I'm moving along, I guess. From Thanksgiving break to now I've been able to get done most of the 1st draft of my 3rd essay, on the cityscape of Cairo. It sort of grew organically such that, though I expected to be done by now, I instead have a sprawling 15 page essay that still has a few pages to go. I'm dead-set on getting it done this weekend and then editing what I've done so far so I have a solid draft to hand to Ms. Clark next week. I also emailed what I had done by wed. to Sally Booth, my outside consultant, so she'd have something to look over during her trip to Bhutan. I still have a week and a half before I find out early decision results for college, so in the interim I'm prioritizing senior project over college apps. My goal for the time remaining until break is to have the essay I'm currently working on in a solid form. Once that happens, I can discuss with my mentor what my next steps are; i.e. is this enough, given my third essay was more in-depth than I originally planned for, or do I try to write a 4th piece before early January?