Tasp 2007

<p>oh, if you guys want to hear a funny story (take some stress off by laughing), here's one:</p>

<p>so my parents are practical jokers right?
like i was the only 6-year-old in my town who believed Santa Claus was Asian and had huskies instead of reindeer. (i joke not)
so i get home, and my parents are like, sorry, you didn't make it in to TASP.
i was like, yeah, ok, and then they said they felt bad so they treated me to dinner at my favourite restauraunt
then they showed me the letter and my dad took a picture of me as I realized that I got in, and now he's showing all his friends the picture. to be honest, i looked like a 10-year-old tool receiving a birthday cake. i didn't speak to them for a day.</p>

<p>still, i love my parents, wouldn't trade them for the world.</p>

<p>Wow, my parents don't even know what TASP is! This is me finding out I got an interview:</p>

<p>(I woke up at 6:00 AM PST to be able to call them at 9:00 AM Ithaca time, so the only other person up was my dad.)</p>

<p>Uber: Dad, I need to make a long-distance call to Ithaca New York.
Dad: Okay?
Uber: (I go in my room, dad hears some jumping and profuse usage of "thank you!")
Dad: (Comes into my room) What's going on?
Uber: I got an interview for TASP!!!!!!!!!!!
Dad: Oh, that's awesome. So, do you want your eggs scrambled or sunny-side-up.
Uber: I don't caaare!!! I got an interview for TASP!!
Dad: What is TASP again?
Uber: That summer program I applied to in January.
Dad: Summer program?! When?
Uber: It's six weeks and starts in late June.
Dad: I don't know, we were thinking of going to Europe.
Uber: ...I GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR TAAAASSSSSSSSPPP!
Dad: Let's talk about it later. So about those eggs...</p>

<p>And congrats to all those who already had their interviews, and the others who are going to be having them soon.</p>

<p>Lol nice story</p>

<p>So I realized today that I'm really excited for my interview and that I'm not really worried. It was the networking I have done so far that is so wonderful. :D</p>

<p>You Guys Rock! Now off to drama class.</p>

<p>Yeah, this was my story.</p>

<p>Mom: Iris, the basement is flooded! Come help us set up the pumps and get the furniture out of the water!
Iris: Hold on mom, I'm calling TASP about my interview.
Sister: TASP is for retards, you loser.
Iris: <em>screaming into the telephone</em> OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH
Sister: YOU GOT IN? AJGFWEIVUHNVJ
Mom: Oh, that's great sweetie. Now would you set up the sump pump?</p>

<p>Our house flooded the day of...and actually, I flew to Spain that afternoon.</p>

<p>god my life when the tasp thread is down is so...empty
;)</p>

<p>your mom calls you iris, iris? how coincidental. my mom calls me roam. and it being an androgynous name and all, from time to time she forgets my gender.</p>

<p>seriously though, i wonder what my reaction would be if my interviewer briefly skimmed the threads before the interview and was like, "wait. you're roamorse? i thought you were a man."</p>

<p>i love all your tasp interview notification stories. mine was something to this extent: "MOM MOM i got an interview for tasp!" >>"eh? what's tasp. hmm, now we can buy you a nice shirt. [beams]"</p>

<p>I found out by letter so it was a little bit more dramatic...not as humorous.</p>

<p>4008 posts!?!?!</p>

<p>Tako your to cute calling JK...But seriously who ever posted on here as her, thats going a little far.
Also don't worry you don't have to much personality, well maybe a little to much. XD (She said she was amused :-P....Arent we all)</p>

<p>JP</p>

<p>Well...the thing is, the person who posted as her got the story right (she was referred here by a friend who saw the intials JK associated with "Stanford 09") which is somewhat freaky!</p>

<p>And she knew who I was...ha ha. I guess I am pretty obvious -_- I just think it's extremely entertaining that she felt inclined to email me to reassure me (since I appeared to be freaking out a few pages ago...though that was just me exaggerating greatly, of course). Cutee :) I like her already! Ha ha.</p>

<p>My parents didn't even know about TASP until I told them I had an interview. And honestly, they don't care. To them, it's just another thing to put on my college application -_- Makes me sad...sometimes I don't think that they care about me as a person...</p>

<p>Now back to school for journalism...fun! After I already spent 4 hours there!</p>

<p>Welcome, sophomoregalore! </p>

<p>And while we are sharing stories...</p>

<p>Date: March 2nd, 2007
<em>inkspill deliberately sets alarm 32 minutes earlier than normal in order to be up before 6 am and have 2 minutes to gather thoughts before calling in</em>
<em>inkspill ends up not really being able to sleep all night due to anxiety, so alarm ended up being unnecessary</em></p>

