un jour le bonheur vous trahit

[theladyrose]

I've been rejected by Harvard and Columbia; I'll hear back from Stanford tomorrow afternoon but I'm not hopeful at all.

Edit: I've also been rejected by Brown. Ah well.

Another edit: Make that four rejections; Stanford rejected me, too.

So much for trying not to disappoint my family. But I really shouldn't be complaining as I do have some nice choices as is. Really, there are many many many worse things that could be going on, and there's no point in wasting my time over things that I can't control anymore. I should stop making such a fuss about this.

Last edit: So overall, I'm deciding amongst Wellesley, USC and Scripps.

P.S. Sophia, thanks for the Victoria Holt novel; I could really use it. Hopefully I'll start it this weekend.

Comments

[volk1ok.livejournal.com]

Harvard et Columbia ne sont pas "le bonheur" :)

[dragonfly66.livejournal.com]

and you are still, somehow, and amazing person. Wanna go to Wellesley with me? Also, call me, immediately.

[gandydancer.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry to hear that. you are, however, still a very keen person. that may not sound like much, but it is true.

i'll keep my fingers crossed on the remaining two schools.

[eyepiece-simile.livejournal.com]

Your welcome for the Holt. You'll love it. It's one of the more captivating ones (not that they aren't all captivating), but this one really takes you to a new world. Be prepared though, it's much more risque...

I'm sorry on college. Please tell me about Brown! (And Stanford tomorrow.)

[shakeitdown.livejournal.com]

bah, shmah, damn harvard and columbia. you > them by 1000x.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Well, it is called the Captive :D

BTW, I've been rejected by Brown. We'll see about Stanford tomorrow but the outcome isn't good.

[eyepiece-simile.livejournal.com]

The Captive is captivating :)

I'm sooo sorry about Brown. I guess they really are desperate for female engineers :/

[horosha.livejournal.com]

*prepares to burn down several major universities*

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Please don't do that. I was completely overreacting. Hope that all's well with you.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. I'm totally overreacting over projected fantasies anyway. I shouldn't have been so overconfident in the first place.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder. I have a bad habit of overreacting :P

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I stuck in that abortion article; however, it's not long enough so there's literally one blank column in the article space. And that's with 50% tracking and the font at size 10 instead of 9.6. Is there any way you can write more?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot, Miss Gandy. I was overreacting before over things that aren't in my control which is an unfortunate habit of mine.

By the way, have you heard back yet about going on Jeopardy? I've been trying to send out good vibes your way.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Your vocabulary never ceases to amaze me :P

Hey, don't worry about it. You completely deserved to get in there. And we still have to start booking for Disneyland!

[phoenixbird27.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear that honey. You totally deserved to get into Harvard and the like. But I'm sure that wherever you go you will do fantastically well and enjoy yourself.
Hang in there and chin up! :-)

[phoenixbird27.livejournal.com]

P.S Did you apply to Cornell?

[(Anonymous)]

Well... at least you don't have my mother... She kinda crshed though when I told her that you can order Harvard T-shirts through their webshop. :)

But at least you have a choice. In Hungary, you go to the first place that gets you, pronto. No time to think about what to accept, where to apply etc. One chance. :(

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Alas, I didn't. My cousin and I made an unofficial agreement to apply to different universities to avoid rivalry. As she's a New York resident, she decided to apply as the tuition is lower for in-state students. She was waitlisted at Cornell.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm not too disappointed now after overreacting earlier; I'll probably end up going to Univeristy of Southern California where they're offering me a very nice scholarship. I plan on going to grad school with the tuition I'm saving, so I have another shot at going to another university in the farther future :)

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Aww, okay. *puts down the buckets of gasoline* But only because you said please.

[romanticizing.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. But I'm sure they're fantastically overrated anyway, and you'll end up someplace great :) Especially with the awesome scholarships. Your family has to be proud of those!
Columbia rejected me, too, actually. Harvard as well, though applying there was my father's pet idea :)

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty happy now with the way things have turned out, but it's really hard to pick just one now. Out of curiosity, how is Boston as a college town?

[romanticizing.livejournal.com]

Why is it hard to choose? Similar schools, or good in different ways? I guess that's a happy problem, though :)

Interesting that you should ask that -- I have sort of a love/hate relationship with Boston. When I first got here, I hated it -- I was excited to be living in a big city, but I got used to NYC over the summer, and Boston has about 600,000 people, I believe, while NYC has 8 million. So it wasn't really what I expected. Also, in New York, so many restaurants & stores are open late at night, or 24 hours, and there are always people out at any hour of the night.. whereas in Boston, everything shuts down early. Even the Boston subway shuts down at 12:30, whereas NYC's is 24 hours. That also annoyed me (especially when I needed to make a 6:25 a.m. flight and the subway wasn't open and it took forever to find a taxi). Then, the crazy weather threw me off, especially when it was winter for so many months, and so very cold. I was forever finding fault with Boston, just random things, like how there are only 2 movie theaters here (although there are more in Cambridge, that's where the art houses are), &c.

However, since I got back here from spring break, my attitude changed. I think the warm weather (which is a regular thing now, finally) had something to do with it. Now I appreciate the history here, and all the things to do. I think the thing that helped the most was I decided to explore the city by foot, so I walked all over and found neat places and neighborhoods, parks, statues, little things of interest. Now I walk a few miles each day through some of the nicer parts of Boston, and it's lovely.

I guess I haven't that much answered your question (even with all this rambling!) -- I guess it's a pretty good college town. I think I'd be really bored if I went to school in the middle of nowhere, so I like that there's so much to do here if I want to stray from campus, plus I can take the commuter rail to interesting places, or the Chinatown bus to New York, even. Sometimes it gets a little annoying that wherever you go, there are college kids around, especially when they are of the rich, designer handbad & sunglasses variety (and there are so many here), or the constantly-drinking type.. Oh, that's another thing, since the city shuts down so early, and the T as well, on weekends people usually head to this nearby town to go to random people's apartments and drink, just because it's within walking distance. And I don't do that, so my options are limited. There aren't any midnight movies or anything because people would be stranded because of the subway, and while I'd walk through New York at all hours of the night, Boston at night looks all post-apocalyptic in that it's very dark and no one's out so that scares me.

Wow, that was really long.. but anyway, overall, I guess it's a good college town because you can make it be what you want it to be.. I guess if I went to a school in the middle of nowhere, there would be even more people drinking rather than doing things because there's less to do. I just didn't really think my college decisions through, and things like the crazy weather surprised me.