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<p>I don’t think I’ll call on Monday… but I’ll probably check my email all day on Tuesday. :)</p>

<p>So, do they send everyone an email or do they just notify the people who were accepted and make the rest wait for rejection letters??</p>

<p>By the way, I’ve already had a couple of nightmares in which I was rejected from TASP!! :eek:</p>

<p>Haha, has that happened to anyone else??? But anyway, I feel like Tuesday, May 2nd, is coming up way too fast!! It’s probably coz I’m so busy cramming for APs and SAT IIs…</p>

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<p>All right… so it’s 5:45, Friday, April 28th, at Cornell. Somewhere, on some spreadsheet, is a final list of which of us are in and which of us are out. They’re done decided how socially adjusted, how intelligent, how open-minded we are, and now we just have to wait.</p>

<p>Best of luck to all of us!</p>

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<p>Have they already decided or are they deciding this weekend? I had the impression that they decided this weekend but I’m not sure.</p>

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<p>I thought final decisions were being made this weekend too.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure the people who decide almost certainly hold jobs, so one would assume they’d meet this weekend, not this past week, for which they would have had to miss work.</p>

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<p>Would they really leave all the decisions for the very last weekend? What were they doing all this time?</p>

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<p>lollipop lollipop lollipop lollipop lollipop…hey this is kinda addicting:)</p>

<p>P.S.: Yes, I am procrastinating studying for my 7 AP tests and the 3 SAT II’s I have to take over the next 11 days once again.;)</p>

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<p>Ouch-- human nature, though, I think.</p>

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<p>En effet Kelsi!!! Je suis tres mauvais aux programmes suivants.:(</p>

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<p>Hmmm… I wonder if they’re deciding right now… or if they’ve already made some decisions!! :eek:</p>

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<p>Wow-- the TASP thread is on the fourth page, and it’s a few days before we find out final decisions? What’s wrong with us?</p>

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<p>If you guys are interested and need to find something TASP-realated to pass your time, PM me, and I can give you some links to blogs maintained by various TASP seminar groups of the past like Cornell '04, UMich '04, etc. There are some pretty cool pictures to look at and stories to read heh.;)</p>

<p>P.S.: I advise you not to follow through on the above action however before results come out next week because it might make a possible rejection all that more unbearable.:(</p>

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<p>Ohh can you PM me some? I wanna read!</p>

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<p>PM me some</p>

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<p>oh wow.
one more day
(or possibly two)
(or possibly who knows how many, but soon, so soon)</p>

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<p>I hate thinking about the fact that they could possibly be talking about us like right at this instant. What an awful feeling, yeah?</p>

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<p>yeah, no kidding. </p>

<p>so i want to call on monday after APs, because i know i’ll be too preoccupied to study for calc on tuesday otherwise. however, i really dont want to ‘jinx’ myself, u know? </p>

<p>but what would be easier, getting a decision on the phone or continually checking ur email for hours? </p>

<p>uh, im overthinking this i think. Back to my term paper (edith wharton: frome vs newland archer – im actually kinda having a fun time writing it…)</p>

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<p>I understand what you mean. I don’t really know what would be better, either.</p>

<p>If you feel so inclined to need further distraction, though, what did you think of Ethan Frome?</p>

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<p>oh, distraction is welcomed</p>

<p>well, i enjoyed the book ( unfortunately, ive never really read a book i didnt like, {besides vonnegut, ahem}) but the characters seemed strangely purposeless, almost mechanical. i dont mean that as a fault in wharton’s style- i think thats what she intended? there was a great deal of Overemphasis- color symbolism, sexual symbolism,etc- but i think that was really intentional as well. It was well crafted and though whartons style isn’t sparse, nothing was superfluous if you really think about it. I feel like E.Wharton put her pen down after the last chapter and laughed a little bit to herself.</p>

<p>how’d u find it? and have you read Age of Innocence?</p>

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<p>Tell me you guys, what attracts you to fiction? Personally, I really can’t get myself around to reading a fiction book just for fun, I probably dont have patience for it. Unless its a classic, then I would probably give it more patience since I know it might be good. But overall, it seems I’m more attracted to non-fiction books, books that have application. (Then again, some might argue that fiction books also apply to regular life)</p>

<p>What do you guys say? What do you guys like about just regular fiction novels? Maybe your answers might make me pick one up myself.</p>