Right...

I've been in somewhat of a disastrous state recently, and things only seem to be degenerating further. It turns out that on top of all the essays and applications I've been completing, many colleges strongly urge their applicants to have interviews with alumni. At MIT, people who have interviews have an acceptance rate nearly double that of people who don't (they aren't clear on the distinction between causation and correlation, however). So about three weeks ago I called my designated interviewer and tried sending him emails: all of his contact info was wrong. Since MIT is on east coast time and I have no free time until after 2 PM, I had to wake up at 5 AM twice to call the admissions office. They gave me the home phone number of my interviewer. It too failed. Finally after many long phone calls and bounced emails I arranged my interview about 18 hours before the scheduling deadline.

This has been homecoming week which has only compounded the problems. Our new leadership advisor has turned out to be somewhat less than competant. He routinely "forgets" to tell us about important things until immediately before the deadline. He waited a week to inform Leeor of key information regarding the blood drive, he has been completely incompentant in dealing with key homecoming matters, and he has pushed us into an extremely dangerous financial state by making terrible decisions. For example, we just spent $1500 on two nights of lodging for 15 people, and he approved the purchase of an $80 trophy for a completely superfluous purpose. Today he decided to rent a PA system for our assembly instead of use the one we already own. Admittedly it isn't fantastic, but it works well for the job. The PA system he rented was about 1/3 the size of ours and looked like it had been manufactured in the late 1970s. It didn't even have a tape deck, let alone the CD player that we actually needed. In the end, we didn't even use it. (For the record though, despite the flaws we did have, today's assembly was the best one in years.) The leadership fund may actually be in debt. Thankfully the senior class's account is secured and out of his incompetant clutches. I can only imagine what he'll think of next...