I think I'll go to Boston.

Yesterday was my college touring day.

We started out at Boston Conservatory with low expectations to begin with. The second we walked in the building I wanted to leave. The admissions building was about 500 years old. We finally go on the actual tour and it takes all of 20 minutes maybe. We went down the floors of one building and the guide was like, "Well here's a concert hall, and here's another concert hall that looks just like it, and those are practice rooms, and this is the student center." The student center was about the size of my bedroom. It had a tiny window for a cafe a a few couches. Lovely. The worst part of it was the dorm. The rooms are tiny and wicked old and none of them are the same size you you could be crammed into a closet-sized room with one or two other people or have a giant room to yourself. The guide told us how on of his friends ended up with a room that was the old library. Humongous and unfair. My mom asked if there were practice rooms anywhere in the dorm building and the guide told us, "There is a strict no practicing policy in the dorm building. You can't even sing." Like seriously, what the fuck. No way am I even applying to go there. They're all stuck up and gahh, horrible.

We then got to go to Berkley. The second we walked into the admissions building I loved it. The guy at the desk randomly started singing opera and then he was whistling. Even the booklets and stuff were spectacular. (Boston Conservatory only had this little brochure that didn't even mention the music program. That's utter crap. And the people at the desk were like "I own this school because I eat, sleep, and breathe my major. I don't even eat food anymore because I'm too busy being perfect at everything. blah blah blah blah.) Anyway, the tour had to be split into two groups because it was like 40 people whereas the other tour was about 8. Just the people on the tour made me want to go there so bad. They were like, normal music-loving people. I was one of two girls on the tour. Most of the guys were guitarists or bassists or drummers that have bands and stuff. The tour took like 1.5 hours and I enjoyed every second of it. The buildings are beautiful, the people are beautiful, the music is beautiful. Everything is fantastic. The whole atmosphere is so casual too.

Then we saw the Harry Potter Exhibit at the science museum which was soooo cool.

I think I want to tour Oberlin next. My camp counselor Kivie went there for cello and he said it was the best 4 years of his life. Too bad it's in Bumblefuck, Ohio.