<p>The day seems to be quickly approaching. I remember checking in December, and had over 100 days to wait. Now 10!</p>
<p>299…</p>
<p>@Rishav
I only applied to 11 unis, most just give me an answer late-ish 
I applied to a bigish range but all smallish universities.</p>
<p>@PO
Can’t believe D-Day is so near!</p>
<p>@rew - Same here. My daily routine now:
Wake up
Eat breakfast
Open Chem text ---->Sleep
CC
Eat
Chem text book ----> Sleep
FB
CC
Eat
Sleep :p</p>
<p>Only 10 days left. I am getting nervous too and don’t want to wait anymore. </p>
<p>Am I the only person who loved chem at school? 
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<p>Kind of late but sorry for you guys you didn’t get the answer you wanted from MIT and UChigaco, but as Frenchissima said it is their loss.</p>
<p>Good luck with your Middlebury decision and chem exam :)</p>
<p>Oh I loved chem too! Didn’t like 12th grade physics though. And that’s ironic because I’m an engineering applicant, but I did like the 11th grade physics a lot, and that’s the part I’m gonna be doing in college.</p>
<p>@Rishav
You seem to have such an exciting schedule! xP
Yea mine is less busy… and less interesting :/</p>
<p>@Sunny
I also don’t want to wait any more, the sooner the better don’t you think? Even if it is bad news :P</p>
<p>I enjoyed chem… but it wasn’t my favourite. I preferred Math and Physics by far!! And then Sports and Music :D</p>
<p>Not too bumbed, I just thought UChicago was a given since they seemed interested in me (clearly not)… we all still have a couple more unis to wait for, so we all still have quite a bit of chance left 
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<p>@Himan
What was the difference between 11th and 12th grade physics for you?</p>
<p>For us in A Levels, (assuming AS in like 11th grade and A2 is 12th);
AS[ul]
[<em>]Mechanics, optics, waves, forces, electricity…[/ul]
A2[ul]
[</em>]Circular motion, electricity, SHM, magnetism, applications of physics principles (telecommunications, direct and indirect sensors)…[/ul]</p>
<p>I preferred A2 :D</p>
<p>@Raith
Yea that’s right and I can finally start planning my gap year when I see my rejection letters.</p>
<p>I didn’t like sport at school, actually it was horrible - my teacher hated me :D</p>
<p>Btw, which essay topic from UChicago did you choose? I loved their topics. I regret that I didn’t apply there. :D</p>
<p>@Sunny
Don’t plan that gap year just yet :P</p>
<p>I absolutely love sports (except cycling and cross country running) :P</p>
<p>I couldn’t decide on a topic (or an idea for the topics), so I actually wrote my own. . . I took my Princeton essay as it explains my principles- the title was to the effect of choosing a quote from a book/essay and describe how it relates to your life. . . Something like that </p>
<p>I’ll PM it to you a little later when I am back on my computer :)</p>
<p>@Raith
Unfortunately I have to plan it, most of the gap year deadlines have already past or are on March 31. </p>
<p>I love sports too but not at school. </p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>@Rishav and Rew
I too dislike chemistry.</p>
<p>Anyone waiting for Swarthmore decision .I am told they send decisions by mail and not email.</p>
<p>There is too much to remember in chem and nothing’s based on logic :p</p>
<p>@himanshu - I’ve loved whatever I’ve done in physics till now!! :)</p>
<p>@Raith - Believe it or not, we didn’t have sports classes in 11th & 12th!! :o</p>
<p>Does anyone know where quiver’s disappeared?? He doesn’t seem to have taken the MIT rejection well!! :/</p>
<p>And even I used the quote topic for my Princeton essay! It was from David Copperfield and the essay was related to an experience of mine!! :D</p>
<p>@Sunny
Oh ok :/</p>
<p>haha, I didn’t mind at school… though my waterpolo and swimming coach while in South Africa is the world’s worst d<strong>k/A</strong>***E haha he would punish kids for missing shots by making them do sets of 200m Butterfly! xP</p>
<p>@Rishav
Well we didn’t have them as part of school, but I loved taking part ECly</p>
<p>No idea where he has disappeared off to 
Wasn’t MIT his top choice?..</p>
<p>I’ll PM you my essay too… I don’t read much and I find it difficult to link these sorts of things to my experiences… I was lucky this quote was in the movie and the original book :D</p>
<p>@rishav
I didn’t have sports classes in grade 11 and 12 either :D</p>
<p>@Raith
What a nice coach. xD My teacher punished me with a D in sports. -.-</p>
<p>@Sunny
Funny thing is that kids don’t get graded for sports… but if one kid missed a few shots… everyone on that team had to do 5 x 200m butterfly was funny to watch and luckily I could leave whenever I wanted to since I didn’t have to do sport :P</p>
<p>@Raith
It really is funny to watch. My brother fenced and when one of them made a mistake or was to slow everyone had to repeat the exercise. It was nice to sit outside on the bench :D</p>
<p>@Sunny
Yea, pretty much the same story… I would have loved to try fencing out though I’m a kinda big target though xP</p>
<p>Talking about sport punishments eh?? These are a few I remember from my basketball & football coaching -
– The most common; 4 400m laps whenever something went wrong.
– Miss a shot during shooting practice in basketball, and we were given the “virtual chair” punishment. Basically, with your back to the wall - you need to bend as if you are sitting on a chair while there is none actually.( from 5min - 20min depending on the number of shots missed)
– In football, whenever a group erred during practice setups - we had to do 360degree rolls for the entire length of the ground!! And the ground was HARD!! :/</p>
<p>But all of those were fun times! :D</p>
<p>@Rishav
Haha, nice punishments! Yea I can list a lot more that came up during swimming and waterpolo… they really weren’t pleasant for me anyway since I am mostly water born xP</p>
<p>My coach was sadistic to me. Guarantee once a session I’d get shouted at from across the pool for not trying, not listening/setting a bad example. Often for threatened to be thrown out of the programme. I’m not even a bad guy! The coach just thought I was a masochist, thought that was what motivated me.</p>
<p>@PO
Did he tell you that he though you were a masochist?! That must be the best story for training
Mine from Mauritius shouted at me to swim faster and harder… but just cause I could have worked harder</p>