Life after High School, v. 2006.2
Careers, hopes, dreams, nightmares. Continued by popular request from a thread that started in April.
Date: November 27, 2006
Categories: Life, Nonrandom Craziness
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Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)
in November 27th, 2006 @ 23:03Hey, I’m still waiting for life after middle school. Which hopefully includes going to the high school I interviewed at today.
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Ötzi
in November 27th, 2006 @ 23:13hmmm. Politics. Hmm.
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✌Kiki the Great✌
in November 27th, 2006 @ 23:41Majeez, I’m only in elementary skool!!
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Hakeka (formerly DP, using my NS name =D)
in November 28th, 2006 @ 00:141 – Same here; good lord, you have to get interviewed to get into high school? I hope I don’t move to your area any time soon.
I’m thinking of pursuing writing, or science – whichever – after college (assuming I get there).
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M & M
in November 28th, 2006 @ 00:401- me too -_-
I don’t know what I’m going to do,
(should I be a marine biologist, zoologist, laywer, teacher, pianist, baker, person who jumps out of cakes????)
where i’m going,
(U Dub? Wasu? Yale? Stanford? BCC?)alas my future is doomed.
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nerdz__r00l
in November 28th, 2006 @ 01:33How many people are in high skool around here?
(I’m in middle school.)
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Darth Yoda
in November 28th, 2006 @ 07:11I’m aiming for the toughest high school to get into in my city. After that…I’d love to go to MIT. Biology or robotics are my top two career choises.
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Agrrrfishi
in November 28th, 2006 @ 11:32Middle of the middle school is where I’m at.
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Jadestone
in November 28th, 2006 @ 13:51I’m in High School. At the moment, literally. The computer lab, to be exact. Don’t worry, I just finished my project. I don’t want to go to collage. Correction, I want to go there. But I don’t want to grow up just yet.
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FrigidSymphony We Came, We Saw, We Conquered You All, We Came, We Saw, We Live By The Sword!
in November 28th, 2006 @ 14:25Start a kickass heavy f***ing metal band and conquer the world!!!!!!!!!
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M & M
in November 28th, 2006 @ 15:25My middle school has no middle.
lalala.
fiddle.
no school due to snow
weeha.
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Darth Yoda
in November 28th, 2006 @ 15:327-Not to say that I’m smart at all. I think I can get into a good high school-but MIT? HA! I’d just like to go there…
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elassë~adael (alise~adae)
in November 28th, 2006 @ 15:46I’m in highschool. Afterwards, I’ll go to a college (hopefully and probably). not sure which one. Probably a small liberal arts college. I’ll do something with math or english or maybe science. Physics would be cool. Or Architecture. I’d like to continue to be involved in theatre and continue to write.
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Sweet Melpomene
in November 28th, 2006 @ 16:34I = a junior in HS.
Aside from getting a personal chef [I’m very adamant about that]…
College. For Science and all such magic. Then, either med school or grad school. Engineering, Surgery, or Architecture. Not sure yet.
And then I will eat brownies.
I know someone who attends MIT. She’s more or less a genius. I think math is her major.
I don’t know where I want to go. I visited RPI. ‘T was cool. I want to see Cornell in the spring, too. I dunno…
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Purple Panda
in November 28th, 2006 @ 16:554 – I had to interview to get into high school as well. I could have gone to my local public school, but I applied for a special arts school (which is public as well).
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 28th, 2006 @ 17:128. me too.
I’ll just go to the public high school because it is really good, and then probably move on to Yale Journalism, but I am aiming high. Even if I do want to go there in 5 years, I’ll have to get a serious scholarship, like full ride or something. It kind of freaks you out to think about it so early on. I have no idea what i want to do, basically, I am taking the wildest of guesses. We have to take a test to get in to high school called the Discovery Test. But I’m only in 7th so I don’t have to take it till next year. SHIVERS!!!!! SHIVERS!!!!!
By the by, those of you who don’t have school because of snow, consider yourselves lucky. It’s spitting over here.
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Ötzi
in November 28th, 2006 @ 17:37I GOT NO SKOOL TODAY!!!!
*dances crazy snow dance*
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rachael
in November 28th, 2006 @ 17:481-I am too. Right smack in the middle. But after high school I want to go to U of I (go Illini) and become either an architectural engineer or an architect. Hopefully I’ll get a viola scholarship
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SupremeMuser2000
in November 28th, 2006 @ 18:11I’m in 7th grade. I had to be interveiwed to get into my school too.
8- Same here. I Lurv me school. Skool maks u soopur smmarrt.
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Zyviva, Queen of Pie and Hyperness
in November 28th, 2006 @ 18:16high school= way too much work+no sleep+awsomeness
you work it out.
I HAVE NO HOMEWORK AND NO TESTS TOMORROW!
(that enough capital letter for you?)
but after high school i want to study marine mammolagy, probably either in maine, west coast or maybe even
canada (phoenix- the irony of that is just sickening)
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Capricious the great and terrible
in November 28th, 2006 @ 19:3321st post!!!!!
