@bearcon Did you get interviewed? Toward the end my interviewer and I talked about Turkey and I somehow slipped how everyone in small town Turkey is generally related to each other…whoops.
@RandomRhino The thing that sucks is that Thursday is the one day where I don’t have an EC after school…so I’ll be waiting at home. I don’t know how I’ll be able to handle myself the minutes before it’s released.
@schroscat I go to school in the US, so yes. it’s not awkward if it’s accurate 
@bearcon @Sajidur4 I love doing that too! Like in the karadeniz, we click our tongues and raise our eyebrows to say “no”, and my friends just think that’s the most hilarious thing.
@bearcon Did you get the “do you eat your country for Thanksgiving?” when you were a kid? I was SO close to writing my supplemental on that.
@magic125 @schroscat Are you all East Coast or Mountain Time? Because yeah I could imagine that being difficult with it coming so early in the day. But honestly I’d prefer to be getting the notification while I’m on my way home. I don’t want to open it with my parents or with schoolmates because of the pressure—would much rather have it be at a Starbucks parking lot on the way home so I can cry all the way home without anyone’s judgments (like I said, there will be tears regardless)
@schroscat Man oh man, I had to become accustomed to that, hahaha. I remember the days when I was called a “yabanci” 8->
@schroscat hahahaha i definitely got that multiple times before!! i transferred here last year so it hasn’t been a while
@RandomRhino I’m East Coast! So I’ll get it exactly at 5:00; I just hope the portal won’t be down the second decisions are released.
do you guys know if there is an option to choose between snail mail and e-mail?
@Sajidur4 I had a Turkish accent in elementary school because my parents didn’t speak English in the house…lemme tell you, that was ROUGH. I would pronounce “Amsterdam” as “Omm-ster-dahm” and my teacher had no clue what I was saying. And THEN there was that time where I accidentally called my teacher “anne”…
@bearcon I got it a lot when I was younger. Nowadays I get “do you eat kebabs a lot?” or “what’s your real name?” or “what the heck is baklava, and why is it so famous?”
@schroscat Oh wow! That’ll be crazy! At least you can try to super stalk the portal in order to be one of those people who see it right when it’s out (before the delays)! Or you could do homework/watch Netflix lol. I’ve resigned myself to the idea that there’s simply no way I can check it immediately at 4pm CST if I decide to not go to after school practice since school… unless I camp out at the Starbucks by my school (which actually could be a consideration)
@RandomRhino I’m Pacific! So 2:00 for me. Oh well, I’m preparing myself for a deferral/rejection anyway…this is literally a lottery
@schroscat ah the name struggle… i had to teach people how to spell my name with a “ş” and a dotless i
@schroscat xD LOL. I have international Turkish friends, and they sometimes call the non-Turkish teachers “Hocam,” which completely throws the teachers off
@RandomRhino I might just resort to cooking an elaborate meal to make time pass
@bearcon Yumuşak G! No one understands the point!
I’m from AZ, so 3 it is. It’s so soon!
@bearcon don’t forget the silent g. It took me a while to get that right xD
@Sajidur4 I spent half of my junior year learning AP Physics in Turkish, and I swear my teacher had no idea how I was getting my answers. It’s the struggle.
how does one brace for their impending rejection? what cautionary measures should be taken in order to prevent a pile of tears?
@james1998iq I’ve spent the last month accepting that I will most likely be deferred; I’d rather be surprised with an acceptance than be disappointed with a rejection.