Submitted by Tarix Conny on Sun, 10/13/2002 - 13:16
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Talking to someone i found out that even though i may think i am having an extremely stressful time currently in my highschool, this is probably not even a single percentage of what i'll have to face in that harsh real world. And i believe this.
The reason why i posted this thread was to tell everyone that i have finally handed in my UCAS application form (which i had to prepare in two weeks for early applications!), and right now i am taking a sigh of relief until two weeks when i'll have to start worrying about my other applications and SAT's!
I just wanted to hope that everyone out there will pray that i can get into the universities i have applied to and survive this very stressful year!
Thank you!
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My deepest sympathies Saadia, UCAS is terrible, well not to disuade you the application is the worst and if you've already sent it then that's the worst out of the way.
But if you think now is stressful wait till you get to Uni :?
Good Luck and I'll keep my fingers crossed! :D
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Wow! good luck i hope you get into where you want to go. When you you do SATs where you are then? coz the last SATs we have to do were last year when the majority of the year are 14.
Obviously the examness is different. anyhoo, good luck all the same! :rocol: (ok i had to put this.. how you say.. pschadelic smiley up to encourage you!)
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I have to do Sat 1 and 2's, sat 1 in dec the 14th, and sat 2 in jan...i've already done my sat 1, once, but i got a bad mark... :oops:
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Here's a thought. Get enough bad marks in school, you'll turn into me. (Now if THAT doesn't motivate you...)
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hey ppl, I GOT INTO MANCHSTER AND NOTTINGHAM!!!! WO HOOOOOOOOOOOO.
They want a conditional entry of BBB in both of 'em, not that i'll be able to achieve it but, hey, its good to no they looked me over rather then throw my application into the bin, like the other 4 uni's i applied too.....i am such an opptimistic person!
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Way to go, Saadia. :D
And don't rule yourself out before you even get there. If you need B's, then B's you shall have. I'm a firm believer in positive thinking. If you think you can do it, it makes it that much easier to achieve.
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Go, Saadia, Go, Saadia!
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Anything worth doing is worth working to achieve. Push and push until you get the grades you need...I gurarantee that in retrospect it will be a lot easier than you thought it was going to be.
Focus on the small goals and the big ones are chopped down to size.
One of my favorite sayings is "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." Take bites you can chew and in no time that elephant will well and truely be consumed.
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Well done Saadia, i know you'll be able to get the grades :D
i'm currently in 'very happy' mode and seeing this just made it even better!
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Thank you guys sooooo much for your support :D i don't know what i'd do with out you guys....
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KUDOS!!! For all of your accomplishments!! Though, of course, I was pushing for UCLA or USC. Oh, well.
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actually, i've applied to Oxford and LSE too, no reply yet :oops:
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There are only two questions Oxford will want to know - A) Did you go to public school? and B) How much money do you have?
Not that I'm prejudice or anything....
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Okay, everyone...congo line. Grab my waiste and chant after me:
Sid don't got no can-cer
Sid don't got no can-cer
Sid went to the doct-or
Said his sore's no big deal
Just bit his lip too much
Then the gland got dam-aged
Filled up with a gross puss
At least it ain't no can-cer
Sid don't got no can-cer
Least as far as he knows
Sid don't got no can-cer
Sid don't got no can-cer
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Yay for all.
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I don't know if "congratulations" is the right word for having a puss filled lip.
Thank God you don't have cancer. How's that?
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ok, i have heard about oxford and money link a lot. Can anyone tell me a little more. I swear, for a money thriving uni' oxford sure puts a lot of obsticles in your way.
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Having no cancer is great, Dave.
The puss thing is gross. It's a translucent amber liquid. A ruptured gland. But the doc is going to cut it out on DEC 9. Me happy. That's how that is!
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Huh!?
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Saadia - as I'm not really sure what kind of financial help an overseas student would get I don't really want to put my foot in my mouth.
Apart from the expense of putting yourself through university, Oxford is in the south of England, and so things like food, rent, utilities - oh heck just about everything is a lot more expensive than in the north of England. Plus Oxford along with Cambridge are the most prestigious universities in the whole country, basically it's OLD VERY VERY OLD - you know, the kind of place where royalty go to study. But don't let that put you off :D
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I just got rejected from St. Hugh's college of Oxford University.
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awww, poor baby. *hugs saadia* Just rest easier in the knowledge that you could have been einstein, and they wouldn't let you in, if you didn't have the 'right' background. much with the awwws and reassuring cuddles. I hope you do come to England or just get into a great place. THen me and alice and lou can cum bug ya!
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Saadia, I offer my hug too. But be careful. I spilled chili on my shirt.
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Thanks Hannah, Sid, thanks for the hugs, and i'll hug you even if it is covered in chili......
God, you know what really annoys me, its that i wrote them this really nice formal letter that took me two days to make because of alll the corrections and stuff and this female (@#$*&) writes me a one line letter reply saying "sorry but you are not being considered for admission", no "sorry, i really am, hope you are ok, feeling better, but you shouldn't be disappointed, its ok, don't sob" ANYTHING, but noooooo this female doesn't have a CARE in the world, arrrrgghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Sometimes i think i expect to much from this world... :cry: :oops:
but i am ok, feeling better.......i think.....
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You do expect too much. Colleges get so many applications that they cannot sit down and get personal with their responses. Would you, if you were "this woman" of which you spoke, be any different?
But that doesn't make it any easier, does it?
It's a lot like what beginning writers who are trying to get established go through. Remember how Snoopy would write whole novels and send them to his publisher only to receive a form letter in return: "We're are sorry to inform you that your manuscript does not suit our present needs."
