Today is un dia muy importante. It's the second anniversary of my thyroidectomy. Yup, two years ago on this day, that little butterfly-shaped gland in my neck was ripped out. It was not fun. I had a goiter and this endocrinologist in Syracuse my parents took me to said if it wasn't removed it would just keep getting bigger, until eventually my neck was just one big goiter! Well, not really. But it definately wouldn't just disappear one day. The horizontal scar across my neck has gotten fa...

College applications are sooo . . . what's an adjective to best describe them? Annoying? Long? Sometimes I get so upset with the whole process that I just want to not go to college. But I didn't make honor roll for all four years of high school just to flip burgers my whole life. I think I want to be a graphic designer. I like art. But I don't want to live in the city. I want to have a nice big house in the country with lots of birds and dogs and a horse... Well, my current favorite sch...