I really want a PHD, so I can be Dr… *ahem* Capricious. Maybe I should change my… Oh, nevermind. I would also really like a career in designing or arts. (Life after middle school jeez me too!) our highschool’s rockin. x P
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emogrl //_^
in November 28th, 2006 @ 20:17Haha. Okay. I daydream about forming a band w/ my friends after graduation, buying an RV, and touring the continent.
…What I’ll probably end up doing is studying forensic sci at the local college, then transferring to another college 1-2 yrs later.
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Elizabeth
in November 28th, 2006 @ 20:3114- my mom went to Cornell for a while, I’m thinking about it too, though I’m only a Freshman. I do good in school and all, but it is a very competative college, I might go to Cobelskill first, because it is a feeder school to Cornell. See you there
?maybe?
I think I might want to be a veterinarian????????? or something with animals, large animals, like cows (not ducks!) I’ve spent a few days with a vet, it could be fun, but the prospect is daunting. not just the 6 years of college with competative entry, lots of money involved, lots of tests, responsibility, etc. but I guess it’s also living on my own, I’ll get awfully tired of cold cereal and spagetti (that I can’t even spell right) and cleaning a whole house and doing all the laundry and paying bills and calling people I don’t even know(I have a slight fear of the phone) and everything else that comes with life on my own, at least I still have 4 years and an older brother that can tell me how to do things.
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 28th, 2006 @ 21:24well, I still don’t know what I want to be but Journalism is really lookin’ good right now. If not, costume design sounds good, BUT NOT LAW SCHOOL. No offense to anyone, seriously, it’s not you it’s me, but I have lawyerphobia, which I think I’ve said before.
*twitch*xD xD xD xD xD
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Shadowkat
in November 28th, 2006 @ 21:37I’m a sophomore in HS (as much as a homeschooler can be a certain grade…), and I want to go to college (don’t which one, yet) and become a psychologist. But not the kind that does therapy, and stuff. I’d rather research the human condition, and stuff like that. I’m not sure where I want to go, but somewhere with a good psychology program sounds like a plan to me, as long as it’s not too expensive.
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Shadowkat
in November 28th, 2006 @ 21:38Agh…I was redundant! Sorry.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in November 28th, 2006 @ 21:59Speaking of small liberal arts colleges are there any that aren’t in ohio? Preferably somewhere north, like Minn. or MI? Or even somewhere in NE, i could do NE. I just don’t want to stay in ohio. I might end up anyway, since it seems to be where all the interesting colleges are. But that’s my mom, she doesn’t know about other colleges.
What i want for college
-Small
-Not insanely hard. challenging, but not insanely hard
-Preferably not in the south or ohio
-Another country would be splendiferous, especially Canada or NZ, but i doubt we can afford that even if i got a scholarship
-Small. Teeny tiny. Small.
-Not lots of people. Small.
-Not a party college. I would fail at college parties. Completely and utterly.
-Did i mention small?After college, who knows. I seem to be doing mostly history and english now, so possibly something to do with that. I really don’t have any idea what i want to do though.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in November 28th, 2006 @ 22:11Ebeth,
It sounds to me as if you’re describing Carleton College. Or possibly its arch-rival, St. Olaf.
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elassë~adael (alise~adae)
in November 28th, 2006 @ 22:20Yes Ebeth! there’s Carleton! (MN) or grinnell (IA) or beloit(WI) or macalester(MN)!! Carleton’s awesome though! most of my family went/goes there.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in November 28th, 2006 @ 22:23*gasp* Something like that exists? Squee! GAPA, you made my day.
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Julieb
in November 28th, 2006 @ 22:23biotechnology. Specifically GE plants, though I want to study a broad spectrum. I was thinking of Cornell, but just suffering through a quarter of high school has made me think that I wouldn’t want to be another number added to those who have thrown themselves off the cliffs. I might want to start smaller. UMD is one of the best state schools in the country, and it has a really good two year specialty program that I might look into. I dunno, I just hope high school gets easier, because, truthfully, and with all modesty, I am intelligent, I have a high IQ, score well on standardized tests (97-99% percentile in the country) earned the best score in the school on the middle school reading comprehension test, and breezed through middle school. Now, I do an two and a half hours + of homework a night and am just scraping b’s in most of my classes, worse in others. I just wish I knew if it will get better or if its me. I’m even skipping sci fair this year. No extra curriculars and two different tutors. Ha, I always though I would be the one tutoring. Stressful year. Sorry.
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Em
in November 29th, 2006 @ 01:48hey… i remember this thread!
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 29th, 2006 @ 17:16yeah, i don’t know where i want to go.
CRITERIA
smallish
full of artsy fun people
not REALLY a party school
not too challenging, but not boringly easy,
closish to home, so not like, cali or anythang
good reputation
not sports obsessed
with school colors other than purple, cause i’m gettin bored of NU colors!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in November 29th, 2006 @ 17:24Sounds as if comment 29 has everything you need.
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dark lord of darkness
in November 29th, 2006 @ 17:30who even remembered this? anyway…
10-ditto. and when you miserably fail, become a lawyer/UN person. ACLU lawyer seems cool, but i wants money. lots of it. i know. horribly materialistic.
no idea for college. i wanna go to bard. oh right. bard high school early college. tis very cool. you do high school curriculum in 2 years, and then take college courses. for college, i could get into yale, columbia, or georgetown easier than normal. (my parents went there.) you do get preferred acceptance for that, dont you?
