<p>who reads HARRY POTTER here? (i do!)</p>
<p>um..jus a question, who reads harry potter here???? (i do!!!)</p>
<p>merc looks down upon hp but he doesnt know what he's missing.</p>
<p>Well, no one should expect to get into ivies or other selective colleges. If you do, take it as a gift :D</p>
<p>A gift - one u got lucky in a crapshoot</p>
<p>i always wondered about the etymology of the word crapshoot. it conjures up wonderful images.</p>
<p>trying to shoot after pieces of flying crap...I dunno...or maybe taking crappy shot, or maybe even i give up. Its probably originated on the CC boards</p>
<p>lol yeah... a gun that shoots crap would be nice :cool: ... crap in its literal sense.</p>
<p>as about harry potter, do you guys believe in santa claus? :p</p>
<p>I'm the "Matrix-type-guy".. you know. If you still think it's fiction, you'd better wake up (and buy a RageAgainstTheMachin album).</p>
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hell no! Its a fairly common term for anything thats random. Literally it means the dice thrown by the attendants at casinoes etc. or something like that.</p>
<p>hey all...got deferred like the rest of the world...but i'm happy because one of my really good friends got into harvard and two got into yale...looks like i'm the dumb one in the group!!!</p>
<p>No way... just feel happy you get to join our Stupid Association of the Desperate Deferred. We're SADD people, we are...</p>
<p>hey what abt the desperate rejects :(</p>
<p>although I'm desperate to go to another school :)
oh btw Astrix are you doing the Swarthmore winter ED??</p>
<p>You'll have to think about that hello... at least Stanford is more forthright. H & P reject very few people outright.</p>
<p>No I'm not doing Swat Winter ED, although I really do like Swarthmore. The one school I could commit myself to has deferred me, so no more of that :-/</p>
<p>so any other people interested in joining SADD?
except that i am not feeling sad any more. Not even desperate. i will go to college one way or the other whether it is here at home or there. i had a great 18th birthday, but drinking is highly overrated :)</p>
<p>oh btw I love HP! except for the 5th book. which sucks almost as much as dec 15 2004 did.</p>
<p>Ah....got it!!!
As soon as i clicked the link to the last page of the indian post, 47 windows opened...(they went on opening till i stopped them all from the task manager)</p>
<p>well about SADD, i think a large number of Pakistanis will love to join, in fact the whole batallion.. ;) No news of acceptance from anywhere around this years....CBMs with US universities needed as well...</p>
<p>yeah i am a an HP addict...fininshed the last three books each withiung 22 hours...including sleep....no doubt i am known as a slow reador...
Well its among the few books i have a ctually read, i dwell more on articles and magazines than books....should mention it in my essay....Haha..a lack of attention span...unless i find something as spell binding as HP...</p>
<p>5th one was no doubt a waste of sppace...it seemed it was releaded only as prelude to the 6th one....
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<p>haha you pakis.... always talkin in terms of battalions and confidence building measures :D</p>
<p>j/k yar :p</p>
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we need to cos.. maybe we feel insecure...leftout....lost...
(refering to my SATs and grades ....they dropped so sharply that i am confused myself...just after something like str8 As...)</p>
<p>Liked the joke..btw...it couldnt have been more apt... hope we come to talk about better things....like education, poverty and rural developement, for the cost of our SAts and application fees...a new school could have been started....how many needy patients would have been helped out..but we do no more than ramble about it...or do things to make our appslook good...this trend is geeting so common...hope we from our education...we come to address the real issues...for our leaders...ah...they will keep on playing the games with us and among each other...</p>
<p>Did any of you participate in International Space Settlement Design Competetion...the semi-finals are starting on 20th in Dehli the Americsn Centre.... 6 teams from India, pne from Malaysia, and the one lefy is my school, in fact my team,....i spent so much time on it, made my studies suffer and when we qualified ...i am not going...sitting here doing my apps... Every other member will be boarding the Lahore-Delhi flight tomorrow...sorry if it is spelled Dehli, i get confused...once lost a mark in geography fo incorect spelling...but i am so forgetful....</p>
<p>so they will be going there having fun, they got to build a space settlement orbitting moon, my school has been paired with one from Chandrigadh....while me :( ....i missed a life time of opportunity or rather an opportunity of a life time ...but for sure i didnt want to miss a good opprotunity of education....hope it turns out to be worth it....</p>
<p>If you know anyone who will be there, then telll me, i would love to be updated live about the proceedings..
If anyone is wondering what i was talking about visit <a href="http://spaceset.org%5B/url%5D">http://spaceset.org</a></p>