use (UC or Common App), the link to the application requirements.
- List of awards/honors and any volunteer services you have done in the past: Make sure you only put down the awards you've earned since high school. DO NOT LIE ON THIS PART!! I know it's tempting but if colleges find out, then you are burnt toast.
- Supplements: If your college uses Common Apps then they probably have essay questions that are specific to their college. Don't forget these!!
- Now you are set to go on your essays!!
I hope this have helped you because this is all of the information I did not know until I asked around. Until next time, stay cool ma beans.
OLO ma beans!! I should have made a post last week since that was actually the first week that I've started my diet but I was too busy relaxing to write this... also I was lazy.
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OLO ma beans, this is the first Friday of summer and I thought what better way to spend my days of happiness with a movie. I think this movie touches the current events that's going on right now with the Orlando shooting. I send my wishes to all those families who have lost a loved one in that shooting. I was recommended this movie before the shooting happened and I just thought it would be fitting to share this movie now. I came across this movie with a recommendation with one of my YouTuber buddies.
OLO ma beans!! Well I have just finished Junior year today. I have ended this year with a 3.83 GPA!!! SOMEONE HOLLA AT ME!!! I know it's not the best GPA (aka 4.00) but if you know the situation that I'm stuck in (aheemmm the hardest math teacher in the school) then you would congratulate me... But since y'all are all my fans I need you to congratulate me... #YouNeedToSupportMeBecauseYouLoveMe