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niugnep
in November 29th, 2006 @ 18:43I want to study philosophy and neuroscience and computer science a la artificial inteligence and linguistics. I will better understand language than anyone who came before me. If you don’t like that plan, ask me next week.
I’m a sophomore right now, and yeah, still mostly breezing. I am incredibly jealous of those of you with good high school with competitive admitions. I want a challenge!
You people all coppied me! Cornell is MY first choice school (Why? Because Ithica is pretty. I have all the right reasons). Now I feel like an unoriginal conformist.
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 29th, 2006 @ 18:5434: true, very true. though Cornell sounds nice, as does Columbia, Yale and Bard. As does NIU (Northern Illinois University) U of I, and Berkely. I really can’t decide now, seeing as there are just too many darned choices.
Journalism?
Costume Design?
Forensic Science?
DNA Scientist Person?
Computer Science?
Teaching?
-English?
-History?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 29th, 2006 @ 19:02oh deary deary dear. where is juilliard? my best friend has her heart set on going there and I NEED TO BE NEAR THERE!!!!!!!
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Queenie
in November 29th, 2006 @ 19:13Stoneybrook? A “DNA scientist person” is a geneticist, in case you were wondering; my father is one. He’s an unfrocked molecular biologist too.
My father went to Cornell. He roomed with Bill Nye the Science Guy. No joke. His nickname was the Alien; he couldn’t drive, had never eaten at a McDonald’s, and the first time he went out with a girl he used a meal ticket. He also went to Dalton, UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, and Institut Pasteur (which my half-uncle now heads). No pressure, though. I want a college that is huge, prestigious, insanely competitive, insanely difficult, equipped, and has lots of wild parties. Stoneybrook? Rockefeller U? I have a ticket into either because of my grandfather; maybe U of Paris? Institut Pasteur is simple to get into…everyone is going to have an opinion of where I should go. If I go to a small college, I will shoot myself and die. So really, the opposite of Ebeth’s choice.
But enough about my father and what I want.In other high schools, the popular kids drive Buicks and go to the state school. In the one I’m being put in, the popular kids have Porsches and go to Ivy League schools. So really, the competition is intense and I can deal with this. I really, really, really think that I can do this with my eyes shut and both hands behind my back. After all, my IQ is 172 and my grandfather’s a card-carrying genius.
I would like to be a pharmacologist when I grow up. I think that would be a good career for me. I also want to have lots of fun and live in a pretty apartment in a big city, making lots of money and not ever having children or serious stressors. Did I mention no children? Ever? Oh, and I’m moving out of my parents’ house when I am eighteen. I do not want to be a teacher; I will not be a writer; I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever
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Lady Toblerone
in November 29th, 2006 @ 19:15I personally am anticipating getting the crap out of here. I keep fantasizing about moving to Toronto, living on my own or with a roommate, biking around the city, taking nice walks, busking, drinking tea…Nice little things such as that. Oh, and getting a Canadian citizenship, as well.
Before college, however, I may be going to Europe. It’s been a time-honoured tradition in our family. After graduation, you go to some foreign place on your own…Peace Corps counts, too. Both of my parents and my brother went to Europe after they graduated from high school and hitch-hiked around or took the trains. Just wandered Europe…sounds SO great…I’ll hopefully do that.
Yes, I want to go to University of Toronto at St. George, provided it has good writing, theatre and art departments. I love Toronto passionately. I’ll probably take philosophy, English and linguistics. (I DO NOT plan on going into mathematics, science or technology, unless its graphic art. I figure KAMSC will give me a fat lot of that already. After KAMSC, not ONE more math class. Calc is enough.)
Oxford or Cambridge would be FANTASTIC!! But its not very close to home and the UK would take a LOT to get used to, far more than Canada.My top three schools:
1) University of Toronto (as far as I know)
2) Oxford
3) Cambridge“I want to break free…”
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Emmatheduck, Pwner and Head Quack of Duckland
in November 29th, 2006 @ 20:25I’d like to go to a smal liberal arts college near home, andafter that my top choice is writing, though i think it would also be fun to be a linguist or maybe lawyer, since i like the idea of getting paid to argue.
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Quintessentia
in November 29th, 2006 @ 20:5836–Meep! Those are the exact same things that I’m interested in now: philosophy, the human brain/neuroscience, and computers. The human mind and what and why we think about is so fascinating.
(Here follows a great theory of mine that I sincerely wish not to be plagiarized.)
In biology class, I learned that the human body’s digestive system, endocrine system, immune system etc. exist solely to keep the human body alive. We breathe and eat to bring glucose, oxygen and nutrients to our cells, which use them to produce energy to sustain life. Not to entertain us.
It is this that led to my belief that homo sapiens sapiens outsmarted evolution. We evolved with hands to hold things, but we learned how to snap our fingers and type. We evolved with emotions to trigger physiological responses in our bodies, but now we make ourselves happy by listening to music or sad by losing something. We have voices merely to communicate, but we also use them to sing and whistle and beatbox.
