Harvard University (2023-2024)

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i did nawt meow

when did i meow

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also idk where you heard about this but we are definitely super duper normal

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definitely super duper normal sounds a bit forced ngl

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top 10 lies told on a2c

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r/whooooooooosh

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omg hi

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hai cat

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hai

do you do spelling bee

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hai

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what do you think

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this is actually the way ppl in my country say "hi"

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no

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you’re right

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what country are you from

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🇮🇩

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do you play any of the nyt games

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is this poland

testing my knowledge fr

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uhm

indonesia

poland is the other way around

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i play wordle and mini crossword

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NOOOOOOOOOOO

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no connections?

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are u the person who asked if i know any indonesians at brown or no

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is that the one where you group words with similar meaning or smth

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yes dear

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i play it sometimes but not daily

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i don't interact much in the brown thread

meow

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stop this

ik you wanna be me but

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you’re making us look bad

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it’s getting too much

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who is ‘us’

do they go to harvard

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nah they don’t

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disappointing

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but they’re making us look bad

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who’s us

harvard thread?

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idk us just feels more powerful

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we

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luck

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this works

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can you help me with spelling bee

pleasw

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uh

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my mom wants to reach genius level she’s like 1 word away

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what do you have to do

spell words?

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have to be 4 or more letters

and must include A

you can repeat any letters

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am i allowed to cheat

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do you not have the nyt app

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no

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mmm

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i have dignity

actually

you can cheat

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how do i know which words have already been made tho

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ok bet

i got this then

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ty

panpipe

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happen

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hyaena

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this is so cute

oh my god

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nappie

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that is not a word

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oh what

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bro said panpipe

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apnea

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neuro10 word

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meow

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oh my god

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🔥🔥🤝

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thank you so much how will i ever repay you

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im not sure

this time can be free

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you know that meme where the guy says ‘it’s on the house’ and the girl goes ‘really?’

how i feel rn

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lmao

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moew

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😐

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this guy gets it

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the dedication is so silly

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also the girl is me because when i go outside i only carry lip gloss and my airpods

wby would a girl ever need anything else

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is it the meme where her purse is empty

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i carry everything

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yes love it is

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what does ‘everything’ entail

oh god

luck are you a campus backpack menace

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no i just carry all the essentials

in case they’re needed

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pepper spray

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what is essentials

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what’s a campus backpack menace

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a person who wears a backpack the size of a turtle shell

and walks around

[minor pecan]

oh no no

definitely no

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sometimes hitting people when they turn around

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i do that

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the real ones wear a tote bag

only acceptable bag at brown

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how do ppl carry stuff

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or a longchamp bag

i carry a longchamp bag

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without a big backpack

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in the bag

dummy

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what do you have that can’t be carried in a longchamp bag

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ive never seen a longchamp bag

[minor pecan]

i think i have bandages in my backpack, tape, lip balm or smth, sunscreen, gum, airpods

ton of stuff

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maybe its cus im used to carrying stuff for 7 classes at once

[plain marsh]

this is the bag i use

the same color

classic color

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but my backpack is small cause it’s only my compurer and ipad inside

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why so expensive

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and then small stuff

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thats such a mom bag

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i used this in high school too bozo

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true tho

my mom uses that bag

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IS THIS A COMPLIMENT WAIT THATS SO CUTE

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how do u fit 7 classes into that

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im so mother coded

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laptop

ipad

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ok ok ok ok real question

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we r require dto have a binder for each class

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folders or binders @plain marsh

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binder

wtf is a folder in this context

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in college? what do you need other than a laptop and paper/iPad?

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like a makeup folder ?

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idk dont ppl have a lot of stuff in college 😭

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this thing

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i have never once used this thing

in my life

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hmm interesting

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it’s giving child

child core

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those things break in one week

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how

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no?

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because binders are better????

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yes!?

[plain marsh]

so i take it you’re a folder person

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ok yeah they do break but they’re still good enough to carry papers

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we r required to have that in every history class and a composition notebook in every english class 💀

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but i barely took notes or anything anyways so ig it was fine

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a lot of our stuff is still on paper

[plain marsh]

composition notebook as an 18 year old is wild

yall didn’t use digital stuff?

like onenote

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did you guys who get into harvard cure cancer

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no we dont

[jolly lichen]

nah you carry around essentially nothing

everything is digital

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english teachers make u do journals and check them every quarter

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i just carry ipad and mac in my bag

[jolly lichen]

it's 2023 ffs

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i have 0 papers

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goodnotes core

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me too

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and its gotta be in a composition notebook

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nah

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what kinda high school is this

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legit nobody has a notebook in college

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one in rural alabama 💀

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whoa whoa

some people at brown show up to class with notebooks

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ok i have a notebook but i dont use it for school

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and look studious af

like ok Aristotle

we get it we’ve been tainted by the digital age

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if i brought a notebook i'd start drawing in it

[jolly lichen]

yeah some people I know use notebooks because they prefer physical notes

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just do that on ipad

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all my english notebooks have scribbles in the back

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so me coded

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SO ME CODED

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i need to train you for college lace

Jace

Kace

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yes

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also may we talk about how bro carries bandages in his bag

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all my colkege classes r online rn

