<p>oooh are you going to cornell II, celita? </p>
<p>million! corey and i both love her. you’ll be with us in spirit!</p>
<p>Celita: Wait, really? Cornell II? In that case we shall meet!</p>
<p>And yes, million will most definitely be with us in spirit</p>
<p>I’m in at Cornell II! Who else here is going there?</p>
<p>daen! =D and other cool awesome people. check the facebook group! type in “cornell tasp 2007”</p>
<p>Hey i second Celita, any previous Tasp’ers wanna share stories/tips/advice/factota/strangehappenings… etc.! especially any previous UT taspers… but any input would be awesome :]</p>
<p>Well, I think this’ll be my last post on CC for a while, now that TASP is over. I’ll come and check up on you guys every once in a while though.</p>
<p>It’s been fun! I’ll stay in touch through AIM with the “inner circle” though, of course. =D</p>
<p>Bye Iris. Will talk to you soon.</p>
<p>Keep me updated with your endeavors in NYC! :D</p>
<p>Yeah what iris said i guess.</p>
<p>YAYYY my journalism teacher is cool.</p>
<p>Andddd I got into another summer thing 
called JCamp which is supposedly like THE program for journalists. Only 6 days though (although they do cover airfare :P) and wow. It’s supposedly like 40 chosen out of 600 apps :O</p>
<p>Dude I totally have a super high ego right now 
Of course I’m going to turn it down. I’m actually kind of sad right now, though 
It does sound pretty amazing…do you think TASP would let me leave for a week :P</p>
<p>Well, at least if some of you can’t go, you’ll be making kids on the waitlist happy? Positive side of a negative-ish sitch. Oh well. <3</p>
<p>You can buy your fans there, at least at Cornell. There are nearby stores and whatnot. I bought my electric fan at a shop near The Best Western Hotel (I got to Cornell earlier with my mom and grandma) for about 20 bucks. It’s easier to get some essentials AT your location, like pillows and stuff, so you don’t have to pack 'em.</p>
<p>Corncob kids (Cornell kids), contact me for questions about ANYTHING, from the campus to Collegetown. Oh, on that note, Purity Ice-Cream is really good for ice-cream and random, asian goodies. There’s a Bubble Tea place on the other side, a few shops down from Purity. CollegeTown Bagels is gooood for bagels. Ummm, what else. The Cornell Cinema shows cool movies, so you should check that out as well. There are often free, outdoor concerts in the Arts & Sciences quad. You can borrow books and MOVIES from the librares at Cornell…ummm…There’s a 4th of July shindig (ice-cream! pop-rocks!) and fireworks thing. Oh, and ROLL DOWN THE HILLS! SERIOUSLY! It’s SO fun. There are really cool used-book stores (The Phoenix, was one? The Big/Red Barn was another.), but they’re not at a walking distance, so if your profs are as awesome as mine were, they can take you. 
You can also allocate funds for buses or something. Tremon Falls = cool beans, with a hiking trail, a diving board, WATERFALLS, lake-y stuff, and just awesome awesome stuff. We had a sexy photoshoot there. ;P</p>
<p>The Ithaca Commons are cool. There’s a nice vintage clothes shop (sometimes it has nice, cheap stuff!) called P…Purdue. lmao. It’s not Purdue, but it’s like that…Parune? Whatever. There’s a Starbucks (YUM), a Laser Tag place somewhere in there…Bead shops, REALLY hippie shops (Ithaca is TOTALLY hippie-town), cool costume shops (so much cool stuff in there), and a public library (where I went with G. Stat. and read children’s books for a while ^_^).</p>
<p>There’s the Farmer’s Market, too, where they sell jewelry, ethnic foods, candles, and random stuff (like some REALLY good apple juice/cider). It’s a long walk away, but <em>I</em> was able to do it, so you can, too. :P</p>
<p>The waitlist isn’t that bad. Set yourself on rejection and then you might be pleasantly surprised. I think there was one waitlisted kid at Cornell last year. Hmmm.</p>
<p>Bre: I STILL have it in my inbox, along with all the ones I exchanged with my interviewer WHO IS POSITIVELY AWESOME AND SUPER AND LOVELY. (and I finally SAW what he looked like; yay for stalkage!) XD </p>
<p>Oh noes Miss Hu. <em>hug</em> (You would’ve raised the TASP hotness factor!) Millionloveforevarhomg. </p>
<p>Celita, Dae, Brodsky! Ask away and I shall answer! ^_^</p>
<p>Well, a guy from TASP last year left a week early for a play he had to act in (in LONDON!)…you could ask, I guess. Congrats, though, Tako. SEE? YOU ARE AMAZING, POOPYHEAD!</p>
<p>More stuff about Cornell. Hm. It can get hot. Try to convince your factota to turn on the A/C. There is only A/C in both seminar rooms. By the end of TASP, we had 'em turned on almost all day, lmao, and we even slept in there. ILLEGAL ACTIVITEEES, but still. XD Buy an electric fan for your room. They’re cheap nearby.This is really random, but the tables are super fun to dance on and slide on. Seriously. They’re these slidey, long seminar-tables. You can plug in your iPod to BIG speakers, if anyone brings some. That REALLY helps for the parties and just random dancing and singing. There’s a piano, which everyone is welcome to play. 
