<p>Anyone seen this movie called “The Usual Suspects”. Noir at its best!!</p>
<p>You actually liked The Usual Suspects? Rofl.</p>
<p>I’m with tetris, The Departed is amazing. Haven’t seen the Prestige but.</p>
<p>gappy, everybody’s always recommending Eat, Pray, Love but I haven’t read it yet. Is it really that good?</p>
<p>lulu: Awwww I’m sorry. 
But congratulations on getting in!!! Maybe they can increase your aid?</p>
<p>I’ve actually held out from seeing the Usual Suspects because I’ve heard mixed reviews. It’s sitting in my hard drive, though, ready to be watched.</p>
<p>ZOMG QUASI YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE PRESTIGE. That’s my most favorite movie ever (The Departed comes a close second).</p>
<p>Hmm, should I add that book to my ever-growing list of books to read?</p>
<p>Also: why don’t I know a guy like Holden Caulfield?</p>
<p>I totally second tetris, The Prestige is one of the amazing movies I’ve ever watched!!</p>
<p>You know me, tetlove. 
I wish you were a guy, you can wish the same for me.</p>
<p>I didn’t like The Usual Suspects, but you might.</p>
<p>Hold off on adding that book. Finish the ones I recommended first. :p</p>
<p>And OK, I will watch The Prestige soon as I can!</p>
<p>Eat, Pray, Love is very nice for me. The author, Elizabeth Gilbert, is very easy to relate to and extremely likeable. I’ve stolen the book from my dad so that I can read it first. I’m assuming you know what the story is about (If not, SPOILER : an American woman gets divorced and decides to go for a year traveling. She goes to Italy (EAT), India (PRAY) and Indonesia (LOVE)). I’m only just starting at the India part, but she tells the story with such light-heartedness that I feel like I wanna take a year off and travel Italy, India and Indonesia. Definitely recommend it. But she does talk a fair bit about God. And I know I, at least, always debate with a book when it talks about religion so atheists might not love it. Although she tells her story with such innocence that you can’t help but just want to follow her journey. </p>
<p>I’ll watch the Prestige and the Departed too!! I haven’t even watched 300, though, can you believe that?</p>
<p>And who is Holden Caulfield? </p>
<p>Why can’t I meet a guy like Adam Lambert?</p>
<p>@Quasi</p>
<p>Thanks!
Well there is a gap of 10k so there are slight chances that they’ll increase it. My friend told me it’s possible to ask them to release me from ED but I’d be still accepted and thus have more time to decide? He said it’s a standard procedure :S Or I have to decline the offer?</p>
<p>holden is amaazing. read catcher in the rye. i’ll try EPL.</p>
<p>why can’t i meet a guy who isn’t a total ******bag?</p>
<p>Edit: why don’t you just call them and explain your situation honestly, lulu?</p>
<p>@lulu : As far as I know, you’d have to decide now. You can’t defer it to the RD pool because you already have your decision, unfortunately. This is as far as I know. The only way you get out of an ED agreement is if you have insufficient financial aid, which you do, in your case. Where else have you applied?</p>
<p>@Quasi : I’m going to MPH. Suggest books!!! Everyone else too.</p>
<p>I didn’t like Holden at all. What makes him amazing?</p>
<p>His ******** antennae, his sensitivity, the fact that he hates phoniness as much as I do, the fact that he isn’t happy, the fact that he’s confused and yet knows what he wants/doesn’t want, and of course the fact that he’s smart.</p>
<p>gappy: Already did! OH get One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest plizz, you’ll fall in love with McMurphy (I love that I can say that to a guy LOL).</p>
<p>Isn’t phoniness in some ways second-handing? He’s smart? How? You mean that he can tell lies well?</p>
<p>I was about to draw a comparison between Holden and Roark in my previous post! Phoniness is second-handing, yes, I agree, but it’s a more extreme version of the second-handing that everybody does to some extent. Plus Holden isn’t as much of a ****** about second-handing as Roark is. I’d love Roark if he wasn’t so…inaccessible. Holden condemns what Roark does but in a more identifiable, less remote way. Holden isn’t an ideal man, he’s human, but he has those values.</p>
<p>For example, Roark thinks there’s one kind of thing for everyone - art, literature, music, behavior, whatever. Holden’s angst is a lot more vague. More human.</p>
<p>And I meant smart in the traditional sense, as in intelligence. Without reaching his potential of course, because he doesn’t care. I wish I didn’t.</p>
<p>Holy **** Quasi, you stalked me a LOT :p</p>
<p>I thought he was just being childish - unprepared for the world maybe? </p>
<p>Why do you think he doesn’t tap into his potential?</p>
<p>I just looked at your wall and commented accordingly, tet. It didn’t last as long as I would’ve wished. ;)</p>
<p>He doesn’t tap into his potential in the sense that other people would’ve thought so. Numerically, you know?</p>
<p>He was prepared for the world enough, he knew how to manipulate other people. He just didn’t like the world. That’s childish, yeah, and it’s why he’s called Holden Caulfield - because caul is a membrane that children have and adults don’t and symbolically, Holden held on to that. But that’s something I like - not losing a ‘child-like’ way of looking at the world. Not becoming societyfied, to use horrendously bad phrasing.</p>
<p>Societyfied! Remember “economy stuff”? :p</p>
<p>Vaguely.</p>
<p>Hang on, i’ll start writing, i’m on phone.</p>
<p>Ok. In the meantime, I’ll finish the last couple of chapters of chem.</p>