<p>because they know you're Ivy-bound, and isn't likely to enroll. In the case if you are not (sometimes it happens to others - shunned by Ivies, waitlisted by safeties who thought they're too good), then tough luck.....</p>
<p>Hmm..oh well...I wasn't planning on going to those schools anyways, like you said. Have you had a chance to visit Northwestern yet?</p>
<p>nope. parents thought they'd economize a bit, their reasoning being "you have to go there anyways so there is not point in visiting :D". So I'll be showing up for the first time when I move in. Exciting :rolleyes:. Also I will be visiting China this summer, and my father won't have many holidays off.</p>
<p>Sounds like a nice vacation. At least your trip will be longer than 2 weeks, which is how long mine was (I could only visit during winter break a couple years back). Are you visiting just Suzhou or other cities too?</p>
<p>I'll first be in Shanghai (since we get off the plane there), stay at uncle's, do some shopping, maybe get some portraits done; then go to Suzhou to another uncle's (I've never been there before) and see our house; then maybe Nanjing with my parents (or I might decide to split up with them); then maybe go visit my hometown. I'll stay there from mid-late June to late July, so not that much longer. What are you doing this summer?</p>
<p>Not much this summer. If I get an internship at this lab, then I'll do that, but if not, then I'll go visit NYC, see Niagara Falls, and do some other stuff. I'll get to visit China next summer..after I'm fully settled in college.</p>
<p>and come in '08 too - for the Olympics :)</p>
<p>Exactly! That's what my parents want to see. :)</p>
<p>I will attempt to make it there if possible, but I won't count on it since I will be stuck in college.</p>
<p>great! see you in Beijing then. :D</p>
<p>haha this sounds so...soap-drama ish. CC'ers who all live in American have a reunion in Beijing...</p>
<p>lol yes, it should be called "The Chronicles of CC". lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, I just realized something purrli. You put on your myspace account "eruditio et religiouso" and I've only now realized that that's Duke motto. lol. :p</p>
<p>that's where I got it from :).</p>
<p>^ that makes CC sound like a cult - we have followers meeting all over the world and going to powerful elite universities...I guess we can take over the world now.</p>
<p>Yep, 50,000 people is enough :)
I wonder what our cult ritual could be... :D</p>
<p>Branding people with the names of universities...or having a six-day entrance test covering 12 AP subjects. Then again, we could also have a party where all were required to get plastered and get laid since so few seem to do that around here.</p>
<p>"required to get plastered"</p>
<p>reminds me of the time our class were planning a group sleepover by making a huge sleeping bag out of black garbage bags and then pump all the air out to make a vacuum seal. Needless to say the idea was aborted by authority.</p>
<p>Hey purrli! I'm staying in China from June 20 - July 4. I'm going to Beijing (June 21 - June 25), Huangzhou (June 26 - June 28), Suzhou (June 29 - June 30), Shanghai (July 1 - July 4). That's my itinerary, basically.</p>
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<p>Pretty uncomfortable to sleep on, huh :).
For one of our orchestra/band fundraisers, we were supposed to sell large garbage bags (with our school logo on them)- $1/bag. Needless to say, it was pretty unsuccessful.</p>
<p>kchen: for me it's
June 18 - leave the US to the Shanghai airport. July 31 - come back to US. In between I have absolutely no idea how long I'll be at Shanghai, Suzhou, Beijing, lol.</p>
<p>technically, if you've been in supermarkets before, you'll see that we'll all be vacuumed sealed away from each other so it shouldn't get too wild. besides it's an AP class so what can we do :).</p>
<p>Aww, I'm leaving San Francisco Int'l for Beijing and leaving from Shanghai for the US. That's pretty cool though.</p>
<p>That was a dumb idea; you should have sold them for a nickel/bag. And kchen, you are following a part of purrli's visit in reverse.
When I was there I spent 10 days in Shanghai, 3 days in Xian and Luoyang, and 4 in Beijing. When I go back, I will spend time in Yunnan and Guangxi as well as on the Chang Jiang if the dam has not flooded the valleys entirely by then.</p>