[Alex's Trip]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

give all the schools that turn you down one of these

 

I plan on giving the bird to the rejection letters (that I won't get).

[jakeonguitar]

Originally Posted by Alex's Trip

I have about...a 4.45 GPA, I'm the speech and debate president, and in the last few years I've done a few other club activities. I went to Sacramento recently for "Boy's State" some stupid week long thing that apparently looks really good on college apps. My SAT was 2090, and my SAT II was 770 for Math Level II and 700 for US History.

Assuming your school didn't weigh you GPA weirdly, you're fucking golden. As long as your prompts weren't tasteless, I think you're set.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by jakeonguitar

Assuming your school didn't weigh you GPA weirdly, you're fucking golden. As long as your prompts weren't tasteless, I think you're set.

yes. I think he is well on his way to a soul-crushing career as a pivotal member of the executive board of some heartless multinational corporation, which robs a person of their very existence..

 

maybe they'll invite him to join the illuminati?

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

yes. I think he is well on his way to a soul-crushing career as a pivotal member of the executive board of some heartless multinational corporation, which robs a person of their very existence..

 

maybe they'll invite him to join the illuminati?

 

sounds to me like a case of sour grapes

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

sounds to me like a case of sour grapes

for what? some kid working WAY to hard in highschool?

japanese kids kill themselves over that kind of shit.

I teach highschool kids, not live in envy of them..

I only wish kids like himself would take school a little less serious, he is clearly intelligent enough to do something else much more satisfying..

[Alex's Trip]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

yes. I think he is well on his way to a soul-crushing career as a pivotal member of the executive board of some heartless multinational corporation, which robs a person of their very existence..

Uh...why don't you just shove it?

I already said I think I want to be a teacher, so don't start with your shit. I want to go to a University. I've got the grades. I deserve to go where I want. I take school seriously because it is my ticket out of living with my parents. I'm not obsessed with being a success in life, with making an obscene amount of money. If anything, I'm obsessed with educating myself as well as I can.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Alex's Trip

Uh...why don't you just shove it?

I already said I think I want to be a teacher, so don't start with your shit. I want to go to a University. I've got the grades. I deserve to go where I want. I take school seriously because it is my ticket out of living with my parents. I'm not obsessed with being a success in life, with making an obscene amount of money. If anything, I'm obsessed with educating myself as well as I can.

My Own Summer (shove it)

You can do ALL of those things with out having to work so excessively hard. it doesn't take above a 4.0 average, nor does it even take any SAT scores to get into any of the schools you applied to. All it takes is YOU, and by all of the fucking work you have done, you are correct, you deserve it, and you shall obtain it, however, you are still working too hard my friend. cool it down a bit, live

Being devoted to an education does not mean you are educated. Live a little, that is where the learning takes place. The grades and assignments are just busy work, trust me on this one.

[Alex's Trip]

I work hard, but I don't work too hard.

School has always come easily to me. I do the busy work, yes, and I really do know that it is busy work, but I never let myself get stressed about it. The only stress I've felt through my high school career was when some of those assignments all piled on top of each other, or recently when I was filling out my applications and doing school work. I do work hard, but it isn't to the point where I can't live it a little. That is for entirely different reasons.

My parents think that getting a ticket for driving a friend around when I wasn't supposed to be driving anyone under 25 and having been caught (only with circumstantial evidence) of smoking pot constitutes a downward spiral that only more stringent controlling parenting can fix. Telling them that their fascist style of parenting (monitoring my myspace messages) makes me want to die certainly didn't help. And knowing that my college experience was my way out of their shithole, they also said threatened to take away their college funding support if I got into any kind of "serious trouble" or "betrayed them" (whatever that means).

I'm certainly ready to live a little, and I've been working for it all my goddamn life.

[Derek]

I've took the leap of applying.

As long as I get an offer dependent on what I'm doing this year I will make it. Even if I have to get all A's this year I will do it. Argh.