High School Class of 2013

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I get to leave early, too! Well…an hour and a half early once every 3 school days. I’ll take it, though.</p>

<p>Also looking forward to getting my license when I turn 18.</p>

<p>Also looking forward to having a little more free time to hang out with the girlfriends, plus we can all drive each other around soon so we can go places. Plus, we’ll all have a bit of money in the bank so we can do things like go out to eat and see movies.</p>

<p>But mostly looking forward to getting ready to say goodbye, and passing on what i’ve learned in my high school years on to whoever comes after me.</p>

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<p>I leave really early, 12 everyday</p>

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<p>Five people on my street have the same car as me. It’s really really really weird. Driving to school in the morning is odd too. Next year my schedule is absolutely crazy. I’ll have senior dismissal once out of every rotation. So that kinda sucks, but whatever. The classes I’m taking aren’t that bad, just a lot.</p>

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<p>[thread=1351349]Check this out guys[/thread]</p>

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<p>Paha you poor people. I’ve been driving around since I turned 15. :)</p>

<p>Things to do senior year…work, sleep, and hang out. Basically keep up school to pass the AP tests but that’s about it. Class Rank and GPA I could really care less now.</p>

<p>I’ve worked my butt off for two years. I’m ready to just coast.</p>

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<p>Driving in my town is such a frustration. So many old people that don’t drive fast enough and get mad at you for moving around them.</p>

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<p>I hate driving. I got my permit like a month after I turned 16, and i’ve barely used it. I can get almost anywhere I want to go by bike.</p>

<p>Plus, people are horrible drivers. They don’t call us M@ssholes for nothing.</p>

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<p>Driving can either calm me or aggravate me. 9 time out of 10 it aggravates me. You have the oldies chugging in the left lane and then you have aggressive drivers. Eventually you gotta do what you gotta do to get places. I don’t have my license, but whenever I drive my mom is like, “I can tell you’re going to be an aggressive driver”. Darn right I will be.</p>

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<p>Driving is calming, until I get behind the wheel.</p>

<p>Never going to forget the last time I drove; mom asked me to drive down the street to the convenience store. One left, one right, down the main drag, should’ve been easy. But she asked me after I had been chased by a bee (therefore already skittery and nervous), and when we got onto the main road, A WILD BUDDHIST PARTY AT THE TEMPLE APPEARS! complete with jaywalkers and cars parked on both sides of a ridiculously narrow road. I somehow made it to the store but was too nervous to drive home.</p>

<p>On top of that, I learned how much of a backseat driver my mom is. When she drives the rest of us tend to be backseat drivers to her (because she is a rotten driver), but when my dad is in the car with me I feel extremely calm, even when he jerks the wheel if i’m too far to the right. Instead, my mom likes to yell at me that i’m too far to the right or i’m not going fast enough (read: not going at least 10 over the limit), without actually helping me.</p>

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<p>Haha gotta love backseat drivers. My mom is quiet when I drive. She just gets out her phone and does whatever she does on her phone.</p>

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<p>I got my license pretty much as soon as I turned 16. I don’t know what I’d do without it, to be honest. Driving is a necessity where I live.</p>

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<p>At least you don’t live in Miami. It’s freaking terrible driving :c.</p>

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<p>I have yet to take the permit test. New York’s a little eh with traffic.</p>

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<p>Did anybody else get the sneak-peek essay prompts email from UChicago?</p>

<p>Posting them here for anyone who wants to see them (I gotta say, I literally laughed at most of these! :D)</p>

<p>1) “A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” –Oscar Wilde.</p>

<p>Othello and Iago. Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. Autobots and Decepticons. History and art are full of heroes and their enemies. Tell us about the relationship between you and your arch-nemesis (either real or imagined).</p>

<p>Inspired by Martin Krzywy, admitted student Class of 2016.</p>

<p>2) Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the position and momentum of an electron with total certainty. Choose two other concepts that cannot be known simultaneously and discuss the implications. (Do not consider yourself limited to the field of Physics).</p>

<p>Inspired by Doran Bennett, AB’07.</p>

<p>3) Susan Sontag, AB’51, wrote that “Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend. The Aesthetics of Silence, 1967.</p>

<p>Anonymous submission.</p>

<p>4) “…I [was] eager to escape backward again, to be off to invent a past for the present." –The Rose Rabbi by Daniel Stern</p>

<p>Present: pres·ent</p>

<ol>
<li>Something that is offered, presented, or given as a gift.</li>
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<p>Let’s stick with this definition. Unusual presents, accidental presents, metaphorical presents, re-gifted presents, etc. — pick any present you have ever received and invent a past for it.</p>

<p>Inspired by Jennifer Qin, AB’16</p>

<p>5) In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, pose a question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then you should have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun.</p>

<p>6) So where is Waldo, really?</p>

<p>Inspired by Robin Ye, AB’16.</p>

<p>I’m honestly not sure which one is more ridiculous - or will be the most fun to write!</p>

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<p>I really don’t know much about UChicago, I’ll be visiting in a little while, but I’ll probably apply just because they have EA. I wonder if they have EA to try to boost their application numbers, and look better by having a lower acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Haha, at least it’s not as ridiculous as what WashU is doing, releasing their application in May…</p>

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<p>Wait, WashU released their supplement? Gotta go find it. It’s either my first or second choice.</p>

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<p>I like that first one for UChicago. I could get really creative with that, hehe.</p>

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<p>Sorry if I sent you off on a Google search! I was a little confused because I remembered seeing an email from them (and it was actually back in March). Yeah, just found that email "Dear Benjamin,</p>

<p>The application for undergraduate admission for our class of 2017 (the class entering in the fall of 2013) is now available on our website at <a href=“http://admissions.wustl.edu”>http://admissions.wustl.edu</a>."</p>

<p>Unfortunately, after doing a little bit of research just now, I have discovered that they mostly lied. All that’s really available is a Pre-App Data sheet that you can fill out. Whoops.</p>

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<p>Good luck to any fellow new yorkers taking the physics regents tomorrow!</p>