<p>Lol!
Decanela, welcome! And yes, it is quite a nuthouse. A classy, awesome Yale-obsessed nuthouse 
Also, I wouldn’t worry about the academic balance issue; surely your school will explain the circumstance!</p>
<p>haha my school won’t explain ****.
i got to a LARGE LARGE LARGE public school that doesn’t care.</p>
<p>however hopefully when they see the rigor of my senior year they’ll get the picture.
wow looked a few pages back and this place surely is a nuthouse :)</p>
<p>so what brought you all to yale?</p>
<p>Haha we’re not all crazy… just kidding!</p>
<p>I have sort of an interesting Yale story. Last summer I did a week of college visits, and I really didn’t want to visit Yale (Bush went there, I hate Bush, end of story). But my mom made me and by the end of the trip I could only think of Yale, and Princeton and Harvard were left in the dust. (And hopefully we’ll live happily ever after.)</p>
<p>It’s the best kind of nuthouse… it’s a NUTELLAHOUSE. Yeahbaby!</p>
<p>Anyway. Yale. Yes.</p>
<p>I first found out that Princeton was need blind to internationals and I fell in love with their English course, and I was like “oh I really want to go to Princeton” and for some reason went on to overlook Yale in my discovery of other schools I wanted to apply to. Then I thought I might as well check it out… and the rest is history.</p>
<p>I dig Yale.</p>
<p>I just love Yale. I can’t figure out how I became interested or anything. But I just absolutely love the college.</p>
<p>I never really liked Princeton. And I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Harvard. Some aspects are cool, but it just seems so incredibly boring.</p>
<p>PS, I’m listening to your single again, PN. I was searching through my internet history to find something and I found your Myspace, and so I returned.</p>
<p>Yay! The official release date was meant to be today (17th) but there’s been a slight technical problem and it’s now telling me the go-live date is the 23rd. Oh well. We’re finishing up the album as well and it will be available for freeeee! So you can all have it if you want it :)</p>
<p>I feel the same way about Harvard. I kind of feel like I don’t like it. And then I go back to the website and read through their Anthropology courses which are actually amazing to me and are the only ones who come close to matching Yale in awesomeness… but somehow I still love Yale more.</p>
<p>YESSS. I finally finished catching up! Not nearly as bad as I had anticipated. </p>
<p>I have a few things to say because I HONESTLY just don’t feel like recapping EVERYTHING. </p>
<p>PN (stealing rocker’s abbreviation thing): USE AMSCO. GOD ALMIGHTY USE IT. Buy it, don’t borrow. Buy it, read it, write in it, highlight it, utilize the tests at the end of every chapter (I have the answers to the big test at the back if you want them…because they’re not in the book), love it, put it under your pillow, name it, and kiss it before you go to bed.
Seriously, AMSCO will be your best friend in the whole wide world and it will help you like no other, I CANNOT stress this enough. And you need to buy it because it’ll take you a chunk of time to read and you’re going to want to mark it up with writing/highlights. It’s what we use at my school in our APUSH class and it works wonders.
May I just ask why you’re taking the USH SAT II if you’re not from America? I feel like that’s just putting salt in your wounds 
Why not take another subject? </p>
<p>Demi: I think it was you who said this, but I said a while back that I was having trouble not posting people’s actual names!! haha Also if you want someone else to read your Why Yale I’d be happy to put my editing skillz to the test 
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<p>Rocker: Those briefs are thug. Please buy them. </p>
<p>Smile: I’m back so we can mammoth post together </p>
<p>Disney: thanks so much for the encouragement!! And lololol that you’ve been watching us go mental. It’s strangely comforting to know that you guys were behaving just as absurdly this time last year.</p>
<p>ALSO, guys, has anyone else noticed that this thread keeps slipping farther and farther down on the Yale board page? We use to be the FIRST thread right under the permanent ones, but now we’re like number 7!!! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING??!??</p>
<p>it’s.been.real I’m taking USH because whatever subjects I do (other than Literature) will mean me learning something new. I decided to do one of the history subjects because it’s easier to learn facts than it would be to learn a language or a science, and I find USH much more interesting than WH. Plus I believe there’s no WH test in November? So it would have to be USH.</p>
<p>And now I have to go shopping because it’s my dad’s birthday today and I need a present for him.</p>
<p>I’m glad you’re back!</p>
<p>Buy him AMSCO, he’ll be glad that you care so much about your education to buy it for him. </p>
<p>Then you can mercilessly borrow it ;)</p>
<p>Haha that’s a good idea. Except I’ll have to mail order it so it’ll take forever. He’ll just have to make do with the sweater vest :)</p>
<p>yup same reason as PN for why i’m doing USH.
wow, amsco is that good eh? if they don’t have any in stock i’ll try to buy a used one…</p>
<p>how are the essays and stuff coming along peeps?</p>
<p>I finally decided what I’m writing my common app essay on, after many unsuccessful attempts. But I still have to write it…</p>
<p>That’s the hard part…</p>
<p>I’m 97% done with my commonapp essay. I say 97% because I just never feel like I’m completely done, however, I currently can’t think of what else I need to do to it. </p>
<p>Supplemental essay topic is picked out and first two drafts are written, but it’s nowhere near finished.</p>
<p>solittletime I just looked it up on Amazon and everyone’s giving rave reviews of it. Looks like that’s what I’ll be getting!</p>
<p>What have you decided to write about, RFK? :)</p>
<p>PN we posted at the same time! Crazzzy. </p>
<p>Pleas do get AMSCO, it’s brilliant. It just perfectly sums up American history without leaving anything out. It’s the sort of book that droning textbooks should aspire to be. You get all the information you need, but it’s not sparknotes so you do actually feel like you’re getting the whole history, but it doesn’t make you read about anything unnecessary.</p>
<p>I’m really into journalism and one of my professors at Northwestern this summer told me that journalism will never make you money, but you’ll be ‘experience rich’. And that really resonated for me, so I think I’m writing about all the interesting experiences I’ve had because of journalism. My favorite being when I went to interview the owner of an antique bookshop for a story on the recession, but essentially got his life story and it was really moving. I’m still working on all the other examples, but I think this is what I want to do.</p>
<p>Does that sound okay?</p>
<p>Literally, I know people say this so much that it starts to sound insincere, but any topic will work as long as you put your heart into you writing (now I have to go to puke because of how corny that was…)</p>
<p>Hahaha that’s true. Corny but true.</p>
<p>I think that does sound like a good topic, RFK!</p>