We have incredible brains that can understand and respond to the whole world around us, but we don’t just use them for the basic survival responses intended. Homo sapiens sapiens has figured out how to control the world! No species before us was capable of this. No other species can look inside itself and say, “I think, therefore I am.” Like Frankenstein, our power has grown greater than that of our creator.
Bit by bit, we made our earthly lives easier and more comfortable with houses, clothing and tools. Now, most of us don’t have to worry about food or shelter. Our minds turn to more frivolous things.
And so, we go back to our origins and toy with evolution itself. Cloning! Genetic modification! Suddenly, we can create life!
Were we designed to do this? Was homo sapiens sapiens intended to dominate other species and ultimately, the world? I say no! It was unprecedented when the first human being was born. It was an unexpected gift when the fate of the universe was placed into its fragile newborn hands. And the biggest question of them all is: Can we do as well as the creator before us?
No, that’s not quite right. Our question of Life, the Universe and Everything, is: Can we, homo sapiens sapiens, with our outstanding talents, do better?
Hmm, that was longer than I expected. What do you think?
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Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1
in November 29th, 2006 @ 21:1639- No offense meant, but you think very highly of yourself, don’t you?
I’ll be happy to get into the college I want, and have a career I love, no matter what it means.
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Ötzi
in November 29th, 2006 @ 21:20What I am interested in:
Politics
errr. Politics
History
theoretical physics
Bryology (bunny points to anyone who knows what that is WITHOUT googling it)
crime and detection (forensics)
Law
archeology
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Jugglebug
in November 29th, 2006 @ 21:2742:oh my. well, that’s a toughy. I don’t think that we can really do any better, or at least that’s not how it’s lookin right now. With the world the way it is, I seriously think that there is little hope, and as soon as we get our hands on some poverty stopping money, we should utilize it.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in November 29th, 2006 @ 21:33I’m not quite sure what the theory is…sort of like, we’re god now? Ish (no offense to anybody). Idk…i think that’s a bit…arrogant, honestly. Like, i definitely see how it can be true. Their’s obvious evidence in our favor. But then, it’s our evidence. How can we be sure the tenrecs haven’t outsmarted us already? Maybe they can genetically modify things but simply choose not to for some reason. Maybe because it’s so uncertain, and they didn’t have any idea what they were doing. Maybe they decided life would be better off without all that so they chose to be tenrecs. Now i know that’s a ridiculous example, but my point is just kind of what makes us so sure that we’re so far above all other species?
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emogrl //_^
in November 29th, 2006 @ 22:07#39: My parents made me watch Bill Nye’s show when I was little.
A lot of ppl say that ginormous colleges/universities have, in general, better reputations than smaller ones. But I’d much rather go to a smaller one. The college I’ve picked out has around 3,500 students, and the campus is about 1.5 times the size of my high skool campus. Heck, I wouldn’t even get lost there (& I get lost pretty much everywhere :s)!
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emogrl //_^
in November 29th, 2006 @ 22:23Hey – “School” is actually spelled right in the title of this thread – What’s up w/ that?
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Ötzi
in November 29th, 2006 @ 22:49waaaah. Sherlock Holmes scored 111 in the Mary Sue Litmus Test. That makes him a Marty Stu. WWWWAAAAAHHHHHH! *hides under desk*
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Emmatheduck, Pwner and Head Quack of Duckland
in November 29th, 2006 @ 23:0948-what do you have against good spelling?
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Ötzi
in November 29th, 2006 @ 23:20My top 10 colleges, in no particular order:
Oxford (I want to contribute to the dictionary!)
Cambridge
Stanford (family tradition)
Harvard (now I’m just dreaming)
Princeton (ditto)
U of Tokyo (that would be interesting)
U of Washington (the best ranked public U)
ummmm. That’s only 8. Whoops.
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The Skipper Nancy
in November 30th, 2006 @ 01:24(31) *hugs* hey, no worries! You are smart, so you will dp well. Things will get better if you try, and obviously you are.
(35) Yeah, I think that with a lot of prestigious colleges you have a better chance of getting in if you have family members who have.
That’s what makes me think I could get to Harvard, coz both my parent went there and so did some people on my Mum’s side. But I’m not sure I want to go to Harvard.
(39) Wow. Have fun. That’s really cool about your dad rooming with Bill Nye. Ha. Your dad sounds kinda like my dad. But kinda different too.
Stoneybrook? My dad had one foot out the door of his current job to go work there. We nearly moved this year. But I’m kinda glad we didn’t. I don’t think I’m an East Coast kind of person.(42) Ha, quite fitting that that should be post 42. Yes, see what you have to say. I woud also add that the reason why were are destructive to an enivrinment that is normally well balanced is because we control it and take things out of the hands of random forces of nature.
2009 is my Dad’s next sabbatical. Actually, it’s 2008, but he’s not going to take it, coz he just started a new institute thingy. But if he does take it it 2009, I’l’ probably live in France. If he doesn’t, I want to do a foreign exchange anyway.
For college, right now I moslty think I’ll go to the University of Arizona. It’s actually a pretty good school, I could probably get a full ride scholarship, and if not it’d be really cheap anyway. Then I would use the money I saved by not going to a really expensive school on study abroad and traveling, or on going somewhere really good for grad school. My oldest sister did her freshman and sophomore years at the U of A and now is doing an exchange program at Sciences Pol. in Paris. So I think I’d like something like that.
