<p>Books I should have read by now that for some odd reason I haven’t? Oh, theres too many. I’m constantly adding books to my to-read list. To name a few:
-1984
-Slaughterhouse 5
-Interpreter of Maladies
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (even if it hasn’t been published yet…:))</p>
<p>GAH! Too many books and not enough time!! I could seriously just go on vacation for a few years and do nothing but read, read, read…</p>
<p>“Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose” by Paris Hilton, Merle Ginsberg, and Jeff Vespa.</p>
<p><em>end sarcasm</em> With THREE, count 'em, THREE authors, you’d think it’s gotta be good right? But as I recently realized when I approached it in my local library (in my defence, I was not fully awake; and plus, who can avoid pink, especially after seeing Legally Blonde?), the ever-so-consistent Paris never fails to fail common sense!</p>
<p>Literature – or what you will – aside, I’d like to share with you something my classmates and I derived today in AP Chem (this is as productive as it gets when history substitutes try to teach a chemistry class).</p>
<p>I present to you the equation of your pE (potential ego – similar to pH, pKa, etc.) relative to your classmates!</p>
<p>pE = [(# of students in your class)-(your rank)+1]/(# of hours you spent doing class related work)</p>
<p>Therefore, the higher your rank (higher as in closer to 1), and the less time you spent studying, the larger your ego allowance. This doesn’t mean you are egotistical, just that you have the potential for that much ego!
Notice how it accounts for class size, and also how it doesn’t involve logs even though it is a p(something). The step-up into the logarithmic scale will be coming shortly! Further note the +1 in the numerator; it is there so as to allow the lowest ranked student in the class to have some ego because everyone’s got the potential for a little ego! XD</p>
<p>Hope you enjoy it, and not abuse it! (Okay, you can abuse it – just politely though)</p>
<p>wow…this thread is finally slowing down…hehe</p>
<p>it’ll pick up by march, believe me…</p>
<p>My iMac with:
1.All my TASS essays
2. 30gig worth of iTunes music and movies
3. assorted Hmwk</p>
<p>Is completely broken 
:(<br>
Price range is 300-2000$ to fix or 200$ for me to get my essays recovered</p>
<p>(And of course I dont have digital or final hard copies of my essays) </p>
<p>I’m so mad right now. GAHHHHH!
Like my mom got mad at me for having a bad attitude and I totally lost it at her. Almost to the point of tears about my dang essays. WHYYY!!!</p>
<p>I guess I will have to call Telluride on monday and ask if they can send me a copy of my essays :-/</p>
<p>Awww Corey, I’m sorry
Malfunctioned computers are always such a hassle. I hope you are able to somehow recover your essays!</p>
<p>Oh, that’s terrible! I nearly had a heart attack when my laptop crashed with all my essays, worth about three years of my life… But it’s okay, I’m sure you will recover everything. Did you save any of your papers on disks?</p>
<p>oh man, i’m sorry corey. that’s horrible! i know i completely lost it when my laptop got a virus that wiped out just about everything i’m sure everything will end up ok. let us know how it all works out!</p>
<p>ahhhhh! a similar thing happened to someone last year, if i remember correctly, and she/he sent an email to telluride and they sent her with a copy of all her essays. i hope you get your laptop fixed. =(</p>
<p>“completely smoking the RSI thread”
haha, true! tasp is number one after all: )</p>
<p>Just a quick bump to bring this thread back up to the top (: There’s no way the other threads are getting ahead of us, haha.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your laptop Corey! I bet telluride wouldn’t mind at all sending your essays to you. What about your music/movies? Can you get those back as well?</p>
<p>This morning, for the first time since submitting, I reread my essays.</p>
<p><em>winces</em></p>
<p>In other news, any success with the laptop yet Corey?</p>
<p>thanks for all the support :D</p>
<p>Right now I’m on a new computer. Went out to the mall and got one today, so glad that I can at least come to this wonderful albeit dieing :-/ thread :-p</p>
<p>So I think I’m going to have to disassemble my old computer some time and extract the hard drive than supposedly I can get the data off of it somehow. Hopefully that will work :-P</p>
<p>Sounds tedious but it is definitely worth it.</p>
<p>Hope everyone else is doing well.</p>
<p>-Corey</p>
<p>i was shocked to find RSI as the top thread, and felt that this should be remedied immediately.</p>
<p>corey, that’s great that you managed to solve the problem. 
gl with uploading and everything!</p>
<p>now, onto the issue of my biology paper…hmm…</p>
<p>inkspill, I avoid my essays precisely to avoid the wincing.</p>
<p>CC brings out my insecurities because my irrational mind constantly thinks of you all as not necessarily competition, but people better qualified who will engage in more fulfilling experiences than me. </p>
<p>I know I could have spent more time on my TASP essays, but I didn’t. Nothing I can do now.</p>
<p>Um.</p>
<p><em>hides in corner and cries like an emo child</em></p>
<p>Just kidding (about the emo).</p>
<p>Aeschina - oh, I had every intention of avoiding my essays but alas, I succumbed…</p>
<p>I dreamt about TASP last night. In said dream, I recieved a very large, decorative purple envelope in the mail and I was elated beyond belief because I thought perhaps large envelope = acceptance. I ripped the seal open and much to my dismay, a single post it note fell out. On it was written “SORRY” in permanent red ink.
I woke up nearly crying (yes, that’s how traumatizing it was) and immediately felt compelled to reread my essays. <em>sigh</em> I just want this anxious period of limbo to end. Wishing/hoping/wishing again that it ends with good news for all of us!</p>
<p>It might be a bit premature, but I got my acceptance to TASP by the means of an email. Which didn’t even say “Congrats” on the subject line. A bit scary.</p>
<p>To avoid any confusion, I am an '06 UTASPer. =)</p>
<p>Oh wowww, inkspill. That’s even worse than my nightmare last night of having a C in French :eek:</p>
<p>ahh the waiting! on the bright side, only 40ish days until we find out… yep. i’m a dork and i counted. hehe.</p>
<p>Hey, we actually had a midnight release party for Harry Potter in '05. Even better, I got to call my friends in a time zone over and taunt them. Needless to say, that weekend was a wash.</p>