#Common App

[descent-into-autumn]

we’re so back

[the-hyacinth-gworl]

I think I'm the college fairy

So last fall when I was a senior in high school, I was making small talk with some guy in my AP chem class about college applications. He told me that he had applied to MIT to which I responded with "I'm sure you'll get in" I thought nothing of this interaction and went on with my life. Fast forward to December and go figure, he gets into MIT. Ok, he was smart, moving on. A couple of months go by and it's now the spring of my senior year, I'm talking about college with my junior friends and one says "I really want to go to BU" to which I respond with "You'll get in"…last week he got into BU. (also let me quickly note here that my high school hardly ever admitted people to MIT and BU, these two students had broken 5-10 year-long streaks of our school having no admits to these colleges). Then, over the summer I was at work and chatting with one of my coworkers who was a rising senior, she told me that her dream school is Stanford, I responded with (as per usual) "You'll definitely get in"…two days ago she got into Stanford. And finally right before I left for college I ran into one of my friends (who was a rising senior) at a cafe. We chatted it up for a little and she expressed to me that she was interested in my college however, her top choice was Tufts I responded with "Tufts will definitely let you in"…YESTERDAY SHE GOT INTO TUFTS. Now, looking back, I realize that almost every time I've told someone that they're going to get into their dream school, they get into their dream school (with the one exception being one of my friends and Harvard…she ended up at Yale)

so in conclusion, I am the college fairy. tell me your dream school and I will tell you that you're going to get in.

[nightmareanella]

Why are college applications lowkey just a reason to trauma dump? Like why am I spilling my deepest darkest secrets to an admissions officer to fill a word count?

[disney-forever-and-evermore]

apparently being petty and fucking stubborn about the fact that spotify wrapped gives you inaccurate and useless stats so exporting data every six months and calculating it and making graphs on all on your own is like really impressive to universities

my friends though i was insane

so now i have not only my spotify data but my movie, tv, and book graphs. only my books show that at least 55% of the 34627 pages i read is fanfic

i would not be revealing such information and keeping it vague but like yeaaaaah guess being insane has it's benefits

[paynomind-iamnotreal]

They should invent a common app prompt for people who hate themselves

[boltzy527]

I wonder if the college admissions teams ever read essays and realize two people were in the same class because of a story they mentioned in their personal essays

[raccoonlovver]

I just applied to my dream school

[nininikki]

being a senior in HS is not for the weak

[mysterystarz]

ALSO

if any mutuals, or simply anyone passing by this post has any tips on how to apply for universities (either abroad or within the united states), may I have some tips! anything helps! common app/supplemental essay tips, or anything of the sort <3

[chaoticallyclorox]

failing three classes, missing my entire EE, my common app essay is eating pavement this is the end of the line for me

[weakinthekneez]

i have two wolves inside me:

one wants to submit all of my college stuff now bc it just opened

and the other throws up at the slightest mention of applying

[descent-into-autumn]

college applications are terrifying for so many reasons on so many levels. i don’t know what my safety, target, or reach schools are!!! what if i get into none of the schools i apply to!!! what if i get into all of them!!!

[polybbiuss]

breaking down into tears when i realize i cant write my college essay about how much i relate to wizards

[n3wy0rkd011]

Fighting the urge 2 command+a+delete my personal statement

[bridgeburn-cs]

Day 4

Not going to the trouble of doing 10 steps today unless I really feel like it when I get in to it, it's almost 1am at this point.

So here we go.

“Learning HTML Forms by Building A Registration Form” Steps 36-41

36 and 37 had me struggling to read the instructions because they're just written in such a janky ass way,

38 was tedious as hell, just kind of a bore to get through.

Step 39 and 40 were pretty nice.

Looking at Step 41 as I write this... something tells me it's gonna take a while.

I was write, that did take me quite a few minutes. But that's it for the night, let's do some tangentially related updates.

Today I had my first math test of the year, and... god it was not great... I had to use a quadratic, but quadratic form or the quadratic formula were not on the formula sheet provided, so I had to come up with it from memory, and I kept thinking it was ax+bx^2+c, when in reality it's ax^2, but I did manage to get that in the end.

What's less than ideal is that the last question of the test said "Try this if you want a 7" (for a context a 7 is like an A+), and I didn't get time to do that, which really sucks because I really wanted a 7 on this. But it's okay I guess, there's nothing to be done about it, I lived, I learned. I think I am getting better at math though, and feeling better about doing math, which is great.

Today I spoke with my dad about university, and he totally backtracked on the conversation that we had about it a few weeks ago. He's now saying that I shouldn't apply to colleges in the States, and just focus on the UK, which makes my life a whole lot easier, but maybe I should be taking on challenges (such as doing university in America) but I'm not too sure about. I'm gonna take the PSAT in October and proceed accordingly based off of that.

That'll be all for tonight, I'm going to bed. Love y'all.

[lurking-irl]

common app activity section needs a version for like. one off things. I got gold on the national latin exam. did i spend hours a week on the exam? no i just went to class man. how do i, in good faith, submit an activity and say 1 hr for 1/7 of a week. how do i do that and NOT get rejected immediately