Part 3: California, together as one in here! :D

[seaweedpatchkid]

Wow, we're on part three already! Seems like just yesterday we were on part 1. Either way...let's continue our lovely discussion about colleges and what not in here!
:roll:

[klarence]

hahaha how wonderful! We get to continue our lovely chats about colleges.
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And actually, college apps are not fun at all. I think I'm almost done. Just need two more applications to do and I'll be set. I've been recycling essays like you wouldn't believe. My friend and I are in this competition to see who can reuse their essay the most times and I think she's beating me out. I don't think she's written one new essay other than the one she's been using on all her applications.
Yeah, they are not at all fun...I've reused my essays so much too!! There's like a main essay that I use for pretty much every college, and then there's this "template" essay that I use for questions like "why did you use this major" or "why did you choose this college" BLAH


The only thing I'm worried about is... I finished most of my apps really early and submitted them right away, but the more I think about it, the more I want to include additional stuff in the "additional info" portion of the application. Do you guys think I should? It'd be just a more complete resume of my extra-curriculars since the section in Common App didn't really give me enough room to list all that I've done. TT
Oh, I DEFINITELY know what you mean. THere's BARELY any room in the common app to list all the leadership positions and stuff, so I also put additional activities in the additional info part. But then, if you've already submitted the apps, I don't think you can change them...

You know what? I think some college admissions boards are crazy....
ONe of my amazing friends got deferred from Yale -
4.0 GPA
2400 SAT
FBLA state pres
Red Cross Exec board
Red Cross president
Varsity cheer
etc etc... :glug: how could they defer her?

[spork]

maybe they don't like cheerleaders? XD

Don't high end colleges like Ivy Leagues conduct interviews of applicants? I know a couple friends had interviews for Yale and Harvard and stuff.

[kewlpiggy88]

aiyah those yale deferral stats are scary. hey klarence, does the fbla state pres go to lynbrook?

[klarence]

yup, she's from lynbrook. Are you in FBLA?

Anyway...I heard that only 6 ppl in the Bay Area got accepted into Yale..

[kewlpiggy88]

holy crapperz, only SIX! that is really crazy. i think everyone who got applied to yale got deferred or rejected. yeup, i'm in FBLA. gah, FBLA state pres is smart AND pretty (i met her at a FBLA leadership thingy). she probably thought i was a lil crazy cuz i was asking her about doing a career shadowing thing together cuz the person at the place we want to do it at told me to ask to do it w/ lynbrook. and she was like all confused and like, "i think that's with the school, not FBLA." it was embarrassing cuz i all introduced myself and yeahhhhhhhhhh.

sigh, i'm up against THESE type of ppl...

did anyone do anything over the break? i want to go skiing! i haven't gone in 5 years. ooh has anybody tried the new restaurant in cupertino village? it's like shanghai-style and sells xiao long bao. it's still going through some typical new restaurant woes like understaffing and confused waiters, but i thought their xiao long bao was pretty good. OH and the teppanyak restaurant at fobville reopened too! it just has a new name, but inside is basically the same.

[quadshock]

i got rejected by stanford...

then again, some people get into all the ivy leagues and get rejected by Stanford. I honestly hav eno idea what they're looking for

[spork]

only the people who get into the schools now what they're looking for specifically...like you start to notice what kind of people are schools like just by seeing what your fellow students are like, personality-wise and accomplishment-wise XD and of course by then it's too late.

It's cool quadshock :) At least you had a good enough chance that you decided to apply

My application wouldn't have stayed away from the shredder for very long >_>

[Singerchick]

my friend got her SAT score back.

her first time 2220. GOD and she's still not satisfied..

I'm nervous because I know my PARENTS will compare me to her. darnit.
DARNNNNIT

[seaweedpatchkid]

Okay California! I'm here to ADVERTISE.

Yes. Anyways, WMZY's having a theme week so please give my banner a clickie and check it out!

[kewlpiggy88]

happy new year guys! i hope 2006 will be better than 2005! esp around springtime...haha.

anyway, i only have two more apps to finish!

[spork]

I honestly hope 2006 will be much better than 2005 XD
Well, I have all my resolutions in order, just need to get around to fulfilling them :rolleyes:

Happy New Years everyone ^_^ it's been great chatting with all of you in the Cali thread!

[seaweedpatchkid]

Happy New Year!!! WHOO HOO! :roll:

Make 2006 Great!

[SimpleBlackHumor89]

omg, the weather in california?? i heard in north california, it's snowin and floodin. well im in south cali. it's crazy, i've never seen a storm like this. it's not the rain, it's the WIND

my garage is actually lifting up a bit from the wind. trash bins are knocked over. and there's this big white thing that's flyin around in my neighborhood. what a soggy start to a new year.

happy new year

[fajitapita]

Part 3 already? where have i been?

omg, the weather in california?? i heard in north california, it's snowin and floodin. well im in south cali. it's crazy, i've never seen a storm like this. it's not the rain, it's the WIND
my garage is actually lifting up a bit from the wind. trash bins are knocked over. and there's this big white thing that's flyin around in my neighborhood. what a soggy start to a new year.
happy new year

big white thing? haha how creepy. but yah, speaking of trash bins.. i told my brother to take the trash can in yesterday but being the lazy bum that he is he refused to do it, well i didnt wanna take it in cuz i was trying to make a point. so this morning as i back out the car to drive him to school i notcie the trashcan's missing, my first thot was someone stole it, but then my brother points out the window. it had flown like a block and a half down the street. and that thing is ginormous, i have no idea how it happened. *sigh* i had to go drag it all the way back up and it was all wet and dirty. ick:oops:

[spork]

XD that sucks fajita. I had to bike in really heavy rain once... not fun :/
It's also not fun doing christmas shopping in rain either -_- All the shopping bags and presents getting wet...not to mention me getting wet :wacko:

[junnleenfaah]

mwahahaha, texas owned cali in the rose bowl last night :D and we'll come to destroy again next year (=

i still <3 you californians though, heh heh

[chineseguyjl]

mwahahaha, texas owned cali in the rose bowl last night :D and we'll come to destroy again next year (=
i still <3 you californians though, heh heh
YES I WON 10 bucks off that game. Even though i'm a californian, i dont like USC just cause. but YES. USC shouldnt went at the blitz, and freakin R. Bush fumbled the ball, which prob led to their defeat. soo awesome, and the long-horns only had about 3 good players too, vince young, the rushing, and the wide reciever (white boy). soo sweet, texans stoped their 34 wining streak.

[iphei]

So I am not a USC fan. But I HATE HATE Texas 'cause Texan teams have a record of beating all my favorite teams in games for the past few years. And that USC is a Pac-10 team and since Pac-10 is always so underrated...well, I thought it'd be our time to shine =[

And with 2006...that means that COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE (& rejection) letters for regular admit should be coming in soon. haha. good luck you guys! :]

So the weather in Nor-cal SUCKED?! I came home from Illinois hoping for some sun! haha. All I got was half sun-half rain. fun.

[wil69]

Happy new your fellow Jay Chu fans! Just got back from Mammoth and home back in LA. It was awesome up there. Snowy heaven.

[spork]

Time to revive the Cali thread!!!! So...I hear finals are done now for you high school kids? woohoo!!!

hint hint: don't apply for Davis :( we get the worst breaks ever. Spring break is an amazing total of two days and a weekend...so that's four days...so it's just like thanksgiving break :( Even worse, for you science-y folks, Chemistry is a measley 5 units for a three hour lab, three hour lecture and one hour discussion course. Down in San Diego and LA, lab is a separate class with like, 4-5 units or something, and lecture is 4-5 units. Laaaaaaaaaame. stay away from Davis :(

edit: welllll...everyone's probably applied to davis anyway...just don't accept :/

[fajitapita]

I have decided that i need to find a job in SF after i graduate because i doan wanna leave norcal^^ i just had an awesome day shopping buns+sephora+old navy sale=pure happiness

isnt that feeling after all your apps are in the best feeling in the world? 2nd semester of senior yr was prolly my happiest semester in hs

[Singerchick]

Time to revive the Cali thread!!!! So...I hear finals are done now for you high school kids? woohoo!!!



God..the word "finals" gives me the chills. We are taking them next week :cry:

[spork]

no doubt fajita ^_^ best semester EVER. probably the best until my third and last quarter as a fourth year in college...hopefully as a fourth year, and nothing higher :sweat:

aw finals aren't that bad Singerchick.... XD...ok so they are :/
Good luck with those!!!

[iphei]

Well first year is pretty darn fun too...I mean, especially with the semester schedule, you get three weeks to PARTY until you have to actually start working. hehe. ;p

[Singerchick]

no doubt fajita ^_^ best semester EVER. probably the best until my third and last quarter as a fourth year in college...hopefully as a fourth year, and nothing higher :sweat:
aw finals aren't that bad Singerchick.... XD...ok so they are :/
Good luck with those!!!

I'm on borderline in like all my classes, so the finals will make or break me.
STRESSSSSSSSSSS :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

I'm not ready..and I have SATs the saturday right after FINALS. WHY? WHY ? WHY?:-x

[kewlpiggy88]

second semester senior! WHOOHOO!!!!!! i'm so happy!

[spork]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

second semester senior year is the best XD Especially after all those decisions come in :P After I got over the initial disappointment over certain schools, I finally went "eff it, I'm gunna have fun, whoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!"

[Singerchick]

second semester senior! WHOOHOO!!!!!! i'm so happy!

second semester Junior year. :dry:

How's college compared to HS?

[spork]

college is ok i guess? XD The great thing about being a freshman in dorms is that I can come back to my room in between classes and just chill. Next year I'll have an apartment so I may or may not be on campus all day depending on how far my apartment is and how easy it is to get back to it.
Having night classes is a downer though -_- It means that unless I do some homework during the day when I have like, a 5 hour break between my class I'll end up wasting a whole day XD

[fajitapita]

Mmm... college. i like it a hundred billion times better than high school^^ i luv how everyday is different with a differnt schedule for classes.. like on Fridays i only have Chinese class at noon for an hr (i've spent all of today watching Gokusen T.T). i live in an apartment practically on campus so everything's super close.

What i dont like is the competition.. i guess it depends on your major. but like all molecular and cell biology students here are pre-med and its crazy how competitive ppl are.

[Singerchick]

Mmm... college. i like it a hundred billion times better than high school^^ i luv how everyday is different with a differnt schedule for classes.. like on Fridays i only have Chinese class at noon for an hr (i've spent all of today watching Gokusen T.T). i live in an apartment practically on campus so everything's super close.
What i dont like is the competition.. i guess it depends on your major. but like all molecular and cell biology students here are pre-med and its crazy how competitive ppl are.

Yeah I heard at some schools, its pretty scary because people sabatoge one another. :glug:

My finals are over...my SATs are over. I'm so GLAD!

TOo bad I failed ALL my FINALS. and I BOMBED THE SATS (I didn't finish the ESSAY DARN).

But it's ok because they are over and I can get some sleep. haha.

[kewlpiggy88]

i'm a second semester high school senior. so i still have to worry about AP tests, but none of them are science related so i can breath easier. i can't wait for college though. it's like...a fresh start! i just realized that jay's bday was this month but we didn't really celebrate jay's bday. or did i just not see the announcements?

[spork]

There was a thread Ene created where we would post what our gift to Jay would be, or something, but I was so swamped with school work I completely missed it and didn't check JCNet for a like a week >_<

[Singerchick]

There was a thread Ene created where we would post what our gift to Jay would be, or something, but I was so swamped with school work I completely missed it and didn't check JCNet for a like a week >_<

Too bad Jay doesn't read english, so he can't really read some of the "happy bday" wishes.

But then again even if he could read english I don't think he has the time haha XD.

Anyway sorry but I need to rant.
I got my finals grades back. Ok I know I didn't study that much so I wasn't expecting a perfect, but I totally flunked all my finals.

I got a 99 out of 150 on my CALC AP final
I got a 222 out of 332 on my History final
I got a 70 out of 100 on my Spanish 4 AP Final
I got a 163 out of 205 on my Bio AP Final

The only decent grade on my finals are for English 3 Honors on which I got a 90.8% on the finals. My parents are going to kill me when they see my report card. I dropped from an 93.5% to a 89.1% in Math...so I have a b in that class and I dropped from a 95.7% to a 90.2% for Spanish (our cutoff for A is 91%) and so I got a b in that class also. DAMN.
that really sucks. And especially because I'm so close to the roundups.

