Summer Science Program SSP Introduction Thread

<p>"opportunistic kids who apply to programs solely based on their prestige"</p>

<p>mental image: desperate looking highschoolers wearing helmets and overalls, with pickaxes in hand, digging through piles of papers to find the pefect golden morsel to put on their college applications to ensure acceptance.</p>

<p><em>grins</em></p>

<p>At the airport... all of us East coast and international kids are going to be incredibly happy to be off the airplane that we've been on for the past six or eight or fifteen hours!</p>

<p>La Vita e Bella...</p>

<p>Dang, I forgot I saw that movie in freshman English! It was really moving...to say the least.</p>

<p>Life is Beautiful</p>

<p>oh my i shed tears for those kinds of movies</p>

<p>that exemplify the human spirit</p>

<p>like The Pianist</p>

<p>and A Beautiful Mind</p>

<p>hopefully we get a violinist and a cellist</p>

<p>that would be amazing</p>

<p>we need some cellist @ SSP</p>

<p>two violins, viola, cello, piano = schumann piano quintet</p>

<p>or just stick w/trio</p>

<p>I'm a cellist!! =)</p>

<p>Too bad I'm not going to Socorro x)</p>

<p>I can play violin parts on my flute!</p>

<p>(its different sound when you put a flute into a string and piano ensemble... but its not a bad sort of different <em>grins</em>)</p>

<p>I used to play the Viola, but I'm really rusty. (Been doing Math, Research, and SPORTS and all that. Yeah Matt...you're prolly like SPORTS YOU CRAZY FOOL???!!! PFFFT...)</p>

<p>Movies...SSP cannot survive...without movies. I've got some really good ones, and Hannah's bringing Grave of the Fireflies. Oh yeah...fun times.</p>

<p>Haha...we're so much cooler than SSP 2005.</p>

<p>SSP 2006 is going to be the best SSP yet.</p>

<p>and SSPers beat Rickoids any day</p>

<p>PEACE</p>

<p>Hmmmm....i wonder where did kisstheskys go?
haven't seen her for a while now....</p>

<p>kisstheskys, where aaaaare youuu? :)</p>

<p>ahra is definitely here</p>

<p>come on people! we definitely need a cellist @ socorro</p>

<p>at least a violinist for some mozart sonatas</p>

<p>we dont need any violins! Shadow will outdo any Paganini on her flute :)</p>

<p>yes that would be interesting to have a flute for a violin</p>

<p>Hi everyone:
My name is Daniel. I am going to SSP this summer, and I am of course attending the best, the original campus.... Ojai, CA. I actually got deferred admission last year so this year I had a choice of sites. I was torn between getting to visit JPL at Ojai and the VLA at Socorro - I've always really really really wanted to see the VLA, so basically I just asked my dad which to apply to and he said Ojai. Thus, I am attending Ojai. Some statistics, for the statistically and non-statisically minded:
A junior attending school in central New Jersey.
I really really really like astronomy and astrophysics, and I thrive on copious amounts of Star Trek (I hope I'm not the only Trekker going to Ojai? eh... probably). Other science fiction is good, too, such as the Twilight Zone.
I have a strong affinity for carbonated beverages.
I have an unusual sense of humor, meaning that about 90% of my jokes or humorous comments no one else gets, but the other 10% can get a room of people in an uproar.
I cannot think of anything else relevant, though I'm sure there must be something.</p>

<p>1)Color -- Anything. I'm pro-color. </p>

<p>2)Team/Player --- Baseball: 1970s Cinncinnati Reds, Jimmie Foxx. </p>

<p>3)Favorite Music -- I don't really listen to much music (gasp!). There is one exception: the music of Allan Sherman.</p>

<p>4)Movies -- In order, the top few I can think of are (likely no one's heard of most of these)
1. Marooned (great old 1960s hard science fiction movie)
2. The Bedford Incident (fantastic 1960s cold war movie with Sidney Poitier)
3. Shoot to Kill (1980s action film involving a great scene with a moose, also with Sidney Poitier)
4. Star Trek: First Contact
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (ancient Western film with Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne)
I like most stuff made before about 1970. I've seen a number of movies asymptotically approaching infinitiy so it's difficult to rate them all. </p>

<p>5)Favorite Composers--- Eh. I guess Beethoven, but as written above, I'm not much of a music person. I do like modern composers of "thematic" music, like John Williams. </p>

