<p>My memory’s also really good. I remember pretty much eeeeverything, it shocks everyone.</p>
<p>My teachers don’t really care about English vs. American spelling. The English way is technically “correct” in Canada, but both are fine. I kind of like the English way more, though, because it’s kind of cooler, idk.</p>
<p>I feel like the English way has more character and I prefer it (as I prefer all things English). The American way seems kind of brutish to me for some reason. </p>
<p>You know, the more I learn about other countries the less patriotic I get…this is such an abnormally stupid country in almost all respects, it makes me sick. And I think it’s safe to say that that’s a GREAT essay topic to stay away from…“My college entrance essay, entitled ‘Why America SUCKS’”…yeah…not happening.</p>
<p>The reason why sometimes i hate having a strangely good memory is because I feel like it takes up valuable space in my brain. For example, must I know that a particular girl in my 4th grade class got her braces on Friday, January 25 and came back to school the very same day and had cinnamon roll Lunchables, but couldn’t eat it because her teeth hurt so much?</p>
<p>Do you see how ridiculously unnecessary that is!?</p>
<p>No, you could write a memoir in 12 volumes. Riveting, it would be.</p>
<p>I don’t hate Canada, nor do I think it’s stupid, I just think everything related to it is suuuper petty. All Canadian politics is so incredibly insignificant, it’s just beyond belief. But I love how nice and friendly everyone is. It’s probably one of my favourite things. One of my city’s newspapers even has a page that they update every few days where they ask readers to talk about “random acts of kindness” that they’ve observed: [TheStar.com</a> | Acts of Kindness | No need to dash across 401](<a href=“http://www.thestar.com/kindness]TheStar.com”>Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star)</p>
<p>it’s been real, I’m a BIG Hugh Laurie fan! I’ve been seeing the House commercials for the new season and I’m PUMPED!!!
Haha! You should let pinkslip know this! He/she is trying to write the “worst admissions essay ever” for their Harvard application. ;)</p>
<p>Who’s pinkslip? Another user? (sounds like drugs haha). </p>
<p>I love Canada, I’ve never been, but I vicariously love it, it’s like a big friendly mama bear just always chilling on top of America (no pun intended with the “chilling”). It’s kind of oddly comforting to have such a overtly friendly country at your borders…</p>
<p>yeah… THE worst thing about america is american english.
microsoft word and its americaniZation. ==;;
every time i australianise it, it reverts back…
@&#^@%##*$ and yes, teachers do get annoyed with american spell check. lol.</p>
<p>Rocker - sorry I don’t remember if I answered before. I’m not applying under the Eli Whitney Program. For a start, it’s much more selective than regular admissions and tends to only admit people who really are exceptional. (not that you regular guys aren’t exceptional 
You know what I mean). I did contact Yale about it just to make sure I wasn’t restricted because of my age - for instance Columbia wouldn’t accept me under the normal admissions program, I would have to apply to the School of General Studies - but I was told that I am free to apply to Yale as a normal undergraduate.</p>
<p>Nontraditional students are generally regarded as being over 25 anyway, as far as I can tell. So being 22 means I’m close enough to the usual freshman age to be considered in the same pool.</p>
<p>As for the American accent thing, I’m pretty good but I’m quite good at accents anyway, but there’s a lot of people who aren’t. It’s really funny hearing American impressions of Brits. There’s so many British accents as well - the one you tend to hear mimicked is just standard English. But Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Country, Yorkshire, Birmingham… these all have very distinguished accents of their own. We have a lot of accents for such a small country!</p>
<p>Hahah I’m horrible at accents. I sound really really stupid trying to imitate accents. It just does not work for me. Unlessss it’s a southern accent…NO I REALLY DONT HAVE ONE…not a really distinctive one that is hahaha 
and it’s not super crazy yall. We just like slur words together and drag them out and stuff. And that’s usually further south. We’re like really close to the northern border…so pretty much no accent. Buuuut if I’m around people with a southern accent, I pick it up reallyyyyy fast too. I went to Girls State and A LOT of the girls there were from down souuuth and by the end of the week, I was speaking like them. The only “southern” thing I say is “yall”! Which isn’t even that weird…right?? =] </p>
<p>oook. so i remember one of my friends from another state mentioning that iced tea isn’t very common up north?? Because it’s so goooood and really really common here. haha random thought since i’m drinking some right now…</p>
<p>I say “like” a lot. I’m really glad people don’t judge me by how I talk (at least not right now, since everyone’s known me since like elementary school…) because…that might miiiight give people the wrong impression. So stay faaaar way from me if you don’t want to say “like” or “yall” hahahah</p>
<p>I think realise looks so much nicer than realize. Let’s face it, Zs are crude and brutish. </p>
<p>Therefore, America is crude and brutish.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I think the zs look cool! Like it words like “visualization”. Loves it. Sometimes you guys get it right, though. Like… behaviour. There isn’t really any need for that u to be there.</p>
<p>And I noticed you spell ‘curb’ the right way. We spell it that way if you’re curbing, for instance, your enthusiasm. But the ‘curb’ by the side of the road in England is a ‘kerb’. Weird.</p>
<p>Ya’ll IS weird </p>
<p>And we definitely drink ice tea up here. What we don’t drink in mass quantity is sweet tea, you can get that at some restaurants who serve southern food, but just normally you can’t get it. But ice tea we definitely drink and you can get it legitimately at any place you go that serves water haha. </p>
<p>I love British slang too, [The</a> Best of British - The American’s guide to speaking British…](<a href=“Slang - The Best of British”>Welcome / Howdy - The Best of British)</p>
<p>When I imitate British people I usually end up sounding something like Rupert Grint hahahaha what region is that? Isn’t that sort of country? I can do others though, but if I don’t think about it usually comes out sounding like him. </p>
<p>And yes, we’ve definitely established that America is crude and brutish. </p>
<p>Is there a word limit on these?</p>
<p>We don’t really have iced tea over here but I had it a lot with my Long Island friends, all they drink is iced tea.</p>
<p>Rupert Grint is adorable. He’s just regular English :)</p>
<p>Were you drinking ice tea with your Long Island friends or Long Island ice tea with your Long Island friends ;)</p>
<p>I adore Rupert Grint…</p>
<p>Haha we have Long Island iced tea here and that stuff is brutal! We were just drinking regular iced tea 
And I’m quite glad, because there’s a word for people who drink Long Island iced tea with brunch…</p>
<p>Ok ok ok maybe it was sweet tea then.</p>
<p>Long Island iced tea? What’s unique about it?</p>
<p>itsbeenreal–Yall is totally not weird. it just saves time. hahaha.</p>
<p>CAN’T BELIEVE Yale’s supplement is still not up. That just adds to my frustration about my messed up schedule. </p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>anyone got some good jokes? =] hahah.</p>
<p>There were two muffins in the oven, baking. One turns to the other and says “My god it’s hot in here!” and the other muffin says “HOLY CRAP A TALKING MUFFIN!!!”</p>
<p>Haha, I like the British slang! Google “1920s slang”, it’s so funny! Did you know that they called teachers “pills”.</p>
<p>Smile, Long Island iced tea is a cocktail with a LOT of alcohol in :)</p>
<p>I know noooo good jokes. I always forget them.</p>
<p>I love making people laugh. It’s probably one of my favourite things in the world.</p>
<p>From now, we should say “you all” instead of “y’all,” just to be innovative and lame.</p>
<p>Smile, you still exude happiness even when your schedule sucks. :)</p>