@tigerman333 @GrandBudapest I love & play tennis! Do either of you?
@tigerman333 Hey, that is pretty cool that you can speak Hindi. I can speak and read Urdu but not write it. My dad actually speaks Punjabi, but I can only vaguely understand it.
@eyrar99 @SugarSmarts You can try learning a language via Doulingo! I’m going to be learning Russian over the summer
Learning languages is always fun because each language has its own beautiful expressions that completely lose meaning once translated. I speak Arabic and translations don’t do the language justice. Like you can say something in Arabic that means something really nice, but once you translate it, it sounds confusing and plain.
It’s a pity humans don’t have all the languages built in our minds. I would love to know all these different languages.
@tigerman333 @eyrar99 I don’t play but I wish. I watch tennis religiously (even at like 3 in the morning for minor tournaments). I love Venus, Vika, and Federer 
@foliontai Nice! Hindi and Urdu are almost identical, except for the way they are written. From my understanding, when the Persians came into India, they took the language but then they wrote it in Arabic script. I think the same applies for Pakistani and Indian Punjabi.
@GrandBudapest @eyrar99 I play on the school team. I love playing except that I kinda suck (no consistency haha) and get frustrated easily (if i could, i would break a racquet each match but they are pretty $$). My favorite players are probably Sharapova (before the drug scandal), Djokovic, and Nishikori
@tigerman333 I love Sharapova I’m sticking by her
@coffeeaddicted my dad shuts off my computer access at ~10 pm., but i’m definitely pacific!! california ftw. sorta. same with prom!! and the whole “getting ahead thing”. i admire your ability to stay focused on school oop :’)
and i feel with the science thing. i had no idea what i wanted to do before…late last year/early this year, and my ec’s (and to some extent my classes) definitely reflect that ://.
OH I STARTED PLAYING TENNIS THIS YEAR!! I NEED TO PRACTICE BUT IT’S REALLY FUN. delusions of being the next serena williams lol.
@SugarSmarts oh man those actual results…or even the chances…some people are getting ranked at “7/10” or even “5/10” when they have amazing ec’s and sat/act scores. granted my sat score is something i’m proud of, but my ec’s are definitely something i can’t necessarily boast about.
ALSO I WOULD LOVE TO LEARN JAPANESE!! i started learning kanji this year but i realized i needed to focus on only one language (spanish) otherwise i’d end up failing the class/losing all appreciation for spanish out of frustration. lol.
I would love to learn German, Japanese, and American Sign Language. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time for any of them, so I’m sticking to Spanish.
@tigerman333 lol I kind of suck at tennis, too… but I still adore it! I don’t watch much because I don’t watch any TV (parents, sigh).
@blackkitteycat Yeah, Duolingo is amazing! I wish it had Latin. I also really want to learn French or Italian (I’m halfway fluent in Spanish)
Agh I’m really done right now because I just got the lowest score possible (AKA a really bad grade) on my physics grade, so my grade is about to drop four percent from a 90 to an 86. I honestly don’t know why projects are so heavily weighted in our grades since whether they work or not is purely luck 
It’s going to take me so much effort to raise my grade back up again (I had to do the same thing last semester and I hated it), and I’m already burnt out from all the work I have in my other classes. And we still have a second semester project, and given my notoriously bad luck with projects, even if I get my grade back up to a 90 by the time the final spins around, it’ll drop again after the last project. I honestly don’t even know why I try anymore. (Also today: my English and Calculus grades dropped 2% each.)
Ack. I just got the generic not-even-viewbook-just-a-large-brochure Harvard mailing today, and my mom’s like, “Ahhhh look Harvard really wants you! You’re gonna get into Harvard!”
No, Mom. That’s not how it works. 8-|
@eyrar99 OMG. my mom thought that too the first time harvard sent me stuff HAHA!
@tonystarkofwinterfell i’m so sorry that you had a bad day! wow, yeah - i understand projects being important, but to have them that weighted is a bit absurd :// i hope your grades go up and even though this is a downward blip on the radar, i know you’ll be able to push through! although i don’t know you personally, you seem like a lovely hardworking diligent student, and i believe in you things suck right now, but hopefully tomorrow everything seems brighter. it’s okay to be totally done with everything - ah, there’s been so many days like that this year :’). you can do it!!
@desideratum Oh, mothers…
@tonystarkofwinterfell I second everything @desideratum said… we’re rooting for you and believe in you!
@eyrar99 Omg same w/ my dad!!! I was like: “no dad, they do this so that more people can apply, then they reject them, and their acceptance rate decreases”
2/6 are no’s for the lab research summer thing XD I knew it was a long shot, but…OH WELL. Gotta keep trying!
Have any of you ever heard of the Miami University Summer Scholars? I got a brochure from them in the mail and normally I just ignore these things but this one actually seems like an interesting option if I get rejected from all my other very competitive summer programs. It’s also only two weeks, which is good because I am a captain for volleyball and need to be home most of the summer, and its only $1500, which is still a lot, but not nearly as outrageous as many of the programs I’ve seen.
Lol, my parents also fall for those letters. It was hilarious when my mom came running at me with mail from UChicago, Harvard, Columbia, and Yale. All the excitement drained from her phase when I told her they don’t mean anything.
Hmm, maybe I need to be more optimistic. This whole college process has made me a bit too realistic about everything in life.
omg I got a letter from Yale the other day (not even a package, a letter) and my parents were like “it looks like Yale is impressed by your academics!” And I was like “guys, they’re advertising”
My parents get really excited about the letters too, mainly because my sister never got any when she was in high school (nine years ago, though). I just ignore them, for the most part.