Luckily I managed to still get an A in history becuase I had a high enough A to cushion my downfall. And for bio I managed to get a 90.0% despite my finals

But my parents are so going to kill me, I am so dissapointed.:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[spork]

bwahaha. if you're talking about grades singerchick, I can top that :D

I studied FOUR WHOLE DAYS for my chem midterm, which is only on three chapters, and after I took the midterm I felt ok. But guess what? Three days after they grade it, i got 69% :D Thankfully, the class average is 62%, so as long as I stay above the average, and as long as the average is super low, I'm ok....but still...four days and all i got was a D :cry:

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick: ur school doesn't do +/-? junior year was a biotch for me too. i ended up dropping AP Chem because it was so horrible. yeah and i kinda slacked off this year tooo, but my rant, white out in case people are bored of all the grade talk...


i'm so mad about my stats grade. the teacher has a weird-ass grading scale that's based out of 12. 12 = A+, 11 = A, etc. i dunno how to explain it, but basically i was so close to the next level, but it's so hard to go to the next level in regards to how his grading is done. basically ppl who did lots worse on tests have the same grade as me. grr. ARGH and my friend in lit, we both had low B's but she ended up getting an A-. i already calculated, and even if she beat the curve on the final, there's no way she could have gotten an A-. and the worst thing is that she's totally lying about her grades when i always have to comfort her. whenever i'm like, "aw crap" about my grades, she always goes "don't even TALK to me about it. i did SO much worse than you." it's so annoying to have to be all comforting to someone who actually doesn't need any comforting.

[Singerchick]

singerchick: ur school doesn't do +/-? junior year was a biotch for me too. i ended up dropping AP Chem because it was so horrible. yeah and i kinda slacked off this year tooo, but my rant, white out in case people are bored of all the grade talk...
i'm so mad about my stats grade. the teacher has a weird-ass grading scale that's based out of 12. 12 = A+, 11 = A, etc. i dunno how to explain it, but basically i was so close to the next level, but it's so hard to go to the next level in regards to how his grading is done. basically ppl who did lots worse on tests have the same grade as me. grr. ARGH and my friend in lit, we both had low B's but she ended up getting an A-. i already calculated, and even if she beat the curve on the final, there's no way she could have gotten an A-. and the worst thing is that she's totally lying about her grades when i always have to comfort her. whenever i'm like, "aw crap" about my grades, she always goes "don't even TALK to me about it. i did SO much worse than you." it's so annoying to have to be all comforting to someone who actually doesn't need any comforting.

Sadly no our school doesn't. So I'm stuck with the same B as someone that has 80.1% in the class. O well. :dry:

I'm sorry to hear about your situation. Yeah I really get annoyed when teachers have weird grading scales and then there are the teachers taht are really hard and really easy. There are 2 CALC teachers at my school one's really easy and everyone got an A in that class. The teacher gives really easy tests and she grades really easy because she is new. Whereas there is another teacher that's been teaching for 25 years and grows more anal by the year. And...guess what? I got stuck wtih the hard teacher.

So your friend didnt really get an A?

[kewlpiggy88]

she DID, but a week before the final she had a B-. supposedly. and she told me she had a B+ after the final, but she told my other friend she got an A-. it's just the same thing happened freshman and junior year when i had to comfort her about her math grades and she ended up doing better than me. she just wants ppl to think her grade is lower so that ppl will comfort her and that no one can complain to her and rant and rave (cuz everyone loves ranting about their grades). it's so freaking annoying.

i've been on youtube constantly. ever since i watched "stairway to heaven" sophomore year, trying to find the links to download, i've been addicted to finding videos off the internet. it's so bad. argh. i seriously canNOT control my internet addiction. sigh.

[fajitapita]

kewlpiggy~i know how you feel about being addicted to the internet.. im in the middle of three dramas right now and have finished 3 since getting back to school (its only been abt 3 weeks)... sadness..

spork~ thats okay... college is just like that.. especially the science classes, you just cant look at your grade based on straight scale. i was ecstatic about the C i got on one of my midterms in o-chem.. esp cuz the class avg was a 49%^^

Singerchick~wow, i cant believe the cutoff was a 91% for an A in your spanish class. thats just beyond wrong!! an A is a 90%. end of story. and if they're gonna change it it should be lowered, like 89.5%..

::sidenote:: i think it needs to stop raining. it was fun at first, holding my umbrella, taking long strolls thru campus, pretending to be all melodramatic as if i were in a korean drama (with a soudntrack playing on my ipod)... but now my feet are suffocating to death in shoes.. im from socal, i need my flipflops T.T

[spork]

LOL fajita: I'm from norcal but I miss wearing flip flops outside too X_X They're so comfy and convenient...I go through so many Old Navy pairs a year because I wear them so much during the summer (or non rainy season XD) they get worn out and flattened. hee.

But really, maybe I oughta be glad I am above average =_= still, there's always those people who excel somehow. I HATE it when people are like that, but never have to really, really study for anything.

[Singerchick]

Haha I was really motivated by my grades and so I'm writing a newspaper article on the A, A+, A- issue. I doubt anyone in school really cares, but haha it allows me to rant.

Our honor/AP classes don't go by a normal grading curves. In english a 93% + is an A and 83% + is a B. And ou teacher doesn't round, but the good thing is that that's the only class that I did decently on my finals so my grade didn't drop below a 93%. What sucks is that a lot of these policies are new becuase of open enrollment, so last year's students didn't have to face the wrath of crappy rounding.


Fajitapita: It's raining in Socal? Where I am it's just really humid Haha I remember last year around this time, it was major el nino. I like walking in the rain, it's so calming and especially when there's no one else on the streets and you get this sense of serenity. Though it's really annoying when I get home and I see dead worms under my shoes. :crazy: It's really not fun having to scrap them off.

[Jo Yee]

GAH! i just hope jay can come to L.A. again. it would just be so considerate of him because all his other concerts are in the other hemisphere!!!!!!

[klarence]

lol I got into college!!! haha i was a bit excited when i found out that i got into USC, but surprised at how early they notified us.. but yeah, im have to skip 2 days of school to go down there for interviews and stuff. hopefully i'll get the half-tuition scholarship though!

:) does anyone here go to USC or just got in?

ahh its nice being a second semester senior

plus, i JUST got my license (i know, im freakin slow) and a video ipod!! i can now watch all my cool chinese video clips and mvs :D

[Singerchick]

lol I got into college!!! haha i was a bit excited when i found out that i got into USC, but surprised at how early they notified us.. but yeah, im have to skip 2 days of school to go down there for interviews and stuff. hopefully i'll get the half-tuition scholarship though!
:) does anyone here go to USC or just got in?
ahh its nice being a second semester senior
plus, i JUST got my license (i know, im freakin slow) and a video ipod!! i can now watch all my cool chinese video clips and mvs :D

Wow congrats!
I heard tuition to USC is really expensive. Wow..I still have a year of nervousness before I can find out my future ahhaha.

So are you going to basically chillax the rest of the year?

Anyway anyone going to COACHELLA!?? It's 87 I think for a one day pass and 163 for a 2 day pass. BUt Franz Ferdinand <33, JAmes Blunt <333 + a million other awesome singers are going!!!

http://info.aeglive.com/gv/coachella/020206_onsale/concert_coachella_452x615_m.jpg

[spork]

AAAGGGH FRANZ FERDINAND!!!!! :drool:

I would love to go, but have no ride XD
Also have no money...Well, i do, but then my checking account would be sad...

[fajitapita]

Fajitapita: It's raining in Socal? Where I am it's just really humid Haha I remember last year around this time, it was major el nino. I like walking in the rain, it's so calming and especially when there's no one else on the streets and you get this sense of serenity. Though it's really annoying when I get home and I see dead worms under my shoes. :crazy: It's really not fun having to scrap them off.

i'm from SoCal but i go to school up here in NorCal ^^ so i was complaning abt the weather up here, tho its been oddly hot the past couple of days. yay for summer clothes!

congrats, klarence!

puahaha, i had a friend who went to USC. she knows the Wal-mart owner's granddaughter who's super rich and stuff.. she has like a private jet and flew everyone to like vegas or palm beach or something like that^^

[zhy378]

ooo a concert! that remind me Fort Minor i think just had a concert in S.F. last tuesday or is it some other tuedays this month. is it me or it been feelin like summer or at least spring these days. ehhe:happy:

[Singerchick]

ooo a concert! that remind me Fort Minor i think just had a concert in S.F. last tuesday or is it some other tuedays this month. is it me or it been feelin like summer or at least spring these days. ehhe:happy:


Just a few weeks ago there was a death cab for cutie or fall out boys something concert in socal.



I really want to coachella, it's in palm springs and some of my friend are going. Haha but my parents said I already spend 180$ for Leehom's LV concert so they won't allow me. Lol, o well, unless I can somehow borrow money hahah.

[iphei]

i'm from SoCal but i go to school up here in NorCal ^^ so i was complaning abt the weather up here, tho its been oddly hot the past couple of days. yay for summer clothes!


WELL, at least you're not in Illinois (and while we have a warm winter this year and minimal minimal snowing...it's still cold), AND wearing summer clothings. Like I seriously go outside with a light jacket and flip flops on. haha. Sometimes, I even wear skirts; definitely getting a lot of weird looks from people who think I'm crazy! :D

[Singerchick]

It's dying!!!!

Must revive the thread.

So how are all you fellow californians doing? Is it just the Southbay or is it really cold now? It wasn't even that cold in January and now it's Feb and it's getting cold. I blame these irregular weather patterns on global warming !! :P

Anyway random...I'm currently obessed with Grey's anatomy and Josh Groban. Last week's episode had me crying even if it wasn't really THAT sad. i think I'm just too emotional, I cried when I watched Finding Nemo. But come on, admit it, that movie was a bit tragic, well that's cuz I thought Nemo died. Which apparently is stupid of me because it's a DISNEY movie....

Josh Groban has the most angelic voice ever, I'm just really into the "voice" singers more than the "good looking, dancing" people. I never liked JT. BUt I was listening to his song and it moved me to tears. Wow dang..I cry a lot. But anyway that was the first song to move me to tears. I love josh because he has an awesome voice, same reason I used to love Clay. too bad he's kind of dissapeared now, he had such a pure perfect voice.

My Random rant will really revive this rad thread!
YAy for my lame attempt at alliteration

[kewlpiggy88]

haha, wait singerchick - do you live in the bay area? i thought you did, but then not, but now...i'm so confused! cuz i keep thinking south bay as in the southern bay area, but maybe not.

anyway, i've been watching 'arrested dev't.' it's really funny, i totally recommend it. i haven't watched grey's anatomy yet, but my sister really likes it.

right now the weather in the bay area is pretty nice. it was really cold week but then it got warmer.

[Singerchick]

haha, wait singerchick - do you live in the bay area? i thought you did, but then not, but now...i'm so confused! cuz i keep thinking south bay as in the southern bay area, but maybe not.
anyway, i've been watching 'arrested dev't.' it's really funny, i totally recommend it. i haven't watched grey's anatomy yet, but my sister really likes it.
right now the weather in the bay area is pretty nice. it was really cold week but then it got warmer.
I live in the South Bay as in Southern California. Not like San Fran:)

I watched arrested development a bit but I kind of stopped. I've been watching the winter olympics, I'm such a loser, I would watch it to like 3 am anad not be able to wake up to go to school the next day. But dang is Apollo Anton Ohno f'ing yummy. But then I have a feeling my love for him will die out because that's what happens when I like people for their face. I mean Apollo is talented in speed skating and all but he's hot. ahha. I remember I used to love Keanu reeves..after the matrix but my interest for him dissapeared after awhile when he had nothing else but his face that tantilized my senses.

Anyway we had a culture thing at school and I remember last year at the Taiwan/China table, they only had a Jay Chou cd. I was like..ok that's really sad, so I wrote down the names of David Tao and Leehom on a piece of paper. hahaa sadly they didn't know who they were. .And this year they had a Leehom and David tao picture! The pictures weren't exactly drool-worthy, but w/e haha. And a stephanie sun CD, but of course it was still dominated by Jay chou CDS. But I'm not complaining, as long as other artists that deserve due credit get it as well. Oh they also had this picture of Jolin...but not AMEI
-_-. And another random note, I was walking past our school's chinese club and they were playing "hereos of the world" with Jin and Leehom ahhhh, that was ecstasy.

But ok, I am dying in the requirements of college, GPA, SAT, EXTRACURRICULAR, RECCOMENDATIONS, AWARDs, VOLUNTEERING, etc, etc. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I have like none, and I judgement day for me is only like half a year away. Now I've reading essays to help me improve my writing for college applications, and I just happened to come across Leekai Wangs which was pretty trippy.

Btw I was watching "super girls" or w/e, it's like a girl version of American idol in China. And wow a lot of the finalists have such awesome voices...(although I don't really dig the winner). It still amazes me how mediocore can make it when there is so much talent out there. I <33 Zhang Liang Ying, Hou Jie, and Ji Ming Jia. Or something along those lines.

I think I already mentioned this but I <33 Josh Groban and Clay aiken. hahah they can't dance or do much else but hell their voices are eargasmic.

[kewlpiggy88]

haha, thinking about colleges already? i didn't really think about them until end of summer/beg of senior year. and the decisions come out in like a month. HOLY CRAP i didn't realize it was that soon. i'm starting to get the butterflies now. *breathes in and out*

[beyOnd aLL reasOn]

Thanks for reviving the thread Singerchick, man, I haven't been back here in a LOOOONNNGGG ASS TIME. Oooooh, Grey's Anatomy. My friend showed me that episode with the bomb. INTENSE.
=_=;; I can't believe Fox is dropping Arrested Development.

kewlpiggy88, Jen, right? Hehe, haven't seen you around in a long time, remember this retard? Eeeeeep...college, god...my school's starting us on college visits and it's starting to creep me out. I don't KNOW what college I want to go to, I don't KNOW where I want to go in life, leave me ALONE so I can watch Project Runway in PEACE.

