<p>lol you guys are so lucky. senior year starts for me in 3 days (i do not know why they set it as a Wednesday.) nevertheless, i hope my teachers will be like yours x3rose, but I doubt so. like some teachers at other high schools don't require a final exam for the second semester, my school they do. they require essays for all the classes too! i mean who has heard of writing an essay for a website design course?</p>
<p>Well, my final year at school started back in April, so I'm just looking forward to a whirlwind second term. As of now my September schedule stands at 3 Int'l Debates, one Film, an Inter-school festival with 15 events to help organize, one quiz, and another debate. Life's good! :)</p>
<p>Wait... your last year started in April? You lost me...</p>
<p>School starts in about 10 days for me, and I'm not looking forward to it. On the bright side, my senior year schedule is a little lighter than my sophomore/junior years just cuz I'm out of classes to take. So hopefully it'll be pretty relaxing.</p>
<p>Gosh the weather sucks here. Thunder and lightning every 10 seconds. Way to get me down..</p>
<p>Senior year is the toughest in Taiwan because everyone's preparing for entrance exams in January. We had about three weeks of summer vacation this year, and the rest of the time, we went to school until 4:10. </p>
<p>Garrhhh. I envy you guys...>"<</p>
<p>I'm in a different school system (International student), so my school year has 3 terms. The first's from april to june, (inclusive), second from september to december. Third from jan to march.</p>
<p>Why don't they just make it from September to June, instead of April to March with a break in between?</p>
<p>Ah, well you see, we follow the Indian system (ISC) although we're in Dubai, so there's a final exam to our 10th and 12th grade around which the rest of high school is structured which takes place in March (its called a Board Exam and is uniform throughout India and all other schools that have the same curriculum.) ergo, we have to arrange the rest of our school schedule around that. Its the same for all Indian schools, in fact most people here find the September system to be unusual.</p>
<p>That's really interesting, k_twin. I like seeing other school systems at work. School in 6 days! I still need to sign up for the ACT and SAT IIs.</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao
11.Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>evil<em>asian</em>dictator
29.skywalker99</li>
</ol>
<p>u gotta try!!!</p>
<p>Stress stress stress.</p>
<p>Wasn't senior year supposed to be the most relaxing year ever? Jeez. And now as November 1st approaches, I think I'm growing more and more antsy. Let's hope that all this work will finally pay off. :]</p>
<p>Oh, and I updated the list of SCEA-ers since evil<em>asian</em>dictator is no longer applying SCEA.</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
</ol>
<p>lol! agree with u ther.. far too much pressure and stress!</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
<li>pyleela</li>
</ol>
<p>Good luck everyone! I think we should keep in touch and see who gets in and not and then the people who get in can meet up once they actually start Stanford.</p>
<p>Just a thought. :D</p>
<p>P. Y. L.</p>
<p>awww^^that is a cute idea :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Choboking</li>
<li>Chillaxin</li>
<li>Spartanspirit428</li>
<li>ManUtd20Ole</li>
<li>Tetragrammaton</li>
<li>cameliasinensis</li>
<li>fuzzylogic</li>
<li>theterminatior</li>
<li>doarkface</li>
<li>ROCKao</li>
<li>Shark_bite</li>
<li>BLaCkYoSh1</li>
<li>realitysucks</li>
<li>skatearabia</li>
<li>x3rose</li>
<li>caughtinbetween</li>
<li>aznxboy1228</li>
<li>neasebreeze</li>
<li>guardiandevil423</li>
<li>k_twin (possible)</li>
<li>k_twin's twin (possible)</li>
<li>takeme2cali</li>
<li>surftheiop</li>
<li>De2</li>
<li>oasis</li>
<li>silho_ette</li>
<li>VAdesi</li>
<li>skywalker99</li>
<li>pyleela</li>
<li>v_li88</li>
</ol>
<p>pyleela thats a brilliant idea...</p>
<p>It seems like everyone is enthuastic and worried about the upcoming admissions, but I want to know a few things:</p>
<p>1) Why are you applying for SCEA at Stanford? (Please don't say, "Oh, it is my first choice," or else, I will get annoyed lol. If it is your first choice, then why Stanford? [Even though a thread like that exists already, I want to know the reason from the current SCEAers.])</p>
<p>2) What will you do if you get an acceptance? lol (Yes, it is great to dream haha, even though it is only early September.)</p>
<p>For me, I am applying to Stanford because I love its research opportunities and its intellectual environment. But above all, it has free laundry lol just kidding. And being surrounded by a desert landscape for all my life, I want a change.</p>
<p>If I get accepted (which I doubt), I will probably call all my friends and express the good news (for me, at least) haha. Yeah, I have other extreme ideas if I get accepted, but I will keep it to myself; it is too embarrassing lol.</p>
<p>Tangentially... one of my acceptance letters (not Stanford's, but an Ivy's) came on April 1st. I wasn't sure if I should take it seriously or not. I ran through the house with nervousness and my parents assured me it was most likely real.</p>
<p>Hey Celestial,</p>
<p>Are you graduating from high school this year, or are you already in college?</p>
<p>Also, Stanford's my first choice because I want to stay close to home, I love the campus, and it has great libraries (amongst many other things). The atmosphere is absolutely amazing, for those of you who haven't been there. I would love to be in a place where virtually everyone wants to be there for the sake of learning, fun, etc. :D I'll try and think up more. How many of you have actually started on your apps?</p>
<p>I still havent come any closer to deciding whether im gonna do Stanford SCEA or Caltech/MIT EA. Im guessing the best bet is to just go with whichever I will have the best essays for?</p>