<p>DisneyGuy posted on like the third page… jeez, bone up on your thread history!</p>
<p>porna your fact checker must be on vacation. or did you dispose of him with your claws?</p>
<p>and how does Donny look asian. he looks like any other Caucasian " i-killed-someone-in -Reno" teenager</p>
<p>You can only stare into the machine so long before the machine starts to stare back.</p>
<p>Donny’s half-Caucasian and half-Hispanic.</p>
<p>and incorrect the both of you disneyguy was around like 200 pages ago. i think he had some acting to do. shame.</p>
<p>Frequently asked questions:</p>
<p><em>WARNING</em> Some plagiarism from Wikipedia, but is it really plagiarism if it’s taken from Wikipedia?</p>
<p>WHAT IS TASP?-
TASP stands for Telluride Association Summer Programs. TASP are six-week educational experiences for rising high school seniors offering intellectual challenges rarely found in secondary school or even in college. They are designed to bring together young people from around the world who share a passion for learning. The participants, or TASPers, attend an intensive seminar led by college and university faculty members and participate in many educational and social activities outside the classroom. Like the Telluride houses, each TASP receives a discretionary budget, whose use is democratically distributed via weekly house meetings</p>
<p>Admission to TASP is based on an application that includes six essay prompts and for some, an interview. Out of approximately 950 applicants, about 180 are given an interview with members or associates of the Telluride Association as well as TASP alumni. Admission is very competitive: in recent years, fewer than 10 percent of TASP applicants have been admitted. This year, a total of 68 students will be admitted to the four TASPs. Many students are invited to apply based on strong standardized test scores or the nomination of educators who are familiar with TASP. However, any high school junior may request an application, and acceptance largely ignores standardized test scores and graded academic performance. Like other Telluride programs, TASPs are free.</p>
<p>TASPS also advocate a self-contained community of learning among the TASPers at any one of the four TASP seminars. TASPers are encouraged to engage in activities together outside of seminars. Often, TASPers form intense bonds over six weeks as a result of the self-contained community that forms.</p>
<p>WHEN ARE NOTIFICATIONS RELEASED?-
In an email from Ellen Baer herself, we we’re informed that we would be notified of our progression to the second stage interviews by March seventh. There are exceptions however: some applicants have already been informed before the formal release date. Generally, these exceptions have been located in the PNW region.</p>
<p>WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT FREQUENT THIS THREAD?</p>
<p><em>WARNING</em> By no means do those listed here run an oligopoly on this thread. It is open to any and all, as intended by collegeconfidential. However, these people post on an almost daily basis and have developed a small community that has many idiosyncrasies that are practically inescapable on this thread.</p>
<p>D-Yu- Elmo (LMOE- Last Man on Earth- Donny has no manliness points and ergo doesn’t count) Loves guns and explosions! A very descriptive member of the forum.</p>
<p>Earilmadith- Also known as Cira. Cute elfish girl that dreams muchly of the kingdoms of Princeton and Cornell, possesses gourmet cooking skills, loves web comics (she’s velociraptor in disguise), exasperated with boys (especially 8th grade ones), always has wise things to say (the sage amongst the group), classical economist, I believe…</p>
<p>PanicPower- MLS (My Little Socialist- Guess her political beliefs, anyone?) Loves her mama’s cooking, singers (But not bands!) and went to TASS last year, and thus is a god among us mortals.</p>
<p>St. Hudson- Donny, Don Juan (As he’s a terribly cute ladies’ man who isn’t that terribly manly at all.) Has an unnatural fondness for PB&J, loves Walden, is a romantic idealist and supreme individualist. Good taste in music.</p>
<p>Wink- Fridge (Frigid, as her skin only barely covers her cold, robot interior) She’s a critical thinker, everyone! She’s a Jain (Google it, people), lives in the frigid North (affected her development?) and never appears to be around when we have our music discussions because I can never remember what she likes.</p>
<p>WolfTheFierce- Porna (Loves sexual innuendo. You’ll see, Just spend a little time with her… If you dare) Loves Jewish boys, fierceness, butch girls and actually tearing people to shreds with her four-inch claws. Also sexual innuendo and outuendo.</p>
<p>RECURRING CONCEPTS-</p>
<p>Winkism- Ideology pioneered by Wink. It states that there is no god but Wink and that one day, the world will become united under the benevolent rule of Dictator Wink. Once this day arrives, there will be peace on Earth and the Universe will have reached moral equilibrium.</p>
<p>Webcomics- Many of the frequenters of this thread read webcomics. The favored choices are Questionable Content, XKCD, and A Softer World.</p>
<p>and half-astounding.</p>
<p>ADD Sluggy Freelance! Add Sluggy Freelance!</p>
<p>Really? 200 pages since DisneyGuy? Time flies.</p>
<p>Whoo, that took some time. Does anything need editing?</p>
<p>My pizza’s cold now. ):</p>
<p>yeah but we got a porna replacement.</p>
<p>and that is awesome donny. :: gives donny two silver stars ::</p>
<p>RIP DisneyGuy, where thou art.</p>
<p>Impressive FAQ…still, the most important question goes unanswered:
Harvard chances???</p>
<p>Donny, that is a beautiful piece of work. Except you forgot to mention the part where we all go “Oh my God/Wink/I don’t have a supreme being to exclaim to! I want to get in super, ridiculously, like really seriously badly! Seriously, TASP is the best thing that ever happens to the people who get in and then they meet unicorns and solve world hunger and probably colonize Mars and live happily ever after!” Because I am pretty sure that’s what it would feel like to get in. </p>
<p>Also, “wut is taps?”</p>
<p>I like the idea, cira, should I seriously add it?</p>
<p>If you would like for me to add/change something, write it in a post, and if at least one other person backs your nomination, I’ll incorporate the change.</p>
<p>Definitely the part about the unicorns at least.</p>
<p>For the next 13 or so minutes at least. After that, all changes will require a new post.</p>
<p><em>prods</em> No fighting tonight! Porna, you’ll eventually run out of wolf-themed screennames.</p>
<p>you know i would be crying in a dark corner right now if i gave a damn about /your/ opinion. good thing i dont. :)</p>
<p>That’s pretty fierce.</p>
<p>Classik, you have yet to see Porna in her fiercest. She leaves terrible permanent scars.</p>
<p>10 more posts to 1000 for me! 999 of which will have been on this thread, I think.</p>
<p>But really, we’re all just fighting the tide… who can win?</p>
<p>I figured out an editing loophole, cira; take all the time you need.</p>
<p>Ooh, exciting. I will whip up something even more desperate and awesome sounding.</p>
<p>Porna, most people would consider “common, un-salacious pulp” to be fightin’ words.</p>
<p>Seriously, Panic, don’t let it get to you. </p>
<p>No more rule-breaking, or at least not too much, okay?</p>