[fajitapita]

omigosh! i <33 project runway!! esp. daniel v. i was super depressed when i found out he was gay T.T

iphei~ i totally do that too!! i went shopping today and bought 2 new tank tops, and insisted on wearing one of them to in-n-out even though it was like 50 something degrees out.. and i didnt bring a jacket cuz none of them matched

What is grey's anatomy about? ever since getting into college i've been really behind on tv.. and music too.. but i know where you're coming from about josh groban, he has this amazingly powerful voice. yay for popra! though i HATE il divo.

and totally random, but... does anyone know how to apply for a job? i wanna work at a pharmacy... how do i go about it? do i just walk into Longs Drugs and ask for an application?

[spork]

OH MAN I love Grey's Anatomy!!! :drool:
I love Mcdreamy :love: XD
Grey's Anatomy is kinda like a cross between ER and Scrubs. It has people with crazy medical conditions and is about a group of interns and their residents/bosses. The main character Meredith falls in love with her boss, Dr Sheppard, whom they call Mcdreamy :P

fajita: just walk in and ask for an application :) Or ask to speak to the manager to talk about employment. Then turn it in with a resume.

[kewlpiggy88]

beyond_all_reason:yeup, i'm jen. i haven't seen you in a looong time! how's school? you're a junior right? just a couple more months and you're free! haha.

every time i fill out an application, i don't get any calls back. except for one, and i had the flu when it came time for the interview, so i just didn't go.

go project runway!

i absolutely adoooooore that show. have you guys seen the clothes they designed for olympus fashion week? i actually really liked santino's clothes, even if he is a rude bastard. and both daniels are really nice guys - remember when crazy zulema was being mean to kara and daniel gave k a hug? and when the other daniel wouldn't sell out chloe and kara. hmm, maybe if i have a son i'll name him daniel...haha.

[spork]

applying for jobs suck :( do you turn in a resume when you fill out job apps jen?

most of the jobs I've gotten were because my friend helped me get it XD He/she who worked at the place I wanted to work at would let me put them down as my primary reference, and then the other two would be like my former employer, teacher or counselor.

[beyOnd aLL reasOn]

Lol fajitapita, I know what you mean, but I knew they were all probably gay from the start lol. He's only 24 and he's won like 6 challenges! <3 <# <3

Hehe jen, I'm only a sophomore now...arrrrrrrrrrgh lol. Call me Laurie lol, my username is sooo anal.

Ooh...is the last episode of Project Runway this week? Oh wait...is it a two part finale? Oh my gooodddd, I love BOTH the Daniel's too! The other Daniel was soooo sweeeeeeeeeeettttt. And Daniel V's designs are KICKASS. Hm...jen I don't think I'm gonna name my kid daniel...I'll just marry someone named Daniel lol.

Urgh. Zulema was SUCH A BIZNATTTTCHH. God, I hated that woman. Santino is such a arrogant bastard, but I love his Tim Gunn impersonations. "Andrae...you can't do this at Red Lobster. Where's Andrae?"

[zhy378]

oh yeah, by the way, i dont know if this been mentioned, but WE NEED TO SAVE:helpme: S.F.'s JAPANTOWN!!! a corp is gonna sell their property in japantown that mean 3/4 of japantown is going to be gone. eek:ohmy:
SIGN THE PETITION!http://www.petitiononline.com/jtown/petition.html

soo anyhoo, the weather here been sunny last week, and now is all raining :rasp: ...and i needa watch grey's anatomy, people keep sayin its good.

[spork]

yeah, I signed the Japantown petition last week. We need to save the udon, ramen, and yakitori restaurants!!!! :ranting:

That, and because I spent half my life there when I entered high school. First the bowling alley's gone, now they're trying to sell it! :/

[kewlpiggy88]

whoa...i was just there a month ago. the japantown is pretty 'dead' though, which really sucks because everyone loves japanese things! it was sad because it seemed like a a ton of the restaurants were like closed...for good.

and yeah, i just filled out a teacher, counselor, and an aunt (har harhar) for professional contacts. cuz seriously, i dunno any!

[jAy is a s h y_ b o i]

oing the jtown in L.A is pretty crap too. they used to have a least ONE little plaza you could shop in. last time i went to the plaza was like... 2 years ago??? and they have almost no shops. i think the cd shop there closed down. just a couple of random things and a market there.

you know if they expanded jtown (like ktown) and stick with selling japanese only goods, they would make SOO much money.

cuz where i live japanese stuff is marked up like mad but ppl still buy it. i used to read vivi religiously until everyone else in the world and their moms started to read it too and the price got marked up to nearly $12 a magazine!!! it only used to a few bucks more expensive than the price in japan, 400 yen.

seriously if both jtown n ktown started selling like popular goods from japan and korea respectively, business would be booming and not like a ghost town....

[spork]

ugh! I haven't been to japantown in a while, about to go today for a job interview X_X that's so sad, to see everything so dead :/ if japantown goes, what will save chinatown?! :O Chinatown is like, the gold mine for real estate. I'd be sad if San Francisco, which is suppose to be unique like that, doesn't have anything that makes it racially unique anymore. Golden Gate BRidge is awesome, but lame without Chinatown :/

[fajitapita]

NNOOOO!! japantown cant go like that!! i havent been to it yet! stupid school taking up all my time T.T

ok, random topic: I wanna redo prom. when am i ever gonna get to wear a dress like that again, huh? and dude, it was really sad.. i didnt even know my date. my friends just set me up w/ a friend of their's from a different skool cuz they thot it'd be really sad if i didnt go.. so i want a do-over :rasp: puahaha, prom was like forever ago.. but when i think abt it i get sad

random topic #2: there's a mouse in our apartment. now, i know we're messy.. but not that messy! ssooo disgusting.. so we dno what to do. cuz we dont wanna leave out rat poison cuz we're afraid the mouse will like curl up in one of our shoes and die there.. and a trap seems so cruel. *sigh* do NOT live on the first floor. its not happy.

[spork]

ew, that sucks fajita >_< There were mice in the classrooms in high school...They were cute, but only because I didn't have to live there with them XD I watched my teacher kill a baby mouse before :/ he had those sticky pads, and then you fold the sticky cardboard over and suffocate them :cry:

haha, I kinda wish I didn't go to prom XD Could've saved a lot of money that way...hehe. Junior prom, too. Jr. prom wasn't anything special...

[Singerchick]

haha, I kinda wish I didn't go to prom XD Could've saved a lot of money that way...hehe. Junior prom, too. Jr. prom wasn't anything special...

Is it really that expensive? Shouldn't your date like pay for 75% ? LOL.
But your right, if it really is burning a hole in your pocket then Jr. prom isn't that important...now Senior prom is a whole diff story.

[spork]

hehe, I went stag for prom :D The original plan was that our entire group would go stag. But then one girl hooked herself a boyfriend, and then her best friend got jealous and got her own...anyway in the end only two of us girls was stag, so we went stag :D

I went to another school's prom too with a guy that I kinda knew. He ended up paying for that, but I didn't like him enough to bring him to my prom XD

[kewlpiggy88]

i went stag to junior prom and am going to senior prom stag. as long as my friends are there, i'll have a good time. i already bought a dress that i really like, too!

[klarence]

i went stag to junior prom and am going to senior prom stag. as long as my friends are there, i'll have a good time. i already bought a dress that i really like, too!

wow, you plan early! if some guy asks you later on, are you still gonna go stag?

our prom's in three months, so i dont think anyone in my school has been planning anything yet.

anyone heard of any interesting ways ppl have been asked?

[iphei]

DUDE, Prom is so worht the money though 'cause it really a once in a lifetime chance. Like there are formals in college, but definitely no where near what Prom is. And I went to both my Junior, Senior proms, my friend's senior prom and my winter formal. And like I don't know, it's all part of the "high school experience."

[kewlpiggy88]

wow, you plan early! if some guy asks you later on, are you still gonna go stag?
our prom's in three months, so i dont think anyone in my school has been planning anything yet.
anyone heard of any interesting ways ppl have been asked?

i didn't plan on getting a dress so early but then my friend and her mom were going to SF during winter break to this prom outlet place and asked if i wanted to come. all the dresses there were pretty cheap so i just got one. i know prom is supposed to be this big deal, but i don't really care all that much if i go or not. like it would be fun to go, but it wouldn't be the END OF THE WORLD (like missing jay's concert) if i didn't.

oh, and klarence - i hear some ppl put up signs and stuff to ask people out. like, "WILL YOU GO WITH ME?" spelled out, or a message in every period, something like that, but yeah, that's basically it. someone told me that at monta vista, valentine's day is like xmas - tons of gifts. or was that lynbrook?

[Singerchick]

klarence lol if you're the outgoing type, do something creative. Sing a song, do a little dance, make a statement over the School PA (are you guys allowed to do that?) make yourself stand out. But the traditional rose/card is also a cute road to go down :P

[kewlpiggy88]

is anyone planning on going to the jolin concert?! i REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO.

klarence - how's the college process going? EVERYBODY around me is getting in, slowly but surely. i haven't heard from anywhere, but my friends have heard from USC, UCI, UCLA engineering, and some of my friends are flying to visit schools/have interviews.

[fajitapita]

I wanna go to the jolin concert too! but i hafta fly down and it's cutting it close to finals.. i like jolin, but im more interested in seeing xiao zhu ^^

wait.. you have friends flying to have interviews? i thot the app process was over..

oo.. and i heard something abt them messing up SAT scores? so collegboard has to re-send the new ones to colleges?

[Singerchick]

is anyone planning on going to the jolin concert?! i REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO.

klarence - how's the college process going? EVERYBODY around me is getting in, slowly but surely. i haven't heard from anywhere, but my friends have heard from USC, UCI, UCLA engineering, and some of my friends are flying to visit schools/have interviews.

I'm not really a huge fan of Jolin, I like some of her songs, but I don't know, I might go just for the experience, because the Las Vegas was really fun, so I might go just so I can scream and get hyper. But the thing is I've seen from Jolin's video clips that her concerts are more the type that you kind of have to be in the front to enjoy it because her concerts arn't exactly "musical" so it's not the type that is enjoyable if you saw just a tiny dot from far away. However, I'm iffy because I heard David Tao is coming to America sometime also...so I'm not sure if I would want to fork out $100+ dollars for Jolin's and not be able to go to David Tao's. I'm a huge David Tao fan. so yeah lol.

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick: that's exactly what my friend and i were saying, too! with jay and leehom you can just sit back and enjoy the music and it's okay if you can't see them that well, but jolin puts on a more visual performance, and her vocals aren't super great or anything. yeah, but i really want to get hyper and scream and see how tiny she is in person and see her dancing moves! anyway....
DAVID TAO is coming? omg! where did you hear from? i'll keep my eyes and ears alert, but argh, i dunno if my parents (esp my mom) will let me go to another one if it's soon. the other day, she said, "dad and i talked, and we agreed that if you go to the jolin concert, you can't go when jay comes." my dad comes home, we're eating dinner, and i ask him about the "agreement" he made with my mom, and he's like, "i never said that..." tsk tsk, my mom is so tricky tricky tricky.

fajitapita: my friends are going down for scholarship interviews at USC. they already got in, but if they want to get a partial/full scholarship they have to go down (and skip 2 days of school!) to interview.

[klarence]

I want to go to jolin's concert too, but i dunno if i can.. especially since it costs so much.

i dont think i want to do the message thing for each period, because it's so overused. lol ill think of something eventually

jenn: so far, I've gotten accepted by USC, UCLA, and Berkeley. if you're a candidate for Berkeley's regents scholarship, it means you got in. ohh, i just went down to USC this week for an interview also.. for the half-tuition shcolarship. haha it was actually a hassle to skip 2 days of school..so much stuff to make up!

MIT is up this saturday!

[kewlpiggy88]

klarence: congrats on all the schools! what are you planning on majoring in? and are you visiting MIT or are decisions coming out? and sorry, what do you mean by you don't want to do a message thing for each period?

[Singerchick]

singerchick: that's exactly what my friend and i were saying, too! with jay and leehom you can just sit back and enjoy the music and it's okay if you can't see them that well, but jolin puts on a more visual performance, and her vocals aren't super great or anything. yeah, but i really want to get hyper and scream and see how tiny she is in person and see her dancing moves! anyway....
DAVID TAO is coming? omg! where did you hear from? i'll keep my eyes and ears alert, but argh, i dunno if my parents (esp my mom) will let me go to another one if it's soon. the other day, she said, "dad and i talked, and we agreed that if you go to the jolin concert, you can't go when jay comes." my dad comes home, we're eating dinner, and i ask him about the "agreement" he made with my mom, and he's like, "i never said that..." tsk tsk, my mom is so tricky tricky tricky.
My mom's exactly like that..she likes to make my dad seem like the bad guy hahaha. Yeah my parents are like.."Jolin? didn't you just go to Leehom's concert?" haha I was like..."uh-yeah." I think DAvid may be coming, he's one of the more successful singers that hasn't had a solo concert. I remember I used to complain that Leehom shoudl have one and he did..now David should have one. I mean come on that guy is a musical genius.


