...SENIOR '11 WHAT WHAT?

So...it just occurred to me that I am now a senior in high school. I finished my exams last Friday. And the class ahead of me graduated last Saturday. So that means, I'm a senior. WHAAAATTT?

I went to Roger Williams University on Monday, just to visit and whatever and let me tell you something. It is a PRETTY campus. Like...it's right on the bay and near the bridge, and it's all suprisingly pretty (and expensive!) for a university in the middle of RI.

Then again, RI has home to Bryant which is having an Alumni Polo match on July 3rd. A polo match. That's some classy ass shit right there. As you can imagine, I'm not applying to Bryant. I looked at their campus. Not as pretty as RWU, but still very very pretty. I just wouldn't fit in there. I imagine I'll feel this way when I go look at Lehigh in the fall.

RI is also home to Brown. Emma Watson goes there. Not that I have a lesbian crush on Emma Watson or anything, but her prettiness makes up for like, the entire population of Rhode Island. She is a pretty woman. And everybody knows about Brown, and how it's an Ivy and blahblahblahblahblah so I don't think you need me to go on and talk about Brown. I'm not applying there. I'm stupid. I would never get in. :D

On a side note, Providence College sports are called the Friars. I kid you not.

Rhode Island is also home to a SURPRISING amount of Division One schools. Meaning, kids that play on these teams are friggin' sick nasty. Yeah. I'm not swimming on any of these teams. I've had a Division 3 coach tell me I wasn't good enough to swim on their team, but I could certainly try. -snort-

Right. So back to the whole D1 thing. There are 11 colleges/universities in the state of Rhode Island, according to Collegeboard. Here are there breakdowns by Division level:

4-D1 (URI, PC, Brown and Bryant)
4-D3 (Salve Regina((but they don't have a swim team, therefore I couldn't care less about them)), RWU, RIC, and JWU ((Johnson and Wales University)) )
2-Intramural, meaning they don't compete (RISD ((Rhode Island School of Design)), CCRI ((Community College of Rhode Island, but they don't have swimming)))

It should be noted that New England Institute of Technology has no sports whatsoever. Or at least, according to Collegeboard, they don't.

For such a tiny state, and almost half of it's colleges are DI...that's kind of impressive. I didn't realize Rhode Island was the place to be if you wanted to swim. I always assumed, from the amount of old people there, it was the place you go when you wanted to die. I mean, I guess you could die from swimming and lord knows I feel like dying constantly when I go to practice...but still.

I hate to randomly segue in the middle of this post, but there need to be more DII schools. Like, there are only 66 of them in America and Puerto Rico that have Women's Swimming. Now, why am I hooked on D2, you ask? Very simple.

The Green.

Or more importantly, the green I can save on college tuition by getting scholarship money.

And believe it or not, D2 seems to be less competitive than D3. Like, there are some D3 schools that I was just like, "Whoa suckers I am not keeping up with you." Like this one girl I met at Ithaca...she was CRAZY fast. Like faster than most guys that I swim with. And they're fast.

Anyway, that's not my point. Division 3, I seem to be slower than a majority of the people swimming. Division 2? I'm about as fast as, if not faster than some of these people swimming. And I'm not even that good.

I'm looking at results between Pace University and Queens College...and there's this one girl who goes a 1:41 100 breaststroke. I'm sorry, but that's bad. That's really bad. I go a 1:28, or about there, and that's considered to be bad. Like, that's first heat, kids. Although, I think there was one meet where I was second heat but that's not important.

Well, then I thought, maybe it's just Pace and QC. I mean, are they actually reknowned for their swimming? So, I decided to investigate all 66 DII colleges that have women's swimming.

It's pretty much the same. Some schools are really good, and I can't even place in their meets. Others just...aren't good and I can place pretty high. I guess that's really like any other school, but...there should be more of them. There are 241 D3 schools that have Women's Swimming, and 202 that are D1. And only 66 that are D2? For shame.

All right. I'm tired. I'm going back to bed. I don't care if it's nine-thirty in the morning.