May 1st is voting day for Google for Doodle!

I did enter, yet I have no idea how the hell the system works!

Do they warn you beforehand? Are ALL of the thousand + votes up for the public to vote upon? I don't know. I really don't.

But in the end, I really don't CARE.
I just want people to vote.

I want to hold the hands of every person who submitted and tense up excitedly at the desperation to see who is on top! I want to clap for the winners and drool over all the amazing artwork.

I want to laugh like an idiot for ever believing I could win.

But mostly, I want to win.

I want that miracle at the end of the movies where the underdog wins, and we're always our own tragic underdog because we have no one else to really cheer on. Not in all cases.


I don't have a picture of mine, because I was finished and didn't think twice about it, so I have no example.

• Essentially, it's a little Mexican kid with short hair--I don't blame you if you confuse her for a boy. It happened by my own mother--smiling up at the skies as the two "OO"s.
• The first G is the earth, the second a little white dashed line.
• The L is NASA'S new Rocket
• and the E. ..  . .is Mars.

This year's theme was "the best day ever" and I chose the day we land on Mars!

Thank you, Hank Green, for convincing me it was a damn awesome idea! Also, for making great music. You need a song about the curiosity rover--look at me, addressing Hank Green, as though he's ever going to read this! Aren't I cute?

When all is said and done, I just want you all to vote, whether it be for me or someone else.

All the entries need the support of the world to feel special, and I'll live vicariously through the best entrees.

Best wishes (and with all the love I can muster)

Nikola Strange

Advice for the AP Student: Surviving thy Choice of Course.

The AP students are labeled the best of the best--future leaders of the nation! The Doctors, Proffessors, and lawyers of tomorrow! As an AP student, I've never understood the pressures. This definitely makes the kids involves nervous, and can sometimes frighten them clear off--we've all had those nasty teachers whom refuse to lighten up, even when the material's not too difficult or the excuses for late work were legitimate.

Honestly speaking, I've only ever took the AP classes for fun and because friends did. I've never done badly in them either, so I've continued until today! Yet, for some the pressures of achieving bright future can wreck their entire worlds, which has lead to the creation of this post.

Because you're worth it, dear reader, I've spent the time to gather up some of your "sempai" and ask questions (via tumblr and facebook, but still!) and ask them for their two cents on advice for future AP students. Whether you're a genius Harvard hopeful or a bored smartie like me, stick around. We've got some advice for you:

Armando Leon, Columbia acceptee, said "Do your homework, but don't feel as if you have to do all your work." Wise words, considering we were two of the five or six students to get B's in AP Lit.

Andrezej Himemiya Beilshmit's words of wisdom are to "fudge outlines so long as you understand the material and do well on Multiple Choice". The test scores count the most!

Jorge Becerra's simple bit of advice was "Do not procrastinate!" A crime I'm very guilty of committing (Please don't hate yourself like I apparently hate myself! It's miserable waiting last minute!).

My favorite bit of advice came from a girl named beuxandarrows on tumblr, who shared "Accept the fact that grades don't matter. . . .ten years from now, no one will hold it against you if you got a 26% on that one test in class taught by that one teacher."

My own bit of advice mirrors those of the people kind enough to answer my survey questions:

1. Don't hate on yourself for not getting top marks. Even if your family's strict, you're the one in charge of where your life's gonna go, not them.
2. Don't take the class because someone else says you should. Take it for yourself, because it's your interest to do so!
3. Take each AP exam, even if it's just to kick another High School's ass.
4. Take it seriously, but not too seriously. You're not even of legal age yet, and I doubt you're getting high. Your life is not ruined.

With love

Nikola Strange

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Notes:
None of you will be paying any attention to these tips, so here's a video for you!

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Testing patience

                 My elder sister was rightly trying my patience today: "How're you going to pay for your dorm and your things if you don't have money? Did you even turn in that application?"

                Truth be told, I didn't. I haven't done a lot of things, and I'm ashamed of that.

                "Take care of your nephew. Improvise!" She was taking care of her bills with the IRS, scratching things off of her daily planner.

I got off of facebook and took the kid outside, who proceeded to ride his bike.

                 I felt disgusted that I haven't given a shit about collage or my future at all! I was so passionate about my future and the great things I’d do—all the wonderful things I’d create.
                The tuition for the Academy of Arts, a for-profit school, was raised by 25 dollars a while back. The cost for this for-profit is staggering, but less expensive than schools like CalArts or California Collage of the Arts, and isn’t being sued like the Art Institute chain is. Not to mention it’s been nationally accredited since the 80’s. Though the school accepts everyone that applies and has no portfolio requirements, I felt so welcomed on my visit to San Francisco. And the animation building itself felt like home! I instantly went looking for work and scholarships and could not find the will to make myself continue. Why was that?

                Why is it that I can never finish anything I start?

                Lauren Faust didn't graduate from CalArts and she's made some of the most incredible cartoons do date! MLP, the Super Best friends forever shorts (I am in love with, btw), she worked on Foster's and Cats don't dance! It's all I've ever wanted in life, but with Disney.

                 Sure, she didn't have a degree, but she's skilled enough to have gotten into CalArts in the first place!

I felt like such a sloth, but why was it that I cared so little about my collage education and life goals so suddenly?

                Soon, I heard another small voice shouting at me "I got a sticker school today, tia!"

                "Oh really?!"

                "Yeah!" He laughed.

                Both of my nephews rode their identical bikes in circles, round and around and around.

         I felt like Houlden Caufield.
With love,

Nikola Strange.