I want to go to jolin's concert too, but i dunno if i can.. especially since it costs so much.
i dont think i want to do the message thing for each period, because it's so overused. lol ill think of something eventually
jenn: so far, I've gotten accepted by USC, UCLA, and Berkeley. if you're a candidate for Berkeley's regents scholarship, it means you got in. ohh, i just went down to USC this week for an interview also.. for the half-tuition shcolarship. haha it was actually a hassle to skip 2 days of school..so much stuff to make up!
MIT is up this saturday!


Woohoo if you get into MIT then you might run into Leehom's little bro. haha no I'm just kidding.
Wow congrats! I was wondering what were your stats? And as for the regents scholarships and stuff what do you have to do to qualify? Good luck!

[klarence]

jenn: oh, im gonna major in bioengineering. what about you? have you heard from colleges yet? (you can check UCLA online). yea, MIT decisions are gonna be posted online on Saturday . oh i was talking about senior prom when i said the message stuff. lol

singerchick: lol i really really dont think im gonna get into MIT. is leehom's brother graduating from there yet? thanks! oh, what do you mean by stats? for regents, you dont have to do anything. they just contact you about it after they see your app. after you are contaacted by berkeley, you go there to get interviewed by a professor

[Singerchick]

jenn: oh, im gonna major in bioengineering. what about you? have you heard from colleges yet? (you can check UCLA online). yea, MIT decisions are gonna be posted online on Saturday . oh i was talking about senior prom when i said the message stuff. lol
singerchick: lol i really really dont think im gonna get into MIT. is leehom's brother graduating from there yet? thanks! oh, what do you mean by stats? for regents, you dont have to do anything. they just contact you about it after they see your app. after you are contaacted by berkeley, you go there to get interviewed by a professor

like your Sat scroes, GPA, ECs, etc

Leehom's brother is class of 07' I think

[kewlpiggy88]

klarence:don't worry about MIT, if you got regent's scholarship for cal, that must mean something. good luck with MIT...that is one tough school. the only school i've heard from is UCLA, and i got in, which i'm so happy about. i'm so nervous about other schools (esp cal), though. anyway, if you go to collegeconfidential.com and go to the UCLA forums, some ppl with good stats didn't get in but this one guy had like, 500-600 SATIIs and a below average UC GPA, and got in. just looking at the decisions list made me think that college admissions are really random sometimes.

[Singerchick]

klarence:don't worry about MIT, if you got regent's scholarship for cal, that must mean something. good luck with MIT...that is one tough school. the only school i've heard from is UCLA, and i got in, which i'm so happy about. i'm so nervous about other schools (esp cal), though. anyway, if you go to collegeconfidential.com and go to the UCLA forums, some ppl with good stats didn't get in but this one guy had like, 500-600 SATIIs and a below average UC GPA, and got in. just looking at the decisions list made me think that college admissions are really random sometimes.


yeah I remember 2 years ago this guy at our school got rejected from UCLA but got into Cal-tech. I thnk it's becaue UC's go for more "well-rounded" whereas Cal-tech is more focued on science. This guy didn't do to well in other subjects but excelled in science and math and was on natioanl olympiad Etc.

[klarence]

jenn: good job!! are you planning on going therE? wow, 500-600's...he probably have had something else that made up for it

like your Sat scroes, GPA, ECs, etc
Leehom's brother is class of 07' I think

GPA: unweighted like 3.9, weighted about 4.3-4.4 (i kinda forgot)
SAT: 2250 for sat 1, for sat 2's i have 800, 760, and 800 (lol chinese =P)
ECs: boy scouts - i put eagle candidate, and then i had various leadership positions and awards in there
flute - all state band, county honor band, n some other awards. principal of school band, co-principal of cali youth symphony
piano cm
red cross co pres, national convention delegate
officer of 3 other clubs also
ntl honor society, spanish honor society, tri-m
lab assistant job in summer (lol worked for my mom's company)
some awards like national merit commended, ap distinction
n then i was in some other stuff too like CSF, church, etc


singerchick: lol good luck on the college app process next yr.. its so much work (especially for procrastinators like me =P). and dont take too many classes!

[kewlpiggy88]

klarence:wow, so well-rounded! i'm glad you didn't retake your SATs (i remember you wanting to retake them? i think, not sure). i feel like if someone already gets a 2200+ score, that's already REALLY good, so there's no need to retake.

singerchick:yeah, good luck! if i could go back one year, i wish i did some kind of summer internship because i didn't do anything and so many ppl did stuff and also, you could use your experience there in essays and stuff.

[Singerchick]

singerchick:[/B]yeah, good luck! if i could go back one year, i wish i did some kind of summer internship because i didn't do anything and so many ppl did stuff and also, you could use your experience there in essays and stuff.

Is it better to get a job/internship or volunteer?

jenn: good job!! are you planning on going therE? wow, 500-600's...he probably have had something else that made up for it
GPA: unweighted like 3.9, weighted about 4.3-4.4 (i kinda forgot)
SAT: 2250 for sat 1, for sat 2's i have 800, 760, and 800 (lol chinese =P)
ECs: boy scouts - i put eagle candidate, and then i had various leadership positions and awards in there
flute - all state band, county honor band, n some other awards. principal of school band, co-principal of cali youth symphony
piano cm
red cross co pres, national convention delegate
officer of 3 other clubs also
ntl honor society, spanish honor society, tri-m
lab assistant job in summer (lol worked for my mom's company)
some awards like national merit commended, ap distinction
n then i was in some other stuff too like CSF, church, etc
singerchick: lol good luck on the college app process next yr.. its so much work (especially for procrastinators like me =P). and dont take too many classes!

Wow that's pretty awesome!!!

How many times did you take the SAT?
I got a 2290 the first time and I'm thinking of retaking it to raise it to hopefully (or my parents want me to) to a 2350. But I'm not sure if that's posbble. I don't have as many Ec's as you so i need to make up for it in like my grades. I played the flute, but I stopped so that kinda sucks LOL. I was wondering do college look down at you if your grade drops junior year? I had all straight A's until this year. Godamn. Yeah so I'm kind of worried :shy: especially because I heard you have to be like top 1% of your school to get into Berkely.

Btw how many volunteering hours did you have?

I know your a big Jolin Fan are you going to her concert?

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick: klarence only took it once, and ahhh! 2290 is so awesome already. imho, i really see no need to retake it. well, i guess it depends on where you want to go. according to what everyone believes, privates look more at how well-rounded one is (essays, ECs), whereas the UCs look at numbers more (it's less true for LA and Berk, though). also, it's not just the top 1% who get into berkeley. every year, 20-30 ppl from my school end up deciding to go there, so more people actually get in. don't you do newspaper? that's a pretty good extracurricular already. i REALLY don't recommend you going because sometimes it's more of a place to feel depressed about yourself, but this site can possibly help answer your college-related questions: www.collegeconfidential.com

as a sidenote, does your school have a website for your newspaper? maybe we can swap URLs and/or a hard copy (our website is never updated. we're actually trying to improve that. our advisor wants to create a special group dedicated to just the web site). i'm a newspaper junkie myself - we call ourselves the J-Crew and we live in the J-Room. hardy har har.

[klarence]

Is it better to get a job/internship or volunteer?
Wow that's pretty awesome!!!
How many times did you take the SAT?
I got a 2290 the first time and I'm thinking of retaking it to raise it to hopefully (or my parents want me to) to a 2350. But I'm not sure if that's posbble. I don't have as many Ec's as you so i need to make up for it in like my grades. I played the flute, but I stopped so that kinda sucks LOL. I was wondering do college look down at you if your grade drops junior year? I had all straight A's until this year. Godamn. Yeah so I'm kind of worried :shy: especially because I heard you have to be like top 1% of your school to get into Berkely.
Btw how many volunteering hours did you have?
I know your a big Jolin Fan are you going to her concert?

I don't think one is necessarily "better" than the other...just be sure to have depth in your activities...show your involvement in them through leadership positions, awards, etc. 2290 is great! wow good job :-)

Yeah, my grades started to drop starting junior as well.. but i dont think you need to be the top1% to get into Berkeley.

oh i have probably around 230 volunteer hrs in general, because a lot of my clubs revolve around community service (red cross, food for all, boy scouts, leukemia and lymphoma society).

lol probably not.. the tickets are so expensive! I'm going to be in Asia for a long time in the summer, so hopefully i'll be able to go to my first concert! :D

jenn: whoa that website has so much info! lol i kinda wish i heard about it earlier. it wouldve helped a lot in the entire process. oh yea, davis is up too! i cant check it though, because i dunno my account id and stuff...

[kewlpiggy88]

lol, i wrote down davis because i KNEW i was going to forget it. they have all these requirements - capital letter, punctuation, no dictionary word, etc etc etc. it took me SO long to fill out the whole registration thing.

[klarence]

oh, i remember doing that.. the problem is that I didn't write down all the stuff, so I couldn't access my account to check :oops:

but luckily i got it in the mail today...i got regents! dunno if ill atually go there though

now i only have 10 other colleges to hear back from :wacko:

MIT in less than 2 days!

[Singerchick]

oh, i remember doing that.. the problem is that I didn't write down all the stuff, so I couldn't access my account to check :oops:
but luckily i got it in the mail today...i got regents! dunno if ill atually go there though
now i only have 10 other colleges to hear back from :wacko:
MIT in less than 2 days!

congrats! how much money did you get from regents?

Good luck for MIT, those math/science schools are really weird in picking admissions

[zhy378]

yeah I remember 2 years ago this guy at our school got rejected from UCLA but got into Cal-tech. I thnk it's becaue UC's go for more "well-rounded" whereas Cal-tech is more focued on science. This guy didn't do to well in other subjects but excelled in science and math and was on natioanl olympiad Etc.


hmm... i dunno why, it remind me of this story. it happened like 5 years ago, a guy from highschool near where i lived. he got accepted to Harvard but then rejected them and went to Sacramento State....

oh yeah, Wal-Mart's about to open its 2,000th Supercenter, and it'll celebrate the momentous occasion with a free concert featuring Ryan Cabrera. He'll perform March 18 in the parking lot of said store — located in Beaumont, California. The show is open to the public and starts at 4 p.m. ...

[kewlpiggy88]

college acapella groups = the bomb! i just went to an acapella competition at stanford - they're all so good. and can i just say that guys w/ english accents are SO HOT? omg. i saw a group of tall, lanky english boys sing and i just about died.
okay okay, slight exaggeration, but i totally want to study abroad in england now. who cares if the weather's dreary and they eat weird/unhealthy food like shepherd's pie and fish&chips? if that's what's making the men HOT, then so be it!

[klarence]

college acapella groups = the bomb! i just went to an acapella competition at stanford - they're all so good.
Yeah, they're really great! I saw one at USC when I visited there, and they were sooo good.

Anyway, I was rejected by MIT (no surprise). I only know 3 ppl that got in. A senior female, a junior, and someone from kewlpiggy's school. lol.

got into ucsd and nyu though...so now i have to wait for 7 more colleges. i heard that carnegie mellon sent some letters out today though. ahhh i hate waiting for all the colleges to notify me. why can't they just all release the decisions the same day??

jenn: have you heard from other colleges yet?

[kewlpiggy88]

NYU IS OUT?! i thought they were coming out at the end of march!

klarence: don't worry about MIT. 3 guys at our school who are like TOP NOTCH. like SO SO SMART. did not get in. and 1 of them has a brother that goes there, too. but 2 girls from our school got in!

[klarence]

oh, i got a letter from NYU (not exactly the acceptance package)..i guess it can be considered a likely letter. and according to collegeconfidential.com (which you got me addicted to =P), its pretty much an acceptance?

D and L are the girls from your school, right? soo cool. i heard D got like a half-tuition scholarship too (we're family friends). its weird how so many more girls around here are getting accepted.. my guy friends who were REALLY smart (one got into caltech early, other got into yale early) didnt get into MIT either. i think its easier for girls to get into MIT though. i saw last yrs stats, and ~7000 guys applied while ~2000 girls applied, and they still accepted pretty much and equal amount of guys and girls.

oh and i got into cmu!! id probably go to berkeley instead though...

[Singerchick]

Congrats Klarence! Your really smart :)

Wait...how does a junior get into like MIT?

Anyway yeah this guy at my school who's like county acadec champion got rejected by MIT. But he got into Cal-tech, so I guess it isnt' that bad.

So far I know of two people from my school, both are girls, that got into Stanford early. But some really weird people got into UCLA and a lot people were pissed. But I guess UCLA likes to balance things out so they accept some "so-so" people.

[kewlpiggy88]

yeah, LA was very strange this year. like ppl who, imho, are stronger than other ppl who got in didn't.

klar: ooh, okay. i got a letter too but i have to make sure first, otherwise i feel like i'm jinxing things. congrats on CMU (carnegie right?) my friend got in too and on the letter it was something about 'this is the fat letter.' i thought that was pretty funny! yeah, all the guys who got rejected at MIT got in at caltech. and WOW, D got a scholarship? she should totally go there. she got D at harvard tho, so maybe she wants to wait. she's so smart tho...

