I've been meaning to, this summer, write about things that I feel strongly need to be written down. Because I couldn't bring myself to type it up in Word, I've decided that the best place to explore how I want this piece to be written is here. A virtual sandbox. The past year proved to be the best and the most "tulmultous" year in my life. I remembered how, the summer before senior year, I was browsing through college websites, frequently looking at various college rankings, including the famed 'U.S. and News Report', anxious and half-excited about all the possible places I would go. I already knew from the beginning that I am going to study in the States. My school life at the Shanghai American School and the International School of Kuala Lumpur gave me a dose of the 'American' curriculum; liberal arts is the way to go. Furthermore, I had grown inwardly critical of the British system that, after all my years, was best summed as a system constructed and based on a traditional syllabus. American schools emphasize on school projects, homemade Rube Goldberg machines, science projects, art projects, and recess. It was the best place for creativity, and the best environment for nurturing children from an early age. Now, this is all very scantily said, but what I have written is genuine, and nothing beats genuine, except for one inconvenient truth: it is still a crude piece of prose that has yet to undergo various draft cycles, edits, cuts and manouevres in order to (paradoxically) best express my thoughts.