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bro is a sweetheart

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so idk how to college

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don’t worry

nobody knows at first

you just do it

and before you know it ur too busy to give a damn about how you even feel

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i want college to start alrdy

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nah i gotchu lace

kace

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being in alabama is boring

[minor pecan]

you will get out of the hs trenches

and be in the college trenches instead

🤝

buy ipad in summer and use gift card from ipad purchase to get a pencil and then buy airpods @rancid mural

that’s step 1

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i have aurpod

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buy new ones you have crimson money

might as well use it

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idk if apple sale will still be going when i get finaid

omg ok

it should be good

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honestly

just don’t be a weirdo noob

and you should be fine

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guys i just got new iphone

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what does this mean

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its supposed to be blue but it feels like maybe someone just whispered the word blue next to it

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harvard giving me 2k stipend + 1.5k tech stipend

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omg we’re matching i got a new laptop like 2 days ago

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harvard gave him like 1.5k to spend on stuff cause he’s broke

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awwwwww

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great minds think alike

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kace do you have a full ride

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which laptop pookie

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my old laptop died

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you’re the one who killed it

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so real

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new macbook air or whatever im not too good with the names of them

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I HAVE THE SAME ONE

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i was so excited over finishing work

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we're basically meant to be

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and then i was sad

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<33333333333333

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15 pro max?

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wait do you have a full ride

im so curious

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he does

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ye

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DAMN

silly kace

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not pro or max because my uncle's guy doesnt get them

[plain marsh]

what ur majoring in?

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only normal

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o yeah

bro

your uncle

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i dont know

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he needs to hook me up

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it's not illegal luck i found out how we get discount

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this gives brown core

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wait what

there’s no way

[rancid mural]

imma figure that out after i do my harvard placement tests lmao

because my uncle perscribes the guy any meds he wants

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wtf

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so thats why he gives us discount

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how’s that not illegal

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ok idgaf what stuff is interesting for you so far

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😐😐

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mcb and psychology

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well he's a doctor

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what’s mcb

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he kinda does it for the whole family

molec cell bio

if anyone needs meds you just call him

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dang

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he gets you whatever

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no way that’s a whole major

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gonna be me soon

someone has to continue the legacy

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LET HIM FUND MY ADHD MEDICATION 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u got it

[rancid mural]

he will unironically give you whatever you want

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harvard med is calling

[rancid mural]

harvard also paying for my insurance

like my mom's friend's mom needed a ventilator

which is like

amazing

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vyvanse 50mg

[rancid mural]

bro hooked her up somehow

[minor pecan]

lmao

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for what

[rancid mural]

ive never had to pay a copay before so idk how that works but its still cool that i have free insurance

all arab doctors are like this though tbh

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free what insurance dummy

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health

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oh WORD?????????

THEY SPOILING THE SHT OUT OF YOU

how smart are you holy shit

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they want you so bad

im poor so john harvard says i go free

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bro came from the trenches of alabama

silly kace have you ever been to louisiana

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what do they do to you down there fr

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specifically new orleans

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i was there for like 30 minutes once

oh my god guys let me tell you this reality check i had

when we had to pick my sister up from her ex

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new orelans is goated

my friend lives there

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new orleans is my favorite place in america

[rancid mural]

luck remember how i tutor those refugee kids

we drove there, got her, and drove back 💀

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so yeah u ate with that

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holy shit 53k messages is crazy

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the me effect

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harvard simps

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you should go more often i wish i lived near new orleans

best place ever it’s lovely

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yeah

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so much culture

[minor pecan]

do you still do that

[rancid mural]

i hate driving places cus thats our only mode of transportation

so i started tutoring another one and every time i finish a lesson with him i literally sit on my bed and cry i feel so bad for him

we dont fly

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why

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like his mom has nine kids

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oh

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do you not have friends you could go with who could drive

[rancid mural]

and she can't even read like when i text her for his classes i have to do voice messages

and all of his other family is still in syria

[minor pecan]

i see

[rancid mural]

when i went to texas for hosa intls it was a 9 hour drive and to my brother its a 18 hour drive

so i hate driving

[minor pecan]

wait is he the only one here

[rancid mural]

and his burns are still so bad but theyre probably gonna send him back anyways

[rancid mural]

just him and his mom

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i see

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can you not use acronyms because my brain stopped working at 9

please

[minor pecan]

dang

[rancid mural]

and like i feel like im not doing anything for him

i just feel so bad for him

hes going to go back and no one there can help him

[rancid mural]

hosa = future nurse/doctor club
intls = international competition

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why is he going to go back

[rancid mural]

and like even here theyre not doing much for him at school

[rancid mural]

once his treatment is done he cant stay

[minor pecan]

😵‍💫

[rancid mural]

i wish i could meet with him in person but hes in galveston

[plain marsh]

do you not have friends who can drive also isn’t louisiana significantly more close than texas babes

[rancid mural]

i just feel soooo horrible and empty

[plain marsh]

naurrre abcde what happened

[rancid mural]

6 hour drive

[plain marsh]

that’s so doable that’s like 3 short movies

[rancid mural]

im supposed to be tutoring these refugee kids that are burn victims in the US for treatment and i just feel really bad for them

and i wish i could do more

like theyre so nice

[lofty depot]

how could you not know? 😭

[rancid mural]

he was telling me how he plays roblox

im excited to visit harvard cus i get to fly and also explore boston/cambridge

i literally cried in the zoom meeting

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is this for SCIJ

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just fly

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or no

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i feel sooooo horrible and privileged

[plain marsh]

wait is this a SCIJ moment

[rancid mural]

thats a very short flight

[minor pecan]

so what

[rancid mural]

no idk what this is

[plain marsh]

oh mb

[rancid mural]

lots of money for such a short flight

its just through my mom and my aunt

that know these people

[minor pecan]

you save 6 hours that can now be spent in new orelans

[lofty depot]

thank youuu!!

