<p>So heres another game: What do all of yall usernames mean? I’m actually curious.
(I’d never say yall in real life… Just to clarify)</p>
<p>Noloserhere is just the attitude on the college admissions process that I decided to adopt in junior year. The school I go to has really good college-acceptance stats, so alot of my friends think Ivy League is live-or-die. However, I decided to be perfectly happy going to my safety school (although DEF not as happy going to Barnard!). I’m kind of determined to make sure I don’t get depressed, so its just a reminder so that I’ll know that I won’t “lose” in the college admissions game. </p>
<p>Funny story, but a jackarse once went “@loserhere” :P</p>
<p>What a jerk!!! Who does that? (to the @loser here…that’s so mean.)</p>
<p>And, haha…I just like theatre and am planning on majoring in it…yeah…nothing that creative. And I’m like the exact opposite of a hippie, but I love that whole Vietnam era ever since I studied it in AP US. Haha, funny story…I found tye dye duct tape sheets at Stapes and decided to decorate my AP Lit journal in it and used cell phone rhinestones to make peace signs and write my name and such across the front. I know, way too much time on my hands…</p>
<p>@PeaceLoveTheatre: Trust me, you don’t want to associate yourself with amurd. She’s a poop.</p>
<p>@noloserhere: I hear you on the Ivy or die mindset. It seems like every single friend of mine applied to an Ivy ED/EA (mostly Penn and a few Princeton) and they keep telling me I’ll definitely get into Barnard because in their minds, if it’s not an Ivy, MIT, or Stanford, it’s not that selective. If only they knew…</p>
<p>Oh, and regarding animosity from Columbia? I don’t want to be “that girl,” but let’s get real here - the Columbia girls who hate Barnard girls are probably just upset because they have boy problems and want to find a scapegoat instead of blaming themselves. Haters can stay pressed/jealous.</p>
<p>As for my username, it’s just my initials and my birth date at the end. Nothing too exciting, haha. I sort of made the account on a whim and never got around to thinking of anything better.</p>
<p>Also, PeaceLoveTheatre reminded me - what are you all planning on majoring in (whether or not we get into Barnard)? I already know I’m going for political science, possibly with a minor/double major in economics, but it looks like a lot of people here are planning on going into the arts.</p>
<p>@PeaceLoveTheatre: I bet we’d get along well, too! I really hope I get to meet you in the spring! </p>
<p>And don’t trust jrm. She made out with a hot dog. (She’s actually my twin sister, but the hot dog statement may or may not be true.)</p>
<p>Oh man, it’s going to be dreadfully easy to trace my CC username to my Facebook. I’ll just put it this way: my CC username isn’t remotely creative. I just wanted something that was easy to remember because I made this account without the intention of ever posting!</p>
<p>And is anyone else procrastinating on CC? I’m sitting here with my AP Gov textbook on my lap and a Google Doc open in another tab, and yet here I am. Maybe it’s the senioritis talking, but for some reason taking notes about how presidents choose cabinet members from outside Congress just isn’t as appealing…</p>
<p>And as for majors, I’m fairly sure I want to major in International Relations (in Barnard’s case, Poli Sci with a concentration on IR), but I’m fairly indecisive. The Urban Studies and American Studies programs look fantastic, as do the English programs. I also plan on taking Economics and Computer Science classes just to see what happens. I pretty much need to attend a liberal arts school because I have so many classes I want to take.</p>
<p>You guys are twins?? I hope you guys both get in or else that could be really awkward…</p>
<p>And, yes, definitely procrastinating…I should be writing a ten page Constitutional Law paper right now. Definitely not happening. And, I had a test on that Gov section today! The executive power chapter?</p>
<p>Haha, we actually contacted the admissions office to see if the school had some sort of twin policy. They said they’d make the same decision for both of us unless our stats were completely different (which they definitely aren’t), so it looks like we’ll be okay!</p>
<p>And I should probably get started on the mountain of work I have as well, but instead I’m posting here and watching an hour-long Stephen Colbert interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson. I regret nothing.</p>
<p>@jrm927. haha before I read amurd927’s comment, I was like “…they have the same numbers… this is suspicious” Did you guys both apply ED? I read an article that said that twins/triplets/quadruplets from the same school have a higher chance of both being admitted if they have similar stats.</p>
<p>I’m so excited that you guys mentioned your majors; I love econ so much. I’m taking a college-level econ course right now. My professor went to Columbia, so he introduced me to one of his Barnard professors and I sat down and spoke with her and met the econ department chair and stuff. (I’m pretty sure this didn’t help me with admissions because its not like they wrote anything up, but it was still fun). </p>
<p>One of the things I love MOST about Barnard is that they have three different Econ majors. (Political Economy, Economic History, and Economic-Statistics). I really like Econ history because I think studying history lends a lot of insight to modern-day problems. But I know Political Economy would help me a lot more in the workforce… :/</p>
