<p>I slept at nine yesterday :D</p>
<p>Nah, me and Corey (Corey and I…but “me and Corey” just sounds so much better!) live on the West Coast. When it’s 11 for you guys it’s only 8 here! Yippee!</p>
<p>yeah but some people, such as nate, live in the same time zone as i do.<br>
whatever, they can do what they want. </p>
<p>considering i’m not gonna be online later how was the party nate? I’m glad to see you’re not dead from work. What did you do to wake up?</p>
<p>Uh oh, I just found out that UChicago wants two recommendations: one from science/math, and one from English/social studies. I’ve totally gotten the English one covered, but science/math? I thought I could get two in English -_- </p>
<p>TERRIBLE. I guess I’ll ask my AP Chemistry teacher, but at most it’ll only be a decent rec 
THERE GO MY CHANCES OF GETTING INTO UCHICAGO :O</p>
<p>just write awesome essays. apparently thats something they really care about over there. </p>
<p>And yeah, i have the same problem. Math is actually my best subject but i don’t participate in class so he won’t be able to write me a good rec. Do you think engineering will count as a science?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think Engineering is fine. At our school, it IS a science class, after all.</p>
<p>And do you think Journalism counts as an academic subject? I sure hope so…</p>
<p>yeah, that is extremely academic imo.</p>
<p>It better be :D</p>
<p>I just realized that if UChicago is switching to Common App this year, I may not need to get that science/math recommendation… </p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>And oh, my! Don’t we love holidays where there is no school? Except I hate when holidays are on Mondays, because then I have to wait until TUESDAY to get the mail. That’s a whole two days without mail! :(</p>
<p>LOL, tako. Are you waiting for a letter? (Secret admirer, maybe?) ;)</p>
<p>And don’t worry too much about your rec letter. It’s only used as a reference in most colleges, so as long as it’s decent, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Hehe no secret admirer BUT I am waiting for college mail…yay!</p>
<p>I love getting college mail <3333 I could have an affair with certain colleges that send beautiful brochures and have awesome names.</p>
<p>But you know what’s terrible? I have NEVER gotten a single piece of mail from Swarthmore (even though I sign up for it) and it’s like tied with UChicago on my college list right now. How could they do such a thing to me??? Is it a sign? Do the gods not want me to apply there?</p>
<p>lol, oh you’re so cute! You know what I do with most of them? I throw them away in the trash. Granted, most of the time I do go online and check their financial aid policies and whatnot (since my family can’t afford a very expensive education), and if it’s not what I’m looking for or is otherwise not a school I would like to attend, I seriously ignore pretty much everything about the school. I suppose I should write back and tell them I’m not interested so they won’t kill so many tress. :/</p>
<p>The only pieces of college mail I’ve kept (from a college that’s not on my list) are these two posters from Cal-Tech and one from Taft. My gosh, they’re SO COOL, I’m like O_O</p>
<p>You should seriously order them, especially the Cal-Tech ones. It’s got these tiny pictures and has “Curiosity seeks” and “Gray matters” across the side. XD The pictures are AWESOME. There’s pictures of planets, their moons, sugar molecules, particles, equations, etc… And the Taft one has this cute little red house in a setting that seems like the ideal college campus… (love).</p>
<p>Ironic, that all the posters I have are from colleges that I don’t want to attend. :/</p>
<p>And lol, don’t worry about Swarthmore. Maybe they’re like Brown and saves paper? Or did they not receive your request?</p>
<p>Pshh who knows. (I’d write a longer post but I have to leave now!)</p>
<p>Anyway, off to a Memorial Day lunch thingy!</p>
<p>wait, are you talking about tufts?</p>
<p>from what i’ve seen, swarthmore, reed, and st. john’s have the best college mailing propaganda. reed’s brochure is like al;sdkfjdf:LSKDF. and while i would never attend st. john’s, their little dvd’s and prospectus is AMAZING. uchicago’s brochure comes in a close second to those three. i also like bowdoin’s, carleton’s, and williams’ prospectus. </p>
<p>caltech’s posters are cool, i agree. brown’s brochure is eh. there aren’t as many pictures. =P</p>
<p>oh tako, i’ll bring you all my swarthmore stuff. lol, they sent me duplicates of everything (because i think i requested info once, and then they got my name again from PSATs). LOL. OH, and there’s this essay called ‘the usefulness of uselessness’ that a swarthmore professor in art history wrote, and i LOVE IT SO MUCH. and plus you can show it to your parents and convince them you don’t want to major in business/quit track.</p>
<p>god damnit, my father makes me get offline (so my mom can download some stupid piano competition video) and i didn’t get a chance to post. =( so i just spent an hour and a half hand washing clothes (always look at the label before you buy stuff. i had to learn the hard way. actually…i still don’t look at it. I figure i already have a million clothes that i have to wash by hand why not add another to that pile.) </p>
<p>Mintie- i really want that caltech poster now! I got a poster from Olin once but i have no clue where it is anymore. Probably in the back of my closet or something. </p>
<p>You throw them out or recycle them? Please say you recycle them because otherwise i will need to have a little chat with you.</p>
<p>Actually, Chicago will be keeping the Uncommon App this year (class of '08)…However, they’ll be offering the Common App as an <em>option</em> for those unlucky folks next year. (haha!) Anyways, I feel really honored that we get to be the last class to truly reap the benefits of the Uncommon App :)</p>
<p>I’ve never gotten any mail from Swarthmore, either…or any other cool colleges, except occasionally Columbia</p>
<p>I’ve gotten stuff from Swarthmore. I don’t see why all you haven’t. And I’ve gotten so much stuff from columbia its unbelievable. But most of the stuff is from the engineering school so i’ll atke all the mail to mean they want girls.</p>
<p>whaaaaa that means i need a rec from a math/science teacher =(((((</p>
<p>this is bad. my math teacher thinks i’m a stoner because i fall in class so much and i always come in late from art with different colored paints all over my shirt/hands. </p>
<p>there goes my uchicago app.</p>
<p>Roam, you’ll be applying there, too? Hooray! I’m so excited–although maybe I should be worried, considering you guys are my competition. ;P</p>
<p>Oh, and I’m also a little worried about the math/science rec. I don’t really want to ask my math teacher, and my physics teacher is definitely out. Sigh…</p>
<p>Woah, an explosion of posts! XD</p>
<p>roam, yeah I meant, Tufts, lol! This is why I’m not applying there (imagine the essay: I want to get into Taft because I think it’s lovely that your college’s name is also the name of a former President. 
yeah…)</p>
<p>And the “Usefulness of Uselessness” IS awesome!</p>
<p>And Karen, of course I recycle! ;)</p>
<p>haha so it seems this thread is really full of uchicago lovers. don’t worry about me. I’m sure all your stats are far superior to mine and i (hopefully) wont even be applying there. If I do the application will wind up being last minute. </p>
<p>And why is everyone on here so humanities oriented? It’s cool and all but I thought there would at least be one physics geek (that’s not a bad thing)</p>
<p>Yay minite!</p>
<p>Well…I guess TASP, at heart, is more humanities-ish than math-science-y</p>