<p>So, just when I thought I was done with EVERYTHING (college applications, essays, FA apps, tax docs, etc, etc) I get an e-mail inviting me to apply for the Honors Program at Geneseo. Two essays.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong I’m happy and excited but wow. Haha, it really doesn’t end.</p>
<p>Haha gappy, it never does end. After honors, you will be running around trying to get your visa organised.</p>
<p>^That.</p>
<p>Wheee gaps happy Honors! I’m sure you’ll get in.</p>
<p>I have deal with the IDOC now. I procrastinated on it cause I didn’t want to talk about college all hopelessly anymore, but whatever.</p>
<p>^Good luck, Quasi. I managed to wriggle out of IDOC… for now. If I get into Harvard, then I’ll have to deal with it. In other words, I’m done with IDOC! </p>
<p>And yeah, no, Geneseo’s Honors is extremely hard to get into, apparently, and it all hinges on one essay and another short statement. Sigh. </p>
<p>We’ll see.</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ll get into honors.</p>
<p>Best of luck with IDOC, Quasi!</p>
<p>Apparently my family met the cast of Goa. </p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>ROFL. Were they all excited? :D</p>
<p>I was watching The Dark Knight yesterday (FINALLY!) and drooling over Christian Bale’s voice when my mom burst in and demanded I record some Shahrukh Khan documentary.</p>
<p>tetris and GB have ALWAYS been right about Christian Bale. <3</p>
<p>IDOC is a disaster. Harvard is my only college that wants it - I am going to ask them if I can send it in later, because my parents don’t even have their taxreturns!</p>
<p>And we were indeed right about Christian Bale, Quasi!</p>
<p>Oooh, can I just not send it at all now, considering I’m 80 percent not going? And 100 percent not going to Harvard? Would that work? I looked at it for a minute earlier and then went back to watching Annie Hall.</p>
<p>exactly - I don’t understand the forms AT ALL. </p>
<p>Ugh ugh ugh. </p>
<p>I mean, if the correct forms aren’t available yet - I can’t send them in right?
I guess Ill be calling them up in a minute or so. (A)</p>
<p>The two girls were so excited, they think the guys are hot. God help me.</p>
<p>Yes, GB, my parents can’t even get their tax returns till later in like April, so I told them screw IDOC, I’m sending it to your office. IDOC is annoying, simply because they want so many things so specifically even the size of the paper. (We use A4 size, not letter paper size) Nonsense. </p>
<p>Quasi, HAHA, if I were you, I’d do it anyway. You never know. 20% is still 20%.</p>
<p>EDIT : Ew christian bale.</p>
<p>Eeesh I don’t want to bother my dad with it right now. 
I’M JUST GONNA IGNORE IT.</p>
<p>Yeah gaps, 20 percent is a huge leap from the 5 percent it was some weeks ago. :D</p>
<p>^Well yeah, that makes sense. Is there anyway you can do the tax forms on your own? Just asking, you don’t really have to, screw Harvard lah. </p>
<p>I don’t even feel like going any more. What if I major in something unemployable and then live in a cramped apartment for the rest of my life? I want to love what I do but I’m too used to my middle class lifestyle. Haha. Decisions, decisions.</p>
<p>You’ll figure it out, gaps. Trust me. And you shan’t major in something unemployable - you’re on CC for a reason. :p</p>
<p>I’ve been through the decisions-wringer majorly these last few weeks, and the one thing I decided on is that I’m not doing what would’ve been the safe logical choice for me - law school. It’s like, when kids are five they’re going around wanting to be a fireman or a princess or in my weird friend’s case a maid, but when I was five I decided I wanted to do something with reading and writing and the English language. I’ve always known what I love and while I’m definitely going to try out a LOT of new things, I’m sticking with it. Somehow. Or at least trying to as much as I can. Cheesy as that sounds.</p>
<p>Okay - I just called Harvard. </p>
<p>You guys should do that IDOC thing ASAP! Next week should be okay, but they must rather have it sooner.</p>
<p>I’m proud of you, Quasi. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t want to go to med school here, because it would’ve been * so * safe. Although, I have to admit, ever since I was 5 like you, I had already imagined myself in a doctor’s coat. So much so that it took every ounce of mental strength to turn down those offers. But hey, I can still go to med school in the States, I guess. Yes, I know how extremely difficult it is and I know about loans and crap, but… We’ll see. I might just turn down US and do some sort of med degree in Aus/NZ. </p>
<p>What I do know is that I want to love what I’m studying now. I don’t want to work toward that image of being a doctor any more. I’ve done that all my life and I couldn’t imagine doing it for another five more years in med school.</p>
<p>EDIT : GB, I called Harvard too. They said since I don’t have my 2009 tax return yet (not allowed to file till April), to send in my 2008 tax return to their office with a note explaining.</p>
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<p>Why not, though? If it’s what you want more than anything.</p>
<p>But yeah. Having time to figure things out is good. I’m absolutely sure you will eventually. I just don’t want any of us to be ‘whatever’ people until we absolutely HAVE to. </p>
<p>And gah, getting my ass on the IDOC now. :mad: A third Subject test AND all this extra FA material, what else do you want before rejecting me, Harvard, my right hand? :mad:</p>
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<p>Well, see, its this image I’ve had. But I don’t know if its necessarily * my * image. I mean my parents don’t force me or anything, but growing up here, it seems as if EVERYONE goes into engineering/medicine/law/economics. I THOUGHT I was passionate about science but what if I’m not? I mean I haven’t really done any real research into what it takes to become a doctor. I haven’t shadowed a doctor, I havent volunteered at a clinic. I will, though, if I go to the US.</p>
<p>Becoming a doctor is so cut and dry. I could, I’d be a professional, it’d be easy, I’d have financial stability and job security. But am I attracted to med because of all of this or because I really love it? Thats what I gotta figure out, and I really needed more time for that. I also needed way more time to learn everything else that I love, besides science. I’m not ready to give those things up just yet and I feel like I need to give them another chance.</p>
<p>I see what you mean! That’s incredible. I’m very very happy about that. :D</p>
<p>Ah, to be a human rights activist with a cramped apartment and no money for traveling/eating out or a doctor with enough money but no time for traveling and eating out now that’s the dilemma. :D</p>
<p>EDIT : If you’re not becoming a lawyer, Quasi, what do you plan to apply for if you stay in India?</p>