<p>6) Favorite ice cream flavor--- I actually don't like ice cream or anything sweet. Probably what keeps me from getting fat considering the amount of french fries I eat. My metabolism is also ultra-fast... but I digress. </p>

<p>7) Favorite Book --- Non-fiction: The Case for Mars, by Robert Zubrin
Mostly I read non-fiction. I just finished reading an interesting book called After Contact about the psychological ramifications of discovering intelligent alien civilizations, and I'm in the middle of The Clash of Civilizations, which if you haven't heard of it is a controversial political conceptualization of the world.
Fiction, non-science fiction: I really liked The Hunt for Red October and 1984.
Science Fiction: Tie between Star Trek: Federation, Star Trek: The Return, and Star Trek: Prime Directive (not that I'd buy lots of potboiler novels, of course). </p>

<p>8) Number -- I can't honestly say I have a favorite number, though 463 should have its day. </p>

<p>9)Day of the week -- Friday. It's the day before Saturday. In my middle and elementary schools, we'd always have deli lunches on Friday, so I learned to look forward to it. </p>

<p>AND I SHALL APPEND!!!!!
10) Aircraft
Military: F-16C Fighting Falcon
Commercial: Boeing 747. It's big. </p>

<p>11) City
New York, followed by Boston, Philadephia, and Chicago, in that order.</p>

<p>12) Season
Winter. I like snow.</p>

<p>Pets?
No.
Last thing you ate?
An apple.
Favorite place to study?
The floor of my room.</p>

<p>heeey
welcome, welcome</p>

<p>although everyone here is dissapointed that you chose Ojai (inlcuding oasis :p) (jk :) ), it's good to have more ppl here</p>

<p>in any case, there are some 30 questions you have to answer about yourself (from previous posts) hehe
:p</p>

<p>we're aaaall ears :)</p>

<p>EDIT: srry, it took me like an hour to finish this post, so i didnt see that you've added the answers....
im late.....again :)</p>

<p>ah well
congrats on your acceptance, ans welcome here :)</p>

<p>My favorite aircraft are my paper airplanes I make in english class!</p>

<p>(and that would definately explain why, now, at the end of the semester, I've read 5 books in the last two weeks, and why I'm scrambling to pull my grade up to get myself exempt from the exam. I'm a good student.... <em>honest</em>)</p>

<p>I LOVE twighlight zone <em>grins</em> </p>

<p>city?
I like Washington DC... especially in the spring when all the cherry blossoms are blooming, but not in the summer, I actaully really don't like any big city in the summer because its just so muggy and smoggy and gross. (though I've heard Montreal isn't bad?) </p>

<p>season? tough call on that one. I like snow in the winter, and the leaves in the fall, and the flowers in the spring, and the beach in the summer!</p>

<p>aaw, i think i didnt answer some questions :)
here:
aircraft:
my paper planes, which we used to do with my friends back in childhood..they were really good, espeically during long and boring classes...i still use them in my history or english class :)</p>

<p>City: Chisinau, Moldova-my hometown, i would never thought i'd miss it, but here, i do!</p>

<p>Season? Summer (afterall, it's my birthday in it :) (i'm sooo selfish)
but thennn.....i also like winters (not NYC winters, but cold, frosty, Russian ones.....i like blossoming spring, too.....and then golden fall</p>

<p>(but i still prefer summer :D)</p>

<p>EDIT: omg, late again!: s/o posted here before me :( :)
and in almost exact same words...hehe</p>

<p>"though I've heard Montreal isn't bad?"</p>

<p>I was in Montreal a few times in the summer. I don't remember it being particularly smoggy. </p>

<p>I think we have to limit the aircraft to those not made of paper. Airframe has to be titanium, aluminum, or some other commonly used aircraft material.</p>

<p>hey everyone! i've been lurking on these ssp boards for a while now... but i've never posted because i was too lazy to make an account on cc. XD but now i did (probably because the excitement of ssp is too much to contain within myself), so here i am. nice to meet all of you!</p>

<p>and btw, i'll be going to socorro =D</p>

<p><em>grins</em> Hriundeli... we rock! paper airplanes, basically all the seasons, yay!</p>

<p>Ok so my favorite nonpaper aircraft are those little trick planes that do formations in the sky and write letters and stuff sometimes too.</p>

<p>Now that we're getting more people... perhaps we should make an updated list of people? </p>

<p>I'll start... Socorro people: copy whats already on the list, then add your name/ cc name/ where you're from (you can be vague if you want)</p>

<p>1: Hannah, "shadowdancer", VA, USA</p>