<p>not to go over essays, dandelion!!! there are other things you can do.</p>
<p>puahahaha, i'm just joshing. i really have no idea what i'm talking about (and i still don't know who diana is). but i love how this thread has brought tasplicants together, for pre-interview prep or some other not-so-platonic purposes. </p>
<p>other freakish coincidentals: kathy_violin took the SATiis with my best friend (who lives in montreal) at mcgill. yanners lives down the street from this girl who was hallmates with my friend at this summer camp they went to together. inkspill did some JSA summer thing at princeton, and there's a chance i saw her and talked to her, as i remember a group of teenagers (five girls, two guys) in front of winberie's on the fourth of july. they asked us for directions for some city-wide scavenger hunt they were doing. </p>
<p>creeeeeeepy. and cool!</p>
<p>oh, and the whole dying thing. the way i look at it: dying doesn't scare me, because like you said, tako, once i die then "i wouldn't be in existence to comprehend that i'm not in existence anymore." all consciousness is lost. i'm more afraid of people around me dying, namely people whom i love. there are some people whom i cannot imagine living without. i don't know what i would do. so i try not to think about death too much on a whole. it bogs down the whole process of trying to live life.</p>
<p>I think death is scary because it means I won't be able to think anymore. I mean, I guess I know I won't know that I won't be able to think, since I won't be able to think in the first place, but still. It'd be like...an eternal sleep. But when you sleep, you don't really remember anything. Like, you go to sleep, and then <em>pow</em> you wake up! But you wouldn't wake up when you die. It's just so hard to comprehend that I wouldn't exist anymore, you know? Yes, I wouldn't be in existence to comprehend that I wasn't in existence anymore, but what happens then? What happens to my personality, my mind, my quirks, my everything? I'll never get to see the future? Is there even any point in life, then? </p>
<p>I don't want to live forever, but to die...seems so final.</p>
<p>em...so....had interview this afternoon. went well i think. i just had one interviewer though, and he was pretty chill, so the whole thing was more low-key than i've heard from some people. basically he just picked out little pieces of my essays and used them as jumping points for other discussions. for example, i talked in one essay about how religion should not interfere with "completely secular issues", and he asked if there exists such a thing as completely secular issue. then we talked about what would happen if science and religion could, theoretically, completely separate; who would benefit, is it possible, etc. sometimes i felt like what he was saying was a bit beyond me, but at most times i had some serious input. my best advice would be that there is no studying or preparing that can help you... just relax and be prepared to think and answer rapid fire philosphical questions. the more fun you're having, the better impression they're going to get of you. oh, and it could have just been my interviewers style, but there was a lot of time for the interviewee to pose any questions they wanted, so i would give some thought to that before going. mostly, though, i would say just relax... it's really not too bad. </p>
<p>idk, was yours in nyc? if so then probably. and yeah, i guess. i didn't even realise that i was one of the earlier ones until today... it's such a long long wait now though.</p>
<p>Its a parody of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The writers made it a play and it's on broadway. Seriously, if you come to NY you HAVE to see it. But make sure you watch the Holy Grail first otherwise you wont get some parts of it.</p>
<p>Yes, I have seen absolutely nothing. Must be because I coop myself in my room all day to force myself (unsuccessfully, of course) to be productive.</p>
<p>haha i do the same thing. I always tell myself, okay go in your room and then you can get all your work done. It would be easy if I actually did. Instead I sit here, talking to people I have never met in an online forum.</p>
<p>Congrats cdon! Sounds like your interview was a success :).</p>
<p>And Ken, don't worry. I think a lot of people havn't been contacted about interviews yet (myself included). Just sit tight - you should be finding out fairly soon!</p>