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So I recently went back home to the good old - North East helping my parents patch up the house they are planning to sell soon after they retire to move closer to their grandkid(s) and took my son to Boston to see some stuff and of course, make his first college visit.
As I'm sure I"m not alone being one of the many, many, many rejects of MIT (we had this discussion orientation day of CMU - how we all got rejected) and had never actually seen the campus. So of course, I plan on forcing my kids to take the path I couldn't and tell them as half-asians they only have two choices of edumacation: Harvard or MIT. Anything less and I will lose face and unfriend my extended family out of shame.
Anyways, I was way more impressed with MIT's campus than Harvard's, I guess the age and architecture was more appealing to the engineer in me. Everyone thinks he looks like a girl so I'm not too hopeful and he couldn't figure out how to go down the stairs he climbed up, so I'm pretty sure it's community college for this one. Hope the next one is smarter!
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Poll: Look like a girl? >_<I hate babies (37) 63% Yes (15) 25% No (7) 12% 59 total votes Your vote: Look like a girl? >_< (Vote): Yes
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impressive that hes looking at the camera so nicely. My nephew gives 0 fucks
You're being very lenient. Back in my day our two choices were Harvard and Harvard (moreso when my dads an alumni maybe)
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On August 01 2013 10:44 Doomblaze wrote:
impressive that hes looking at the camera so nicely. My nephew gives 0 fucks
You're being very lenient. Back in my day our two choices were Harvard and Harvard (moreso when my dads an alumni maybe)
My sis's idea of posing for the camera when she was little was to look the opposite direction. Fucking -_-. Also I chose, I hate babies, but really that kid looks kinda like a guy in the photo, I'm guessing it's a boy who looks like a girl, like I did when I was a baby.
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CMU is better than MIT for a few programs ! (not many)
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*Vomits on Harvard.*
I recommend you abandon your child in a crack house, as the best chance he has for getting into Harvard is to have a really good sob story.
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On August 01 2013 11:19 Jerubaal wrote:
*Vomits on Harvard.*
I recommend you abandon your child in a crack house, as the best chance he has for getting into Harvard is to have a really good sob story.
That's actually pretty much true. One girl I know who's a junior at the college I'm going to attend in town basically said that the reason she was accepted to Stanford was that her parents dropped her off and left her at the mercy of the goodness of other people's hearts, so she has a second pair of parents; that sob story basically guaranteed her a spot at Stanford, that was her statement.
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On August 01 2013 11:39 Targe wrote:
I vote Cambridge.
Eugh, Oxford's got the better campus.
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On August 01 2013 11:40 babylon wrote:Eugh, Oxford's got the better campus.
And I won't be going to either ;_;
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On August 01 2013 11:40 babylon wrote:Eugh, Oxford's got the better campus.
Exactly. Nice campus = no studying.
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Looks like a girl in said picture. Ive met many children who look like the opposite sex on first glance though, once you know them / spend time around them its pretty apparent they arent. (Im no pedobear i worked with younguns)
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You have a beautiful daughter, I respectfully ask for her hand in marriage.
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Your kid is adorable
That's my contribution to this blog
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On August 01 2013 11:19 Jerubaal wrote:
*Vomits on Harvard.*
I recommend you abandon your child in a crack house, as the best chance he has for getting into Harvard is to have a really good sob story.
Or teach him to smoke weed without inhaling, so he could run for White House eventually.
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On August 01 2013 11:38 docvoc wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:19 Jerubaal wrote:
*Vomits on Harvard.*
I recommend you abandon your child in a crack house, as the best chance he has for getting into Harvard is to have a really good sob story. That's actually pretty much true. One girl I know who's a junior at the college I'm going to attend in town basically said that the reason she was accepted to Stanford was that her parents dropped her off and left her at the mercy of the goodness of other people's hearts, so she has a second pair of parents; that sob story basically guaranteed her a spot at Stanford, that was her statement.
wow, really? I'm hoping to go to stanford and I've got a pretty good sob story, that's good news for me.
Also your kid so cute. I don't even like babies but that is just such a cutie.
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On August 01 2013 11:43 Targe wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:40 babylon wrote:On August 01 2013 11:39 Targe wrote:
I vote Cambridge. Eugh, Oxford's got the better campus. And I won't be going to either ;_;
Don't worry about it, unless you intend to get into politics they offer no major justifiable advantage for your undergrad.
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lol in case you were semi-serious (let's face it, there's probably a little bit of honesty down there), you need to get over your past insecurities and not pass that onto the next generation
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So many baby haters!
Since many schools have unspoken limits on how many asians they admit, I was thinking his skin color could almost pass for a native american. Clearly the best way to get into Harvard or MIT.
I can and will pass my insecurities to the next generation and blame any mistakes on mathematics on his weak white DNA.
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On August 03 2013 00:52 Burrfoot wrote:
So many baby haters!
Since many schools have unspoken limits on how many asians they admit, I was thinking his skin color could almost pass for a native american. Clearly the best way to get into Harvard or MIT.
I can and will pass my insecurities to the next generation and blame any mistakes on mathematics on his weak white DNA.
im just jealous i dont have one!
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Wait, you went to CMU? I'm at CMU right now! :D I love this school. Nice to see someone else from there on TL. ^_^
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CMU-nerds unite!
Back in the day when I lived in the dorms, we had Boss vs Mcgill Brood War competition. I believe I was summarily crushed in ever game I played.
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Sending the kid to Harvard will really help your wallet. Harvard has pretty amazing financial aid considering its cost. You would have to be pretty well off for Harvard to not grant financial aid, in which case you wouldn't care about tuition cost anyway. It's something like households earning less than ~180K/year contribute 10% of their income on tuition.
no sure about MIT financial aid, but i'm betting it's much harder on parents to send kids there
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MIT financial aid is actually quite good ... not as good as Harvard, obviously, but you'll still be living comfortably if you come from a middle-income family.
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Yea, my package back in the day when CMU was ~35k tuition + board was 1/3rd grant, 1/3rd loans 1/3rd Mommy's credit card. I wasn't smart enough for any scholarships or whatnot.
Now when I keep getting alumni mail asking for money I feel guilty not giving more.
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