The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details- Page 159

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 12:55pm

I will. Thank you, Fantabulous.

SD, I can't remember what his score was, but it was ridiculously high. Maybe he ran over the admin officer's cat?

*wanders off to eat lunch and do Spanish*

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:00pm

I don't think it really matters either -- they're not starting a file on you and taking notes as to who called, but I'd imagine the admissions office generally deals with parents (many of whom are angry for various reasons) all the time. It's probably a breath of fresh air for them to speak to a student.

Regarding the boy -- well, I just don't know. Maybe he messed up his interview, or maybe it was one of those truly random rejections. I know someone who got a 1600 and was still rejected from various places. It's just the luck of the draw a good amount of the time, and failing to apply because you think you'd be unlucky definitely reduces your chances to zero. It never hurts to apply.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:01pm

Isn't NYU kind of notorious for a *really* weird admissions system? If you can call it a system?

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:04pm

I have no idea.

I still think I got in largely because I'm the token kid from North Dakota. Woo!

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:06pm

So much of college admissions is strategy. Who can play up what they have the best? Who can make their assets stand out, while trying to cover up their not-as-nice qualities?

It sounds funny and ridiculous, but there really is an art to preparing the best application.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:09pm

I spent so long on my essay, which I now look back on as one of the most awful things I have ever written, that I didn't really put much effort into the other parts of the application.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:11pm

NYU doesn't do interviews because of the large applicant pool.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:13pm

Banal and off-topic: I'm just sitting here, and I should be studying. aaah. I'm like... staring into space thinking out all possible outcomes of a contemplated action. That's always buckets of fun.

Maybe I should clean my room.

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[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:15pm

Em, I know the feeling. I was up until 3:30 AM last night, telling myself I would do some studying but continually finding ways to waste time. Not a great idea considering I have 2 finals tomorrow and one of them is Calc III.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:19pm

I would say "go study!" but then I'd be a hypocrite.

I'm making my own head spin, which is never a good thing. *sigh* Sometimes, I kind of wish answers would just fall out of the sky, and everything would be a very easy decision. It would be kind of nice to have all of the answers to difficult questions just hit me on the head like a ton of bricks, unable to be contested with by "yeah but" and "maybe." And if I could predict the future. I'd like that, too.

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[xM3L24x]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:33pm

I hate DBQ's..I'm so bad at them.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:39pm

nia, was the kid you were talking about wanting to major in theatre? The admissions process sounds so different/somewhat more competitive for that, so I was just curious.

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:43pm

No, I think he was undecided.

SD, even if you are the "token kid", I still think you deserve to go there.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:45pm

For what subject, Mel?

My toe is bleeding.

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[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:55pm

So. I had the strangest dream this weekend. It was either last night, or Friday night, or maybe both, actually. I can't remember. I dreamt that I gave birth to twins. However, my twins were an apple and a pear, or something like that. I took really good care of them and I carried them around in a plastic bag. I kept trying to breastfeed them, but it wasn't working out so well, for obvious reasons, I suppose. There was nothing unnatural about them being fruits, but I kept thinking that they would soon become actual human children. That's pretty much all I remember. Oh! One was a boy, and one was a girl, and I had to plan a bris for the boy and I was trying to figure out names. Super wierd.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:56pm

..... oh boy.

At least you didn't eat them?

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[insomniak]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:57pm

Elphie, there might be a hospital somewhere for people who dream about those things....

I watched Proof and it was filmed at the U of Chicago. Is it really as pretty as it looks in the pictures?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 1:58pm

Did you like it? I remember being mad that they cast it with such big stars, so I originally didn't want to see it. But then it dawned on me that maybe they were actually good, once I crawled out from under my rock and realized that Jake wasn't just a big deal because he's cute.

My printer just almost jammed because I forgot to open the tray. oops.

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[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:02pm

Ah, okay. Just thought I'd ask, since you mentioned him being involved in theatre in high school.

That's strange, Elphie! What an interesting dream. It's crazy how things like giving birth to fruit can seem completely normal in dreams.

My roommate just woke up.... that's impressive.

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:03pm

I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was quite good. Everything about her performance was in character- the way she stood, the way she talked and how her eyes moved. Jake is fine, but his character is on the thin side.

Anthony Hopkins will always, always be Doctor Hannibal Lecter to me, no matter what else he does.

I just found this sentance on Wikipedia:

"For a list of individuals of Jewish origin by country, please see List of Latin American Jews."

They've compiled a list? Are there like ten of them or something?

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:04pm

I think it's just informing me that I really, really want a baby. Which I already knew. Also, I've been studying a lot of bio, so that might have something to do with it.

The U of C has a really nice campus. I actually haven't seen that many pictures, but it's pretty enough.

Nia, fyi, I took tours at both Barnard and Columbia last summer, and there were lots of people, so you should be fine with that.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:05pm

ss -- wow, that IS impressive. Does she sleep this late often?

Elphie, I'd actually be curious to try to figure out what your dreams means. heh.
ETA -- nevermind. You're probably right.

Actually, Latin American Jews are more common than you'd think. A lot of them are half-Latino, or something like that, but I've met a good number of Puerto Rican Jews.

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[insomniak]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:07pm

I just thought the sentence was funny.

Babies are icky.

[Atrias]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:07pm

Wow, Elphie, I thought I was the only one like that. I mean, with the baby stuff. I spent 5 months being jealous of my Pre-Calc teacherd before she left on maternity leave.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 2:09pm

Babies frighten me. I say this as I study for my developmental psychology exam. (Except Stewie, he's a cool baby.)