[plain marsh]

it’s the student center for immigration justice

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driving is super cheap

[plain marsh]

im gonna be working there (hopefully)

[minor pecan]

gas is not cheap bro

[rancid mural]

that sounds nice

[plain marsh]

New Orleans solos every city

[rancid mural]

i want to do more i just feel so empty

[rancid mural]

$2.70/gal is p cheap

like every time i meet with them i cry for like 30 mins after

[plain marsh]

abcde please know that what you’re doing is already so much you’re doing great love

[minor pecan]

you need like 2 tanks of gas for a 6 hr drive

[plain marsh]

we are here for you

[rancid mural]

$20 fills up the car

thats $40 total

[plain marsh]

you can only give so much

[minor pecan]

what kinda car are you driving

[plain marsh]

and they’re not your responsibility

[hidden bloom]

It’s 4.50 in Cali

[rancid mural]

i feel like im not even really helping them thats the thing 😭 like we read books and whatever but realistically whats that doing for them

[rancid mural]

a kia soul

its like $20-30 to fill up depending on the station

[plain marsh]

it gives them a time to enjoy something

[minor pecan]

idk what that is

[plain marsh]

even if it’s brief

[minor pecan]

but oh well

you do you

[plain marsh]

and i think that’s a lot

[rancid mural]

and i feel so bad for his mom too like she cant even read arabic

[minor pecan]

me personally flight >>

[rancid mural]

let alone english

[rancid mural]

cus u live in a dumb state

[plain marsh]

where are they from? what language do they speak there

[rancid mural]

$4 for gas is crazy

theyre syrian

like i could have been this kid

[plain marsh]

so wait

[rancid mural]

but i got lucky

[plain marsh]

where are they rn

[rancid mural]

also yalls min wage is higher, min wage in alabama is $7.25

[plain marsh]

if ur meeting on zoom

[rancid mural]

him and his mom are in galveston

[plain marsh]

is that in america

[rancid mural]

the rest of his family is still in syria

yeah texas

[plain marsh]

ohhhhh

[rancid mural]

he got severely burned so he got to come here for treatment

but theres really not much they can do for him

like his entire face is gone

[plain marsh]

oh my god that poor child i hate everything so much

the world is so unfair it’s honestly evil

[minor pecan]

oh

[hidden bloom]

Whoa buddy

[rancid mural]

california too expensive

i like alabama prices

before he couldnt really talk

but they replaced his voice box or something

so hes better in that sense

[minor pecan]

can they get a foster family or something

where is this

[plain marsh]

i guess but yeah he’s always gonna live with the trauma and the knowledge

[minor pecan]

Galveston?

[plain marsh]

mhm

[rancid mural]

yeah

[minor pecan]

can you send me the center

[rancid mural]

i have no clue what its called

i can try and find out from my mom

they're here through shriners though

[minor pecan]

got it

how old is he

[rancid mural]

i think im going to try calling his school

to get them to help him

I DONT GET A FLAG??

[minor pecan]

ok

[rancid mural]

hes in 5th grade but hes the age of a 3rd grader, they had to use his brother's papers who's in 5th grade to get him in here

so his school has him in 5th but he's honeslty a kg reading level

[minor pecan]

i see

ok

[rancid mural]

he can speak fluently but he has a lot of trouble reading

and over zoom theres like only so much i can do

[minor pecan]

yeah i get it

[rancid mural]

sorry guys didnt mean to rant

[minor pecan]

nah you’re good

[rancid mural]

i just felt so bad today

[minor pecan]

if you find out the center dm me it

[rancid mural]

like theyre just normal kids i wish they could live normally

[rancid mural]

like their hospital or where they live

[minor pecan]

hmm wait im gonna do some research later

[minor pecan]

hospital is ok i think

[strange wedge]

HEYYY

How…we doin

coughs

Ew wait that was so bad😭

[minor pecan]

shut up

[strange wedge]

Someone slept on the wrong side of the bed

[strange wedge]

Rude

[left sky]

hey nerds

[opal night]

Hi

[minor pecan]

hi

[opal night]

Hru

[strange wedge]

Wtf so I can’t even get a hi back?

What a world we live in

[minor pecan]

im solid

what about you

[minor pecan]

oh

what’s up

[opal night]

So great I’m ready for 2024

New chapter of my life fr

[opal night]

W

[minor pecan]

what’s new this chapter

is the main character going to gain some powers or something

[strange wedge]

Nah I don’t want it anymore

[minor pecan]

Ok

[left sky]

heya

[bronze gyro]

how do I let colleges know of achievments I got AFTER the appl deadline

[hot urchin]

i carry several chalk sticks and two books with me. i also bring around pen and a bunch of paper (the math i typically do feels icky on an iPad)

[ashen carbon]

there’s a portal

[vapid smelt]

super random question: is harvard admissions responsive to updates and questions via email?