<p>I think I hate political science. I’ve taking a govt class right now and I hate the living **** out of it. Maybe its the teacher…</p>
<p>Noloserhere, do you mean that being a twin helps you overall in admissions or do you just mean that if one gets in the other one has a higher chance of being admitted? Because I really hope it’s the former - I need all the help I can get. It certainly does seem to add interest, though; one of my Barnard interviewer’s first questions was about what it was like to be a twin. </p>
<p>Gov and history classes are honestly all about the teacher. I went to a Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe class at Barnard and spoke to the professor and it was fantastic and I absolutely LOVE my AP Gov teacher this year, but I had a pretty awful AP Euro teacher in my sophomore year who made a fascinating class about 100x less interesting than it could have been (that and AP Euro tries to rush through so much information in so little time, but that’s a whole different issue).</p>
<p>I love political science-I took a government class last year and it was amazing. Since I’m always doing math and science stuff, I love discussion based classes.</p>
<p>And I agree with you on the Econ tracks! I personally have no interest in economic statistics, but the other two look great (especially the history track, but as you said, political economy is probably better for the work force and it’s pretty crucial to my prospective major). They’re the entire reason I’m considering double majoring. </p>
<p>As for your hatred of political science, maybe it’s just your teacher and your class? Granted, I’m a self-declared policy nerd so I may be biased here, but I have found that the class and the teacher make a world of difference. Since you’re in a high school political science class, I think I can safely assume that it’s your basic intro class that focuses primarily on rote memorization with a strict, incredibly broad curriculum that sucks the life out of the study of politics (I’m taking one of those too, but I do have a wonderful teacher who tries to make the hollow AP curriculum as interesting as she can). In college, at least from what I’ve seen, the classes tend to have a more narrow scope and focus more on depth of understanding than on breadth and memorization, which makes them much more interesting. Still, this is just my very skewed perspective being offered here - if you don’t like it, it might just not be for you.</p>
<p>My teacher is actually pretty well-known. A google-search on him will get you several articles in the NY Times. The class that I’m in (which he’s been teaching for a couple of years now) was actually featured in the Times as well. </p>
<p>Its not an AP Govt. class (geez, I wish). Its a seminar which is supposedly much harder than the AP class? Its not rote memorization–I think I’d prefer rote memorization over this… My school is really against stuff like that. The class is insanely specific and its insanely hard… He has such a passion for the subject that he forgets to like… actually teach.</p>
<p>I’m just having so much trouble with it. He expects to have this insane base-level of knowledge. He asks us questions that thinks we should know the answer to and we’re all just like, “What the f’?” </p>
<p>I don’t know. This class makes me cry. I think the issue is that the class focuses on breadth and depth at the same time… and I don’t have the knowledge one gets from rote memorization because he expects us to know a lot of things already.</p>
<p>Gahh so much to catch up on in here!! Loved the hey Arnold reference. Kinda made my day You guys are awesome.</p>
<p>Anyways, I have really good scores in writing and math, but not so much critical reading…But I guess it kinda shows where my strengths/interests are (calculus, biology, journalism, creative writing, art history). English isn’t really my thing. But hey, I want to be a ridiculous woman scientist, so yeah. I’m cool…xP</p>
<p>Oh yeah! And my username, SunlitMidnight, is exactly what it sounds like: a light in the middle of the night–the moon. It’s a metaphor. I bring advice, light, and hope in times of anxiety or stress :)</p>
<p>@noloserhere: Really? Did you choose it from a bunch of classes like that or did you just take it because it was required/rigorous? The thing about more focused classes like that is that if it’s a topic you’re interested in, it’ll be great, but the opposite is true as well. I imagine in college you’ll have a lot more freedom to choose classes on topics that you’re either more interested in or have more background knowledge surrounding, but again, maybe you just don’t like political science that much.</p>
<p>And I wish my school wasn’t as memorization-focused, but I suppose that’s what I get for going to an enormous public school and taking a bunch of APs (I still feel bad for my APUSH teacher last year - there were moments where he looked like he was actually in pain because he didn’t have time to teach us more about something that wasn’t on the AP curriculum).</p>
<p>Yeah, its a barnard student. i know a girl who goes to barnard and she like tagged mylifeisbarnard in one of her posts. i personally think its hilarious.</p>
Maybe its the teacher…</p>
It certainly does seem to add interest, though; one of my Barnard interviewer’s first questions was about what it was like to be a twin. </p>
You guys are awesome.</p>