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Yearly Tuition: $14,522
Room and Board: $10,322
Total for two semesters: $24, 844
*before scholarships and aide
Application due: early- November 1, latest-February 1
High School GPA: 3.5-3.9
Total Composite SAT: 1130-1300

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-San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Spanish

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Music Education

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Music Education: yes
Spanish: yes
Tuition: $12,484/year
Applications: Due December 31st
Scholarship Applications: October 1st-March 1st

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With my remaining time left in the school year, I am not going to continue the plan I made at the beginning of the year obviously since I missed a bunch of the goals, but I will continue to bake for sure.  I will bake with my mom and sister for our Easter get-together.  I do enjoy baking, but with little time on my schedule, it is hard to find a nice home made recipe to make.  I usually only have time for making cakes out of mixes, but I will try to do something different this year.

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My enthusiasm for my personal project at this time is very low.  Although I have almost zero motivation, I would rather bake than do anything else.  Finding my own free time to bake is really tough, but baking with my mom and sister is something I really like to do.  For Easter, I know for sure we are going to bake some cakes and some pies.  Also, we are going to bake cookies.

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My presentation would look like banana bread. That is all I have to present. I didn't have a lot of time at the beginning of the year and I don't have a lot of time now. Hopefully I will have time between now and the end of the school year to get some more progress in.

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If I had to present something for our exam, I would have absolutely nothing to bring in or show (besides my banana bread if I have it done by next week).  The end result of this is that I really haven't had much time to bake anything with heavy homework nights and extra-curricular activities.  Really the only thing I worry about at the moment is my grades.  I've always heard that Junior year is the hardest, and I believe that now.  If I was able to rewind and work on my personal project another year I totally would.  But I can't, and that is why I haven't had much progress rather any progress at all. However, If I had to present something for the exam, I would get baking. Some things I would choose to bake are some easy simple things such as banana bread, a few different types of cookies, and maybe some cupcakes.

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Now that I have looked at my past plan, I realized that I do not have time to bake three things, even one thing a month! So I am really going to try this month to carve some time out to achieve my goal of just baking a loaf of banana bread. I can do it! For upcoming months, I have made it my goal to bake simple things like cupcakes, strawberry cheesecake, blueberry muffins, and a tres leches cake for my spanish class where she has people volunteer to bring in Spanish foods to celebrate. Anyways, the Tres Leches cake is my last goal being due by cinco de mayo of course.

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Right now I feel pretty good since we just got off Christmas Break, but by tomorrow I will be feeling anxious and drowned in homework like I normally do in a normal school week.  After I bake the banana bread this week or next, I will feel way better because I know that I had accomplished a goal. Reaching my goals makes me feel way better, and since I have not met any of my goals, I don't feel the best about myself. I really have to step up and start making progress with baking.

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WHERE AM I AT/WHY?
Right now I am way behind on my goals.  My baking progress was supposed to begin in November.  My goal was to bake three different dishes every month of the school year.  The way school has been going for me and extra-curricular activities, I haven't had much time to bake.  I know I may spend some time watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix when I could be baking, but other than that I have been very busy with piano lessons, pit band for the musical this coming spring, hockey games, Christmas parties, and my job at the thrift store.   Also just about every night I am just about swamped with homework in at least three of more core classes.  Anyways, back to my personal project,  in November I was supposed to bake carrot cake, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and a pumpkin pie.  That is a lot of baking for me to do while taking AP classes and doing extra-curricular activities.  Seeing that I obviously cannot handle baking three things a month.  I have finally decided to lower it to one.  Now until I get one thing baked this month, I might think about baking a second.  But I need to plan each month as they come.  Planning the plan sheet in October all the way to the end of the school year was not a good idea for me.  I need to take it one month at a time.  I have been putting off making banana bread for months now, and that is probably the easiest thing for me to make.  Banana Bread is my goal for the month of January.  There is no ifs or buts this month, I will get it done.  I have free time almost all of this week.  No piano, no work, except my birthday is Friday, and there's a basketball game Tuesday, and I have to go to my Grandma's Tuesday,   a hockey game tonight, Tri-County Honors Band and Pit is Thursday.  Ugh, anyway I'll really try to find this week to bake the Banana Bread and if not, I'll bake it next week.

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So far this month, I haven't had much progress. I've been so busy with homework, work, NHS, and piano lessons that I haven't been able to find much time to bake. But, I'm setting tonight aside to bake a couple loaves of banana bread. I've baked banana bread twice before, and both times it has turned out great. I use a recipe in one of my mom's cook books that calls for eggs, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, flour, and vanilla. I'm surprised I remember everything that's in it. Oh yeah, I guess bananas are in it too, duh. But, I know you have to mash the bananas and mix in all of the other ingredients.

