<p>I have heard of Seychelles but I thought it was an island or something. <em>embarrassed</em> </p>
<p>I like that there are so few Malaysians in the US, they all seem to know each other.</p>
<p>Wow, I did not expect any of guys to know anything about Seychelles. They are an archipelago nation. Whenever I visit there, the immigrations guy here in India spends 5 minutes to figure out if it is actually a country.</p>
<p>No, you were correct Gappy, it is an archipello near the coast of India I think.</p>
<p>Its in the Indian Ocean. Near Madagascar.</p>
<p>Oh true, confused its location with the Maldives.</p>
<p>OMG now I remember! We were planning to vacation there, but it fell through. </p>
<p>Haha, I can pretend to be reasonably well-read when the situation calls for it. ;)</p>
<p>But you know, now that I think about it, all Malaysians who go to US, especially elite schools, know each other. My best friend was friends with a guy in Swarthmore on financial aid. He knows the girl in Columbia who read some of my application essays and advised me a lot. She knew the alum from Cornell who organizes campaigns to encourage students to go to US. My Yale interview knew the Columbia girl, the Swarthmore guy and the Cornell alum. My Middlebury interviewer knew the Cornell alum. Its a very tight network over here. Kinda cool, actually.</p>
<p>My friend has family in the Seychelles!</p>
<p>I love how *****y 90210 can be.</p>
<p>Naomi : I wanna go to <insert fake=“” uni=“” here=“”>
College counselor : You can’t. Your test scores and grades are not what they require. Plus you have no extra-curricular activities.
Naomi : But… but I love it there. And I’m a legacy.
Counselor : I’m afraid that’s not enough. You need to start looking for schools within your reach, like Santa Monica Community College.</insert></p>
<p>Lol.</p>
<p>Love it.</p>
<p>Gappy, you *****y guy :p</p>
<p>Wow tetris, even you’ve heard about that place! It is a small world after all.</p>
<p>^Nah, we’re just extremely worldly and well-read. ;)</p>
<p>Not to mention self-patronizing ;)</p>
<p>I have made it my mission to know every country/capital and its location.
So yeah.</p>
<p>Besides, a lot of my friends go there on holidays (jealous.)</p>
<p>EDIT: I love how they portray college admissions in tv series, like in the O.C (“Oh, you are a recovering
drug addict, killed someone? WELCOME TO STANFORD!”, Gossip Girl, etc. Also Rory: “Yale and Princeton are my safety schools for Harvard”.</p>
<p>Sporcle helping you with that, GB? :p</p>
<p>Hehe. Yeah and how Summer got into Brown but Seth didn’t because, if I remember correctly, she got higher on the SAT even though his grades were always much better.</p>
<p>I hated Summer and loved Seth. Naturally, I hated that storyline.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen the OC :p</p>
<p>On some TV show, this guy said Yale would have been his safety if he wouldnt get into Caltech. Yale and Caltech are like chalk and cheese. Its pathetic.</p>
<p>God damn. I need to go to school to get my midyear report signed and stamped. Damn University of Rochester.</p>
<p>i sent my teacher recs, counselor thingy and transcript three times, all 34 pages of it.
yale still hasnt got it, sent me an email saying ‘wtEFF is wrong with you are you withdrawing your app or some shizzle’ [paraphrasing here], so i faxed my stuff over, FOURTH TIME.
now im waiting till its 2am here so i can call and confirm and see if they FINALLY HAVE MY FORMS.
i am a tad annoyed with yale.</p>
<p>p.s. i think im emotionally all wrung out.
my bipolar hope swings have fizzled out at the recession point.
NG. i need to be uber-hyped for the evaluative nyu ad candidate weekend.
■■■.</p>