[hot urchin]

i also carry several types of cables and chargers, but that's because they have turned out to be handy a few times a semester.

[ashen carbon]

man today i thought i had a profound realization that i try to do community service for the quality of the process but then i realized that being good at helping other people is the same thing as wanting to help other people

i hate this process

[ashen carbon]

i know they took calls!

near the rea release date

so i’d assume so

[hot urchin]

just to make sure you're aware, the placement tests (for the most part) don't matter. like, they're at most suggestions... besides the foreign language ones.

i'd get a list of all the concentrations and eliminate all the ones you're sure aren't it. then, just explore the vibes of the dept through clubs, courses, dept events, etc.

[vapid smelt]

ok sweet! i already submitted my rd app and might be having a schedule change next semester. they should find out in my mid year report but just wanted to contact admissions too just in case 👍

[hot urchin]

this elimination is for you to have some vague notion, but it's very common to switch and/or discover a new passion! iirc, over a 1/3 of graduates switched their concentration after their initial declaration in second-year fall.

[lofty depot]

I have a silly question about css profile. Basically harvard asked about my car model. Now the thing is my car is pretty expensive cause we sold a lot of our land (most of it rather) to buy that. Now, I was wondering if harvard would judge my financial situation based on the car model?

[lofty depot]

a friend asked me this question btw, not my question

[misty shale]

Would it be alright if I submit my resume in the application portal?

not sure where else to put it

[strange wedge]

Is it a red flag for colleges if your resume is more than one page

[strange wedge]

LMAO no way be both asked about resumes

[misty shale]

LMAO

[misty shale]

mine was like 6 pages lol

[strange wedge]

But yeah for Harvard put it in the portal

[strange wedge]

DAYUM WTF

[misty shale]

alright thx

[lofty depot]

nah as long as it's not redundant/irrelavant/repetitive

[misty shale]

I just have a lot of activities and small awards

[jolly lichen]

probably to some extent, yes

[strange wedge]

That’s nice

[jolly lichen]

but... what's the alternative? lie?

[lofty depot]

bro yes this was funny

[misty shale]

It's probably a bit too long but idk how to cut it down

[strange wedge]

Font size is a big helper I know that

And times new Roman

[grizzled dragon]

what car???

[misty shale]

yeah it's 12 rn but it's still 5 pages if I get it down to 10

[jolly lichen]

pls dear god submit a 1 page resume

you're in HS there's no godly way you have enough stuff to fill more than one page

[misty shale]

erm

[strange wedge]

Yeah I’ve heard. Mines like…1.5

Time to cut

[misty shale]

what if you just did a lot of stuff in hs lol

[lofty depot]

she has a mercedes-maybach, not sure about the specific model tho

[jolly lichen]

nah people with more working experience than you've spent years on this planet have 1 page resumes

you can make it fit

be selective, go in depth about the things that are really important

[misty shale]

I feel like a page is nowhere near enough

[jolly lichen]

I think nearly always you should have fewer resume items than common app activities

[lofty depot]

yeah guess nothing can be done. Maybe after getting in (if she does) she can sort it out or something

[misty shale]

I've never heard of that lol

It seems like the resume is a place to expand on your activities so

[strange wedge]

Yeah I figured I’d ask cuz I saw something that said it was a huge red flag to colleges if students have resumes that are more than 1 page

[jolly lichen]

yeah, but imo it's not useful to expand on common app activity #10

[strange wedge]

Well, not huge. But like “bruh”

[jolly lichen]

instead I think you should use the space to write way more than 150 characters about like activities #1-4

[misty shale]

I don't think that's true at all

There are a lot of people who submit 3+ page resumes and get in fine

[ashen carbon]

they explicitly mention that they think you should be able to put everything in the activities section

it’s fine to do

but it won’t increase your chances relative to just not doing it

[misty shale]

Yeah so a resume is just to expand on activities

[ashen carbon]

you want to be concise

[buoyant carbon]

hagoromo?

[jolly lichen]

I think you're just gonna get eye rolls and they might stop reading after the first page. in the professional world, it's pretty frowned upon to have >1 page resumes, especially at entry level

[ashen carbon]

like probably don’t put down every single debate tournament you’ve ever won an award in

[ashen carbon]

i mean honestly

you’re probably good to do wtv you want

it’s just generally a good idea to have your activities be meaningful

and a six page resume may take away from that

at best it’s likely just not going to be read in full

however, if there’s significant information you think that a college undergraduate admissions office should know while keeping in mind that they totally accept people who do the bare minimum length-wise

then go for it

[misty shale]

Yeah I don't think I have enough time to cut everything now

[rancid mural]

a resume should stay 1-2 pages

[misty shale]

wouldn't it just be a repetition of the activities/awards section in common app then

[rancid mural]

if u have more than that then ur adding stuff that isn't necessary

[rancid mural]

yeah thats why colleges dont ask for resumes lmao

[misty shale]

like 5 awards and 10 activities is already a page or two

[rancid mural]

