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4.30.2003
Surprise surprise.Wow. Well, I really have to give my dad some credit. After I bitched about him for so long, he's really been coming through as a pretty chill dude these past few days. Like yesterday, for example, I called home to ask him to pick me up from school because I felt rigor mortis and all kinds of deathly afflictions setting in, and I was just starting to say, "Hi, can you come and get me? I feel kinda sick and--" So he screams into the phone, "I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!!" and slammed the receiver down. Hehe. Whereas, my mom would have told me to suck it up and stay for the rest of the day. Cool, Dad. I've been shaking in my shoes about giving my parents my report card for a while. I got it today, and figured I might as well break the news early-- no use in just dragging it out, I guess. I did alright in most of my classes and midterm exams.. EXCEPT for Calculus. See, first marking period, I got an A-. Then, second marking period, a B-. Third marking period, a fucking C-. And my midterm grade was a D. I'm going straight through the alphabet. Which is, of course, a bad thing. So I told him that I thought my teacher made a mistake, and that I'd go to see her in the morning. He definitely smelled the bullshit of my excuse, but said in a sympathetic tone, "Oh yea.. that's a good idea." And then he said, "Man, I guess this class is really tough." WHAT!!!!! In Korean cultures, this is absolutely unheard of! Had my dad insisted on adhering to the old-school Asian methods of discipline, I would have been bent over his knee getting hit in the butt with some kind of sharp/hard paddling device, perhaps a pancake flipper. MY DAD IS THE COOLEST ASIAN MAN ALIVE! Thanks, Dad. You're the man. Oh, and in terms of college, I'm going to NYU. 4.07.2003
Well, well, well.The initial disappointment of being rejected from practically every school I applied to has worn off. I guess I'm back on track, and actually, I'm relieved that I don't really have to keep up on Ivy League-level academics. The last thing I want to do after slacking off in high school and a large portion of middle school, is to be obligated to hit the books and study all the time. So, I think Cornell is pretty much out of the picture maybe. It's too much work, too many cases of students committing suicide, too isolated, too cot damn hard. Rutgers, I think, would be like High School Part II, as everyone has been dubbing it. Too many retards that I already know. Though it would be nice to see friends and people I already know, I want a new experience. I'm left with Boston (which I know absolutely nothing about) and NYU. Everyone (especially guys) are telling me not to go to NYU because it's "gay" and I'm apparently going to return home as a big "NYU-reprazhent" drama-fag. Though I'm sure (well, 99.999% sure) that this is not going to happen to me, I do have a few concerns. Especially the urban surroundings.. I've told myself since I was pretty young that I love urban-ish, downtown settings.. There's a lot of energy and fun going on, but I'm just kind of afraid that I'm going to get lost there. In short, I'm afraid I'm going to be a lonely loser eating microwaved Cup-o-Noodles all day by myself. I can just imagine my roommate talking about me to her friends with disgust, saying how weird/annoying/creepy/quiet I am. Or something. I don't know. I mean, it's a city. A really big city. Another thing I noticed about NYU was that I've been there a few times for open houses and everything, and I haven't seen one happy looking student there. They all look stressed out, (very indie-oriented), and angry. Also, everyone there is skinny, hot, very attractive. I'll be the awkward, ugly duckling there. T-bone's wise older brother said, "pick the one that you had the best feeling about." Honestly, I felt pretty crappy at each of them. It rained in Boston, and we got there much too late to catch the tour/info session last summer. My mom hated NYU and yelled at me because I gave a bum money. Cornell just didn't do it for me. My mom loved it. Rutgers.. highest STD rates ever, high school part II, nothing special. NYU I guess is probably my first choice. The cost of living is so damn high though. Man. This college stuff blows. 4.02.2003
WOO!YAY!!!! NO COLLEGE FOR ANYONE!!!! MCDONALDS EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL!!!!!! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT???? GET YOUR MOTHERFORKING FRIES YOURSELF YOU FECKING MOTHERFORKER YOU FECK FECK AHH!HH!H! YAY! MORE REJECTIONS!@!!!Let's add COLUMBIA TO THE LIST OF REJECTIONS!! HAHAHA!!! YAY! REJECTIONS!! HAAA HAHAHAH HA HA HA :(Well, both T-bone and I got rejected from UPenn today. I got into Cornell. Woo. I got rejected from Harvard, which of course, was no surprise. Oh well. Okay. Time to wallow in despair. :( |
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