Seeing the kids on this show go through the college application process was very interesting to say the least. It brought back a lot of memories of college visits with the parents, prospective weekends, essays, recommendations, and that nervous time waiting for acceptances or rejections. Seth, Summer, Ryan, and Marissa have all of that to worry about, plus they have the added stress of HTH problems to deal with.

Summer and Seth have their problems pretty much licked. Summer was a closet genius, although not a genius in the closet, if you are looking at her clothes, so she was able to mesh her dreams of staying with Seth forever with his dreams of leaving Newport forever. All that is left is for Summer to finish packing for the winter months, although she is getting a little carried away. Winter in New England can really suck the first time, but she is preparing like she will be living in an igloo for about, I don't know, 18 months out of the year. Seth, while dying to get into Brown still wonders what might happen if one of them doesn't go in.

Ryan is in an even more precarious position. While Summer was fitting Seth with long underwear, Ryan was busy making Sadie some dinner. Well, actually, Ryan finished making Sadie some dinner, but was hoping that Sadie was interested on snacking in the bedroom, so to speak. Ryan is avoiding too much college talk, instead using that bulging brainpower of his to figure out how many times he can have sex with Sadie before her escrow closes. As always, Sadie is mature about it and tells Ryan that ignoring the future never makes it go away. Very good words of advice, and I have my own words of advice along those lines, but for the writers. Just because you ignore the past doesn't mean the readers will and forget bugging you about it. Theresa's baby anyone?