They let u upload it if u feel like it

[misty shale]

yeah that's why I'm just adding more

[ashen carbon]

if you’re submitting a resume with literally any thought that it’ll repeat information you’ve already listed

don’t do that

remove all the activities that are already in your activity list

[misty shale]

No but the ones on my activity lists are the most important ones

[ashen carbon]

yes

[misty shale]

and the resumes elaborate on the specific details

[ashen carbon]

the resume is additional for a reason

if you need to elaborate

do it in an essay

and also just pick one or two that should be enough to characterize you well

[rancid mural]

the resume is if u had some super duper important stuff that u couldnt elaborate on enough in CA

[ashen carbon]

you don’t need to tell your life story

[rancid mural]

i did not upload a resume

cus it wouldve been redundant

and make the ao hate me

💀

[ashen carbon]

neither did i but i also got deferred so who knows

[misty shale]

nah I don't think they'd hate you lol

[ashen carbon]

listen

[rancid mural]

if u giving them extra stuff for no reason they arent gonna like it

[ashen carbon]

if you’re not told not to submit a resume

it’s fine you’re a kid

[misty shale]

they'd probably just not read it carefully

[ashen carbon]

it’s just like

[misty shale]

yeah ofc I'm submitting to only places where I can

or they're fine with

Like brown asks to submit a resume so

[ashen carbon]

if you speak to an admissions officer or generally anyone experienced they’ll tell you don’t do it if you don’t think it’s absolutely necessary

[rancid mural]

yeah

[jolly lichen]

you can just make it... not that

I am very pro submitting a resume but you gotta make it not a reiteration of your existing app

[rancid mural]

they will not read it if they see its the same thing 💀

[lofty depot]

sometimes it ends up becoming off putting when you sound desperate and repetitive so a balance is key

[ashen carbon]

and additionally the two rules would be 1) don’t repeat ANYTHING from the activity list

and 2) make sure it’s a professional resume

so no 6 pages

[jolly lichen]

I'm gonna be a broken record but: use it to zoom in and really highly and expand on things that matter

[misty shale]

yeah so that's why you expand it. I have like 3-4 general umbrella of activities so it's not possible to just remove everything that was in the activities list

[jolly lichen]

ime most people care 100x more about activity 1 compared to activity 10

[ashen carbon]

this is actually crazy because i submitted a resume to a nasa internship last year and that shit was one page

a fucking nasa internship

[misty shale]

oh damn

[jolly lichen]

ok idk about that either haha

[rancid mural]

ill just say most hs'ers dont need more than common app spaces

[ashen carbon]

ah

i mean i had more than 10 relevant activities

i condensed some of them

[misty shale]

Yeah they're cateogrized so it's not just a list of random stuff

[rancid mural]

i fat like 10 awards into 5 spaces 💀

[ashen carbon]

a lot of the ones i did at different institutions were not at the same time so i grouped them in the activity list

[misty shale]

i did not do that lmaoo

[ashen carbon]

you’re trying to show what your interests and commitments are

the resume is a separate purpose and shouldn’t be activities it should be if you want to write a resume

which is actually just proof you’re qualified in some way

i think that’s a fair way to see it?

[rancid mural]

i excited for next app cycle ngl

i wanna see what new nerds come

[ashen carbon]

luck 5.0

atp

[rancid mural]

no i vowed i wont be like luck

[jolly lichen]

too soon

[rancid mural]

i will be nice

[jolly lichen]

you're gonna be too busy worrying about college

which luck should be doing but that's why he's ngmi

[ashen carbon]

nah harvard kids are just alcoholics like everyone else

luck’s vodka is discord for some reason

[rancid mural]

have u seen the channel stats for here

💀

[ashen carbon]

nah

[rancid mural]

luck is #1 or #2

[ashen carbon]

bruh

[rancid mural]

im one of those as well

idk which

[ashen carbon]

he’s not even applying this year

how do we bring it up

[rancid mural]

he likes to crush hopes and dreams

[ashen carbon]

lmao yes

though for me it’s a bit justified morally

[misty shale]

damn how do y'all spend so much time on discord lmao

[ashen carbon]

hey we kicked upenn’s ass

[rancid mural]

cus my extracurricular schedule fluctuates based on the week so some weeks i have almost nothing to do

[ashen carbon]

lmao me this spring

[rancid mural]

i got out of school at 10 am last sem lol

this sem its 12 pm

[ashen carbon]

yk what guys

3/28 is a win/win

[rancid mural]

what is 3/28 mean

[misty shale]

damn what??

[rancid mural]

aint that ivy day

[misty shale]

in hs?