I read once that at least one editor (not mentioned by name) will glance at your short story and seek out the first bit of dialogue. If it's full of dialogue tags such as HE LAUGHED, SHE CROONED, THEY GIGGLED the editor won't even bother reading the manuscript. She'll mail it right back to you.
So, in a sense, you were sending the manuscript of your life to this stupid, boring St. Hughs. Something minor turned them off (you didn't dot an "i"), and I for one feel for you. Because we all KNOW how awesome our Saadia really is!!!!!! In fact, you give me the address to this college, and I'll go have a talk with them. They need to give you a second look.
You just have to make them SEE. Somehow. :cry:
Let's give them concrete gollashes.
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:oops: gosh Sid, you have definatly made me feel A LOT better, thanks a bunch,... :D i don't care about darn Hughs any more, they can go to HECK!!!!!!!!!!!
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i just did my SATs....how did they go, we let me put it this way....
Elvis::Dead
as
Saadia::SAT!!!!
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ON a happier note, Saadia, how did Eid go? I never asked you and i feel both guilty and curious. How did it go?
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Eid? that went fine...um ok...ok it was a little boring. The thing is it was really fun when i got the Eidie (money from elders-parents) which was sooooooo fun (hee hee) and i got to wear my traditional pakistani clothes that were very...um....traditionally... but then we had to go to different ppl's homes and it was fun then it got really repetitive and boring seeing the same faces but at different places (hey that rhymes!).
its really fun in pak, my country where we all sit around, also going to each other's places but its just more ppl and more fun with us plauing bingo and winning even more money and more relatives=more elders=MORE EIDIE= RICH RICH RICH!!!! (on that prospective my father may not find it that much fun- hee hee)....
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Going in for oral surgery in a minute. I'm not stressed, but you can wish me luck. In other words, let's all hope the doctor gives me nummy numbing drugs. :D
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"Thanks for the Christmas card you sent me, Violet."
"I didn't send you a Christmas card, Charlie Brown."
"Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?"
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It's okay. Even though Adam and Lou were online when I left and they're still online now that I'm back, no need to wish me luck or anything. None at all. I only had major surgery on my lip.
hehehe.
I wasn't even scared. Until Doc pointed that needle off the tip of my nose and, like, liquid squirted out. They numbed me and cut out the ruptured gland. It was a gross little thing, and you could see the pebble-sized glands all clustered around the sac of pus...which I asked him to cut open for me. Grody.
I almost laughed at the thing, because it couldn't trouble me no more!
I thanked Doc and left. (I asked the doctor if I could call him Doc, and he agreed.)
Now my lip looks like somebody beat the crap out of me. But the swelling will go down, and he says the stitches will dissolve. Man, the worst part of the procedure was not being able to swallow. Gross-gross-gross.
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Nope, I was wrong. The worst part was the country music they had blaring in my face. Finally they turned it down. Isn't it funny how doctors and nurses carry on these conversations when they're working on you?
"Did your house have a power out last night?" Doc said.
"Oh, a little. Our lights flickered."
"I hear half of Eureka is out."
"Hey that reminds me," the nurse said. "Did you see that building that burnt down? The one by the plaza?"
"Did it burn down or did they tear it down?"
"The building burnt down???"
Of course it burnt down, lady, you just said it did!
Sheesh. Stupid nurse.
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Ohhhhhhh, boy! Now the pains kickin' in! Have mercy on me, Lord, have mercy on me.
"Serenity now, serenity now!"
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There is only plausible response to that pain. You must get drunk. I'm amazed you haven't already. :)
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You mean to say there's a time of day when Sid is sober?!
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Good grief, Lou. I'm sober all too often. ALL too often. I know too much of reality. That's why I have to get drunk. :drinking:
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Not that I would ever push drugs by any means, but you should ask "Doc" for Vicodin. In my estimation, it is far and away the best drug for pain. I hear it's habit forming but I've been taking it for years and I'm no junkie. But just in case, make sure he only gives you a few.
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I've got Vicadin waiting for me now down at Longs Drugs. :) I'm about to go pick it up.
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Ah, the good drugs. To each his own, I suppose.... :)
And yes, there are actually times when Sid is sober... it's just that none of them involve him useing MSN. Don't y'all feel special?
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How true it is.
And now I've got my Vicadin. Mmmmmm......and it was cheaper than three hits of acid!
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In case you didn't know it, Sherlynn is quitting smoking too! Let's all give her our support!
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Thanks for the support.
I haven't smoked (though I still want one just about every minute), but I just put my head down until the craving passes. I don't know how long it's been but each day is one closer to not ever wanting a cig.
It's still the habitual things...like after a meal; on my way home from work; and other things.
But I'm hanging tough. You too I guess.
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I'm on Vicadin. I don't need to be tough. :)
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Damn Vicadin. I lost my glasses and can't find them ANYWHERE. They cost me $260.00, dammit. Where the hell do glasses go?
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Umm, Sid, just an idea but maybe you are wearing them. Usually when i am looking for something, either they are on my face or in my hand :oops:
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I wish that were true. But they've DISAPPEARED. As in gone, good-bye, seeya later. don't forget to write.
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That happened to me, once, with one of my lenses. Was sitting at the computer, when the screw just popped out. Had the lens for a few hours, then it vanished.
I suspect a dog ate it, but I can't prove anything. :wink:
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But... I thought dogs only ate your homework ;)
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*Manly chuckle* Ah, poor, poor Louisa. How much you have to learn. Dogs also eat dog food. *Manly chortle, then another manly chuckle, then wipes eyes.* Silly female. Now excuse me while I eat a steak while scratching my scrotum.
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Come on, Lou. You've seen the couch after Elwood got through with it.
I can tell you for a fact they also eat books, couches, chairs, glasses, shoes, and avon products.