Jun. 30th, 2004

sniffnoy: (Chu-Chu Zig)
Haha. On the way back the other two buses got lost and were about an hour behind us. Of course I didn't stay to see when they arrived, but... :P

So the power went out for a bit a while back.
...OK, I have no idea where I'm going to go with that. I could just as well leave it out. :P
My mom actually didn't know the laptop had batteries.

Oh, Illuminati: Crimelords came. As did my summer reading books.

All this time at CEE I *did* have my hairbrush after all, I just forgot about the side pocket of the suitcase.

M... that's about it. Yeah, so it's just another nondaily report entry, just without the title.

-Sniffnoy, home for a short time - I'll be leaving for PROMYS soon...

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"Can we kill him now? He's a goth, it's what he wants."
-Black Mage, 8-bit Theater
sniffnoy: (Chu-Chu Zig)
Title quote from Andrei.

On the merits of apples vs oranges:
Ryan: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Nathan: An orange can kick your ass!

A rather strange comment by someone from here:
"The squirrels are fun on this campus."
Aren't they everywhere?

Still no hamburgers. Last chance will be lunch today. I finally took a shower.

So yesterday was the "case studies" - what, they say, this has all been leading up to. *We* get to act as admissions officers. They split us up into our groups, each group is presented with the same 4 applications, we are told we have to admit one, waitlist one, and deny the other two. The applications are called Beth, Bennett, Melody, and Sterling. These are all real applications, all to UNC. Then, afterwards, we all meet back together, and each group has someone go up and state who was which and why.

Annie was the first one to present. She goes up there and the first thing she says is "We denied Melody-" and immediately everyone starts cheering. They've been telling us all this time about how college admissions officers are looking to see who they can admit, how they try to present to the committee why they should admit this kid, and everyone starts cheering when she says her group denied Melody. *g* She explains why, then continues - "We denied Bennett-" More cheering! But some boos as well. Someone admitted Bennett, I think. She then says she admitted Beth and waitlisted Sterling (the swap of our group), and goes back. The immediate comment from the counselors is how *vicious* we are. Honestly, what did you expect? *g* (And not just because it's us, but also because you only let us admit 1 and waitlist 1! :-/ ). Our group up next. Raquel says what we decided, not so much cheering this time. After this there's not so much of it - however, there were some boos when the 5th group up admitted (or was it waitlisted?) Bennett. There was one exception though - eventually Nathan went up.

"We denied Melody", he says, "because her essay was garbage." Lots of cheering.

"We denied Bennett", he says, "because he's a sanctimonious, redneck, Bible-thumping jock." Lots of cheering.

Then he goes on to explain why he - what was it, admitted Beth and waitlisted Sterling? I forget.

The last group goes up. Bennett is a bit disagreed about, but so far every group has denied Melody. "I know you're going to hate this, but we actually accepted Melody," the representative says. "Nah, just kidding."

The final results were:
 AdmitWaitlistDeny
Beth523
Bennett235
Melody0010
Sterling352


How did the applicants do when they actually applied? The only person who knew, didn't remember.

So, I'll be coming home today, but then I'll be leaving for PROMYS in about two days. And then I can play some *real* Mafia. :P

-Sniffnoy

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