[rancid mural]

ye

[ashen carbon]

bc if i get rejected it’s a loss for feeder schools

[misty shale]

how is that even possible

[ashen carbon]

fuck feeder schools

including my own

[rancid mural]

all my classes r dual enrollment

[ashen carbon]

holy shit lmao

i have one

and i’m dying

[rancid mural]

i do 4 college classes per sem

2 uni classes and 2 cc classes

[misty shale]

god damn

only 4 classes lmaoo

[rancid mural]

i also health science

[ashen carbon]

they’re college classes wdym

[minor pecan]

yeah, im gonna peak in hs at this rate

[rancid mural]

which is where im getting 3 healthcare certifications this year

[misty shale]

yeah just uncommon for hs

[ashen carbon]

what do you think your course load’s gonna be lmao

[minor pecan]

might actually ngmi

[ashen carbon]

most accomplished harvard graduate

at harvard

[minor pecan]

but also bro has 160k+ messages in this server

so idk

[rancid mural]

luck what do u plan on doing

[minor pecan]

maybe it’s winnable for me

[rancid mural]

with ur degree

[ashen carbon]

i believe that

[rancid mural]

what do applied math do

[minor pecan]

industry

[ashen carbon]

berkshire hathaway

[minor pecan]

i dont know, whatever makes me happy and comfortable

i have fairly simple goals

[rancid mural]

what is industry

[minor pecan]

work

[rancid mural]

do u do math for pay or sum

[jolly lichen]

at this rate? it's already locked in bro

[ashen carbon]

yeah

[misty shale]

Yeah ik ofc it's hard lol. I'm taking college level math classes and they're pretty hard despite not even being dual enrollment

[ashen carbon]

but it’s

vast overqualificatjin

[minor pecan]

nah it’s still winnnabe, game has only begun

[jolly lichen]

if this were true you wouldn't be as sweaty as you are for internships

[misty shale]

just can't imagine taking 4 classes in hs

[ashen carbon]

analysts do like stats and calculus

[minor pecan]

i sent like 50 apps bro

i didnt even try

[ashen carbon]

did you beg the harvard career office for help

[minor pecan]

nah

[ashen carbon]

harvard student goes to harvard

doesn’t use harvard resources

[jolly lichen]

no shot you're gonna place into lpsa and math ma lol

[rancid mural]

idk what kinda internships or jobs premed or psych do

[jolly lichen]

have some confidence 😤

[minor pecan]

you dont do any

you do research

[ashen carbon]

yeah

[rancid mural]

but im so bad at math 💀 i had like an 85 in precal alg

[ashen carbon]

and study for mcat

[jolly lichen]

you're gonna be fiiiiiiine

[misty shale]

damn

[ashen carbon]

i think there might be shadowing opportunities though

[jolly lichen]

premed is research + shadow + clinical volunteering all the time

[jolly lichen]

what are they gonna do for you

[rancid mural]

so could i just work as an ekg tech 💀

[jolly lichen]

the real career office is your peers lets be real

[minor pecan]

though the goals are simple they do require a solid bit of work to reach

[ashen carbon]

read your internship applications and help you practice interviews

[minor pecan]

they don’t do that

[ashen carbon]

they don’t? shit

[minor pecan]

plus i think that’s like useless lol

at least for the fields im interested in, they don’t know too much about it

better to just ask friends and people here

[ashen carbon]

hmm

that seems accurate

[minor pecan]

abnon is my goat

he’s got me covered

[ashen carbon]

i’m gonna really regret not making connections in hs huh

[jolly lichen]

they will read your resume but imo it's more helpful to just send it to your friends/people who are slightly above you

technical interview prep is mostly on your own with guidance from friends/clubs

[ashen carbon]

dang

maybe i stick to academia

[minor pecan]

i really need to make it

[ashen carbon]

or tech

[jolly lichen]

LOL

academic career support is like

[ashen carbon]

lose all my money

[jolly lichen]

ask your profs and hope they don't ghost your emails

[ashen carbon]

don’t get postdoc anywhere

yup

what i heard exactly

[jolly lichen]

oh no everyone gets postdocs

[ashen carbon]

automated follow up emails are apparently a godsend

[jolly lichen]

postdocs are not the problem

we have wayyyyyy too many postdocs

[ashen carbon]

tenure track i assume is the problem

[jolly lichen]

the problem is tenure track

yes

[ashen carbon]

yeah like

[jolly lichen]

they will give anyone with a pulse a postdoc because postdocs are good cheap labor

way more effective compared to getting a grad student and only marginally more expensive

[ashen carbon]

bruh

my worst-case scenario is having to return to my bum-ass corrupt high school as a teacher

i would actually die before doing that

[minor pecan]

nyc private school moment

[ashen carbon]

i never want to see the upper east side again after this year

do you think i can survive off of bug bounties

[rancid mural]

in my defense the grading breakdown was horrendous 💀

[ashen carbon]

it’s ok dude

[rancid mural]

i had 90+ on every hw and test

[ashen carbon]

i think i may have failed my math class this fall LMAO

and i also straight up had a c+ last year

[jolly lichen]

what flavor of academia are you interested in

[rancid mural]

hw - 10%
tests - 40%
midterm - 25%
final - 25%

[jolly lichen]

I'm guesing CS because you mentioned tech?

[rancid mural]

i gave up the second i saw that

[ashen carbon]

no absolutely not

i’m just a decent coder

[jolly lichen]

oh

[ashen carbon]

which is more than you can say about most tech workers

[jolly lichen]

there are tests that aren't midterm/final?? rip

[ashen carbon]

i like math and physics

and cogsci actually

or econ

[rancid mural]

yeah we had like 4 tests + midterm and final

[jolly lichen]

oh 👀

[ashen carbon]

like econ research

[jolly lichen]

what the fuck

[hot urchin]

yep! one of a few colors and like four sticks of white

[jolly lichen]

rip

you should do physics 😌

yes yes

[ashen carbon]

physics is really flexible i hear

but i might also just math

[jolly lichen]

flexible in terms of what?