When I grow up, I want to work in humanitarian and environmental aid. Like saving the rainforests, oceans, as well as starving and war-torn countries. Basically, I want to save the world.
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Axa
in November 30th, 2006 @ 01:57(40) HAHA SAME HERE. Except for me, it’s Japan. I want very much to spend some time studying abroad.
Eh. We’re doing college and stuff sort of things in my Careers class. Small with a good foreign and arts/literature program is perfect for me.
The website “Collegeboard” has a test you can take to help you find a college that’s right for you. It sort of works, but it’s really fun anyway.Hopes? I need to attend some concerts, maaan. I really, really REALLY want to see a L’Arc concert, if they ever come back to America (but their home tour in Japan is so intense I doubt it this year). It would complete my existence. Antic Cafe is high up there too. Oshare kei= ♥ Oh and Ajikan of course…haha I’m babbling now.
(50) It’s an ancient MB joke that started with Ebeth, I believe? Skool. Yes,skool. I shudder at the lack of silent consonants. DX -purist grammar fiend-
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in November 30th, 2006 @ 12:57(50, 53),
Ancient, indeed. Our records show that Celebriän wrote the word “skool” on MuseBlog’s very first thread: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1#comment-77 . Ebeth started using the spelling a couple of months later and announced that she was “officially” adopting it: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=76#comment-65 .
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FrigidSymphony We Came, We Saw, We Conquered You All, We Came, We Saw, We Live By The Sword!
in November 30th, 2006 @ 13:35If I go to any university, it’ll be either Oxford (like my parents) or Zürich.
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Shadowkat
in November 30th, 2006 @ 16:4247-What’s wrong with Bill Nye?
51-Actually, if I’m counting correctly, that’s only 7.
55-My cousin’s at Oxford right now. Not that you care, but it just popped into my head.
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Elizabeth
in November 30th, 2006 @ 17:1936- do you live near Ithaca? I’m a few hours away and your right, it’s awesome. There’s so much different cultural food and stuff and it’s really pretty. My mom’s on some sort of advisory commitee for Cornell and we let some Agricultural students do experiments on our land. I never knew quite how well known it is. I do know that it is very competative as far as grades go, one of my teachers was saying his sister couldn’t get into the vet. program because she only had a 3.92 GPA. Only, 3.92? that’s really good last I checked. Anyway, we could have our own Ithaca Kokoconvention when we’re all together in Cornell (in,like, 5 years)
39- cool, my aunt knows someone who is friends with Bill Nye and got his autograph for my older brother, yeah, that’s not a very close connection but it’s the best I have.
also, I completely agree about children and being a teacher, I would hate to have to deal with kids all day. We were/are such a pain, it doesn’t make sence why anyone would want to have kids.
also, what is Stoneybrook? I’ve never heard of it, except that they make organic yogurt, but I don’t think that’s what you mean
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Queenie
in November 30th, 2006 @ 17:2040-I cannot stand Toronto. It is the one place in Canada I will not go. I will hiijack a plan and go anywhere else but Toronto. I hate Toronto. Which doesn’t mean you can’t live there. I’m just putting that out there. My, you’re domestic. I didn’t mean that nastily, I’m just saying that. I’d rather be in Mile End. Give me Montreal any day. But there no one makes fun of my accent, I can get around, the men are good looking, the women are nice, people can dance, and the Canadian Sikhs will actually speak to you.
42-It’s supposed to be a biology theory, right? Then what the hell is “intended” doing in there? The backstroke? Of course we can do better. I can do better. I could be doing homework instead of arguing with you over a question that I frankly do not understand in the slightest.
55-What would you do if you didn’t go to university? Just wondering. Go straight to hell–I mean, the workforce, without passing ‘GO’ and collecting $200?
I have a question. Why do you all prefer smaller colleges to big ones? I’m not attacking you over it, I’m just curious. I can’t think of a single reason to want to attend one of those blights to humanity. Oh, did I type that? Deary me.
I won’t go into academics. I will not. Or I will be dragged kicking and screaming and then slash my wrists first chance I get. I refuse to be a professional writer. If I’m a teacher, I am pulling a Sylvia Plath and sticking my head in an oven. Or overdosing on sleeping pills.
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Queenie
in November 30th, 2006 @ 17:22Oh, yeah. What is a sabbatical? Is it an academia thing for academia workers? People keep mentioning them, and I’m confused. Sorry if I double posted, but I forgot to say that.
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Zallie
in November 30th, 2006 @ 18:43I’m thinking I would like to live in Paris, and parle beaucoup de francais. I had no idea what I’d like to do. Being an interpreter seems interesting, but I could as soon go with sustainable architecture, and humanitarian projects. We shall see.
As for college, I’m still procrastinating on it. Ideally, I’d like to go somewhere on the east coast that is small, not religiously affiliated, co-ed, liberal-artsy with study abroad programs, and preferably near to/just outside/in a large city. I love being in the middle of nowhere (and I really do mean that) and I love cities, but I couldn’t go to college in a small town. One or the other, please.
