<p>there r like 200 grad students from Qinghua alone at CMU</p>
<p>well at least u guys already kinda know each other if u goto UIUC</p>
<p>haha… i guess its not fair… the mit thing… but then again… nothing is ever fair =( my friend is at umich, and it’s a pretty good school and to him its a breeze. we’ve been rivalry friends for so long, and i’ve always been sort of snobby toward him cuz i felt like i was smarter since i always beat him in everything even though i probably studied less than him. but now it’s as if he gets the last laugh sinceat umich there are people to pad the class and he’s getting an easy A. by padding the class, i mean, there are a good fraction of slackers and it makes people who work hard look good, so if the “average” was a B they drag the average down and a 70 becomes an A. </p>
<p>here at wellesley, the population is very small, and class sizes are small. most people take school every seriously, no joke. even the biggest partier will pull straight fullnighters for a week if necessary come exam time. in intensive chem last semester, i got my midterm back with an 85 and was like oh cool i thought i failed, and then she announces, the median was 90, and i sit there going ***. and it wasn’t even easy stuff- we went through an entire 2 semester of regular chem in 1 semester, hence the intensive. so if everyone worked hard there’s no one to drag the average down, and in most cases the average is a B. 95 could in extreme cases be a B</p>
<p>wow hard work hurts u… i guess that just reaffirms my entire take on life lol</p>
<p>thank you JinFX. But I know I still gotta work pretty hard on my English for living and studing in the US…And if i had a higher TOEFL score maybe I could have got into some better place. I wish I could go to Upenn or Cornell hotel school…I’ll see if i can make a transfer later. But UIUC is already very good.</p>
<p>Yo lixuelai, where are you from?</p>
<p>hmmm,uiuc.i work in my school’s library so i see that school’s name a lot.my school’s also in illinois by the way.</p>
<p>i HATE humanities classes.it’s so uncertain.you never know what kind of grade you’ll get on your papers, no matter how hard you work on it.it’s so subjective.not like science.you basically work hard and you know you’ll get a good grade.UGH
sorry,i got a b on my english paper and am right now extremely ****ed off.</p>
<p>VAnillaice are you current living in the U.S right now. HAve you heard of a korean drama calls “Goong/Palace/princess hour”?
What do you do on your spare time?</p>
<p>humanities r like, test of interpreting/following the teacher/grader</p>
<p>science is like, test of exploiting/owning the teacher/test</p>
<p>math is like, test of common sense/vocabulary</p>
<p>vocab?? how is math vocab??? haha im like doing another month of math in less than 7 hours. please kill me right now. i think im going to collapse. vector spaces and spans are not fun especially in 7 hours</p>
<p>So are all of you already in college?</p>
<p>What about seniors who just got their decisions? Where are all of you going?</p>
<p>barcelona? the diving and swimming was tight</p>
<p>alot of our college ppl are fresh or soft (i think… like, they met here prob when they got accepted to US skools… but thats an ass/u/me/ption)</p>
<p>i am senior prob going to ucla (o yea i found out cal only wants me for spring)</p>
<p>math is vocab, in arabic… 1234567890 are words in arabic, then theres these random signs u gotta memorize like =-+!.. then its just rules… u can derive everything urself but the whole point of being in class is watching how somebody else derived it a thousand and one years ago… its more common sense… but still some random facts u gotta memorize cuz the derivation gets long… lol what am i doing</p>
<p>thing is, i know more ppl at cal irvine and SB but i live right next to ucla</p>
<p>I am currently a junior who doesn’t have a life and come to CC everyday.</p>
<p>haha that was me in highschool! i was like… so addicted i made about 50 posts /day for a week. yeah… real funny and ironic that i found this site around APRIL of last year during my spring break. when all my decisons were coming in, so its not like this site actually did anything for me except make me feel depressed either a) read about extraordinary people with abnormally perfect apps get into my first choice (stanford) or b) read about 1200 SAT under 4.0 GPA get into stanford and i sit there thinking where the hell did i go wrong. either way, i’m either jealous of their talent or their luck. while i sit here, with none of the two wasting my life away</p>
<p>xo,are u kidding me?u’re in wellesley.im in lake forest.yeah,no one knows where that is.
ln17,yea i’m in the us right now.nope have not heard of that korean drama.my spare time?hmm,watching taiwan tv shows, talk to ppl about random stuff, go on facebook/cc forum/msn space.</p>
<p>i sincerely hate math.but i believe i hate physics more.chemistry and biology is where my heart is.
noooooooooo MORE PAPERS!!!end of the year coming and i’m panicking!!!</p>
<p>VAN i hate math TOO (esp those stupid prooofs). test this friday and i am sOo beyond screwed</p>
<p>korean drama? haha. i watched ‘my sassy girl’ on the bus last weekend and thought i was going to die for a bit then it got slightly better. i guess you just sorta get used to the sappiness after a while</p>
<p>summer, summer…where are you??</p>
<p>myoomyoo, Im from Nanjing, China but iv been in the US for like awhile now so im not really international (green card). Interesting status i am in since Im kind of a citizen also lol because my mother is an American citizen.</p>
<p>Anyway i dont know if i am going to UIUC yet since my chances seems pretty good on the waitlists im on. UIUC is a good school though since my father went there for his Masters and he always thought well of it. He told me the environment is good and rather relaxing. He liked it far better than MIT and CalTech where he went for his phd and postdoc.</p>
<p>8 pages ap euro paper due friday. and research paper for english due on monday. that’s a lot stuff for me, since i write really slow. donno how i m gonna live in college.</p>
<p>oh believe me,you’ll find ways to survive.
i had one cup of caramel machiatto this morning and i’m still hyper.it’s 6:47 by the way.man coffee really works for me.
yy,u thought my sassy girl was sappy?you’ve seen nothing yet.i’m serious.those korean soap operas will make u wanna throw things at the tv from time to time.</p>