[klarence]

singerchick: haha thanks. oh, the junior guy is graduating early.. like he's taking senior classes this yr too, such as AP lit. I guess anyone can do that as long as all the credits are fulfilled. but yeah, i guess he's crazily smart. lol

klar: ooh, okay. i got a letter too but i have to make sure first, otherwise i feel like i'm jinxing things. congrats on CMU (carnegie right?) my friend got in too and on the letter it was something about 'this is the fat letter.' i thought that was pretty funny! yeah, all the guys who got rejected at MIT got in at caltech. and WOW, D got a scholarship? she should totally go there. she got D at harvard tho, so maybe she wants to wait. she's so smart tho...

haha jinxing things... yeah, CMU = carnegie mellon. lol it says "OFFICIAL FAT LETTER" on the envelope. =P actually D got financial aid, not a scholarship. my dad was mistaken. YEah, her top choice is Harvard...which will be out tomorrow! ugh....5 more schools to hear from. JUST ONE and i'll be happy!

I got into Northwestern today though!!!! my first reach school!!! :D i didnt know it was ranked #12 in the nation.. pretty good

[kewlpiggy88]

congrats klarence - finally the cali thread has been livening up. so financial aid is just from like...the government right? and how did USC go? 4 people that i know of got the scholarship. i haven't heard from the other ppl who qualified for the scholarship though. do you want to go to northwestern?

and congrats again on northwestern! the remainder of this week and next week are going to be so nervewracking (and hell-ish because it's the week before spring break and teachers just LOVE to cram) cuz all the schools are coming out.

i'm so mad that i applied to a ton of reach schools. like seriously reach. aiyah.

[klarence]

oh, I think MIT is giving the financial aid, not the gov.

lol yesterday i was considering to go to northwestern, but now im not sure. because I GOT INTO CORNELL AND UPENN!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy right now, even though i got rejected from yale (i predicted that =P). i want to go visit them during break.

and harvard STILL hasnt sent me an email.. i really doubt i'll get accepted by harvard or stanford though, so that's ok. :D

edit
waitlisted at harvard!!!! OMG

[kewlpiggy88]

omgosh CONGRATS clarence! which school of upenn's did you apply to?
as far as i know, none of my friends got into penn. WOW waitlisted at harvard! dude!!!! can i read your essays?! i'm so incredibly jealous!

i got rejected like everywhere, haha.

[Singerchick]

singerchick: haha thanks. oh, the junior guy is graduating early.. like he's taking senior classes this yr too, such as AP lit. I guess anyone can do that as long as all the credits are fulfilled. but yeah, i guess he's crazily smart. lol

haha jinxing things... yeah, CMU = carnegie mellon. lol it says "OFFICIAL FAT LETTER" on the envelope. =P actually D got financial aid, not a scholarship. my dad was mistaken. YEah, her top choice is Harvard...which will be out tomorrow! ugh....5 more schools to hear from. JUST ONE and i'll be happy!
I got into Northwestern today though!!!! my first reach school!!! :D i didnt know it was ranked #12 in the nation.. pretty good


HAha..yeah anyone can graduate early. I knew someone who graduated after 10th. BUt graduating early and getting into MIT is a WHOLE diff story. Congrats on Northwestern. Yeah it came out today right? All the seniors on Board for Interact and Newspaper that applied for NW got in and they were all celebrating today. And this guy who got into John Hopkins and Swathmore was like on the verge of tears. Anyway I think someone from my school applied to williams. WOnder if they got in.

Klarence!
Congrats on cornell and upenn, I know they are good schools, but what exactly is their speciality? BUT OMG share your essays! haha :)

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick: i know upenn's business school (wharton) is NUMBER ONE. and that's why i was rejected there. haha.

[Singerchick]

singerchick: i know upenn's business school (wharton) is NUMBER ONE. and that's why i was rejected there. haha.

lol, now arn't we a little too modest?

Well almost all the decisions are out. and wow I'm surprised 7/8 students got into stanford this year, including the early decision folks, that's a lot considering we usually get 3-4 max.

And wow I'm surprised this guy with 4.4 GPA all 5 on his AP tests 6 APs and almost 1000 volunteer hours didn't get into berkeley.

[fajitapita]

And wow I'm surprised this guy with 4.4 GPA all 5 on his AP tests 6 APs and almost 1000 volunteer hours didn't get into berkeley.

Are you serious?? i'm here and i was nowhere near as good as that.. but yah, Berkeley's known to be a lil random sometimes..

haven't been in here for awhile.. hearing all you young uns talk abt college apps and stuff made me kinda depressed *tear* haha...

Kewlpiggy:: i was rejected from wharton too, i feel your pain...and that was my top choice too..

but congrats on all you guys' acceptances ^^

[Singerchick]

Are you serious?? i'm here and i was nowhere near as good as that.. but yah, Berkeley's known to be a lil random sometimes..
haven't been in here for awhile.. hearing all you young uns talk abt college apps and stuff made me kinda depressed *tear* haha...
Kewlpiggy:: i was rejected from wharton too, i feel your pain...and that was my top choice too..
but congrats on all you guys' acceptances ^^

Yeah someone from our school got into Wharton and she was screaming with Joy. Haha but it wasn't really a surprise considering how frikin smart she was.

I mean her stats. :excited:

4.64 GPA
500+ Volunteer Hours
790 Chem SAT II
800 MATH IIC
750 SPANISH SAT II
730 Physics SAT II
780 History SAT II
2200 SAT I

5 SPANISH 4 AP
5 CALC AB AP
5 CHEM AP
5 PHYSICS AP
5 PSYCOLOGY AP
5 AP USH

god it's so depressing when you see such smart people. I was asking her what her stats were and wow I just was totally blown away.

Anyway so while everyone was enjoying JOlin's concert yesterday I took my AP practice tests, it was around 4 hours per test. Yeah not very much fun.

I was extremely depressed about my BIOAP score. I BARELY BARELY made a 4, I was like 3 points away from the cutoff to a 3. For Spanish I kind of expected a 3 because I suck in that class. a three was a 45 and I made a 53. I'm hoping to bring it up a few points and get a 4. Calc was the only happy score I got. WEll I need to STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!! Ye

Anyone going out of the country this summer? A friend of mine is going to tAiwan and I'm making him buy me everything and anything Leehom, DAvid Tao, and Jay Chou he sees. lol

[kewlpiggy88]

ahhh, jolin's concert was OKAY. it was less than TWO HOURS! and the crowd was pretty dead. it was probably 85% full. i dunno, she only wore 4 outfits and seriously, it ppl paid THAT much $$$ and she flew all the way over here, you'd think she'd sing for at least 2+ hours. i mean, jay's concerts are usually like 2.5 hours.

[Singerchick]

ahhh, jolin's concert was OKAY. it was less than TWO HOURS! and the crowd was pretty dead. it was probably 85% full. i dunno, she only wore 4 outfits and seriously, it ppl paid THAT much $$$ and she flew all the way over here, you'd think she'd sing for at least 2+ hours. i mean, jay's concerts are usually like 2.5 hours.

Dude why are all these asian star's concerts sooo short in AMERICA?

Leehom's concert was only like <2 hours also. It was actually longer but his guest took up 1/3 of the time. That made me really sad. He had like only 3 outfit changes. It sucks though because people flew in from all over also. But then Leehom had a flight at 6am the next day back to taiwan because his new album was coming out and his singing was excellent and his interaction with his fans was beyond ADORABLE so I forgave him hahaha. But he kind of favored the left side more. But his piano was on the right so that was pretty ok. Leehom's concert was more "musical" and less visual. He played a lot of instruments but didn't do much dancing, but his voice was flawless. From the youtube clips I saw, Jolin had more dancing and stuff right?

Did anyone take a picture of Jolin's venue? How big was it?

But Jay's concert i think in 2002 in LV was the only full full length concert I went to.

Didn't Jolin's fans kind of get worked up at the end when Xiao Zhu Came out?


amei's having one in LV!!! I might go. I absulutely LOVE HER VOICE.

But for some reason, although the Jay one I went to was longer, I enjoyed Leehom's one more. Despite it being short, he always had me screaming. haha maybe because I'm border pshycotic when it comes to Leehom. But for what it's worth musically, those 1.5 hours gave me some of the best music I've heard, especially because the songs were rearranged and Leehom likes to add adlibs. :D

[Singerchick]

Ok so we were going over College entrance essays in school today. Wow and some people just drew pictures. lol that was pretty cool.

So I came home and I was on google searching for college essays and wow look who's I found? It's a small world.

My name is Lee-kai Matthew Wang, and I am an academic. To someone who doesn’t know me, that may be all I am: a name, an entry on the honor roll, or a code number on an application. But being reduced to a statistic does justice to no one, and I am no exception. I have my own merits, my own ideals, and my own quirks that keep me from blending into the background. I refuse to be tossed nonchalantly into some arbitrary category like mail sorted by a disinterested laborer.

My entire life I have striven to learn as much as I could, continuously thirsting for more. I am interested in everything, being fortunate enough to have had as mentors two older brothers, Lee-hom, 26, and Leo, 28. Lee-hom, a musician, inspired my love of music. Before he left home for college, he used to play his guitar and sing for me, instilling in me a deep appreciation for the art. I started playing the violin when I was 5, and I have studied piano since I was six. I also play the drums and love singing. I have sung and danced in my school's show choir as well as productions of "South Pacific", "Bye Bye Birdie", "West Side Story," and "Carousel." I have studied piano for over eleven years and play drums in a band called Sploosh.

Leo, my eldest brother, is responsible for my more scholarly proclivities. He is currently studying for his M.D./Ph.D. in immunology. His breadth and depth of knowledge have always impressed everyone in my family, and I have always admired him, hoping that one day my own erudition might rival his. My academic achievements began with language. I learned my alphabet at 18 months, and since then I have picked up French, Spanish, and Latin, in addition to Chinese and English. I have also excelled in mathematics from an early age, earning the second highest math score in New York State on the Johns Hopkins University Talent Search in seventh grade. I have been the captain of my school’s math team since freshman year and now I am coaching the MathCounts team at the middle school. Having actively participated in many mathematical competitions, last year I became the only student from my school ever to qualify to take the USA Mathematical Olympiad. I was also the First Vice-President of the New York State Junior Classical League, and I have won over forty awards at regional Latin competitions, including the "Mens sana in corpore san" award for highest overall achievement at the 2001 New York State Latin Convention.

I am now applying by early application to Harvard College. I plan to study biochemistry because I want to do cancer research. So many people I love have suffered from cancer in the past few years and at this point I want to offer whatever I can to the fight against it. I also intend to teach, for nothing is more valuable than to have the opportunity to impart unto others one’s own knowledge. Besides my academic pursuits I plan to play on the frisbee team as well as fence.

Great, you say, so you’re at least as talented as the next applicant whose self-gratifying essay I have to read. But I persist: I am different. What sets me apart from other students?

I am unique because I do not allow myself to be inhibited by regulation. Without doubt rules are necessary, but I am a firm believer that once the rules are mastered and their motives understood it is often proficuous to break them. I am in constant pursuit of mastery over the rules; what is more, I am not afraid to leave them behind.

When the words of prose become unfettered we call it poetry; when we free language of mechanical concerns we achieve fluency. When the notes of a musical composition have been learned we forsake accuracy in favor of expression. It is my goal to attain that level of understanding in everything I do. This is what sets me apart: the quest for intellectual freedom from pedantry.

He currently attends MIT but DAMN

[kewlpiggy88]

wow, that is a really good essay.

anyhoo, as for colleges, i decided on berkeley. the only private i got into was NYU, and seeing all those beautiful pamphlets and hat that they sent me, it was kinda sad when i had to say byebye to all that luxury for 'ghetto' cal. but no matter, it's close to home!

as for jolin's concert, i have pics/video but it's on my sis' camera, and she uses a diff cam for me so the uploading equipment is diff. she's too lazy to upload because her computer doesn't have memory or something. i dunno, it'll eventually get uploaded tho...haha. it was actually a pretty small arena, so anywhere you sat, the view was pretty good.

[Singerchick]

wow, that is a really good essay.

anyhoo, as for colleges, i decided on berkeley. the only private i got into was NYU, and seeing all those beautiful pamphlets and hat that they sent me, it was kinda sad when i had to say byebye to all that luxury for 'ghetto' cal. but no matter, it's close to home!

as for jolin's concert, i have pics/video but it's on my sis' camera, and she uses a diff cam for me so the uploading equipment is diff. she's too lazy to upload because her computer doesn't have memory or something. i dunno, it'll eventually get uploaded tho...haha. it was actually a pretty small arena, so anywhere you sat, the view was pretty good.

yeah I read a news article that said around 3000 people came, but there seemed to be a lot of coverage on it in the Taiwan news. Mabye because Xiao Zhu was in it and since Xiao hosts entertainment 100%.

Ohh berkeleY? I wanna go there. But I really really really wnat to go to Columbia

[kewlpiggy88]

lol, why do you like columbia so much? cuz it's in NYC? woah, i almost wrote NYU.

