<p>it truely is. I just hope I can get my act together in college.</p>
<p>OH MAN I JUST MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.</p>
<p>I was researching TASP interview tips (yeah, procrastination woot) and I read the entire 15 page thread for the 2005 TASP. </p>
<p>And now I want TASP so bad that I'm friggin shaking (literally) and AHH I want it I want it so badly :(. This is me again in the hour before 9 when we could call for interviews...except there won't be any relief this time.</p>
<p>I feel like crying right now. :( I have never wanted anything so badly in my life.</p>
<p>aw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Don't worry. If you don't get it (Which you will!) then it just means something else will be even better for you. TASP is not the end of the world. </p>
<p>btw, I did the same thing before my phone call. That thread is amazing. Yes when I didn't get the interview I was sad because I would never have those experiences but I realized that those were other peoples tales...not mine. If I had gotten in who knows what it would have been like. I might have had the worst experience in my life. (i really doubt that but it is relaly good consolation)</p>
<p>I'm so *<strong><em>ed off right now. Well, more sad than *</em></strong>ed. My mom is watching that show about grease and they were just singing hopelessy devoted or whatever that song is called. It's very depressing when you're single.</p>
<p>can't believe they blocked that word!! I didn't curse!!</p>
<p>i just had my interview. i don't know how it went. my interviewer was nice though. it wasn't an intense one, as i had feared. she essentially went through my essays and asked questions about certain points i had made and used those to ask further questions. mine was a phone interview, so i hope that doesn't hurt me.</p>
<p>Possibly.</p>
<p>Or...had you gone, your plane might have crashed and you might have died. Or on the first day, lightning strikes and a tree falls RIGHT where you would have been had you gone. Or the faculta (sp?) might have been a serial killer that likes to kill people named Karen (don't ask why, serial killers usually have problems up there <em>knocks on head</em>) Or maybe your room mate is somebody who you totally would not have gotten along with, because she does drugs and gets high and tries to force others to take drugs too (which would you been you, had you gone). </p>
<p>Or because you're staying, you're going to meet your dream guy ;) Or you're going to find a hundred dollar bill on the ground one day when you're walking (which you would not have found had you gone to TASP...OHH) Or you're going to meet some super smart professor dude, who will then take you under his mentorship, and you will learn more than you would ever learn in TASP and he offers you a 7 figure salary job once you graduate from college. Or you'll meet a new friend...who turns out to be the coolest person in your life.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>i already met new friends who do seem to be the coolest people in my life. :) I really do love you guys. </p>
<p>The professor thing doesn't sound that bad. I'm thinking here..........(one of those cool foggy transitions to indicate a thought). One day I'm very sad for some reason. I'm just very very depressed. My thing when I'm sad is to go walk around a beautiful place so this one time I decide to go walk around Princeton. As I'm doing this i'm staring at the ground not paying attention to whats in front of me when, wham, i run into a professor. All his papers spill over the ground so I help him pick them up and organize them. So then I introduced myself to him and he to me and it turns out that he is Robert Fagles (My favorite translator. I want to study Classics so it would be perfect.). He then explains to me the predicament he's in regarding summer work. Next thing I know I'm working for Fagles everyday at the most beautiful and amazing university in the country. </p>
<p>Then one day during lunch we get into a conversation about where I'm planning on attending college. After a brief pause I answer and ask him where I should look into. Politely he explains to me that I can go to Princeton with a free ride as long as I continue to work for him throughout my 4 years and publish a few books with him. Of course I say yes, wind up going to Harvard for my PhD, recruited by Princeton to teach, get tenured, win a million awards, head of history department, then president of the university. All because I was depressed that one day. :)</p>
<p>Maybe I should be depressed more often?</p>
<p>That sounds absolutely wonderful, Karen.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I day dream too. I have dorky day dreams, though, and currently they all involve me and my best journalism buddy getting editor in chief of our school newspaper. Watch them announce editor in chief decisions the same day that my interview is...that would be absolutely miserable if both turned out miserable.</p>
<p>day dreaming is so much fun. But it can be so horrible. I spent all day dreaming of what it would be like to go to UChicago. I have no clue why. If you asked me a month ago about them I would have said there was no way in hell I would go there. After doing the teeniest amount of reasearch (okay a TON but still) i am in love with them. I should really get a life.</p>
<p>Oh Tako - I know exactly how you feel. I want to go to TASP so badly, it almost hurts. There are random times in the middle of the day where I suddenly start to think about it, and my stomach does flips. And then the other day, I was asked how much I wanted TASP on a scale of 1 to 10 and I immediately replied "ELEVEN!"</p>
<p><em>sighh</em></p>
<p>yeaah
something always reminds me of tasp and then people are like hah, you're such a loser you're excited for a chance to go to summer school
<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Personally, I'm afraid to daydream, especially about things that matter like TASP and colleges. I absolutely hate feeling like a delusional fool when I find out that I didn't get what I was daydreaming about (like INTEL). Yeah...</p>
<p>Yep... not that I don't. I just REALLY hope I can get in THEN daydream about it instead of the other way around. :D</p>
<p>that's why i stopped referring to TASp as 'summer school' and started referring to it as a 'summer experience'</p>
<p>I know what you mean Mintie but personally, I can't help myself. Chem lectures are just so boring!!</p>
<p>i really don't think a phone interview will hurt you. afterall, aida had one... among others whom i can't remember. but there were two or three internationals last year who got phone interviews and got in. don't worry about it. </p>
<p>question for anyone who had an interview already: did you feel like the questions they asked were thought-provoking to the extent that you had to take awhile to think before talking? i'm afraid i'll just start babbling the first thing i think of, which doesn't really work if the questions are very involved and takes a lot of speculation.</p>
<p>Ah, I love how we're all talking about day dreaming. </p>
<p>Hehe, my most recent daydream while I was doing the dishes.....</p>
<p>So my interviewer and I are chilling in Starbucks in earnest yet playful discussion, and suddenly he (a young, college-aged, awfully cute guy :)) looks down at his watch and exclaims that it's been five hours! (Oh my...I wish) </p>
<p>Then he says that he has to go, but he "hopes to continue our discussion some other time" and asks me if I'm free the very next day (and of course, I say yes :P). </p>
<p>Then he tells me, "I have been interviewing TASP applicants for many years (I realize that this makes no sense since he is in college..but it's a dream, anything can happen), but you are easily the most fascinating applicant I have met!</p>
<p>Then I start to say something and stop myself, and he inquires into what I was saying, and I reply, "Oh, I was going to respond to that statement but then I realized that what I was going to say was awfully presumptuous and arrogant, and not really true."</p>
<p>But he persists, and forces me to say it.</p>
<p>So I say, "Oh, I was going to say that 'I have been hearing many compliments for many years, but yours was easily the most fulfilling that I have ever heard.'"</p>
<p>And then he will laugh heartily and comment on my wittiness.</p>
<p>AHHH I am such a dork. TASP will reject me for sure. Watch me have a 10 minute interview..."Sorry, you're not saying anything interesting, so we have no more questions to ask!"</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA tako. that reminds me of the conversation about attractive-looking interviewers. aww. [stares intently] "oh, you asked a question? umm, sorry. i was paying attention to your face."</p>
<p>sidjenks, sounds pretty much identical to my interview except that i had to drive for an hour and dress up.... you win! haha. but seriously, as for using points of the essays to ask further questions, definitely. kind of like an artificial attempt at stimulating intellectual debate........... right? only not as bad as that sounds.</p>
<p>Speaking of dressing up...do we have to for our interview? I know it'll probably depend on the environment, but for my interview I'm not quite sure what to wear.</p>