ARGH!
I haven't gotten a reply from YSP yet! gah. Two other people already got in and they got their letters the same day. So now I'm REALLY worried that I got rejected. Especially since the person who used to do the admissions isn't there anymore.
eek!
If I don't get in, my world is going to crash. I love this camp. I don't actually like learning math, though sometimes it's cool cuz it's just so crazy what they figure out, but I LOVE the experience.
There's just something about sticking with a tiny group from Naperville and going to this camp.
We get up 7 or earlier, take a train to chicago union station, then a bus to the University of Chicago, then stick around at starbucks/barnes and noble for an hour before class. Get an hour break for lunch where they give us 4 dollars to buy lunch, then hang around after class for a couple hours before the bus comes, and then the train ride home.
When I put it that way, it sounds really boring, but there's so much that can go on.
Like last year...trying to put a lightning bolt on someone's forehead while they were sleeping because they totally looked like an azn Harry Potter.
Or turning my head really fast between (green tinted!) windows to catch 'maximum' sight of the outdoors when I was really bored and everyone in the group joining in.
And having crowd weaving races when we had to get off the train.
And that was just two days out of 20-some in the train.
I won't lie. We played A LOT of card games. But having to hang around together in our little group of 4 ish people, and being the only ones in the camp from Naperville, for at least 4 hours a weekday for a month gave us crazy inside jokes.
And it was just plain awesome.
So if I don't get in this summer, I'm going to die. Horribly. And it doesn't really matter all that much what else is going on because, as exciting and interesting anything else is, I look forward to this camp from the day it ends through the whole year, and I save the whole month of July for this thing.
And I've already gotten in for the past 3 years in a row.
So if I don't get in, I'll probably go crazy. In a very bad way. And from math camp withdrawal, no less.
eek!
If I don't get in, my world is going to crash. I love this camp. I don't actually like learning math, though sometimes it's cool cuz it's just so crazy what they figure out, but I LOVE the experience.
There's just something about sticking with a tiny group from Naperville and going to this camp.
We get up 7 or earlier, take a train to chicago union station, then a bus to the University of Chicago, then stick around at starbucks/barnes and noble for an hour before class. Get an hour break for lunch where they give us 4 dollars to buy lunch, then hang around after class for a couple hours before the bus comes, and then the train ride home.
When I put it that way, it sounds really boring, but there's so much that can go on.
Like last year...trying to put a lightning bolt on someone's forehead while they were sleeping because they totally looked like an azn Harry Potter.
Or turning my head really fast between (green tinted!) windows to catch 'maximum' sight of the outdoors when I was really bored and everyone in the group joining in.
And having crowd weaving races when we had to get off the train.
And that was just two days out of 20-some in the train.
I won't lie. We played A LOT of card games. But having to hang around together in our little group of 4 ish people, and being the only ones in the camp from Naperville, for at least 4 hours a weekday for a month gave us crazy inside jokes.
And it was just plain awesome.
So if I don't get in this summer, I'm going to die. Horribly. And it doesn't really matter all that much what else is going on because, as exciting and interesting anything else is, I look forward to this camp from the day it ends through the whole year, and I save the whole month of July for this thing.
And I've already gotten in for the past 3 years in a row.
So if I don't get in, I'll probably go crazy. In a very bad way. And from math camp withdrawal, no less.