[klarence]

columbia is so hard to get into-- i think it's acceptance rate this year was like 9%!! one of my friends got into columbia, but decided not to go bc its right by harlem or something like that..

oh i think amei had one in LV before. i liek her voice too, but i dont like any of her current songs. i only like her old songs, like ting hai, ji de, etc..

btw my essays arent really good..but if you still want to see them, pm me

[kewlpiggy88]

most IVYs hover around the 10% admittance.

klarence - are u going to your senior prom? where is it being held???

[klarence]

yep im going.. it's going to be on the san francisco belle. what about yours?

[chineseguyjl]

did lee wang get accepted to harvard with that letter?
damn after reading that essay, i found new respect for wang.

speakin of college, did anybody here take the AP tests?

[kewlpiggy88]

klarence: is the SF belle a yacht? we're having ours at a hotel.
chineseguy: where's hemet near? and yeah i took APs, and i'm pretty sure klarence and singerchick took them too. altho the ones it ook were the 'easier' ones - no science APs!

[Singerchick]

lol, why do you like columbia so much? cuz it's in NYC? woah, i almost wrote NYU.

Yeah, I used to live in NYC. I lived there for close to 7 years.

And I really like it there, I like the tempo of things. It seems so much more exciting and faster paced than Southern Cali. I mean Southern Cali is nice and mellow, it's a good place to "chill" But I like excitement more, so I really want to return to NYC.

I went to Chinese school at Columbia also. But I kind of dropped out in like 2nd grade. But then I remember playing in the Columbian courtyards and trying to catch fireflys.

[kewlpiggy88]

o wow, you lived in nyc before...in the city? or like in the suburbs near it? i've been in the bay area all my life! if you think socal is chill, you should try living in the bay area...it's probably even more chill haha.

[Singerchick]

o wow, you lived in nyc before...in the city? or like in the suburbs near it? i've been in the bay area all my life! if you think socal is chill, you should try living in the bay area...it's probably even more chill haha.


My dad used to go to Columbia, and he went to grad school there also. So we SPENT A LOT of time at Columbia. LOL. But yeah we lived on 111th street. I lived in the city. Not like the suburbs like Rochester or Queens.

I remember there were a lot of old Chinese people that used hang out at the park. hah.

Actually southern Cali is boring but it's calm. Whereas in New York you could do stuff, where I live in Cali it's basically the same routine of hanging out at the beach with bonfires and sutff, playing at Pc Bang, playing pool, singing karoake, watching the movies, going to the mall etc etc. There's like nothing to GO AND SEE. Whereas in New York, just looking at the skyline is exciting. But in a way because the pace of life in Cali is slower it's more relaxing. So I'm thinking of returning here once I get married. haha, I'm such a loser, I have like my entire life planned out.

But woot APS are over. I failed them all, but they are OVER!!! I've been slacking off lately though now that APS are over, I've been just going out everyday LOL. Dude I think I'm already getting senior-itis.

I'm starting to lose interest in Chinese music. Eh that kind of sucks. Oh well I guess that's what happens when you're the only person in your group of friends that listens to Asian music :angel:

[kewlpiggy88]

awww, maybe it's cuz no one you really like, like leehom, has come out with an album?

[klarence]

I'm starting to lose interest in Chinese music. Eh that kind of sucks. Oh well I guess that's what happens when you're the only person in your group of friends that listens to Asian music :angel:

THat's why you must convert them, make them love chinese music =P haha i've actually introduced several friends to chinese music, and some really like it! just burn them a CD with what you think are the best songs or the most famous/popular.

Whoa, chinese school at Columbia sounds so cool!

[Singerchick]

awww, maybe it's cuz no one you really like, like leehom, has come out with an album?

It's not that. I mean partly yeah a lot of the people I like haven't come out with stuff like David Tao. Also all the girl Chinese artists I like arn't coming out with stuff I like. For example Coco Lee, Elva, and Landy all have AWESOME voices, but they havn't come out with GOOD stuff for a LONG LONG TIME. But even if it's people I feel indifferent about like Jolin or Rainie Yang. I havn't been really impressed by their music. You know? It's like all the top selling artists like 5566 in Taiwan have 1-2 catchy songs and it just ends there there isn't any song that leaves an impact on me. I listened to Jolin's new album, it's catchy. Track 3 is a cute song. But it's not the type of album that I would look back on and be like wow that really affected me like say a Josh Groban song would have. Music to me has to be something more than just commercial.

I'm open to new suggestions, I've recently fallen in love with Gary Cao's voice, and I also like some of Nicky Lee's songs. But the sad part of it is a lot of the more popular artists I don't like.

Many of the songs seem so shallow. It's like the song would make a cool song for a cool music video but then it doesn't really go any deeper than that. Eh I don't know how to describe it. But my TASTE has changed over the years. But David Tao is coming out with an album soon, so yeah. But although Leehom's and Jay's music has opened me to Chinese music A LOT. I feel bad saying this, but there just isn't ENOUGH Leehom's and Davids and Jays in the industry to sustain my interest.


THat's why you must convert them, make them love chinese music =P haha i've actually introduced several friends to chinese music, and some really like it! just burn them a CD with what you think are the best songs or the most famous/popular.

Whoa, chinese school at Columbia sounds so cool!

No Chinese school at Columbia was retarded. It bored the crap out of me. And my best friend this white girl could speak Chinese fluently so she would always win all the competitions haha.

My friends don't like Chinese music period. haha.
I mean yeah they are songs here and there but overall they don't like Chinese music. Yeah they are Chinese, but extremely white-washed. They don't think Chinese artists can sing or dance except for a selected few.

I'm bombarded with American music everyday, and although A LOT of that mainstream sex music is crap, there is still a lot of music I like. Whereas for Chinese music, good music isn't thrown at me, I have to actually look for it. You know? It's like a lot of the music I download, I don't even like. I mean I still like Leehom. But I havn't heard really any music that's mentally stimulating and challenges me audio-lly for awhile.



Eh. Anyway I saw United 93 yesterday. I almost threw up because the video was so shaky and it got me dizzy, but boy that movie is powerful. I was crying at the end. It really leaves a deep impact. Has anyone seen it?

[kewlpiggy88]

ooh, i want to watch that too...

but yeah, like none of my friends like asian music, for the same reasons you mentioned. they all think they sing bad, dance bad, etc.

it helps that jay has a really good lyricist who writes well. i can't understand a lot of it without the translations, bleh. and maybe there is deeper chinese music out there, but like you said, you have to find it.

[Singerchick]

ooh, i want to watch that too...

but yeah, like none of my friends like asian music, for the same reasons you mentioned. they all think they sing bad, dance bad, etc.

In a sense as I've grown older I've realized that dancing doesn't necesarily make music good. But I used to have a misconception that chinese music was soooo un-evolved you know? But artist like Leehom, Jay David, JJ have turned me around, but like i mentioned earlier, there just arn't enough people like them. I mean they only each release an album a year or two.


it helps that jay has a really good lyricist who writes well. i can't understand a lot of it without the translations, bleh. and maybe there is deeper chinese music out there, but like you said, you have to find it.

Yeah. Does vincent fang write for anyone else?

[kewlpiggy88]

Does vincent fang write for anyone else?

yeah he does. for jolin's new album he wrote one of the songs. i forgot which because i was listening to some radio program with jolin on it.

[capung]

Hi all.... sorry to interrupt in the middle of a topic... :tongue:
I just want to introduce myself,
I'm from Davis, CA and I hope I can be part of this forum... :D

[zhy378]

:wave: hi capung hey im living in davis, ca too. ucd. is it me or davis is um kinda boring.

[capung]

Hi zhy378!

you're from davis too? what a coincidence... :-D
and I go to ucd too... :-D
what year are you now?

i agree... davis is kinda boring... the only place my friends and I like to hang out at is Old Tea House... :depresse:

[zhy378]

:oops: i forgot to say hi to klarence, singerchick and kewlpiggy88:wave:

capung, im first year, well soon to be my ex-freshman year.
i only been to old tea house once! small place but i like their green apple tea boboa and the chinese music video they play. looking at ur age meanin ur not 1st year, i guess you're already used to davis life, is there any other places u recommend to go around davis?

[roche]

okay i got led here by a google search for "lee kai wang" if you can believe it.

(by the way, he went from wanting to do biochemistry at harvard to doing math at MIT?!?! i guess MIT's just "up the road" from harvard, but man, that's a pretty big switch in majors!!)

Ohh berkeleY? I wanna go there. But I really really really wnat to go to Columbia
really???
columbia's great. i loved my time there....
haha, didn't know they had chinese classes though, for non-college students.
i did a class on asian civilizations [china, japan and korea] though (it's part of the core curriculum)
i quite liked it....i remember i did my final paper on Geisha, haha.
well let me know if you need freshman housing advice! :-)

[kewlpiggy88]

roche, you go to columbia? how do you like it - being in the city and all must have its good and bad points right?

anyway, senior year is almost over for me. i'm excited about college!

[capung]

zhy378,

yea, I'm not a freshman... I'm gonna be a senior this coming fall, but i've only been in davis for a year as I'm a transfer student.
You should try eating at old tea house too, their food is not bad... it's pretty enjoyable to hang out there at night... especially when they play Jay's songs... :tongue:

hmmm... :hmm: other nice places in Davis... I can recommend you some nice places to eat... what do you like to eat? Have you ever been to Ciocolat? their dessert is amazing... :roll:

what's you major btw?

[spork]

ooo I found the Davis folk of JCNet!
I came out of the gym once and I smelled cow @_@
It's a bit...musky........

Old Teahouse is definitely the [only] place to go. I get my tapioca fix there during those long stretches when I don't go home where tapioca is a-plenty. I was surprised that such a place had three tvs in there. If you sit in a corner you can watch Jay from every angle hehe.

oooo roche, you went to columbia. what a smarty O_O

[capung]

Hi spork!

wow, you go to ucd too? can't believe i can find davis friends here... :-)

yeap, the seats at the corner are may favorites! there's one time i was hooked there when they played initial d... hehuehuehheh :D

[kewlpiggy88]

there's an old tea house in berkeley too! i visited my sister a couple of times and it was always so relaxing to just go sit there and watch whatever was playing!

any cal ppl out there/

[spork]

capung: hehe, I'm sure there are more davis people hiding in here somewhere :P

I'm always surprised that they have so many MV dvds to play...and that they can actually afford to buy three flatscreen tvs...But I guess since there's always so many people in the restaurant, they can easily pay for the cost of the tvs and dvds. It's hard to just go and sit in there in the evenings though, because it's always full of people ><

kewlpiggy: which college did you decide to go to? hopefully you know people there =_= I had to start over when I came to college.

[capung]

spork
yea, it's sometimes hard to get seats in the evening... i love sitting at the old tea house listening to and watching the videos while indulging my milk tea and crispy chicken... hehehehehehhe :tongue:
btw, what year are you now?

kewlpiggy
My sister's a cal alumni... :D I've only visited the old tea house in berkeley once... we always go to sweetheart whenever we go to berkeley... :-) i wish there's sweetheart here in davis... the crispy squids is sooo yummmie.... :tongue:

[zhy378]

ooo I found the Davis folk of JCNet!
I came out of the gym once and I smelled cow @_@
It's a bit...musky........

yup thats right spork :D talk about smell, man im livin in the dormitory closest to the cows

capung chicolat i heard it before, heard it is good mmm:drool:
btw, my major is asian american studies, quite rare lol what about you capung?

[spork]

When I think about Cal I think about Haas, their business school, and about Cal Football, because my old AP US History teacher used to be crazy about the Cal football team. I'd like to go to a Cal Football game someday, but with a cal friend so I don't get beat up XD

Asian American studies is a good major [b[zhy[/b] ^_^ I was planning to minor in it, but I think I'll just end up taking the classes I'm interested in and get a minor in Chinese instead XD

[iphei]

Cal Football games are amazingly good...especially when I went to The Big Game last year =p

[zhy378]

Asian American studies is a good major [b[zhy[/b] ^_^ I was planning to minor in it, but I think I'll just end up taking the classes I'm interested in and get a minor in Chinese instead XD


oohh, if you havent taken ASA class, i recommend take or not take ASA2 with that Hamamoto prof, he's ummm crazy! *sigh* *whisper* hes the one who produced the first asian american porno.....

ugh so humid in Davis...........ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[spork]

heh, I took that class in the fall quarter zhy ^_^ He's a pretty awesome professor...so long as people don't mind the fact that he's extremely pessimistic sometimesm hehe.

Now that most people are starting off their summer vacation, what are all the cali people up to this season?

[zhy378]

heh, I took that class in the fall quarter zhy ^_^ He's a pretty awesome professor...so long as people don't mind the fact that



:shock: i took that class in the fall too, fall 05 right?


for summer. nothing much, find a job, summer classes at community college nearby. :whistle:

[fajitapita]

kewlpiggy88:: haha, i go to cal >.<

secret- i've never been to a football game *shame*
i tell ppl and they're always like, what the crazy? especially cuz when i was a freshman we got free tix.

I have yet to take an asian american studies class.. but i heard they make you super paranoid and hate all other races for discriminating against asians, or at least here they do^^

[kewlpiggy88]

fajitapita: what? i thought you...or someone around here was talking about columbia? hmm...

anyway, i just had my CalSO today and yesterday. the counselors did a really good job of pumping up my spirit! GO BEARS! haha, and i absolutely loooove the Cal-Stanford rivalry.

