<p>hey, it's Marco M....also an orphan...BECC...Mike sent out a list today, Monday, 8:00PM Stanford (Menlo Park) time....</p>
<p>CWE was amazing!!!! i calculated 19 hours worth of sleep since tuesday of last week, moslty in part to the weekend, and as a result i slept from 9:00PM on Sunday my time when i got home until 1:00PM my time....(missed school today..)</p>
<p>can't wait for the final results!!!!!!!</p>
<p>oh, PS: xforums is still recovering from various hackings, so I stand corrected about it working.</p>
<p>Molly</p>
<p>its tempermental, It was working for me earlier today.</p>
<p>Hey Marco, whats up. That list Mike sent out is awesome. By the way, I wasn't an orphan. My handy-dandy sleep log gives my total sleep on thursday, friday and saturday nights to be 13 hours... Ah well, it was exciting stuff.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I'll send you an e-mail soon.</p>
<p>fyi---for everyone not on Mike's list...
AIM=marcotuts
EMAIL=<a href="mailto:selarom_88@hotmail.com">selarom_88@hotmail.com</a></p>
<p>I'm a current Olin junior, so I'm having simultaneous flashbacks of the past 3 Candidates' Weekends as I read this thread. CW was one of the tipping points of my life, and Olin's changed me from a painfully shy insomniac bookworm into a comfortably social... insomniac bookworm, and I'm supposed to be writing a math paper, so this post will be longish in the name of procrastination.</p>
<p>What everyone here has said is true - scores don't matter; what kind of person you are does. I they seal your application files when CW starts, so everyone's on a level playing field. We never know who got an 800 SAT or who flunked math the first time, and it really Doesn't Matter; CW is for you to see if Olin fits you, and for Olin to see if you fit it. As a person. Not a statistic or a resume or a bunch of standardized test scores; you're not being evaluated on that basis any more. Everyone at CW can more than hack it academically here. So don't stress about that.</p>
<p>What we <em>are</em> interested in is who you are. What are you into? What makes you tick? What do you happily lose yourself in? (the infamous "passion" question - for me, it was drawing; now it's teaching.) As a person, do you fit into this institution? Are we the bunch of crazy people you want to hang out with for the next four years of your life?</p>
<p>It sounds cliche, but the more you relax, stop worrying, and just have fun, the more you'll get out of CW. Current freshmen, back me up on this here. I remember being petrified at the start of my CW, and I recall a couple of you looking mildly freaked out at the start of yours, but by dinner on Friday, bam! 16 years' worth of "I like math oh please don't hurt me" psychological defenses had dropped, and I was <em>connecting</em> to people for the first time in my life. It felt GOOD.</p>
<p>I've been sick and wasn't able to hang out with last weekend's Candidates as much as I'd hoped, but I spent a lot of time sleeping off being sick so I can gear up and meet lots of you folks next weekend. Meanwhile, I'm totally pokeable online (mel at students dot olin dot edu, Mouseymel on AIM) and tend to both not sleep and be pretty dang responsive to email, so please distract me from my coding! Mention the words "teaching," "interface," "design," "math," "computers," or "art," (heck, almost anything) and watch me geek out. Less generically, if anyone wants to talk about disabilities (hearing), convincing reluctant parents (my dad's conversion is a funny story), or entering college "youngish" (there are a few of us), I'm game for that also, as long as I get to geek out simultaneously.</p>
<p>Back to that math paper and practicing our "Art of War" song and dance routine for tomorrow's class. Sun Tzu + Disney = Project.
-Mel '07</p>
<p>I just wanted to say hi and welcome to all of the candidates! I hope you enjoyed the weekend/are excited for the upcoming weekend. Feel free to talk to me, I'd like to meet lots of you!
-Steph
Class of '09</p>
<p>Marco,
Just wanted to introduce myself as one San Diegan to another. I tried to meet up with you during the weekend, but could not find you in the sea of candidates. Feel free to ask me any questions.
Kevin</p>
<p>This is what makes Olin great. It's quite evident that Olin's whole student body gets involved with candidate's weekend. From the amount of new users that are students at Olin, it just shows how great of a place Olin is and how well-respected candidates are. I'm so excited about this weekend!</p>
<p>Hey, I just made my account and wanted to say hello and get out here. I'm open to AIM and Facebooking. I hope all you candidates had fun</p>
<p>Wow, more and more San Diegans showing up.. I'm a fellow San Diegan, for this coming weekend...
I can't wait until this weekend! Looking forward to meeting March weekenders!</p>
<p>There were three from the San Diego area here last weekend, and I believe there are six coming this weekend. Go San Diego!</p>
<p>Hey, wow I missed the rush! Yeah, I hafta agree w/ all these comments, and coming from a college whore like me, admitting that the admission process wasn't stressful is saying a lot. </p>
<p>I'm yifan, by the way. Marco, we met at dinner? I recognize some of you... how're you all doing?</p>
<p>Hey Marco! Remember when we all jumped on your bed? Yeah, that could be like EVERY NIGHT at college. :p</p>
<p>-Jessi</p>
<p>-Jessi-="Remember when we all jumped on your bed"----yeah well it was expected, like i said earlier....
-Yifan=where were you sitting at the table during dinner? i might remember you if i can picture where you were sitting.....
Kevin T=though you may have not found me, chances are i probably saw you at one point or another, (i acutally thought your "totsie14" name was kevin bretney's, who, what do you know, is also from San Diego!</p>
<p>///side note: SAN DIEGO rules.....Torrey Pines, Saints X2, Scripps, Westview, Preuss... and more schools....////</p>
<p>I slept so little during the week of the Candidate's weekend that i slept 15 hours when i got back home Sunday night!!!!!!!!! I calculated about 20 hours of sleep in the last week from Wednesday to Sunday when i got home!>?!?!? I slept from 10 pm to 1PM the next day!! my parents couldn't wake me up to get to school, and my dad had to come home to wake me up at 1 otherwise i might have slept longer!
My advice to other candidates is to sleep before you get to Olin, and if you're at the BECC, ask the front desk to give your room number to other OLin candidates.....</p>
<p>oh, haha, I guess you're not the same marco. Or maybe I got names mixed up. </p>
<p>Wonder how the second weekend's gonna fare.</p>
<p>I am tempted to go to the second weekend and peer in the windows at the design part... or just, yknow, go again.</p>
<p>Marco, You probably did see me. I was one of the students who made The Olin Experience, the final video that you guys watched. And yes, we have two Kevin's from San Diego. But not for too long...I'm graduating in May!</p>
<p>bump.........</p>
<p>bump.....?</p>