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Jugglebug
in November 30th, 2006 @ 19:1760- tu parles le francais?
je parle petite francais.I just starting taking it this year, so i can speak tres tres little, but francais nontheless
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✌Kiki the Great✌
in November 30th, 2006 @ 21:31University? Michigan or Caltech. Caltech b/c 1. It’s a great skool 2. It’s near my aunt’s house and 3. There was a v. cool article about it in Muse. (Ditch Day) Michigan because my mom went there. Otherwise, mebbe some art skool.
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Ötzi
in November 30th, 2006 @ 21:5461: Observe. This is Otzi using all the French she remembers from her early days, without the punctuation, as she is feeling mildly lazy.
je parle francais!
parle vous francais?
Oui!
Ca va?
Ca va bon. Et toi?
Ahh, magnifique.
Oui, magnifique?
Oui.
Porquoi?
je ne voudres pas parles.
Oh. Au revoir!
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French is actually my first language; I used to be quite fluent, and I spent several months in Switzerland and France as a tot. I’ve forgotten most of it, though, and I now know just enough to order a croissant and a cup of coffee at un patassarie. *is really angry that school offers Spanish class but not French*
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Ötzi
in November 30th, 2006 @ 21:58However, I highly doubt that I will move to Paris in the forseeable future, as I am one of those people who wears a sweatshirt and jeans daily and Paris is tres faconnable (I know, I know, punctuation). I would stick out too much. It woud be cool, though.
Corsica. Now THAT’s a cool place. I’d like to move there sometime. Unfortunately, I don’t speak ANY Corsican.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in November 30th, 2006 @ 22:0958-less people in a class, probably not so big a campus, won’t get lost as easily, less people to meet/remember
why would you want to go to a bigger college?
59-a break from work. you just go on vacation or whatever. doesn’t have to be academia, i know lots of cartoonists take sabbaticals
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Queenie
in December 1st, 2006 @ 11:2663-I didn’t know that. It’s my first language, but I grew up in Quebec with a Parisian. I still speak it at home, and a lot of people are shocked to learn that about me. I hate English. You don’t have punctuation problems, you have spelling difficulties. Big ones.
64-No one cares what you wear in Paris unless you’re a model or an actress or something. I’m serious. No one actually cares, and a lot of people dress like slobs.
I would like to go to a huge university for several reasons. One, more competition. I thrive on it. Two, anonymity. If I mess up with one group of people, I can fall in with another crowd and still survive. It’s good to have a big, diverse group of people and not be stuck in a boring university town in the US with a bunch of homogeneous, small-town kids who are basically my junior high enemies with the ability to drive, drink, and make my life even more miserable.
I hate this topic. It makes me so pessimistic.
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niugnep
in December 1st, 2006 @ 12:5236. Yeah, actually I don’t live near Ithaca by any standard. I’ve never even been there; I’ve just heard about it and seen pictures. So maybe I’m not qualified to judge.
Actually, I really want to have a lot of kids. I’m thinking eleven, because eleven is my lucky number. I will be a grand matriarch.
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Lady Toblerone
in December 1st, 2006 @ 15:1148- There was a study that showed that people in Toronto are rather shy. I’m rather introverted, too. I would not be able to stand a place like NYC, where its hard to get around without someone talking trash to you. Toronto’s crime rate is almost non-existant, so I personally think it would be a great place to experience freedom for the first time, because you don’t have to take as many precautions. (I’m not saying that NYC is a dump, but as an example. Just Toronto is a very safe city in comparison to a lot of cities in the U.S.) Its quite liberal and very progressive towards reversing global warming. It has a fantastic public transportation system. And I happen to like it very much.
Aaaaaand WHY am I domestic just because I want to move to Toronto, take easy classes and hang around? I don’t know how busking, biking, walking around and living in an apartment pertains to being domestic. Just because I want to drink nice tea at Tim Horton’s doesn’t make me domestic. So I LIKE TEA!! I’m sorry if those don’t appeal to you, but I’m rather introverted and do not plan to do much partying. And hitch-hiking through Europe solo and living in youth hostils don’t sound incredibly domestic, either. Also, if you read the rest of that post, you’d see that I am desperate to get out of my house and live freely.
INDEPENDENT plus INTROVERTED does NOT always equal DOMESTIC.
I’m just saying.
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Queen (ie) J of K
in December 1st, 2006 @ 16:4568-Depends on what you consider domestic, doesn’t it? I mean, Tim Horton’s is pretty tame. Toujours frais? Yeah, right. Toronto is BOO-RING. The low crime rate you mentioned? Exactly. Studies have also shown that Torontoians survive for about twenty minutes in Mile-End. NYC actually has chutzpah. Hitch-hiking through Europe is actually pretty boring. Gasp! Try the Moscow Trek; I really liked doing that.
Tea? You want dried leaves in boiling water? With milk? Squirted out of a cow?
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Elizabeth
in December 1st, 2006 @ 18:0058 (answer to) 55- there are plenty of things people would do if they didn’t go to college. My brother doesn’t want to but he’s briliant and he probably will go for a year or so because of his scholarships he’s going to make money going to college. He already has a hundred and some acres of land and 4 heifers, he’s a senior and he’s been making money since last year. My family’s business in town employs two Mennonites that only had a 8th grade education and they make good money because they are willing to work hard and it’s hard to find people that will do that. If your willing to work hard and be at work every day, you’ll have no problem finding a job. Anyway, you just have to go to Hell (the workforce) after college and then you ave a debt to pay for college.
