<p>Well you know....Asians tend to be....on the short side.</p>
<p>futurenyustudent. Its ok. My mother is like that too. "you'll never get any girls if you don't break the x'y' height"</p>
<p>She tells me "If you don't lose weight you'll never get girls!!!" </p>
<p>I'm like "Oh really? Because a lot of my friends happen to be girls. And plus once I'm an investment banker, girls will marry me for money anyway, then I'll grow on them eventually."</p>
<p>haha, that's funny but overly stereotyping:)..I mean my parents are not like that. i don't think they really care what school i will be in as long as i'm happy with it:)..haha</p>
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<p>No, you won't have time to meet any girls.
Then, you will have to marry some random girl over the internet who will marry you for money.
After a couple of years of marriage, she will divorce you on grounds that you don't care about the family. (120hrs/week work...)
She will take half of your assets, and take alimony and monthly child support.</p>
<p>Ahhh... what a happy life :(
(This is the life plan that I am fearing about...)</p>
<p>what a wonderful life.</p>
<p>merumerume: That was a backlash against my mom's comment. I didn't actually mean that.</p>
<p>Plus, family? What family? There's me, and her. And anyone who works the insane hours to support the two-person "family" DOES care "enough." If she comes up with bs like that I'll ask her "Would you rather I work at Starbucks for $10/hr and make a quarter of what I'm making? Let's see you support your opulent lifestyle on $25k." It's better than someone who works 40 hours a week and makes so little money that after rent, car, gas, electric, cable, whatever, they have $9 left over for food. Oh yeah, someone who comes home at 2AM on weekdays and works in weekends so that he/she will have more than $9 to feed themselves for a month definitely doesn't care "enough." <em>sarcasm</em> Call it capitalism, greed, whatever. But here's the reality: We live in a capitalist society. I might not be able to be home all the time, but at least I will be able to PROVIDE one. I might not be able to eat with her at home, but at least I'll be able to PROVIDE food for her to eat. </p>
<p>If your partner wants you to work less, maybe they should pick up a job too.</p>
<p>I don't know about you, but someone who works all the time to earn a certain standard of living "cares" more than someone who works 9-5 and barely earns enough to pay rent in my book.</p>
<p>If I really didn't care, I'd quit that insane investment banker job, go have affairs with other women, blow her off completely, not feed her, not give her money to live on, and divorce her first before she divorces me.</p>
<p>man, calm down futurenyustudent. i'm sure merumerume didn't mean it that way.</p>
<p>mom: "Well, if you think you can handle it, go to any school on the west coast just as long as it isn't ridiculously expensive."
me: "OK, well, I don't want to stay in Oregon, maybe Berkeley or LA or Washington."
mom: "Well, you're not going to be able to handle it."
me: "what if I want to go to an east coast private school?"
mom: "not a chance, you just want to get far away don't you?"</p>
<p>Peanut where do you live?</p>
<p>I'm actually pondering Canadian schools east of the Mississippi....no matter how many different ways you look at it, McGill is cheaper than NYU, and Montreal is farther from CA than New York. If I get rejected NYU ED, then I'm trying for McGill.</p>
<p>Uh...I think you're not being very serious about this. The Korean community is pretty intent on knowing all the schools besides Harvard that are excellent. Sorry, but I don't find it funny at all.</p>
<p>Azn family are competitive:
me "hey mom, I won 3rd place in regional math competition, but only 2nd in my high school"
mom "You got 2nd!!!"
me "yup :)"
mom <em>walks toward me, picks up a spatula "2nd!!!!?"
me "ya......." *scared</em>
mom "2nd in MATH?"
*mommy advances, with a scary look
me "mom, no!!!!.... ."
*WAck
me *out cold on the floor.... AGAIN :(</p>
<p>okay okay that was an exaggerated version.
but normally my parents said "try harder, you got a lot of work to do"</p>
<p>Northeastern: Co-op? What? I'm not sending my child to an apartment management school. You will be an honorable doctor, not some real estate manager.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :)</p>
<p>This is not true. My parents will be happy if I get into any of top 25 schools or major public school with good aid. But I know my relatives would make a fuss if I don't get into one of those fancy "ivy" schools...</p>
<p>Hahaha newby . . I'm not asian, but i can identify</p>
<p>damn I just cant wait to freaking leave forever, get into a college. . . ANY college, just far far away from this miserable place</p>
<p>asians belong to collective culture where the child is put through education with great care and is supported finacially. so when they bring that mind set into individualistic western culture where a child is kicked out of the house at age 18, aisans stand out as academic achievers. but rarely do they become the famous authors of bestsellers or an aclaimed erudite since their motivation is financial and their priorities are forever bound to their "family honor". individualism breeds creativeness, more varied outcomes like a drug addict or a great philosopher. asians are in the middle. i prefer asian styled education without the parent deciding on the child's major or career.</p>
<p>ay... i'm a filipino and will be going to NYU next year. NYU is ranked number 37 in the nation. My parents were incredibly happy about that due to the fact that it received 30k+ applicants this year. However, they were very disappointed that I was not accepted into Yale. Yeah, the asian deal is crazy. But I love it because it makes me work harder.</p>
<p>and then there is me.</p>
<p>both of my parents are engineers, every single one of my aunties and uncles is an engineer. mother went to one of top three engineering schools in france. was top of her class for 12 years straight as a youngster.</p>
<p>consequently i have spent the past years participating in robotics competitions, science fairs, science fair mentoring, girl scouts, 500+ hours of volunteering, blahahblah.</p>
<p>fast forward. two C's this semester - physics and precalc - and this fall i will be attending calpoly (a tech school, right) as an ART MAJOR.</p>
<p>and of course, calpoly did not even ask to see ec's.</p>
<p>HA.</p>
<p>I <em>used</em> to be an Asian failure...</p>
<p>Was rejected from Princeton, wait-listed at Harvard,</p>
<p>and "only" accepted to Cornell, myflagship state school (MD), UVA, and William and Mary...</p>
<p>But then my parents decided to actually do some research on the college admissions process and college in general...</p>
<p>I am no longer a failure in the eyes of my parents :D</p>
<p>Oh... I read earlier how someone said he was a failure because he was a 5' 10" Asian?</p>
<p>I'm 6 feet tall :)</p>