@tuty143 I’m watching Turkish soaps. Is that okay?
@collapp77 that was me! Idk what it’s for either… and @schroscat about 6-7 lines?
compares gap with others
@schroscat no. jk yeah.
Is the gap at the top of the page beneath the welcome lines?
@tuty143 Or watch some Everybody Hates Chris. The perfect anti-anxiety solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Odr15W8rI
Yoooo the gap isn’t a myth. It’s real!
ok if we’re telling stories here’s a story about my service trip to france over the summer. it’s very long but very eventful.
so my uncle (a priest) and like 3 other adults take 21 high school seniors on a service trip to lourdes every year to help the disabled people get around the shrine. we were in lourdes for almost two weeks, pulling the disabled (the malades) around in little carts. it was a ton of fun!! my malade and i really bonded, even though i don’t speak french and she didn’t speak english. we would take turns pointing to different objects and repeating them in our native language, then in the other’s language (i can say duck, dog, egg, river, rock, and church in french. yay for fluency!). it was great.
BUT ANYWAY THIS IS WHERE THE REAL STORY STARTS
we flew to paris to spend a night there before we left france the next morning. we got there at about 2pm, checked into the hotel, and went church-hopping (because this was a Jesus trip). after we finish traveling all around paris by metro to look at all of these super-cool churches, my uncle goes, “ok guys, you have to be back at the hotel at 12:30am. have fun!” and basically left with the other adults. it was about 6pm at this point.
my group decides to split up pretty much evenly. half of us find a restaurant to have a nice sit-down dinner in, while everyone else went to an irish pub. who goes to an irish pub when you’re in paris??? ANYWAY
our group finished our dinner at like 7:30 and went to go check on the other group in the pub. we got there and i realized 2 things very quickly:
- i was going to be the only sober one by the end of the night
- Something Bad was probably going to happen
we were GOING to go to the eiffel tower, but everyone wanted to get wasted instead so they all ordered tequila shots. i’m not really a fan of drinking (too type-A to lose control), so i went and bought a crepe and sat in the bar. EVENTUALLY, after everyone is sufficiently drunk, they decide that the eiffel tower IS a good idea after all.
they all pour out of the bar, basically being loud, drunk, American teenagers. at this point it’s hitting me that i am LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE SOBER so now it’s apparently my job to get TWENTY DRUNK TEENAGERS to and back from the eiffel tower alive. luckily, we all had metro passes from earlier that day, so i found a metro stop and had them all follow me down as i tried to figure out the train schedule.
please let me make three things clear:
- i'm not a commanding person. i'm a 5'4" ginger who's not a fan of conflict or asking for help.
- i can count on one hand the number of times i've taken public transport by myself.
- I DO NOT SPEAK FRENCH!!!!!
however, by some miracle (probably the lourdes water), i figured out the schedule and sat my charges on a bench to wait. one thing i did not take into account, though, is that DRUNK PEOPLE HAVE TO PEE A LOT!!! so now it was my job to find a bathroom. apparently i couldn’t do it fast enough, though, because five of the girls decided to go off into this abandoned area of the train platform and form a PEE CIRCLE. they PEED ON THE FLOOR IN PUBLIC!!! two of the boys also peed into closets.
at this point, i’m terrified that we’re like gonna get arrested. thankfully, the train comes right then so everyone stops peeing. i get them on the train, keep apologizing to EVERYONE in the vicinity (i can say “sorry” in four languages now), and wait for our stop to be called. finally, we make it to the eiffel tower stop. At this point, it’s like 10 pm.
the next challenge is finding the eiffel tower. yeah, i know it’s tall, but there were a lot of trees and i’ve never been to france before!!! we walked along this path for probably 20 minutes. my group is all spread out, three girls are crying, and everyone wants to buy more alcohol from the street vendors.
FINALLY, we make it to the Tower. everyone is still drunk and it has started to rain. i’m in a dress and practically crying out of stress. everyone takes their photos and tries to convince me to let them ride up the tower. it’s like 11:15 so i say no way, but two more girls start crying. at this point, i don’t care. i get them walking back toward the metro, once again is separate groups.
THEN, OH MY GOD three of these (incredibly drunk) girls get into a TAXI. i’m yelling for them to get out because there are just a few more blocks until the train, but they don’t stop. i’m really crying now. we make it back onto the train and i’m just using my camp counselor voice full-on, like yelling at them to be quiet or they won’t get to keep the souvenirs they bought. we make it back to the hotel at 12:25 and i literally collapsed in the bathtub of my hotel room, full-out sobbing from relief.
tl;dr: spent my 1 night in paris crying and taking care of drunk kids
(if you read to the end, congrats, u deserve to go to harvard just because of ur stamina)
@QueenN22 That’s a nice attitude to have, and one that I really personally admire. Too many people, including me at times, care so much about SAT/ACT/GPA/Awards/Omg how many volunteer hours can you fit in a year…etc. that we are led astray from the goal of simply being good people and positive influences to those around us. .-.
I thought the gap was always there… no one answered my question. Once decisions come out, would there be a link of our status page to see the letter
@QueenN22 I don’t think the gap was always there. And about the link, seems like most likely option. I doubt you’ll just see your decision right there when you log in to the portal. Or maybe I’m wrong…
@archaeologygirl When you get older & have kids, THIS is the story you tell to deter your children from drinking.
Also, this gap can fit 2.25 rows of iPhone 5s apps.
I had a page of the applicant portal open from like five days ago that hasn’t been refreshed since then. I took a screenshot of it from top to bottom, refreshed it, relogged in, and compared the screenshot and the portal side by side… there is no gap, I think y’all are delusional from anxiety ^-^
I see the gap to, about six lines #spacegate haha
My gap seems as much as this message box
The thigh gap has become the Harvard gap.
I notice the gap too!
ahahaha. @Pernix This is as bad as the quarter grades scandal.
We have 50 minutes to reach the 200 page goal. CAN WE DO IT?