<p>I’m from Colorado, so close(ish), but it’s no Oklahoma. In addition to prairie, we also have mountains and trees and stuff :)</p>
<p>cool…yeah, colorado has those mountain things…we are lucky to have hills in Oklahoma…which tasp are you going to?</p>
<p>st louis, yay</p>
<p>hey, has anyone been contacted by their counselourperson yet?</p>
<p>I sent an email to Ellen Baer at Cornell and she said that factota letters would be sent out on Monday.</p>
<p>Hello, I got into the U of M TASP. I see the factota letters are coming on Monday… but anyway, does anyone know if there’s, like, a bus going from the airport (what would it be, Detroit?) or something like that? Or where we are going to live?</p>
<p>My mom is fantasizing that we’re going to live in the TASP house at the college, which would be pretty sweet.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, I’ll wager someone going to U of M $10 that getting your AP scores while at nerd camp is gonna be weird.</p>
<p>I think that there is a shuttle from Detroit to the campus and that we will be living either at the Telluride House or at a rented sorority house (where they lived last year).</p>
<p>This isn’t exactly related to TASP, but someone here probably knows: Do you apply for the Telluride Houses at Cornell or Michigan while applying to those colleges, and do you hear back at the same time you hear from the regular program?</p>
<p>The TASS’ers usually get the Telluride House because they have two programs at UMich each year.</p>
<p>Ah. </p>
<p>So who had a super-intimidating interview? I had to talk with a Nietzsche-ite who went to Deep Springs and worked for Goldman Sachs, along with two other people. Safe to say it wasn’t fun, and I fear that might be part of why I got into my second-choice and not my first.</p>
<p>EDIT: Sorry for all the questions, I’ve been denying to find a place where I could talk to other TASPers…</p>
<p>^ I had a pretty intimidating interview, but my interviewers were pretty nice… caught me off-guard a bit, though.</p>
<p>Are you on AIM?</p>
<p>My interviewer was actually Shannon Saksewski, the Michigan director, so needless to say I was pretty much terrified about meeting her. But she was really nice during the interview, and we had this cool discussion about Ayn Rand and weak ontology.</p>
<p>I got into the UT-Austin TASP (maybe she didn’t want me at Michigan? <em>shrug</em>, no matter, I actually got INTO a TASP which is a lot more than I was expecting!).</p>
<p>dragonfield1221…im a UT TASPer too</p>
<p>my guy was called Jay, from the great city of Philly… he was very liberal-minded and I was too…but somehow we still ended up half-yelling at each other during the interview (it was outside next to starbucks, and yes, people stared)</p>
<p>Yelling? That’s pretty bad. With mine, we just got into a long, endless side argument about whether or not doubt and reason could lead to faith. Luckily the guy was a little windy, and after that I got a break from speaking while he told me his theory about what causes terrorism. (Middle class unemployment and a lack of ego fulfillment, by the way.)</p>
<p>Wow…my interview was tough, but I don’t think we talked about ontology or anything abstract.</p>
<p>She was a lawyer who defended migrant farmers. The Senate was debating that immigration bill. On of my essays was tangetically related to immigration.</p>
<p>Guess what we talked about for half the interview?</p>
<p>oh, the yelling wasn’t that bad…i was pretty incensed at him for days afterwards, though</p>
<p>i sent him an email saying i got in, and that response was really nice (=</p>
<p>ryanOG88, what did you talk about? i hope this isnt a groaner</p>
<p>my interviewer was far less interesting than all of yours’. we talked a little about utilitarian ethics and some about government morals, but besides that, she just asked a lot of little questions about my essays. i felt like she was pretty detached from the whole thing…very odd.</p>
<p>Bubblytracee:</p>
<p>…immigration</p>
<p>hey vegangirl mine’s gookiemonster89. it’ll be awesome.
i talked about women’s rights & fem.</p>
<p>foucault…and some agamben</p>