[Singerchick]

fajitapita: what? i thought you...or someone around here was talking about columbia? hmm...



I think that was Roche.
And as for the person that wants to get into Columbia, but has no chance...that's me. hahaha.

[fajitapita]

kewlpiggy88:: i'm glad you had fun^^ i hated calso!! i left it totally dreading coming back to berkeley.. but i like it now^_^

Cal v. Stanford.. haha,, i see it as alotta cal students bitter abt not getting into stanford.

singerchick:: i'm sure you can do it!! ganbatte!

[spork]

Work hard on those apps Singerchick! *giant thumbs up*

haha, I guess we were in the same class, zhy XD I was one of the losers that sat in the front every lecture hehe.

My old asian american studies professor would probably fit in perfectly at Cal, he really did make me paranoid and hate all other races that discriminated against asians...

[zhy378]

haha, I guess we were in the same class, zhy XD I was one of the losers that sat in the front every lecture hehe.
My old asian american studies professor would probably fit in perfectly at Cal, he really did make me paranoid and hate all other races that discriminated against asians...

ooh u were the front while i was at the opposite, i sat in the back like the right side corner/ prof's left side. he was one crazy scary dude. especially that day about the serial killers. but i like him now, cant wait to take his upper division class.

but anyhoo. *tries to think stuff related to california*....Have anyone ever went to Milpitas' Great Mall. i soo want to go there, havent gone there for such a long time. i probably go there with friends this summer. any other malls you guys recommend in the bay area? :glug:

[kewlpiggy88]

valley fair + santana row, stanford shopping center...those are the ones i go to the most often. oh and the gilroy outlets! you can find pretty good deals there too!

[iphei]

I don't really like Stanford Shopping Center as much (it's also a pain to get to). BUT I do work at the Hollister at Valley Fair, so I'm there quite a lot. heh.

[grace]

but anyhoo. *tries to think stuff related to california*....Have anyone ever went to Milpitas' Great Mall. i soo want to go there, havent gone there for such a long time. i probably go there with friends this summer. any other malls you guys recommend in the bay area? :glug:

great mall is down the street from my house! It's really not that great.. haha. I do more shopping online and at valleyfair than I do at greatmall. I go to great mall to watch movies sometimes though.

[Singerchick]

SCHOOL'S OVER!!! AHHHHYEAH

But I totally screwed up my GPA this year. That's depressing. So much for my dreams at Columbia.

BTW those that got into U.C Berkeley, U.C La and such how many B's did you guys recieve in your high school career?

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick: don't worry, i had quite a few Bs AND i dropped APChem second semester of my junior year, but i still got into berk! your SAT scores are really good...

of course, i'm not doing a science/engineering major though, so the standards are kind of different.

[iphei]

But I mean, it also deals A LOT with the people in your grade. I just ended up with hella smart people in my grade -_-;;

[Singerchick]

But I mean, it also deals A LOT with the people in your grade. I just ended up with hella smart people in my grade -_-;;

LOL all my friends are smart which is extremely depressing. My best friend has a 4.8 GPA. So knowing my EXTREMELY CHINESE parents they like to compare. GR. I don't want my AP scores back, I'm so scared.


singerchick: don't worry, i had quite a few Bs AND i dropped APChem second semester of my junior year, but i still got into berk! your SAT scores are really good...

of course, i'm not doing a science/engineering major though, so the standards are kind of different.

Was your essay like bomb?

What's your major?

Lol I might to journalism, just because there aren't that many asians doing that and I might have a better chance.


So what are all your plans for summer?

[kewlpiggy88]

Was your essay like bomb?
What's your major?


i'm actually undeclared under Letters&Sciences right now. and i don't think my essay was that good. it was just...average. Is journalism mass communications? because i know that's impacted at berkeley.

[fajitapita]

singerchick:: to be perfectly honest.. it can be really random who gets in sometimes.. I had a friend who got rejected from davis but got into cal.. (well, that might be because she applied to cal as a music major).

and my GPA wasn't very pretty >.< so i'm sure you'll be fine^^

plans for the summer? sumer school at a JC to fulfill pre-reqs for pharm school and working.. oh! and I'm going to taiwan in august^^ (which my manager is not too happy abt >.<)

[kewlpiggy88]

ooh, fajitapita, you're going to taiwan? have lotsa fun! i didn't get to go to taiwan this year but i'm really really hoping i can during winter break.

[Singerchick]

ooh, fajitapita, you're going to taiwan? have lotsa fun! i didn't get to go to taiwan this year but i'm really really hoping i can during winter break.

I agree, have fun!

I'm not Taiwanese, but I've always wanted to vist taiwan...haha especially after my obession with Leehom started. Anyway I'm planning to visit Asia either in 2007 the summer before college or 2008 the olympics during freshman year of college..which would be better?

[amisurexcitee]

I'm not Taiwanese, but I've always wanted to vist taiwan...haha especially after my obession with Leehom started. Anyway I'm planning to visit Asia either in 2007 the summer before college or 2008 the olympics during freshman year of college..which would be better?

I say you should visit Asia on both summers! Haha, that's what I'm doing... I think?? I haven't been to Taiwan yet, but I really want to. I think 2007 before college starts would be awesome, but then if you just go to 2008 during the Olympics time... it's going to be pretty crowded. Well, China will be! I'm sure Taiwan would be too. =/ And well, you can't go anywhere when there's so many people! But it's definitely worth experiencing because I mean, Olympics! They have been planning all the details since uhhhh, well... a really long time ago! Hahah, well I hope you are able to go on either occasion, NO MATTER WHAT! Maybe I'll see you there? ;D

[Singerchick]

I say you should visit Asia on both summers! Haha, that's what I'm doing... I think?? I haven't been to Taiwan yet, but I really want to. I think 2007 before college starts would be awesome, but then if you just go to 2008 during the Olympics time... it's going to be pretty crowded. Well, China will be! I'm sure Taiwan would be too. =/ And well, you can't go anywhere when there's so many people! But it's definitely worth experiencing because I mean, Olympics! They have been planning all the details since uhhhh, well... a really long time ago! Hahah, well I hope you are able to go on either occasion, NO MATTER WHAT! Maybe I'll see you there? ;D


LOL I don't have enought moola to go both years. It's either one or the other. Boo-hoo.

Summer's 1/2 over. Double boo-hoo

[iphei]

well hey, 1/2 over is better than me...mine's over in 5 days! sadd =[

[amisurexcitee]

I have less than 2 weeks before school starts for me, but technically tomorrow I'm going to this readiness day thing where you get your yearbook photos taken, id card photos taken, books, schedules, comparing schedules with other students, and paying for expenses, then... school starts tomorrow! haha. ><"

Singerchick: If you're only going to Taiwan, I'd go in summer of 2007. But if you're going to go to Taiwan and China, then I say 2008 summer. ;D But I haven't bought tickets for me to go yet, but I can definitely tell you airplane tickets are going to be pretty expensive in 2008. We should start saving up! .___.;;

[dagamezmasta]

how does "I have less than 2 weeks before school starts" and "then... school starts tomorrow" go together? :?

I have about 3 weeks of vacation left. Kind of wasted my summer, but it's my last summer as a kid, so I might as well enjoy it while I can. But I still feel guilty about not being productive.

Btw, I think it would be more effective if we had a thread for southern California and one for nothern California, cuz the cultures and lifestyles are different in the two parts. And California is so vast is deserves two threads :P

[fajitapita]

^ there is a split ifya search around.. the threads are just kinda dead, that's all.. i think norcal-ers reside in the san francisco thread and the socal-ers are in thread labeled w/ socal...

i like it combined tho cuz i'm from socal but go to school in norcal... i can talk abt both...

urgh.. school started today.. blah >.< how's your first day going kewlpiggy?

ooh, fajitapita, you're going to taiwan? have lotsa fun! i didn't get to go to taiwan this year but i'm really really hoping i can during winter break.
thanks!! it was fun! i've never been there for winter b4.. go and tells us about it! i really wanna go for chinese new years.. stupid school gets in the way>.<

I agree, have fun!

I'm not Taiwanese, but I've always wanted to vist taiwan...haha especially after my obession with Leehom started. Anyway I'm planning to visit Asia either in 2007 the summer before college or 2008 the olympics during freshman year of college..which would be better?
thanks^^ and i'd say go 2008 only ifya actually wanna watch the olympic games.. are you going to china?

[Singerchick]

^ there is a split ifya search around.. the threads are just kinda dead, that's all.. i think norcal-ers reside in the san francisco thread and the socal-ers are in thread labeled w/ socal...
i like it combined tho cuz i'm from socal but go to school in norcal... i can talk abt both...
urgh.. school started today.. blah >.< how's your first day going kewlpiggy?
thanks!! it was fun! i've never been there for winter b4.. go and tells us about it! i really wanna go for chinese new years.. stupid school gets in the way>.<
thanks^^ and i'd say go 2008 only ifya actually wanna watch the olympic games.. are you going to china?

^ Yeah.

I'm shanghainese, so I'm going to Shanghai, I thought I'd stop by Taiwan just to check it out :)

School starts on the 7th for me.

Uc schools start on the 20-something right?

[swtlilqtJ]

i guess it's weird for me to say...but i'm totally loving my college. i got to academy of art in SF and i do hope that i'll work at pixar animation studios in the future. art is my world. but it's weird...i've never loved school so much...probably since pre-school. but learning stuff that you really like gives you a whole different view of learning [and liking school].

[fajitapita]

^ mmm. that's really awesome that you love your school so much.. irno.. college for me is pretty much just a continuation of high school, so i'm jealous you get to do something that you find so interestting^^ i'm a molecular and cell biology major and even though i love science, it still just feels like i'm doing what i hafta do to get by.

[zhy378]

i guess it's weird for me to say...but i'm totally loving my college. i got to academy of art in SF

ah thats koo, i think my boyfriend's brother gonna go there next year. everytime im at s.f i see academy of art, makes me wonder, is their campus kinda seperated? :glug:

anyhoo, i have a question that my english teacher brough up in my senior year of highschool, she says that californians have an accent: which is talking too fast. we all know that people from new jersey got accent, southerners got accents, but as californians, do we have an accent?:glug:

[junnleenfaah]

boooo this thread is kinda dead ): anyway, i wanna ask you californians if you guys have heard of gabe bondoc or passion? i forgot if reynard silva is from cali too... but anyway, if you guys dont know of them already- definitely check them out. i think they're from the bay area, and they're voices are AMAZING. you can find them on myspace. current favorite out of the three would definitely be gabe bondoc (: and if yall have heard of them, how popular are they exactly?

[mysteryhack]

I never heard of gabe bondoc or passion until now, and I actually like their voice o_O, definitely check them out on myspace! Well, I am going to college in two years and I am scare to go to UC's even though I'm doing okay in my honors class -_-.

[winnie]

hey i'm from socal..how come most of ya form norca not to mention most of ya are like geeks :) jk..i meant genious geek..book worm people..stanford, berkley, journalism..what the heck...is that what jay's fans compose of? what happen to people like me? barely passing jc??? not to mention jay is about the same. btw, i don't know how fast people of other region speaks...i just know some of of us, incl me and some of my asian friends..we speak too fast. sometimes, i have to try to slow down. :) but that reminds me of some of jay's rap, he rap just as fast :)

[iphei]

pshh, don't hate on us :)

um, yeah, no. I heard that just all of California speaks hella fast.

[kewlpiggy88]

this forum is kinda dead. any news of leehom coming to cali? no? aww.

anyway, i got a random email promoting this concert with mayday, chang chen yue, amei, jackie chan, and some other ppl on feb 13 or 14 at aladdin hotel in vegas. i checked it at ticketmaster and it's really happening! i don't know why it's on a weekday tho...sheesh.

[Singerchick]

pshh, don't hate on us :)

um, yeah, no. I heard that just all of California speaks hella fast.

There's nothing wrong about being geeky. Yeah power to the nerds.
Anyway most of Jay's fans are asians, Asians with crazy parents who kill you if you don't pass, so that probably explains why most of this thread consists of school-related talk.

pwahaha. I speak faster than I think sometimes, does that make sense? So I end up falling all over my own words and I don't make sense.

Anyways, how was everyone's winter breaks? Mine wasn't very productive, I ended up going out everyday and not getting many "academic" things done. Which sucks because I was really behind once we got back to school haha.

Anyways, second semester of Snr year is here and Senioritis has def. set in for me. I realized this when I found myself typing up my final project worth 25% of my History grade at lunch at school in 45 minutes. It was a very depressing epiphany, because if I continue my procrastinating ways I am going to be so screwed in College.


this forum is kinda dead. any news of leehom coming to cali? no? aww.

anyway, i got a random email promoting this concert with mayday, chang chen yue, amei, jackie chan, and some other ppl on feb 13 or 14 at aladdin hotel in vegas. i checked it at ticketmaster and it's really happening! i don't know why it's on a weekday tho...sheesh.

No he's going to the East coat. Poo.

