Another spate of the annual “I got rejected everywhere. Help!!!” threads containing some variant on:
“I applied to 8 schools, got rejected by 3, waitlisted by 3, and only got into my 2 backups. I can’t attend those two. My life is over. Help!”
“I got rejected by Stanford. Now I know all the other 15 schools I applied to will reject me as well.”
“I was accepted to 5 schools but none of them are affordable. My parents make $250,000 but they haven’t saved anything for my college. How can I convince these five schools to give me a full ride?”
“MIT and Harvard turned me down EA. I still have time to apply to other schools but I don’t want to go anywhere else. What should I do?”
“I was admitted to my second, fourth and fifth choices, and they’re all affordable but my friends all got into their first choice schools. Should I take a gap year and try again?”
Waiting in line to pay for food during lunch break at work at upscale fast food-joint Pre A Manger. There are three cashiers and 3 customers at each cashier paying for their food. Everybody else including myself is waiting on one line behind the customer at the middle cashier. The manager of the restaurant shouts out to all of us waiting: “We have three separate lines people, spread out!” I felt like shouting back “Don’t tell us we have to form 3 separate lines, we want to stay here on this one line in the middle row and go to whichever cashier frees up first!” This way we can pick whichever of the three cashiers is available first. I’ve had too many experiences where I choose the slowest line to wait behind.
Your hair looked really good last night, Mom, but I could not tell you that because it would open the door for your endless criticism of MY hair. It is well known that you HATE long hair, but chin-length is not considered long.
I don’t know why you haven’t learned to be more careful/pay more attention to your things… You lost your wallet with 100s in graduation money on a plane ride, you lost your expensive headphones on a plane ride, and now you’ve lost $200. I wish I could help you, but I can’t.
You should have talked to us right away when you messed up our reservations. It is a little bit too late after we gave you bad reviews online. Definitely not appropriate to hint “what monetary compensation would take to remove the review.”
Sometimes I’m tempted to move back to Texas…