67- why not 12? Have you ever seen Cheaper By The Dozen?
69- where else would you get milk? real milk, that is
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Sunrunner Bramblewood
in December 1st, 2006 @ 19:048th grade por moi. J’aime l’histoire et le science nat. Je n’aime pas le EPS. J’adore le livre et le, et dance. Je treize ans.
Bunny points to anyone who can translate this.
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Sunrunner Bramblewood
in December 1st, 2006 @ 19:05Sorry. That didn’t have anything to do with the topic. Mea culpa.
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Ötzi
in December 1st, 2006 @ 21:3766: Go people who’s first laanguage is french
71: (rough translation): I’m in eigth grade. I like history and science. I don’t like taking the EPS. I adore life (or books? darn rusty language brain!) and dance. I’m 13 years old.
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Ötzi
in December 1st, 2006 @ 21:4718- Is their mascot still the Fighting Illini? I have nothing against the college, but the mascot is offensive to me.
24: lawyerphobia, eh? BOO!
58: People make fun of your accent? that’s so MEAN! *gives chocklit*
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e~a the sock monkey
in December 1st, 2006 @ 23:1671- 8th grade for me. I like historyre and natural science. I don’t like EPS. I love books and dance. I’m thirteen.
I decided I like moving things around. Stage crew! and moving woman! and all the other things I said earlier.
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Axa
in December 1st, 2006 @ 23:48(54) Ah, so I was half right. xD Yay!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 07:07e~a (75),
I used to do that. Catwalks are fun, aren’t they?
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Cat's Meow
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 11:5363-I’m at a middle school that’s grades 5-8, but only offers Spanish for the 8th grade. I’ll forget all my Spanish by then!!!
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e~a the sock monkey
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 12:0677- they are. And so are roofs and giant rooms you have to use a trap door to get up in but you don’t have a ladder tall enough so you have to pull yourself up by your arms with the help of two friends that are with you. It’s the kind of room that you hear stories about but not many people go up there. Plenty go up to our catwalk or the roof though. It’s much easier to get there. but the trapdoor room is so big! much bigger than you’d think it is. and there’s costumes up there. And I wonder how it all got up there. There’s also a ladder leading up to nothing there. I climbed it and all I could see was the back of ceiling tiles. Nothing that you could walk on.
by moving woman in post 75 I meant like those people that come to your house to move your stuff when you move. But I’m not really serious, I’m just kidding about it.
I’d like to find a way to do some stage crew somewhere after highschool. (and college too as I probably do stage crew in college)
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The Insane Blue Sage
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 13:25I am, like many other people in the blog, still looking at life after middle skool, which I have just begun. If I live through middle and high skool, I would probably um….. never mind. I don’t know or really care right now.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 13:4077-what crew? It is teh pwnage. Go crewbies!!!
So apparently i got 100% on the practice history OGT. Joy. That test is so frickin easy. We had a practice one in science too. I think i got one wrong. Standardized tests are so pointless.
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niugnep
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 14:2370. NO! Cheaper by the Dozen the movie is a copywrite infringement. It makes me want to strangle something. Read the book from the 1950s. The movie people just took the title and grafted a new plot onto it.
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Jugglebug
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 15:2582 – it was filmed in my city! or some of the shots were. i still dom’t really like it though
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 15:47There are two books, Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) and Belles on their Toes (1952). Movie versions based on the actual books were made in the ’50s with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy.
I don’t remember much of the story, but the time and motion study material fascinated me — and inspired one of my periodic bursts of efficiency — along with the real-life stories of the parents, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. My reaction to the 2003 movie was basically the same as niugnep’s (82). I couldn’t watch it after I read the synopsis.
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Lady Toblerone
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 16:1969– Okay, this is REALLY getting ridiculous. Are you calling ME domestic, the CITIZENS of Toronto domestic or TORONTO domestic?
In the first case: you don’t even KNOW me, so REALLY, how would you know and so who are you to judge?
In the second: Obviously people vary. Just because someone has grown up in Toronto or happens to live there (or any other place without much crime) doesn’t automatically make them sensitive and unable to cope with other things. A high-crime rate does not make someone hardened and able to handle everything that comes their way, unless they’re in the centre of it all.
Third: Every city has crime, of course, Toronto included. But why does a low crime-rate make a city “boring”?
Aaand I think you’re diverging from the original topic by ridiculing tea to the extreme. That’s not even the point.
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Julieb
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 16:4185- I agree. Just because there are low crime rates doesn’t make a city “boring”. At least when crimes do happen they get reported. My mother grew up in the heart of NYC. She would never go back. I wouldn’t want to either. I’m happy in nice suburbia. BTW, we did go back to NY for a couple of years when I was young, and have gone back for trips since then. I don’t see any reason why someone would have a hard time in NY just because they’re from a more peaceful town. Besides, it was voted the most polite ciy.