[ashen carbon]

job + many different fields

job i mean for computational skills

[jolly lichen]

eeeeeeeehhh kinda mostly true sure

physics will simultaneously teach you everything and nothing useful

[ashen carbon]

also just that the physics fields require different skill sets

[ashen carbon]

yeah i’ve heard this

[jolly lichen]

any field transfer will require learning a ton

but something something ~abstract thinking~ from physics helps

[hot urchin]

the math concentration has flexible and light reqs, so there's plenty of space to explore other stuff in addition to a math degree!

[jolly lichen]

though istg there's nothing worse than learning to code from a physicist

[ashen carbon]

yeah i heard broadly that the physics skills are gonna be applicable mindset wise

[jolly lichen]

except maybe learning from a mathematician

[hot urchin]

wat

[ashen carbon]

oh that’s me!!

[ashen carbon]

yeah…

[jolly lichen]

I said what I said

[hot urchin]

nah

[ashen carbon]

would have loved to get in

[hot urchin]

lifesci kids are worse

i went to an ls50 coding section, and i was stunned

[ashen carbon]

i wrote abt how i feel like math is an inside/out comprehensive field for wherever you want to go

so the small math requirement really appealed to me

like a good understanding of math problem solving + rigor + the structure of the field as a whole will get you a lot of places broadly

[hot urchin]

i also saw some of rheir "python bootcamp" material for ls50a. that drove me bonkers even more

[ashen carbon]

damn

[hot urchin]

like they just misused terminology like sequeneces, but they misused it inconsistently

(i will note that my experience visiting ls50 stuff was all amazing besides that)

[jolly lichen]

you should just do physics academia 😌

make up for my sins

[ashen carbon]

cs is too mainstream now we need to make it hard to learn again so people are forced to actually get good at it

replace every language with brainfuck then they’ll learn

[hot urchin]

just shove fp down their throats

[ashen carbon]

what’s actually hilarious is i had a stubborn friend in bio/meche who had just started coding

and i challenged them to learn brainfuck

[minor pecan]

just make them do like os or asm

should be close enough

[ashen carbon]

then like last week after they had become a legitimate developer and ml coder and like non-script kiddie they were like “i actually think that was when i started learning how to actually code”

so yk

assembly from scratch it is ig

[hot urchin]

ahh, maybe they just needed to explore different paradigms or vibes?

[hidden bloom]

Fr

[jolly lichen]

binary or go home

[ashen carbon]

ngl i took a gates-to-assembly class and it was really really fun

idk if i’m crazy

[minor pecan]

nobody reall knows how any of that shit works let’s be honest

[ashen carbon]

i actually enjoyed the schematics

[jolly lichen]

nah some people are into that kinda stuff

I have a few friends who just love systems

[hot urchin]

have u considered getting into compilers?

[ashen carbon]

nah haven’t done cs in too long

i’m kind of a slacker

but if i had time totally would

[hot urchin]

i was at a programming languages conference in October, and i think there was a paper using algebraic geometry for optimizations

[ashen carbon]

oh shit that’s awesome

[hot urchin]

hmm, what about PL theory? i havent coded in a loong time either, and the field is basically math; except we restrict to computable problems

[ashen carbon]

i don’t know shit abt algebraic geometry rigorously

[hot urchin]

... and we care about syntax

like, we dont do much notation overload bs

[ashen carbon]

oh no entirely!

[hidden bloom]

Same

[ashen carbon]

this stuff is awesome

but uh i can’t think about almost any of it until i get into college

[hot urchin]

if you come to Harvard, you should check out Nada Amin, who does PL research. fantastic human being and a great research mentor

the other PL person in the dept is also cool too. i just havent talked to him yet

[hot urchin]

well, you can think about this after you finish applying 🦖

[ashen carbon]

yeahh

i have to remember that the nice thing about stem is

that it will always be there no matter where i go

[hot urchin]

so true

(PL might be an exception tho lol)

[ashen carbon]

haha yeah

[hot urchin]

an extreme example would be Set Theory lmao

[ashen carbon]

?

not

set theory the building block of like all of math

or hmm idk if technically geometry is built on it or at all separate from topology lmao

[hot urchin]

well, set theory is the prototypical foundations of math

[ashen carbon]

yeah

[hot urchin]

but,,, do people do active research in set theory? not in most depts

[ashen carbon]

lmfao yeah

[hot urchin]

now, there are interesting alternative foundations

[ashen carbon]

i guess the more far out you go the more impossible to find someone who studies it

[hot urchin]

i've been trying to get into quasicategories and HoTT, and they're kinda dope

[ashen carbon]

ohh fuck

[hot urchin]

idk much about HoTT; i just started reading a book on it. i did take a class of infinity categories this fall tho

[ashen carbon]

in all honesty i barely get categories to begin with LMAO

[hot urchin]

bruhx i get what u mean

[ashen carbon]

i just know grothendieck did crazy stuff with them and that they unify diverging spaces of math

totally outside of my level

math is so cool but i am not worthy fr

me taking linear algebra for the third time lmao

[hot urchin]

when i was learning about tensor products in a linear algebra unit, an upperclassman gave a special section on the universal property definition

[crude dew]

based category theory

[hot urchin]

that crushed my spirits since i didnt understand any of that, but a desire to learn categories was born

[ashen carbon]

dang that stuff is cool but yet again

barely get it

but oh absolutely

i lost my mind last year just when i realized that the real numbers were a vector space of the rationals

math just makes you want to learn more math

[hot urchin]

there's a program called drp where undergrads get paird with grad students

i asked a grad student "please help me get categories" and voila

who knew that studying category theory on its own would be helpful?

