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<p>Yay! I’ve wondered forever how to do those cool quote things. :D</p>
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<p>Whut whut?</p>
<p>haha. Was that in refrence to their extreme minority status in application pools?</p>
<p>corey got it.</p>
<p>OH MAN I GET IT NOW TOO.</p>
<p>Lol. That is ironic. Yet we could get into a whole debate over how, in spite of their minority status (thus abling them to get a leg up), they also tend to have a harder time getting opportunities in the first place, and all that jazz.</p>
<p>But let’s not discuss affirmative action. It’s been exhausted :)</p>
<p>Instead, I got an application for St. John’s college today! Hehe I could send it in now if I wanted to (my teachers would think I was weird…but who cares?) OH MAN ST. JOHN’S CAN BE MY EARLY ACTION COLLEGE !!! Lol. Yay. Excitement. </p>
<p>Do teachers get annoyed if you ask for too many rec letters (not just like, one letter, but actual forms that have to be filled out). Should you a multitude of teachers instead of just two? Like, if you were applying to 6 schools, each with its own rec letter, would it be better to get your two favouritist teachers to write all 6 each? Or get like 3-4 to only do 3-4 each…Wow, recs are a LOT of work. I want to be a teacher so I can fill out rec letters and get presents :D</p>
<p>jenny you’re too greedy.
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<p>1) this thread seems like it’s dying
2) anyone want to write one of my 2 essays due tomorrow? both are at least 8 pages long and i haven’t realy started them yet.</p>
<p>This thread IS dying. It’s because people aren’t interested anymore. Isn’t that sad? I mean, just think of THE PEOPLE.</p>
<p>Goodness. And yes, I mean you do get presents for writing letters of recommendations. But writing letters is a good amount of work (if you are willing to be honest and thorough, both of which I am perfectly willing to do. Actually, no, I will do even if I didn’t have to.)</p>
<p>OH MAN I AM SO EXCITED TO BE A TEACHER 
I love it 
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<p>I wonder if I’ll change my mind. I can see myself being a teacher, but I can also see people saying that I’m “wasting my potential” and that teaching is “not a lucrative career.” I mean, I get it already when my friends are like, “Wow…a teacher?” Yeah, they say it nicely but you can see it in their eyes…and their hesitation and tone. </p>
<p>Not that I care what other people think. Well, yeah, I do. RAWR.</p>
<p>But since teaching is not a particularly lucrative career, I’ll need to get lots of scholarships to pay for college so I’m not in huge debt afterwards :(</p>
<p>Aww. I think you’ll be great. Teaching would be splendid fun. Except that I’m incapable, plus I tend to get easily irritated by teenagers and their raging hormones. My dream right now, though, is to teach at UChicago </p>
<p>Oh, and happiness>lucrativeness any day</p>
<p>dead thread, teaching sucks, etc etc</p>
<p>anyone wanna live with me in dc for a few weeks this summer? like split the rent for a room in a townhouse or something…</p>
<p>Haha being a professor would be pretty hot too!</p>
<p>But I think high school lit teacher = THE BOMB.</p>
<p>Woot woot. My ideal future:</p>
<p>Win full tuition scholarship to UChicago.
Get BA in English.
Get teacher’s certification/Master’s at some school…probably UChicago.
Graduate debt free!
Become a teacher.
Meet soul mate.
Donate lots and lots of money and time to UChicago.
Buy high school new high jump pits and rubber track.
Live happily ever.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Wow, tako… the world needs more people like you! :D</p>
<p>That’s so awesome that you sincerely want to be a teacher. BE ONE!!! Money can’t buy happiness (unless your basic needs aren’t met). It’s scientifically explored by one of my favorite scientific authors, David Myers. Read: “The Pursuit of Happiness”, it’ll tell you all about it! ;)</p>
<p>You’re so unlike this friend of mine who’s utterly crazy about getting into an Ivy League it makes me sick. He’s practically lying about his summer activities, plans to <em>somehow</em> get a perfect SAT score, and is running for things with (in my opinion) obvious insincerity. He really disturbs me.</p>
<p>OHHHH and become a factota while in college, then an interviewer :)</p>
<p>haha tako i was actually thinking all that but I didn’t want to say it. You can be a professor and then be fine! I think being a teacher would kinda be a waste or your shear genious though. I mean, you can go to the local unknown college and become a teacher with the same salary as a teacher who graduated from Harvard. Why put in all the hard work during high school and college then? Ah whatever, that’s just my two cents. but in the end I would have to agree with daenerys. After all, I have to with what I want to major in and eventually do! </p>
<p>my health essay is so much fun to write. It’s half a response paper towards Lance Armstrong’s book and half a research report on testicular cancer. Since I’m totally out of it right now (that combined with the fact that it’s impossible i’ll ever get testicular cancer so I don’t really care) is making me throw in random anecdotes. I think I’m going to edit this tomorrow and be reminded of tako’s TASP essays. They seriously have that many parenthesis and just random bursts of giddness. And best of all, I’m using a ton of british words. Go british lingo!</p>
<p>Oh my goodness UChicago is the best school EVER on the face of this planet. Sorry, just had to say that. Virtually the only other thread that owns my heart other than this one is the Chicago one. 
Anyhoo, if I could somehow get full tuition scholarship, I would simply die of happiness. But I know I won’t, so there </p>
<p>Tako, so it’s decided then? Since we can’t meet at TASP, then Chicago it is! yayyyy</p>
<p>Factota? Ah, I’d like to be one, too… <em>wanders off to dream-land</em></p>
<p>Argh stupid 60 second rule</p>
<p>the 60 second rule is a *****</p>
<p>I don’t know, being a college professor, even though they make loads of money, just doesn’t seem as amazing as being a high school teacher.</p>
<p>And why try so hard? Because I love it all Who works hard for college, that’s just grossness!</p>
<p>Oh, and I decided not to run for class officer so instead I can spend my days and nights working on our newspaper and its staff, which lately I have fallen in love with (not that I wasn’t already in love with it). But it’s actually overwhelming TASP right now in the battle for my heart 
Isn’t that impressive? Lol.</p>
<p>Gahh the world is inhabited by so many greasy insincere people. It makes me mad. There’s nothing more disappointing than people who do stuff solely for the sake of college. I mean, isn’t that elevating image over content? Isn’t that defeating the whole purpose of education?</p>
<p>Nooo you know TASP will win out in the end. <em>nudge</em></p>
<p>You know what I really want to be? A poet. </p>
<p>Eh, I’ll probably end up living on the streets Not that that’s a bad thing, per se.</p>