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Elizabeth
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 18:1782- there are 2 versions of the movie, I’ve only seen the older one and I think it’s pretty good
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Jugglebug
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 18:2886- agreed as well. no one has a right to say anything about a place just because of crime rates
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e~a the sock monkey
in December 2nd, 2006 @ 22:3882- I know! that movie makes me want to strangle something too! It’s like the movie people walked past the book in the bookstore, stole the title without bothering to read a word of the book, then slammed the books title into the credits. Grrr… The old movie version comforts me though I’ve never seen it. It actually looks right! and in the right era too! I really wouldn’t have been so bothered by the new movie if they’d just called it by some other title. but no… they had to go and ruin it! grrr…
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Queenie
in December 3rd, 2006 @ 15:5871-You’re in eighth grade. You like history and science. You don’t like the EPS. (No idea what that is.) You like books and dance. You’re thirteen.
85-It’s a quote. From h2g2. I have nothing against Toronto, I just associate Ontario with farms and maple leaf trees. Pax, kid. I’m armed. And I’m Quebecois, which means I have a superiority complex over it.
86-Why would I think that you, of all people would agree with her? Hmm?
88-Don’t jump in the discussion at this point. Hem hem Julieb.
Ah, the Gilbreths. Not my thing. I think I read it as a kid. There is a sequel, but I forget what it’s called…
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Lady Toblerone
in December 3rd, 2006 @ 18:4090- I see. *sighs in frustration*
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Lady Toblerone
in December 3rd, 2006 @ 18:4290- Oop. And what is wrong with agreeing with someone?
And: I though the discussion was over. Or should I bring up another point?
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Ötzi
in December 4th, 2006 @ 18:00AIYAH!
ENOUGH WITH THE TORONTO THING!!!!!!!!!
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Queenie
in December 4th, 2006 @ 18:3667-Why? There’s nothing wrong with having a lot of kids, I’m just wondering why the idea appeals to you so much. Do you want girls or boys?
91-“I see,” sez the blind man.
92-Everything. You were wrong. No.
93-It’s “hi-yah!”, honey.
You know, at this point I’m a little scared. I mean, I don’t stand a chance of getting into a halfway decent school. And if one more person tells me to “believe in myself” I will slash my wrists. Ditto for the “Never give up” Churchillians. Sometimes you have to give up and it’s stupid to continue.
Take Sky Masterson. “One time, he would not take penicillin because he bet his temperature would go to a hundred and twelve.”
“Did it?”
“He got lucky. It went to a hundred and twelve.”See what I mean?
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Lady Toblerone
in December 5th, 2006 @ 14:3994- “PAX”, I thought you said. Oh, Christ. What is the point anymore?
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Lady Toblerone
in December 5th, 2006 @ 14:47Crap.
“Queenie”: Don’t take that as a sign of defeat. My silence could mean you’re not worth the argument, and I frankly do not care if I stole that from a homosexual rights campaign. It’s getting far too petty.
Why can’t we just live harmoniously, as Musers in the Musiverse? Living graciously, in peace, breaking the barriers and building bridges in their places…Accepting each other as who we are, not creating ideals and smiting others if they don’t fit inside…
Or would that be too “boring” for you?
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Ebeth the Stalker
in December 5th, 2006 @ 15:3194-…to the lame man who was walking down the street…
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Elizabeth
in December 5th, 2006 @ 16:5797&94- we learned a poem like that in 5th grade and I remember it because I liked it.
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced eachother,
Drew their swords and shot eachother,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
Came and shot the two dead boys,
If you don’t believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it, too!This conversation has gotten very off topic…You know how people start asking kids what they want to do when they grow up when they are really young? That really bugs me because I had no clue until 2 years ago and I’m still not sure and it doesn’t matter what a kid wants to do when they are in middle school because most can’t choose many different classes they want to take anyway. This, like the rest of society, encourages kids to grow up faster than they should and if a kid chooses one thing and always says they want to do that, they are less likely to choose other careers to think about. Anyway, that’s what I think.
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Ötzi
in December 5th, 2006 @ 23:1994: It’s “AIYAH!!!!!”. Ha-yah is something different. Close, but different. Aiyah is for when you’re frustrated, have just tripped over cat, fallen in snow, forgotten homework, etc. Ha-yah is usually for beating somebody up. Very useful exclamations.
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Kuai Zi Angel Pentatonikk
in December 10th, 2006 @ 16:01Ooh, shiny. I’m at a really excellent high school that looks shiny on college apps right now. I really want to go to Yale or Caltech (whee! Ditch Day!) or some tiny liberal arts college, then go to University of Iowa’s writing program for grad school, since it’s supposed to be amazing. I’d like to be a writer or archaeologist specializing in early East Asia (think Shang dynasty), probably. And I want to live in Toronto, tame or not.
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☀Kiki the Great☀
in December 10th, 2006 @ 16:38100- DITCHDAY!!!!!! I read about it in Muse and have wanted to go to Caltech ever since. I liked the piano one.
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SupremeMuser2000
in December 15th, 2006 @ 17:11I think this thread died. I’m a cheer leader. It deals with school so that was not a random comment.
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Margaret
in January 2nd, 2007 @ 20:32I freak out whenever I think of life after high school. It sounds so scary. xD So I try to concentrate on looking forward to high school instead (eight months until ninth grade…).
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