[sweet tundra]

wait which prompt is the life experience one

ohhh the diversity one

talked abt being chinese,,,im not getting in 💀

[ashen carbon]

dw so did i we’ll get it together

rejection 3/28 here we go

[sweet tundra]

🫂

[crude dew]

bruh why are so many people talking about being chinese

i did that too

[pulsar pond]

i literally avoided mentioning im chinese in my Harvard supps

i only talked a little but that was blended in with other cultures

[sweet tundra]

mine also barely connected it back to harvard 😭 word limit too small

[hidden bloom]

Facts

[rancid mural]

cus its a diversity essay lol

most ppl dont have that much diversity to them

[hidden bloom]

Ngmi

[hidden bloom]

^^ this is the smart way to do it

[pulsar pond]

still didn't make it

and ngmi in the future lol

perhaps it'd work

[rancid mural]

its also harvard, not making it means absolutely nothing

[pulsar pond]

for u if it's about something super damn niche in Chinese culture

[crude dew]

why are there so many chinese people

[rancid mural]

a2c is 50% asian

[pulsar pond]

we are the second biggest population on earth

why don't you ask why are there so many Indian people

they're THE biggest population on Earth now

[crude dew]

why are there so many indian people

[sweet tundra]

im just hoping they forget abt that supp 💀 it was kinda more abt just being chinese in that i talked abt living in three states and how our found families/chinese communities helped support us
but it kinda just combines two cliche topics (moving and race) lmao

[sweet tundra]

^^

[crude dew]

i just talked about my confusion with Americans' obsession over diversity when I first moved from China and how understanding that made me aware of how environment can shape a person

its cringe af

[sweet tundra]

thats kinda cool though

[lofty depot]

how did I make it to this list lol

[pulsar pond]

don't worry about it

fate is fate

[crude dew]

yea im fully aware

[pulsar pond]

if u gonna make it u gonna make it

ngmi is ngmi

written in the stars

[crude dew]

every one here is going to be find redardless of college

[pulsar pond]

nothing we can do

[sweet tundra]

what is

ngmi

[pulsar pond]

Not Gonna Make It

Luck's catchphrase

[sweet tundra]

ohh

real

[crude dew]

nah we're all chillilng harvard overrated anyways

[lofty depot]

i agree

[pulsar pond]

BLUE IS THE ROYAL COLOR

[lofty depot]

realized this lately

[pulsar pond]

BLUE BLOOD=ROYAL BLOOD

[rancid mural]

i think he learned it from abnon ngl

abnon also says ngmi 💀

[pulsar pond]

Harvard legacy I see

[crude dew]

still a really good school, but rejection from harvard != rejection from success

[pulsar pond]

u a CS dude man?

[crude dew]

no math

pure math

[lofty depot]

it's an actual slang guys

[crude dew]

but idk how to do not equal

[pulsar pond]

!= is CS lol

[rancid mural]

well yeah

[pulsar pond]

basic CS knowledge

[rancid mural]

but most ppl dont use it

[rancid mural]

just be confident fr

[pulsar pond]

im borderline giving up

[rancid mural]

its a psychology thing that if u act sad ur gonna be sad

[pulsar pond]

gonna finish my JHU essay

and then fix my other supps

call it a day

[rancid mural]

if u act happy ur more likely to start to feel happy

[pulsar pond]

my personal statement is horrible but i don't have time to change it anymore

[rancid mural]

so just find ways to be more confident in ur apps

[pulsar pond]

fuck this shit

[rancid mural]

i spent an entire week leading up to nov 1 making my essays perfect, just lock in

[pulsar pond]

well

i have less than 1 day to fix all my essays

[sweet tundra]

same its actually one of the worst essays ive written for college 😻

[rancid mural]

wait why less than a day

[pulsar pond]

my yale emory and brown supps are so much better

[rancid mural]

IS IT ALRDY ALMOST JAN 1,

[pulsar pond]

Columbia/Emory deadline on Jan 1

[lofty depot]

didn't even look at mine again. I'm done with this shit

[pulsar pond]

Yale/JHU/Brandeis Jan 2

[sweet tundra]

mien is literally abt

barnes and nobles

[pulsar pond]

fuck tons of shit coming on 3rd and 5th

[rancid mural]

just make sure yall have good safeties and targets

[pulsar pond]

not to mention im not even done with Gtown and BU

[lofty depot]

sounds interesting sorry

[pulsar pond]

yea tbh

very interesting

[rancid mural]

ur ps?

[sweet tundra]

😨

[pulsar pond]

my JHU essay opening is about praying to a pig

[sweet tundra]

yeah