Vox Unblocked!

Excuse me whilst I lift my jaw off the floor. What is the world coming to? My ISP recently unblocked Flickr, YouTube, hi5.com and (finally) Vox. This is unbelievable and my god the place has changed since I've last seen it.

I've been incredibly quiet because it started to become tiresome to write posts from Thunderbird but I've also been incredibly busy. Since my last post, school has begun and we've jumped right into work. In fact we've been working so hard, it feels we've been at school far longer than we actually have. During this time, we've started our final year of high school, and the incredibly hard A Level course. In addition to all of this, I've been juggling MT development and university applications. My top 4 universities:

• Cambridge, UK - application sent
• Stanford, CA - application to be sent, so much to do in this one!!
• Berkeley, CA - again application to be sent. With this one, it's so US-centric so I'm facing a few problems
• Purdue, - application sent, now need to send high school transcripts, recommendations, test scores and whatnot

And if that wasn't enough, I re-did my SAT I on Saturday (it's fitting that SAT exams are sat on Saturday). The first time I did the SAT I was October 2005 and I ended up with a score of 2070, 720 Reading, 680 Writing and 670 Math. The English scores were high but my Math score was apalling considering I'm one of the best mathematicians in my year. So one year later (!) I redid the SAT and I think it went better than last year. Just sitting the exam, I was aware of how much both my English and Math skills had improved. I was able to answer all the Math questions with time to spare (last year I hardly managed to finish the sections) and with the English section, the long Reading passages didn't put me to sleep. Hopefully everything has gone well, scores come on the 8th.

I'll have more later but I'm dying to reacquaint myself with darling Vox.