We used budget-money to buy more water-guns last year, so take advantage of those SuperSoakers. You can also use ziplock bags as waterballoons. Water containers serve for dumping water on people below, too. The main balcony is a great attack-place. :D</p>
<p>I’m STILL SICK. I HATE COUGHING. UGH!</p>
<p>Woudl you let yourself leave TASP for a week Jenny?</p>
<p>Yeah thats what I thought.</p>
<p>Best Western INN, sorry. It’s good and cheap. Very close to campus, too. ^_^</p>
<p>OH. Warning: Cornell is SUPER, SUPER HILLY. You will have to walk a lot if you venture out to cool places. GO ViSIT THE GORGES! Buy an “Ithaca is Gorges” shirt. You can get 'em at CollegeTown Shops. There’s also an “Ithaca is Gangsta” shirt. :P</p>
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<p>Yeah that guy was a UT TASPer. He goes to my school.
He performed Working at the Fringe festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.</p>
<p>Just thought I would show my superior knowledge over Aida.</p>
<p>I WANT TO CALL AIDA!!!</p>
<p>P.S. - If any of you want to buy me the new special edition of “American Doll Posse” by Tori Amos, y’know…you can do that. Thaaaaat’d be great. =P</p>
<p>No. Really.</p>
<p>haaha.</p>
<p>Or. Not London. lmao. Exactly. WHATEVER. </p>
<p>SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE MY BUTT! :P</p>
<p>Haha. Well I don’t want to leave TASP, of course.</p>
<p>BUT MIAMI FLORIDA? ALL EXPENSES PAID :O</p>
<p>And how will I tell my journalism teacher that I’m turning it down I already had to tell her about summer, and now this.</p>
<p>I love TASP. But omg JCamp? I do kind of want to be a journalist…and I can’t do it next year, either.</p>
<p>AND DUDE IF I GET INTO THE CARNEGIE MELLON THING??? The EA benefit AND the fact that the course I’d take would be exactly like the WASHU TASP seminar…OH MY GOSH. </p>
<p>My life is TOO good right now. I hate it.</p>
<p>On a good note, I met Lauren today! Hehe funny convo (which I posted on her Facebook, but I’ll just copy paste)</p>
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<p>LAUREN IS A FRICKIN GENIUS.</p>
<p>It’s really bad form to leave early, and I’m pretty sure TA won’t let you leave and come back unless you have some extreme circumstances, of which another summer program is not one.</p>
<p>Wow, tako… I’m totally impressed by all the things you have lined up for you for summer! </p>
<p>A friend of mine is also applying to the Carnegie Mellon program. Are you applying for the free one or the paid one (I heard that it’s significantly more difficult to get into the free one)? And the fact that you’re considering to turn down TASP… do you want to get into CM? ('cause no one in their right mind would ever turn down TASP for any other reason) ;)</p>
<p>Speaking of summer programs… I got waitlisted at this program (which small remain unnamed) and so I e-mailed them to ask them if they could tell me why I didn’t make it since I’m turning it down. Do you know what they said!? I know I have only myself to blame for asking the question in the first place, but one of their answer was this: “No obvious interest in science”. WHAT THE HECK??? Are they serious? I can deal with low stats and whatever else, but this was just a STAB in the heart. I LOVE SCIENCE!!! Of all the reasons…!!! I am totally sad and completely shocked. T_T</p>
<p>Haha the free one, of course. It’s FREE. Which is actually one of the reasons I applied to TASP. I HATE being in my parents’ debt. I want a full ride so I don’t have to have them pay for my education.</p>
<p>And yes, CM is definitely on my college list :)</p>
<p>Anyway, I was just kidding. OF COURSE I’M GOING TO TASP THE WHOLE TIME. Wouldn’t miss it for the world UMICKER PRIDE :DDDDD I love it I love it I love it. I have already started planning my pranks (Watch out, all you Washers and Cornellians and Udders (did we ever decide a name for UT peeps?) because Jenny and Susan are ON THE PROWL. And ready to have some fun this summer)</p>
<p>And dude. I have always been such a loser. Then I got TASP, editor in chief, JCamp, and it makes me wonder. I’m still a loser, of course, but maybe there’s a little bit of hope for me in the world ;)</p>
<p>AND LMAO. So you know how a long time ago I asked my teacher to give me a C so I could get a Whoa Card (like $5 gift card if you raise your GPA .25 points). Anyway, she didn’t and I totally forgot about it.</p>
<p>AND THEN TODAY we got progress reports and I see a D minus and I’m just like what a failure I am! And the comments:</p>
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<p>LMAO. :P</p>