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Some Resources I can use
-allrecipes.com
-youtube
-pinterest

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies NOVEMBER GOAL

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies NOVEMBER GOAL

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*1 cup canned pumpkin

* 1 cup white sugar

*1/2 cup vegetable oil

*1 egg

*2 cups all-purpose flour

*2 teaspoons baking powder

*2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

*1/2 teaspoon salt

*1 teaspoon baking soda

*1 teaspoon milk

*1 tablespoon vanilla extract
*2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
*1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions

1. Combine pumpkin, sugar, vegetable oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir in. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix well.

2. Add vanilla, chocolate chips and nuts.

3. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.

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Ingredients

2 h 23 m

Cupcakes:

9 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

3/4 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups sifted self-rising flour

1/2 cup milk

Frosting:

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature

1 tablespoon milk

1 drop brown food coloring

Decoration:

6 vanilla wafer cookies (such as Nilla®)

12 red jelly bean

24 candy eyeballs

24 chewy chocolate-flavored candy (such as Tootsie Roll®)

24 pretzels

Directions

Prep

1 h

Cook

18 m

Ready In

2 h 23 m

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.

2. Combine 9 tablespoons butter, white sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat until well combined. Fold in half the flour and 1/4 cup milk and stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.

3. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18 minutes.

4. Remove tin from oven and cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tin and cool completely on a wire rack before decorating, about 1 hour.

5. Combine confections' sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, and 1 tablespoon milk in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Thin frosting with a little milk or water, if necessary. Add food coloring and stir until frosting is uniformly brown. Add more food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until frosting is the color you like.

6. Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of each cupcake. Break vanilla cookies in half. Place a cookie half on each cupcake as a mouth. Use a bit of frosting to "glue" a jelly bean onto the cookie for Rudolph's red nose. Stick 2 candy eyeballs into each cupcake. Break off a piece from each pretzel so they look like antlers and stick 2 into the top of each cupcakes. Shape chewy candies into ears and stick 2 into the sides of each cupcake.

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Some thing I can rely on:
-recipe books at my house
-allrecipes.com
-my mother
-youtube videos
-podcasts
Mentors:
-Mr. Miles from the Tech Center
-Mr. Streusnig who owns Murphy's is my neighbor

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After coming up with learning how to play the flute, and to learn how to be a photographer, I finally decided that neither of those is what I would like to do throughout the entire year. Instead of any of these two things, I chose to bake. I know, it seems boring, but at my house we could use the baked goods through the week, and it would give me good practice to be prepared by the end of the year when I have to share with the class. I've already perfected making banana bread and it is soooo good. Next, I want to make carrot cake.

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After Researching about cameras and camera tips today, I realized this is something I'm looking forward to doing. Cameras cost A LOT of money. I'm glad my mom already has one so I don't have to invest in one at the moment. It might be something that I will want to invest in a little way down the road. I figured that I can set monthly goals for my self with photography techniques whether it is in nature, sports games, animals, or portraits. I will set goals for myself and accomplish them well. I'm hoping not to only take pictures and meet my goal, but I want them to be good pictures. By the end of the year, I will be able to present to the class, my favorite and best looking pictures.

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Thinking about it right now, I might not be able to learn to play the flute this year because I don't have a flute yet. But now since I've been able to think about something I really want to do, I know that learning the flute is something I want to do , just maybe not at this moment.

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1 cup canned pumpkin

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon milk

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip Morsals 12 Oz

$2.24 for 1 item - expires in 1 day

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

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https://takelessons.com/blog/how-to-learn-flute-notes-for-beginners

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Who might you talk to to help you learn? 9/20/78

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Who might you talk to to help you learn? 9/20/78

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There are a few people that may be able to help me learn to play the flute. The first person that comes into my mind is Mrs. Hoeft. I got to know Mrs. Hoeft through playing in the pit for the musical. Mrs. Hoeft's main instrument is the flute, so she might be able to give me some tips and tricks. Also, Mr. Smith my band teacher will know how to play the flute because, well he has to. Other people that may be able to help me is Halle Stiverson, and Megan Booms who are also in band and play the flute. I have several options of people to learn from about playing the flute. For photography, I can get some help from Mrs. McIntyre, and maybe a student, Jackie Iskow.

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Right now I am trying to decide between learning to play the flute, or painting.  I want to learn to play the flute because I have a goal to learn many instruments throughout my lifetime.  Also, playing multiple instruments is required to become a band teacher, so this will also help me achieve my goal of becoming a high school band director.  On the other hand, last year I took an art class, and I really enjoyed it. And I was hoping that this year I could take a photography class, but it just didn't fit in my schedule.  I would like to complete photography challenges to see my progress throughout the school year.  My progress at the end of this year will show me how much I have improved photography, or playing the flute.  I hope that my progress in playing the flute is that I will be able to play it without having to look at the fingering chart, and I hope my photography skills get way stronger throughout the year.