[fajitapita]

are you serious? lee hom's not coming? i thot for sure he would >.< i was thinking one on each coast. gah... and i would love to go see mayday >.< but i have a midterm on 13th and work on the 14th
anyway, i wanna ask you californians if you guys have heard of gabe bondoc or passion? i forgot if reynard silva is from cali too...
that's really trippy... i hadnt really heard of these ppl until last nite cuz my roommate sent me their songs so its funny to come in here today and see these names. i really like gabe bondoc and passion tho^^

Anyways, how was everyone's winter breaks?
it was good ^^ tho i didnt get to watch as many dramas as i wanted... and i found out that one of my fav jp boybands was in LA the day after i left *sigh* coulda done some major stalking.. i miss socal!! i miss not needing stupid outerwear.

[Singerchick]

Anyone who's done a Regent's interview, how was it? I'm a bit nervous, do they ask you specific questions or are you basically free to talk about anything you want?


it was good ^^ tho i didnt get to watch as many dramas as i wanted... and i found out that one of my fav jp boybands was in LA the day after i left *sigh* coulda done some major stalking.. i miss socal!! i miss not needing stupid outerwear.


You go to berkeley right? How is the social life like up north? I really like southern cali, the beaches, the tans, the people, is northern cali as chillaxed?

[kewlpiggy88]

singerchick, i remember you were so worried about getting into a good school last year and you're an applicant' for regent's scholar? dang, girl! haha.

i go to berk too...i guess there's stuff to do, but i think berkeley's kinda clique-y...i definitely think my friends in LA are having a better time than me and my friends up here.

[Singerchick]

singerchick, i remember you were so worried about getting into a good school last year and you're an applicant' for regent's scholar? dang, girl! haha.

i go to berk too...i guess there's stuff to do, but i think berkeley's kinda clique-y...i definitely think my friends in LA are having a better time than me and my friends up here.

Do you enjoy Berkeley as a whole though? I mean do you ever regret going there?

I dislike cliques. That's so weird though because I wouldn't have expected Berkeley to be cliquey because everyone there seems to be pretty smart and mature and past the "clique" stage. I know this is a bit stereotypical, but is it really liberal and are there a lot of druggies on campus? Or does it depend on your major? I'm majoring in engineering, which freaks me out because I know that department has a lot of sabatoge right?


I'm really hoping to stay in Southern Cali so I really want to attend UCLA, however, I don't know if I'll get in. However, I'm hoping the new holistic process will help out. *crosses fingers*, but this year there was a record number of applicants which means decisions won't come out till April 1st.

So far I've gotten into my safety school, Irvine, but the other UC schools don't come out till March. :(

Anyway, I don't know how I got regents canidacy at Berkeley, my stats aren't even that impressive. Maybe they felt bad for me, or maybe they really liked my Leehom essay. hahahaha.

[FantasyRocks13]

Psh, I feel left out. I live waaaay up North in Cali, nothing exciting every happens, and I rarely get to go to anywhere cool. I don't think anyone lives near me anyway. XP That's what I get living in a quiet town.

[spork]

Lucky Singerchick! Regents candidate :O

I'm just a normal dumbdumb. Might be all that methane gas hanging around Davis though. Not getting enough oxygen to my brain!!! :dead:

All my friends are having more fun down in socal too. Except most of the friends they have made that I've met so far are not such great people in my eyes, so I don't really have any desire to go down there.

I don't regret going to Davis, but at the same time I wish Davis as a town was as interesting as Berkeley with the variety of performances that a student can go to like at Zellerbach Hall (sp?) and at other areas in town, whereas Davis has...cows :/

the trouble with living in small towns is that you have to find or make stuff that's exciting to do, which is where student organizations come in handy I guess.

[Iceblade24]

Irvine is a very very boring place to live in. Welcome to a city that closes shop at 10 pm/11 pm, not a college town at all. However, it is a relaxing place to come home to from stressful school. Having a car would help you get around to other places that are more fun. If you choose to go to UCI, be forewarned...


(I used to live there but go to school in new york)

[spork]

Yeah, I agree iceblade, although I don't live in Irvine :P

I think I've virtually given up on the idea of trying to get to like Davis, because the small town type of atmosphere is starting to get on my nerves. People run on their own schedules, things close WAY too early for a student whose classes are all over the place. It's very frustrating, for someone who is used to convenience and efficiency.

[chaNK]

living in davis isnt that bad.. but its true shops do close early.. theres not much of a nightlife.. only concerts you'll get will be offered on campus... thats why people usually end up joining groups and organizations because it takes up time blah blah blah.. from what ive noticed.. the common hang out activity to do in davis.. is to crowd around the tv and watch the television.. besides that... life in davis WITHOUT a car is horrendous. consider picking up a hobby!

[kewlpiggy88]

there's definitely lots to do in berkeley; sometimes i think there's like tooo much.

there's definitely some protests, but they're pretty small in scale and i think berkeley really isn't that liberal as it's put out to be. i'm not the only one that feels this way, a lot of ppl fell the same. about druggies, there's someone on my floor that is high a lot, but i can't really tell (only once did i smell pot), but other than that, i haven't realy seen people doing it. i mean a lot of ppl smoke cigarettes or something that looks like cigarettes. and there are homeless ppl but the ones i've seen on campus are pretty harmless. one even wished my friend good luck on my midterms.

[Singerchick]

At my interview the professor of Molecular Biology told me that it all depends what a student is looking for. Some students may like Berkeley and it's semester system with it's 'big town' atmosphere better than say UCLA.

He suggested that I attend Berkeley's OHP thing the day before Cal-day and maybe living in the dorms and meeting alumni and such will give me a better idea if it really suits me.

By the way, I think his first name was Matt? Matthew? Or something.. Anyone have him as a professor?

[babyxv]

my god when was the last time I was in this USA forum?

singerchick, congrats on your acceptances! did you read my long boring PM at HomSweetHome regarding UCI and CHP?

hmm sometimes I wonder if I would have been happier at Davis instead. I remember being VERY indecisive about Irvine and Davis last year.

[fajitapita]

ah.. sorry for answering so late singerchick!! shows you how much free time we get^^ haha. are you looking into mcb (molecular and cell bio)? dont commit to a bio major yet!! i regret mcb. i wish i'd chosen microbial bio. its too easy to be mcb and you dont realize the other bio choices. plus in the college of natural resources you get a b.s. instead of a freakin b.a. *bitter*

social life? sure there's cliques. i think its like this at every big university tho, esp the UCs. it's easy to get lost, so you get used to a certain group. socal vs. norcal.... i mean, socal environment is def more chill... but go to cal and you're completely surrounded by college students, so its chill in its own way. i mean... i cant compare the UCs.. but i had a grad student say its a huge diff btweent SDSU and cal, that ppl here are socially awkward. but thats sdsu, not ucsd or anything.. and i heard most the students at other UCs arent so chill anyway.. its the city itself that you'd be comparing for the whole "chill" factor. amongst the schools i wouldnt say there's no difference.

also.. social group wise, its very ethnicity oriented.. oh, wait there's an article:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A15FF3C540C748CDDA80894DF4044 82
(jon hu the interviewee went to my hs btw..)

i wouldnt say its better at other UCs. most of my friends from back home are at ucsd and they have the same complaints. it really depends on your own personality i think and what you make of whats given to you. you can party as much as you like and find lotsa friends, or hide up in a hole and study and play on your comp.

the whole liberal thing.. its like it said in that article i posted. not so much anymore. now its mostly studious asians. more of my friends at ucsd smoke pot than the ones here. i did see some naked protesters b4, and ppl do streak in the library during finals, but its defintely not up to the reputation it gained from the 60s.

oh.. and engineering? dont worry, its not engineering that has sabotaging, its mcb. engineers are pretty good abt sharing hw and helping ea other (from what i've seen anyway). mcb is where the crazy competitive premed ppl are (i.e. knocking over ppl's crystalizations in lab so they get bad results) engineering is actually a really good choice. tons of job ops for cal angineering grads.

you wrote abt lee hom for your essay? haha, thats awesome.

anyways... super long post.. but i hope i didnt forget anything. but yah! come here! i think i made the right choice coming here (tho if you got into places like stanford go there!! total blasphemy.. im gonna get shot here)

[lazyazn5318]

Ah, it's cool that there are a lot of UC students here. I actually go to a California community college right not, but just finished applying to transfer. So far I've gotten into UCSD, but I'm still waiting on UCLA and Berkeley. I've lived in Southern California all my life though so I'm hoping I also get into Columbia so I can go back east.

[Singerchick]

Ah, it's cool that there are a lot of UC students here. I actually go to a California community college right not, but just finished applying to transfer. So far I've gotten into UCSD, but I'm still waiting on UCLA and Berkeley. I've lived in Southern California all my life though so I'm hoping I also get into Columbia so I can go back east.

My dad went there and I lived there almost 7 years, New York is an awesome place. Good luck!

FAJITAThanks for your reply! It was really informative. Yeah I wrote my longest essay about Leehom, about how I snuck into his music video shoot in LA despite being underage and how I got a picture with him and hence therefore the fact that I am not inhibited by rules makes me stand out and allows me to reap awards. Something along those lines.

I just got my admissions decisions from CAL and LA and I'm soooo ecstatic, I got in!! :)

Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you admission to UCLA for the Fall Quarter 2007.


Welcome to the College of Engineering as a freshman for Fall 2007. Congratulations! You have been awarded the UC Berkeley Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship. Details are being sent via email and the U.S. mail.

I was freaking out. Wow. Talk about heart attack. Now it's time to visit the schools!

[lazyazn5318]

Congrats on Cal and UCLA! Did you apply as a freshman? I think my friend told me she finds out today. Transfers don't find out until April 30th. The wait is killing me. I think I'll die happy if I got into any of the three I'm still waiting for.

[Singerchick]

Congrats on Cal and UCLA! Did you apply as a freshman? I think my friend told me she finds out today. Transfers don't find out until April 30th. The wait is killing me. I think I'll die happy if I got into any of the three I'm still waiting for.

thanks! Yeah I applied as a freshmen and the wait was killing my because last year I remember them coming out earlier. Anyway, they just came out like 15 minutes ago.

Good luck with your tranfers! COLUMBIA i s awesome, I remember going there for Chinese school when I used to live in NYC and it's a beautiful place. I didn't apply there though because my parents wanted me to stay in state. I have yet to visit LA and CAL. :)

[lazyazn5318]

You'll love both of them! They're both totally different though. Campus wise I fell in love with LA, especially north side of campus. Berkeley was cool too, but it's definitely a lot older. I think the attraction is mostly the city and being in the bay area. I absolutely love LA's campus though haha.

Ya, my cousin went to Columbia so I visited her a couple of times. I really hope I get in, but I'll need a huge scholarship to afford it anyways.

[fajitapita]

congrats singerchick!! and dont get lost visiting this place!! its really hard to drive around here >.< hee hee, and your essay was really cute! omo, i cant believe you did that! *jealous*

good luck lazyazn! i know its killer for transfer students to wait.. its really ridiculously long.

off to study... T.T what a great spring break -.-

[jay_is_cute]

OMG! I got into Cal! I didn't even know that decisions were out today because I remember hearing that they come out on the 30th. I'm so excited! I actually never really entertained the thought that I would be accepted.

I had my heart set on Davis already, and now I'm feeling a little indecisive. I don't know if Berkeley will be too competitve for me. It would be high school all over again, but worse. but OMG!!

singerchick: congrats on your acceptances! and you got the regents scholarship! *very impressed*

lazyazn5318: don't worry, i'm sure you'll get in!

fajitapita: wow, thanks for that huge detailed post!

i still can't believe it...

[lazyazn5318]

Sweet, I just found out today that I got into UCLA. So far, I'm into UCLA and UCSD, but I'm still waiting on Berkeley and Columbia. *fingers crossed*

[iphei]

good job on UCLA and UCSD!!!

I'm waiting on Cal right now too...what did you apply for? I applied for Haas (kill me now)...just one more week! Oh man, I'm SO nervous right now, haha.

[lazyazn5318]

Omfg, Haas. Good luck. I was originally a business major going for Haas, but changed my major. Phew haha. I'm actually an English major so I'm in their college of letters and science. Good luck with Cal! Hopefully we'll both get in!

[Singerchick]

Sweet, I just found out today that I got into UCLA. So far, I'm into UCLA and UCSD, but I'm still waiting on Berkeley and Columbia. *fingers crossed*


congrats! I wish you the best of luck!

I've officially decided to go to LA, but it was hard turning down Berkeley because this Regents Alumni girl called me and was like, "are you excited about Berkeley, if you have any questions...." and I was like "Sorry, I'm going to UCLA." Then it was like this awkward silence. -_-

BUT UCLA HAS BOMBDIGGITY FOOD, so I'm satisfied. XD.

[iphei]

^ haha, I'm glad for you! :)

Actually, I was totally rejected, but for various reasons, I decided before decisions came out that I would stay at Illinois regardless of whether I got in or not! So it's still all good.

[kkandy4mee]

oh noes this thread is like dead XD

anyway...UCLA PPL T_________________________________T

i'm at ucla and it's like....NEEDS TO MEETS PPL
hahahahaha

i've been trying clubs out and such...but yea :D add me on facebook! just look up 'rissa' in the ucla network...i'm the only rissa there. HAHAHAHA and no it's not MArissa..just rissa XD