<p>5:59 PMT
<em>after taking deep breath, inkspill dials</em>
...3 minutes later....
ink: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
mom&dad: WHAT!??!?!??!
ink: IGOTANINTERVIEWFORTASP!!! ELJKGHUIHN!!!!
mom&dad:Oh my gosh, I thought something BAD had happened, but congratulations!!
ink: DHJNSJBGSFBNBLSNLS!!!!! (and other unintelligible sounds)</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>I'm slightly scared that my interviewer hasn't contacted me yet! I really hope my interviewer won't be some crazily busy person who has < 5 mins for the interview. -_-;; </p>

<p>Though if that 5 mins was perfect... :D</p>

<p>God, I'm bored right now. I'm not ready to get really serious about preparing...although I've read three books about my subjects in the past two weeks, so that's gotta count for something, right? =D</p>

<p>wow you guys are some serious nerds</p>

<p>thats good prep...
Ironically the week after I applied my mom bought me a book pertaining to one of the seminars...Specifically the one I said I didn't want to go to. So we will see how my viewpoint changes.</p>

<p>Personally I'm not prepping like crazy...all about the natural.
I especially am tuning out to anybodies posts about their interviews.
my theory is that if you do all these practice interviews and prep like crazy your going to try to cater every question your asked to one you have been previously asked and than you will try to mimic the answer you gave before... I know that really dummys y'alls thought process down but my point stays the same.</p>

<p>Can you all review this flyer, I need to send it out for printing but just wanted to confer with y'all....Its for an event I'm hosting through our towns youth commission. I'm so stoked, just hoping ppl will come :-P. (Luckily the words extra credit around here are synonymous with Harvard if you get my drift, sometimes my school Irks me.) In other words I know ppl will come, but I want ppl to come because they want to, not for their grade but What ever.</p>

<p>Oh yeah the link to the flyer. :-P
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=427582583&size=l%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=427582583&size=l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Wow...three books. For the past few weeks I...didn't really do anything.</p>

<p>Although I am starting to listen to those five-minute NPR podcasts to catch up on my current events =D.</p>

<p>Oh and I reread my essays and went "hmm, I actually sound half-intelligent!"</p>

<p>nice flyer man
i'd take out the "a" in the "forum for a change" part, but maybe thats just me
oh and you'll probably get more people if you change the word save to ****</p>

<p>ooh,ooh my turn. </p>

<p>so i'm in the library at school during lunch, where i am everyday. i'm checking my email. </p>

<p>Email: Congratulations...blah blah
My inner thoughs: Oh wow no way
My best, best friend: What is TASP, some dumbass program?
Me: No, it's a program I really want to go to
Best, best friend: Oh. Yeah well I be it was reallllllly hard to get into <strong>heavy sarcasm</strong>
Me: Eff you</p>

<p>:) Gotta love a story like that</p>

<p>My friend came into school today with his acceptance letter to MIT in hand. </p>

<p>Another friend was showing off her brand new camera all day. </p>

<p>My friends boyfriend had to show off (once again) the fact that he is a genious at EVERYTHING (cept singing but that's a different story). </p>

<p>My bff just made plans to go on a month long trip to Australia.</p>

<p>And after all this I come on this thread and see all you and your stories about when you heard you got an Interview for TASP. </p>

<p>I am extremely jealous of everyone right now and am very depressed. I should go take a walk around Princeton tomorrow. :( </p>

<p>So you want to know how my phone call went? On that friday I ran out of first block when the bell rang and continued out the door. I cursed off my cell phone for having no service (never get T-Mobile) and waited for a few minutes until it came. I called TASP, no answer. I wait 15 minutes, jumping up and down. Again, no answer. Then finally I call when I get home but apparently they close early on fridays so I missed them. So then I would up talking to all of you that weekend about fears and TASP and life. It was amazing. Then monday came. At lunch I ran into the bathroom where my to best friends happened to be and I used one's cell phone to call. The lady on the line asked for my name 2 times before she asked me to spell it out (I talk way too fast). After a few moments waiting there with my friends staring at me curious to know she came back and said very nicely, "I'm sorry you didn't get an interview." I just said thank you and hung up. Then my friends gave me a hug, we went back to lunch, and my other friend gave me a garlic knot (my favorite snack). The end.</p>

<p>Oh but then I realized that I wasn't very upset about not getting into TASP. That night I realized why I was truely sad, I wouldn't get to hang with all you guys for 6 weeks. Seriously at that point, I wanted to attend just for that reason.</p>

<p>the flyer looks pretty pro, good use of colour, great design.
only thing i would critique is that it needs a bit more space between "and humanitarian aid workers" and the "come listen ask and learn", and maybe the period after darfur makes it kind of misaligned/too arty.</p>

<p>Excellent flyer, kiddo. I'd nix the "a" from "a change," too. Isn't there supposed to be a comma after ask? ("Come listen, ask, and learn.")
The period does misalign it a bit. Okay, dangit, basically I agree with what soph said. <em>Dramatic sigh</em></p>

