All Georgetown applicants are required to interview with an alumni interviewer. I had almost forgotten about that until I received the postcard in the mail assigning me to an interview with a local alumnus. "Huh," I yelled in shock, "I haven't finished my application yet?" I recovered quickly and called my interviewer to set up in the appointment.

Thankfully, I was not in despair. In my school, we are required to keep a portfolio containing important artifacts that show our studiousness, creativity, and whatever other good qualities we have. We can go as far to put in something that we did not do well in. But for everything we put in, there has to be a reflection talking about the artifact.

I never really thought it would come in handy, but this massive binder really helped at my interview. Compiled over the four years of high school, it showed everything from my leadership and performance skills to artistic and scientific merit... not to brag or anything.

The day of the interview came. It was definitely a scary thing to go through because you have to show yourself as a wonderful person without overdoing it. I thought it would at most take 30 minutes. And it was an hour and forty-five minutes!

We had gotten to talking about law, Gideon v. Wainright, the Miranda rights, the Zero Tolerance Law... and when I walked out of there, my head was screaming and my eyes were burning from having to think so much after an entire day of school. Honestly though, it was an engaging interview because I learned a lot about civil law from my interviewer, but not much about the university since he was an alumni of the law school, not the undergraduate school. I felt that I made some mistakes, though, because I couldn't come up with the right words, the right answers (or so I thought). But the fact that I wasn't depressed when I came out from my first real interview I think is a good sign, along with the fact that my interview was pretty long.

I guess I can't make any judgments yet, though. I feel like I have a really good chance at getting into the university, but then so do so many other people. I have worked so hard to go there: I got a letter from an alumni, carefully picked teachers to write letters, participated full-time in many activities, packed my resume with as many honors and awards as I could, and wrote 3 different answers to the same essay questions before choosing my best ones. I hope that my interview really was good and that I can keep senioritis away from my non-procrastinating self. December 1st. That will be the day I get my first real news, and hopefully it will be an acceptance letter from Georgetown.