i just thought i'd say congrats on the whole mock trial thing. and good luck...even though you probably won't be reading this until you get back.
i saw your picture in the paper yesterday. actually...two pictures, to be exact. and i read the little article too. where they quote you saying "that's true" (why would they need to quote that? i don't know...but at least you can say now that you've been quoted in a major newspaper...now that's cool.)
and one more thing...i know this is completely off topic and kind of strange for me to be all of a sudden asking, but...whatever happened to ben? i was just thinking about that the other day and i was like "wow, i wonder what happened to him" (that sounded really intelligent). you know, we gotta have a reunion sometime.
i hope you peform wonderfully (as i know you will) in north carolina!!!
Hi Ali, not to budge in or anything, but Ben is attending the University of North Carolina at Durham Hill this year. He was pretty excited to get in there. I was pretty good friends with him throughout high school, and I doubt hes doing anything different from the normal. IE, probably spending a lot of time dressing like a hippie but not acting like one, taking walks outside, playing tons of computer games with his friends (yay lan parties at bens house!), being pretty good at math, and avoiding a haircut despite its absolute necessity. Good kid, good kid.
Just out of curiosity, what schools did you choose between other than Stanford?
Hey Greg, no problem. I had no idea that you were friends with Ben. Man, I haven't seen/talked to that kid in forever. I think it's been at least 4 years. Anywho, since you asked...I guess I'll just tell you where I got in since my decision was kind of made by where I got in: UW Honors, Cornell (Engineering), Duke (Engineering), and Caltech. I got wait-listed at Dartmouth and Harvard, but really the big decision was if I should stay on the Harvard wait-list. But I figure Stanford is probably a better place for me anyway...Harvard gets too cold.
(It's funny how we're having this little correspondence on Melissa's lj.)
yea, Ive been friends with Ben since 8th grade when he came to Uprep. Good guy. Anyway, you chose Stanford over Caltech?? Im assuming you chose the social aspects at stanford over the academics at Caltech (which is where Im planning to go get my PhD in a couple years. I hope). Thats amazing you got waitlisted at Harvard too... I dont know anyone that got in (well, who wasnt either insanely rich or a legacy). Way to go! Also (warning, shameless plug ahead) as a side note, if you want to study Engineering, why didnt you consider Harvey Mudd? According to the ratings, we have the second best (behind rose hulman) engineering program in the country, and the best overall academics of any college in the country (although were especially proud of beating MIT and Caltech, our archrivals).
Yep, you're pretty much right about one of the reasons I chose Stanford over Caltech. And I actually did consider Harvey Mudd...I visited my junior year during spring break, but I don't know. It just didn't really feel right. Plus, I kind of want to go more on the Pre-Med track than just study Engineering. Harvey Mudd didn't seem like the right place for me. Everyone was just so hardcore (not that the people at Caltech weren't, but maybe it's just that I got a different feeling about it.)
Hardcore is probably the perfect word to describe Harvey Mudd. Everyone I know loves it here and seems to genuinely enjoy the insane courses and unbearable amounts of homework (studies show we do more homework than any other undergraduate institution in the country... ehh, its not so bad). Nonetheless, big time competition, the complete lack of grade inflation, and test averages below 55 percent shatter most peoples egos pretty quickly (one of my friends was a high school valedictorian and got a 31% on a physics test). The reason everyone loves it is because every one else fails out. Its sad but true. Its one of the undeniable truths of this place: the statistics say less than 75% of each initial class actually graduates
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i saw your picture in the paper yesterday. actually...two pictures, to be exact. and i read the little article too. where they quote you saying "that's true" (why would they need to quote that? i don't know...but at least you can say now that you've been quoted in a major newspaper...now that's cool.)
and one more thing...i know this is completely off topic and kind of strange for me to be all of a sudden asking, but...whatever happened to ben? i was just thinking about that the other day and i was like "wow, i wonder what happened to him" (that sounded really intelligent). you know, we gotta have a reunion sometime.
i hope you peform wonderfully (as i know you will) in north carolina!!!
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