I can't type...but writing is worse (and college stuff)

Really...why have a blog? I mean journals are just as effective right? No. I can't write fast enough to keep up with my thoughts. I write at around 40wpm at my maximum speed. Writing in a journal has that classic feel to it, but life doesn't come with time for leisure. You have to make it yourself. Thus, this blog has been brought into existence so that I can readily vent and spew thoughts at a slightly faster 60 wpm. I mean an extra twenty words per minutes is a lot. If everyone typed just a little faster, can you imagine how many more words we could save? Now I sound like a PG&E commercial.
This blog is probably going to be very helpful when it comes time for college essays. Seriously, I heard of people turning their blog posts into college essays and plan to do the same. Meh, college. All my senior pals have already decided where they're going, and I wish that I could have applied for college this year. It's just going to be that much harder to apply next year, which really makes me wonder about the whole college system. Let's see, you take a few people and have them sit behind desks all day reading the essays of students and their credentials. These readers are told that they can only let in a certain number of each ethnicity and instructed to through away weak applicants. Most importantly, these readers must use their own judgment. What other selection process could be more biased and prone to error? Even drafting baseball players is more structured. You pick the players based on their skills and reputation. For colleges we have readers who have never met these students who have to infer everything about the personality of the student based on essays. Personality...what is a likable personality? "Make yourself likable" says the college reader. Well, likable is such a relative term. For example, I like sharks. I think that sharks are some of the awesomest animals in the world. My favorite cuddly things in my house are a few plushy sharks that I bought from the dollar tree. I was actually planning to call this blog the shark tank but realized that the title would draw too many sharklovers to this site. Anyway, most people don't like sharks. But, I find them likable. What's to stop ivy league college admissions officers from doing the same thing? Not much. I've heard stories where people got into programs just because their essays were humorous or "very interesting." Right now, college admissions seems like a game for brownie points. You take your essay, beat it so that it makes you look good to your reader, modify stuff here and there to make it "acceptable" and then shoot it off, praying that it makes its mark. Wow...that was a bad tangent.