<p>"Oh yeah it's definitely very graphic, I agree. Incest, bloody super graphic scenes, sex, rape, etc, etc, eye falling out, etc, etc, castration - "two bloody blobs" <- hahaha the guys in our class were TOTALLY SILENT while we were discussing that..."</p>

<p>Okay. Must add to my extensive reading-list.
Caaaaaaaaaaastration. I love saying that word. XD</p>

<p>I don't fear death itself; I fear the WAY I might die. I hope I'm not butchered to death or anything. >_< I want it to be painless, or at least heroic if it has to hurt. I just freak out at the thought of being hacked into tiny pieces. This morning (or yesterday?), a guy and his friends were being harassed at a McDonald's in the other end of the island. The creeps kept bothering the group, insulted them again as the good kids left, and one of the good kids insulted the leader right back. They began to fight and because the bad guy couldn't hit the good guy (the latter was too fast and great at dodging), the bad guy pulled out a freaking knife and slit the good guy's throat. What the furck!! IN THE MCDONALD'S PARKING LOT!! <em>spaz</em> Granted, it was about 2:00 AM, but STILL. WHADAHECK!?</p>

<p>Death seems like an exciting prospect. I'd like to see what happens after we die. I HOPE there is something after death; reincarnation seems like a cool possibility. <em>shrugs</em> Who knows. I haven't died yet. :P The other day, I was thinking in the shower that maybe there is a limited amount of "souls" and we just get reborn. Maybe we are transported to another planet, maybe even another plane. What if we go "back in time"? The thing is that we have no way of knowing if these things are true, at least for now. If our memories are erased, we can't know if we've had previous lives. Anyway, who's seen "What Dreams May Come"? Anyone? Anyone?</p>

<p>SPAMALOT! MPatHG! We watched the latter at TASP. :D I'd heard of it for ages, but never seen it before this past summer. WE ARE THE KNIGHTS WHO SAY....NEE/NI/KNEE! God, hilarious.</p>

<p>Oh, Karen. Welcome to the ranks of the Single Awesome People.</p>

<p>Sidjenks, having a phone interview makes no difference, I think.</p>

<p>Daydreams! I love them. :)</p>

<p>Oh jeezus, my left eye has been crying for a whiiiiile. MAKE IT STOP! STOP BEING SAD, LEFT EYE! WHY MUST YOU WEEP?</p>

<p>lollerskates. Tako, you are freaking hilarious. "Then, towards the end of my interview, I shall open the little fanny pack upon my waist, take out some magic fairy dust, and sprinkle it upon my interviewer, seize his hand, and jump out the window screaming, "Believe! Believe!"" I literally shook from laughter; my grandmother asked what the heck was up. XD So weird. I'm listening to Cradle of Filth, crying out of my left eye, and laughing hysterically.</p>

<p>I have the urge to create a new account and say I'm an interviewer. roflmao. </p>

<p>HAHAHA OMG! AN INTERVIEWER GOT ON HERE AND POSTED! AHAHAHAHAHA!!</p>

<p>Iris: "Sister: YOU GOT IN? AJGFWEIVUHNVJ" - <em>dies</em> I can actually imagine this happening.</p>

<p>Oh, roam. You will forever be our androgynous TASPlicant.</p>

<p>'kay, so sharing stories. I was at a fabric store with some of my friends buying the fabric for our Fashion Show dresses last year (one of said friends designed the outfits). I suddenly got a call from my mom and she told me to sit down. I was confused and asked what was up. She told me I got an interview for TASP. I was like YAAAAAAY! SQUEE!! And then I asked why she was reading my mail. XD When my interviewer contacted me by email, we began to chitchat. He was awesome. We kept in contact for months. I haven't heard from him in a long while though. :'( That makes me a very sad panda.</p>

<p>I got the acceptance email before the letter. I opened Hotmail and saw a message from Telluride. My heart began to go ga-dunk, ga-dunk, ga-DUNK. I swallowed hard, closed my eyes, opened them, and clicked. When I read the first few lines, I jumped up from my chair, screamed, and began to run through the house. I kid you not. I ran around and went into every room. :D</p>

<p>Chillax, Karen. At least you have everyone on here. This is a veritable mini-TASP. Actually, it's bigger, but whatever. The point is that you're getting sort of a taste of TASP anyway, through these people. <3 <em>huggles</em></p>

<p>What in the heckers is a garlic knot?! Just...a knot of garlic?! Or is is breaded? Or...</p>

<p>God, this is long.
BTW, sorry to the people I haven't replied to. I've been, you guessed it, super freaking busy. x.x</p>

<p>Please email me your interview dates so I can set up my schedule and deal with that, mmkay?</p>

<p>Kudos to all those that survived their interviews and gluck to those that have yet to be 'terviewed.</p>