Hello and good morning, one and all! My name, as I'm sure you are familiar, is Chapien. I'm an RP helstaffer and lore builder here at Canterlot.

However, I haven't exactly been doing my job adequately, nor have I been role-playing with many people outside of my own little clique and even then only occasionally. I am deeply and profusely sorry for this, but there is indeed a reason, and a good one!

For the past few months, I have started my senior year of high school - and of course, college applications. Although school is no longer as demanding as it was - not by a long shot, college applications were the most stressful thing I've been through. You see, my major is game design, and there are very few colleges in the United States that provide an adequate degree program for such a major. One such college is DigiPen Institute of Technology - lauded by the ENTIRE industry as the greatest education there is for games (after all, the entire team that made Portal went to this school, with the original concept for Portal being a student project). Now, DigiPen has much laxer requirements on grades (3.0 GPA required) and SAT scores (1700 is the average), and I far surpassed both of those (3.45 GPA and 1880 SAT score) - but DigiPen is notoroious for its difficult essays. In fact, you have to write four of them just to apply (they can be found here for anyone who is curious as to what I went through: https://www.digipen.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/requirements-for-fall-2013/application-essays/ ).

The fantastic news? The last week of November, I got my acceptance letter! I'm going to the best school there is for game design, and I'm going to pursue my dreams and, well, make video games!

And now that the high of just how awesome my future is going to be, and with all of my high school tests nearly over, and winter break just around the corner (ONE MORE WEEK AUGH), I am FINALLY ready to devote time to Canterlot again!

So what do you say, Canterlot? Can you ever forgive me?