<p>This is getting just a little bit crazy......</p>
<p>w00t rickoid cat fights!</p>
<p>i love how we can be all btchy to each other when anonmynity is preserved.</p>
<p>this is silly</p>
<p>it's a summer program, plain and simple. Anything more then that is what the individual chooses to make of it.</p>
<p><em>ouch</em> <em>ducks flames</em> </p>
<p>Whatever you say about RSI, it was special, something I'll treasure forever. Chengs, I agree with you -the camaraderie was special.</p>
<p>I propose that this be settled at the holiday party in a more gentlemanly (or gentlewomanly depending on the identity of phooey...) fashion than online flame wars... pistols at ten paces should suffice.</p>
<p>"I wish the conversation focused on things that you <em>are</em> qualified to talk about, like the environment at RSI, sleepless nights, why it's so fun, etc."</p>
<p>this is a really good point... i was following the recent TASP thread because i kinda wanted to try to apply to tasp last year, but then i took one look at the application and was like, hell no, i am not doing five pages of essays voluntarily, so that didn't happen, but anyway, the TASP thread looks so much fun because people were describing their living experiences and fantab social atmosphere and all the great personalities they got to meet and all the great debates they had, and i got a little bit jealous more than once, partially because we weren't talking about fun sht like that on the rsi thread, just depressing sht like what's going to get you in and what's not, so anyway, yeah it's gotten way too intense, like most CC threads (which, again, is the reason why i despise CC hah)</p>
<p>i have an idea... let's go around in a circle and share our favorite memory about rsi, like to kinda show what made it so special for us... i'll go first.. ummm, i think it was probably splitting pints of ice cream four ways... oh the summer. oh the love..</p>
<p>sharing ice cream is the best thing in the world, especially when you're in your childhood. : ) even if you don't go to rsi, take a moment to share a pint of ice cream with your friends.</p>
<p>bubble tea! (and the pearls make perfect cannons...)</p>
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<p>are you serious? wow, i would have cursed someone out if they shot cannonball pearls at me, wasting perfectly good bubbletea pearls like that... lol.</p>
<p>butbut the pearls were weirdly splotchy and purplish...
hehehe. questionable quality, but what do you expect from a hole-in-the-wall?</p>
<p>(oh dear, if you actually understand this, i fear for your sanity)</p>
<p>quick q about the actual rsi app. </p>
<p>its says on there to list your test scores sat (1 + 2) ap, act, etc. say you did poorly on an sat or something, must you list it? would doing otherwise be dishonest?</p>
<p>i'm asking b/c if i remember correctly there was a girl fredelik or something who messed up her psat's so instead of submitting them she just wrote her sat 1 score.</p>
<p>flierdeke*, and i'm not sure of what to do about that. this comes up a lot in applications. I would email rsi.</p>
<p>Stuff like "We're RSI 2005, the creme de la creme... the new guard, the geniuses of our generation..."</p>
<p>-- um yeah... im an @$$hole, and i freely admit that and you def shouldnt judge the rickoids by me, they are mostly cool and modest</p>
<p>ay.</p>
<p>Some of you know who I am, I think, or can guess ;) Anyways... I don't really have the time (ugh, in the next four days, I have two Chinese oral presentations/exams, a Chinese midterm, and a Genetics midterm) for an extended discussion about - and I apologise for not having read the previous 26 pages of commentary on - RSI.</p>
<p>As to my previous conduct on these boards.... hm. Some of it I still support, some I would say were immature actions. I forget exactly what I've said, and what I haven't, but there's one thing that I would like everyone to remember:</p>
<p>RSI is a very special thing, but there are many such experiences that can grow dear to one's heart.</p>
<p>Though the bonds that I've made through RSI and CEE are very strong, they're within my own personal experience. When I, or another RSI alum, discusses the joys of RSI, unless we're just being obnoxiously elitist - which, I admit, I have been, and I feel now that that was sinful of me - I do so only in the hope that I can give someone else an inkling of that joy, to share it with them and, hopefully, give them the impetus to apply for, and perhaps participate in, something which was worthwhile and beautiful.</p>
<p>Participation in the event, however, is not the only worthwhile, beautiful, intelligent, or enlightening event that one may possibly have =P While I would still propose that RSI is a very elite academic experience, it is neither the only intense research experience it is possible to have, nor is acceptance to RSI a proper metric for one's intellect. Anybody who says so is, I humbly submit, overemphasizing the importance of RSI.</p>
<p>Take me, for example. I'm an RSIer. I'm also a philosophy major planning to go into seminary, perhaps, or academia - in the humanities. I'm also a rapper (who just released his group's first CD, IM me - jglchu - to buy it ;) ). I'm taking organic chemistry and genetics, but the last time I was in a lab doing independent research was <em>during</em> RSI. RSI didn't make me a scientific wunderkind, nor did it win me money, fame, etc.</p>
<p>For a while, I considered my status as an RSI alum to be validation of my intellect and academic strivings - now, I understand that to do so is both unhealthy and a poor yardstick of what things in life are really worthwhile. I would caution other Rickoids to approach sharing their RSI experiences very cautiously - it's easy for RSI to become something which defines an elitist dichotomy drawn between you (and a handful of others) and other students, your peers, rather than simply a joyous, interesting, expanding experience.</p>
<p>Anyways. Gotta run. I'm serious, though - buy my CD. Only $5. You kids all have the internet and enough money for college applications, you can afford it.</p>
<p>oh, and yeah, arun is an arse ;)</p>
<p>He's gonna buy our album though, so he's aiight. haha.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the link to my crew's website is in my profile. Hit it up.</p>
<p>hey hey jason! </p>
<p>hm... the $5... yes I have the Internet, and yes I have money for college applications, but don't you think that college apps took ALL my money? =P</p>
<p>I definetly need to stop reading this thread for a month or so. Everytime I come here, I just want to go to RSI more, because it sounds so amazing. Too bad it will just make me more slammed come march 06... :(.</p>
<p>Don't stress about it - RSI is just another summer activity. Granted, it's a pretty amazing one - but you can have an amazing time at many places, with many people.</p>
<p>Apply, and then just see what happens, and where you're led :) It's not where you go, but in the going, that you grow.</p>
<p>heh.</p>
<p>hohoho... deep :)</p>
<p>aww shucks. You know me.</p>
<p>you're starting to sound like a philosopher... =)</p>