<p>Whoa! I too missed this thread when it lingered in December, but I’m glad to read it now, and especially to know how your “story” is turning out. Congratulations!</p>
<p>nesta, congrats.</p>
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<p>Did you apply to NYU -SCPS Mcghee?</p>
<p>If so, how long ago did you submit your application? </p>
<p>By the way, great story man, really hope this all works out for you.</p>
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<p>Should displays of repentance also be expected from those who violated Prohibition, Southern miscegenation edicts, or Puritan sex laws? California is on track to legalize marijuana by ballot in November.</p>
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<p>I applied to NYU - Stern actually. At best, I know it’s a LONG SHOT. The reason I didn’t apply to a lot of top notch schools that offer the “adult education” type of program is because for one, Columbia GS stated that I needed at least one full year off from taking any courses to even be eligible. Second, a lot of these programs don’t offer the major that I want to focus on. </p>
<p>I submitted my application in the middle of February.</p>
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My tip might help some people get what they want from the people with the power to give them what they want. You might think it’s outmoded and archaic, but some of the people who may interview you for college admissions or for jobs may be somewhat outmoded and archaic themselves. Besides, the case we are talking about here was cocaine, not marijuana.</p>
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<p>Tips for strategic lying can backfire. If polls are to be believed, a majority of US adults favor marijuana legalization (and, also to the point here, a retreat from the War On Drugs level of criminalization of drugs in general). This makes the suggested display of contrition as likely as not to sound phony, manipulative, stupid, contrived, or Oprah-esque to those hearing it.</p>
<p>It is also doubtful whether the claimed difference between the idioms “mistake” and “bad decision” really exists. If anything, the second appears to refer (amorally) to a decision being inexpedient, while the first is closer to explicitly calling it wrong in a way that is separate from questions of strategic miscalculation. (Edit: to parse it a little more finely, “I made a mistake” often suggests regret about some action, while “bad decision” sounds more like an assessment of the consequences resulting from the action.) Many, perhaps most, listeners will not perceive a difference between one locution and the other. </p>
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<p>Said archaic fogies generally voted for Obama despite statements in his autobiography that he used powder cocaine (“blow”) on multiple occasions, or Bush despite his stonewalling non-answers about past cocaine use. Public opinion (and the future legislation that follows upon such) on whether to continue War On Drugs felonization of powder cocaine possession in minute amounts is similar to that on the marijuana question. </p>
<p>Sometimes the problem is the laws themselves, not the violators. Displays of repentance are unctuous in such a situation. Stating facts or making amoral commentary about it being stupid or inexpedient is enough, going beyond that is self-abasement or may be construed as such by others.</p>
<p>I’m just about to finish my first semester at Rutgers and should be getting an A and a B in the two classes I am taking (part-time student). </p>
<p>I came back to this thread to see if anyone was in a similar situation that I am so I could offer some advice. If you would like to see my essay I’d be more than happy to e-mail/private message it to you.</p>
<p>Nestamarley, I am in a very similar situation and would love to read your essay.</p>
<p>Please use old threads for information only, don’t post and resurrect them.</p>
<p>If you click on the member name, you can link to posting history, the user you’re replying to has not been active here for 2 years.</p>