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Rough essay for maryland

I have been very influenced by the nerdfighter community. This sounds silly but ever since I saw four minutes of John Green talking about the Project for Awesome on YouTube I was hooked. The Project for awesome is an annual YouTube event where regular people make videos promoting their favorite charities and try to make them the most watched videos for days. From the first time I came in contact with this community I have been more encouraged to do really awesome things like start a 50 book challenge, learn to knit, and further pursue my fall challenge of collecting over 500 lids for Susan G Komen for a Cure.


John and Hank Green, the men who started this community as just a fun way to keep in touch, have taken the word nerd from a social slur to a statement of pride. Saying "I'm a nerd" is now just another way to say I am passionate about something.

I've noticed that in my generation it is cool not to care about things and that it is geeky to get excited about things. Before joining this community I found myself holding back, not laughing when I thought something was funny, and not sharing large parts of myself. Now I feel okay with saying something like "I love Harry Potter enough to dress up for the book release" or "I care about what is happening in Israel"

Being a nerdfighter is about taking what you know how to do and using it to better the people around you. “A lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”- Hank Green

 
Its a work in progress... I wrote it about a month and change ago and the deadline for my application is most definately friday. why do i do this to myself? Its not like I havent been working on this forever but it still doesnt read the write way. And I have another one that total crap about diversity and people...its a work in progress. I only have 2 more school to apply to but the only thing I want is Maryland. If I dont get in I'll cry (or something equally lame)
 
Okay moving on now...
I had a real crap day yesterday and the only plus is I graduate May 28 and I'm going to Maryland
Right I said I was moving on....
 
Books
I've havent been reading much
movies
yal should watch Green Street Hooligans. I love it so much
music
no headphones so my ipod hasnt been used
life
crap except for les miserables and my friends and my teaches
I get to be a slut in the musical!!!! I'm really happy about that.
@ladies I'm talking an awful lot so I'm just going to finish up my applications.
lots of love
Chelsea