So I just worked with my teacher on points for my leadership speech. Here are my points:
Talk about languages and importance of communication (my programming background and how hard it is to understand each other)
-Social media is just one way, but it is taking over - to our detriment
-Example(s) of how social media isn’t effective communication - can’t read people, can’t discuss in a group in real time, reading and responding to others - it weakens the value of the discourse when everyone has all day to think about what they want to say and says it: it is fundamentally selfish and self-indulgent communication
Talk about how different languages contribute to a diverse community
Talk about community service
-Leadership is necessary to connect people
-Motivate people to elevate their level of concern regarding any issue that requires smart, talented people to work together
-Once we elevate our level of concern, we can refocus our attention on change, rather than self-indulgent status quo
Both of the schools I applied to release their decisions in early 2018, so I still have some time before I find out if I’m in or not. I don’t know whether or not that’s a positive or negative yet.
No one I know got into Stanford , no applicants to the other places that released Friday that I know
But my best friend got into her dream school, Northeastern ED!
Do you guys have any tips for preparing yourselves for rejection//convincing yourself you’re rejected before the decision? I’m so stressed about mine coming out soon and have a sliver of false hope I want to throw out LOL but I’m too optimistic!!!
My one friend was deferred from Stanford and I’m still really happy for her because at least she knows she was a good enough applicant to be in the top 20% of the Stanford pool and that really is something to be proud of.
Well during our celebratory Stanford acceptance lunch there was a little bit of a meltdown over the fact that Stanford is minimum 2000 miles away from every single school I applied too. I’m super happy for him, like I have never been so happy. But you know, theres just a part of me that wishes his dream school wasn’t one that was SOO far away
one of my friends from my research program got into stanford…now more people are convinced I’m going to get into Yale. i feel even more pressure, great!
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