<p>Try convincing him of that. He’s an ex-marine. Probably not going to happen.</p>
<p>Oh dear, I hate that… The best cure is usually psychosomatic. Get an even catchier, more annoying song stuck in someone else’s head. Preferably someone you’ll see often, so you can observe their rage/re-stick the song in their head if they manage to remove it somehow.</p>
<p>Ex-marine? That, I guess, explains the fierceness. It’s a little known fact, but it’s actually hereditary. (:</p>
<p>I’m debating whether or not I should take the SAT Subject Tests. I mean, which ones am I supposed to choose? Do schools care?</p>
<p>Yes and I think it’s recessive. I’m the only really fierce one of my sisters.</p>
<p>I’d say do it. You could take a bunch of different subjects to show your academic flexibility, or you could take ones pointed in your area of interest, which you might have a deeper understanding of. In your case, because you feel strongly about what you want to do, I’d choose the latter. I think some schools like MIT require a math or science one… But then again, you don’t seem like you’d be applying to MIT. So no problem.</p>
<p>MIT! Ah, that’s funny. I could care less about the trajectory of a watermelon as launched from a twelve story building by a trebuchet with a velocity of two lightyears per .0000007 second.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll just take the history ones and literature. I’m doing college “research” right now. I put the “research” in quotes because what I’m doing can hardly constitute as research. I’m basically salivating at the mouth, imagining how amazing college is going to be. (:</p>
<p>MIT seems lovely… <em>sigh</em> But my dad has forbidden me from being an engineer. He says that they get treated too poorly by everyone who isn’t an engineer. I have to be a scientist instead.</p>
<p>My college research is pretty pathetic. I won’t lie. I am really concerned with aesthetics of the campus (I’m shallow, yes.) and the dorms and food… I really want to go to a college with food that is healthy and tasty enough that I won’t get fat. I don’t think I’ll be drinking much, so weight from that area isn’t an issue, but I happen to like food a lot… I’m basing my college search on totally random things. Does it have a pretty library? How big are the dorm rooms? What kind of fun phys. ed. classes does it have? How good are they with financial aid? …after these questions are satisfied, then I might look at the academic stuff. <em>hangs head in shame</em></p>
<p>I love the “might” part of your last sentence. (:
I’m pretty much the same way, but in reverse: I pick out the schools with the best academics and then I start doing random stuff like is it pretty?, how much is it?, and how far away is it?</p>
<p>I’m surprised that your dad forbade you from becoming an engineer. My parents are pretty mellow, to the point of not caring pretty much. No joke, my mom asked my, “What grade are you in, again?” I’m on my own when it comes to applying, getting financial aid, or any other stuff concerning college.</p>
<p>Eh, he just loves me lots. I’m pretty much the favorite. I’m sure if I had my heart set on being an engineer, he wouldn’t mind. He just doesn’t want me to choose a career in a failing industry. </p>
<p>My parents are pretty busy, so I have to do a lot on my own too. My mom’s offered to take me to visit colleges before, but I can’t imagine when she’d have time. She works from Thursday to Sunday, and goes into work for a few hours on most days when she doesn’t technically work, and my dad is always doing something, working or he’s gone to the vineyard to work or he’s at home working on winery plans or grant stuff. I’ve talked about it with them before, but I do have to be the one with the know-how and I have to be the one to take the initiative to do whatever I need to to get ready and apply. Which is unfortunate, considering how lazy I can be sometimes… Like how I should have registered for the March SAT and never got around to it? Sheer dumbness and laziness on my part. ):</p>
<p>“my dad is always doing something, working or he’s gone to the vineyard to work or he’s at home working on winery plans or grant stuff.”</p>
<p>I would LOVE to own a vineyard or a brewery. I’m not a drunkard, but I love the sufficiency and ingenuity it takes for such endeavors.
My dad keeps talking about me making a six-figure salary when I’m older, but I’m not one for possessions, so I’d be fine with anything that could get me by and still allow me to travel.</p>
<p>You didn’t sign up for the SAT’s? That’s a bummer. Don’t worry though, that’s when people usually take their first one, which pretty much everyone bombs, so look at it as you getting some extra study time.</p>
<p>It’ll be pretty sweet… I just hope my future career will be able to work around it. Wine is so complex chemically and aesthetically, and growing the grapes and how the terroir of the vineyard influences everything… Plus, it’ll be an awesome semi-retirement. It’s just a lot of work now.</p>
<p>Yeah… The current plan is to do SAT I in MAY, II’s in June, fix whichever I screwed up more in October, or maybe later if I’m not applying ED or EA anywhere. Hope it works. <em>crosses fingers</em></p>
<p>You don’t have a favorite school that you want to do ED to? I don’t know what EA is, though.</p>
<p>I haven’t decided yet… All the schools I’m in love with, I don’t know if I have any kind of shot at. Princeton, I think, would be ideal… I hyperventilate over the research they do there, and it also satisfies the pretty/delicious/fun! qualities I look for. </p>
<p>EA is early action, where you can apply early to more than one college. Unless it’s EA only choice, which is like ED except not binding, I think.</p>
<p>And you?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s any secret that I would kill to get into Deep Springs, but I don’t really have a school that I feel I would apply ED to. Until I do more research as to how much aid I could get, and I need a lot, I can’t specifically say anywhere I’d do ED. Other schools I’m looking at are Emory, University of Florida, University of Chicago, and maybe a couple of the Ivies. My list needs some safeties, though.</p>
<p>Did you hear about Stanford offering full tuition to all students whose families who make less than 100,000 a year?</p>
<p>My mother would kill me if I went all the way across the country to Stanford… Even New England area places are a tough sell for her, and I could ostensibly drive there within a day. I think I hug her too much. </p>
<p>Yeah, I just can’t get excited about any of the safeties… They’re too expensive compared to my reaches, which is sad and unusual.</p>
<p>No kidding. I’ve spoiled my mother with hugs. (:
And that is weird about your safeties. I hate all of my safeties, because all of the “normal” kids go to them. I’m not being elitist, but the “normal” kids aren’t in my opinion average. In my school, the normal, functioning people are in Honors.</p>
<p>Good boy. Hugging your mother is definitely the best extra-curricular activity in my opinion.</p>
<p>Pretty much…</p>
<p>If only Cornell realized the merits of such EC’s as “Volunteer Mother Hugger” and “Daily Father Listener.”</p>
<p>How about the twenty hours a week I spend refreshing this page?</p>
<p>Holy crap, we are very near to 300 pages.</p>
<p>We just might whoop last year’s thread! I don’t know why that matters, but I rarely get to use exclamation points in my writing! Yeah!</p>
<p>Awesome! Excitement- it’s super exciting!</p>
<p>We are so far kicking their butt, aren’t we? Let’s just hope we can kick their acceptance rate’s derri</p>
<p>I think Panic did some kind of voodoo math and figured that we have surpassed them in their rate of posts. I’m all exclamated out, college is seriously bumming me out. If I want to really compete for the colleges I want to attend, then I need to take the SAT’s for a THIRD time, but this time I’ll have to study. Also, I need to do the ACT’s, and let’s not forget the SAT Subject tests. ):</p>