<p>good luck man
the question is, if you got into both, which would you choose?</p>
<p>god that would be a hard decision, but I'd definitely end up going to tasp personally</p>
<p>tasp > rsi anyday</p>
<p>I kinda wish I applied for RSI, not that I would get in. TASP is better though,</p>
<p>The RSI kids scare me. I read some of last year's final papers and they really just...yeah. They're all publishable works. Meanwhile, we're just plain awsome! Yeah! <em>selfcomfort</em></p>
<p>Iris... More likely than not your interview wont just be rapid-fire questions. The questions they will ask are going to be more in depth. But don't worry about that. Instead of just blurbing out right after the question, take a second compose yourself and your answer than proceed.</p>
<p>Some of my tips and "one liners":</p>
<p>If it is a multiple part question, say 3 parts, if you can only remember 2 answer the first two...And than politely say, "Could you please repeat the last part of the question."</p>
<p>If you don't understand the question, instead of BSing, say "Excuse me could you please explain/rephrase your question." There is nothing wrong with not understanding the question and you will make yourself look like a fool if you BS</p>
<p>ALSO heres a big one.
I'm sure you will have water...Its there for you to DRINK. A 1+ hour interview without water will be a nightmare but you just never know whens the right time to drink so you often just go on without drinking. SO eventually you end up sounding like a Ho*a*rse. :-P ...When you need a drink simply say, "Could you please excuse me for a moment"...and take a sip of water</p>
<p>Personally prep wise im not going over the top. Only things I'm doing:
-Re-reading my essays
-Come up with 5 points about my self
-A brief list of in depth questions that cant be found through the website/publications/this thread
-Read my book on African Americans and Sports
Ooh and researching my interviewers</p>
<p>Okay so my list isn't short...But no need to freak out to much. Just be yourselves and GOOD LUCK!!!</p>
<p>"Be yourselves..."</p>
<p>Why does everybody always give that advice? What if I want to be somebody else? </p>
<p>I think that I'll apply to Harvard just for fun, and pretend to be this super serious nerd who cannot smile but only glares at people. It will be the ultimate test of will power not to laugh during my interview. That is actually a really good idea. I do not believe I have ever not smiled when I am trying not to smile. But then I can remind myself that, oh, the great Harvard! is at stake here. What willpower it will take to turn that smile upside down and keep my head lowered and always glance up under my eyelashes...glaring.</p>
<p>Interesting tactics.
Your'e just like my mom (Tako) you have the same tactics.....Purposefully messing up your Harvard interview (Chuckles). Dont worry seeing my mom be successful Your Role Play aspirations will be met with success.</p>
<p>^Ooh a Fortune Cookie in the making XD Lucky Numbers: 58 54 27 23 31 :-)</p>
<p>I had a fortune cookie once that read something along the lines of "Squander money and you will reap much great wealth." Therefore, I don't trust fortune cookies, or their grammar.</p>
<p>I lol'd.</p>
<p>Spanish essay due tomorrow...gah. But tomorrow is my school's ring ceremony! My class ring, at last. It better be nice; this has got to be <em>the</em> most overpriced piece of jewelry I have ever bought. But you know, tradition and so forth. I kinda like it. =D</p>
<p>Oh snap I want a class ring :(</p>
<p>And maybe I will "mess" up my Harvard interview...well, not mess up, but adopt a totally different personality. A British accent, at the very least. And no smiling. And I'd be terribly cynical and critical of society. </p>
<p>Hehe. The more I think about this the more fun it sounds.</p>
<p>Quite the persona your building up there Tako. XD</p>
<p>Nobody buys class rings at our school. I'm not complaining though....They are ugly. And it defeats the purpose when there isnt A class ring. But basically you spend 100-200 dollars on a randomly personalized ring with any little orbs and ornamentals you want. They end up look like whimsical knobs on ppl's fingers. </p>
<p>-Goodnight</p>
<p>Wow it's only 11 Corey!</p>
<p>Amazing.</p>
<p>Well thats not counting the fact that I just wasted 45 minutes of my time now and that I'm waking up at 5?</p>
<p>Yea, so not a good night. A short one</p>
<p>not to mention I have to work middle school dance tomorrow night, have a driving lesson and have to hang up flyers for DARFUR EVENT!!!</p>
<p>Than this weekend we have 7 lacrosse games...But I'm missing 2 since I'm missing out on Saturday for Diversity Task Force, we are seeing a movie called "Cats Of Mirikitani." It seems really interesting.</p>
<p>ALSO I really want to see "The Namesake" It Sounds really interesting....
Our 80y/o neighbor saw it with his "lady friend" and left a message on our answering machine saying we should watch it...Unfortunately it was a mistake as he really wished to leave the message on our other neighbors (Who are Indian...The movie is about Indians in America) but nonetheless it was really considerate and makes me want to see it.</p>
<p>You'll have water at the interview. Or coffee...my interviewer asked me if I wanted anything from Starbucks and I kept on saying "no" because I thought he had to pay for it. (But TA pays for everything, as you will soon realize, heh.)</p>
<p>justanotherccer, how did your interview go?</p>
<p>JustanothaCCer is a past TASPer.
So inherently it went well</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>i guess it did then :p</p>
<p>lol, how do you work a middle school dance giantredlobster?
do you chaperone socially awkward kids trying to learn how to grind?</p>
<p>Aw, middle school sex exploits. "I HEARD BOBBY KISSED NANCY WITH THE TONGUE!!!!"</p>
<p>Except people get really freaky in high school. I went to a dance at the start of the school year and two HUGE guys...mind you, I'm six feet, so they must have been seven feet at least....sandwiched me and I wasn't able to get away (the floor was paaaaaaacked). Luckily the song on at the time was some kind of techno moshing nonsense, so all they did was jump and bang into me, but I saw some similarly huge guys smash into much smaller girls, freshmen even, and they clearly didn't know what to do. If I were five-three or something, I'd probably have gotten hurt. o_o;;</p>
<p>i dont chaperone, I(we) just facilitate the dance (Admissions, coat check, snack bar ect..) And they hire 18+ for the actual chaperoning.
But there is a no freaking policy :-P However we decided to remove it because in the past few dances we have been encouraging it--Since attendance has been low and no one is on the dance floor.
<strong>The last dance 2 girls were freaking to YMCA--Funniest thing ever--They had the hand motions going as well</strong></p>
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<p>Haha so basically Our town HAD the BEST middle school dances until last year. I mean THE BEST.</p>
<p>Until last march one of our dances had over 550 kids from all over the bay (There were these kids from hayward--Which is over an hour away) some things went wrong:
A) To many people for the community center
B) The Airconditioner was malfunctioning and instead of cold air, the room was being heated
C) 2 fights broke out
D) The cops had to come twice
E) The dance ended an hour early per order of the cops
F) When me met our max capacity at 550 there were still almost 100 kids outside--The majority coming from far away places so they couldn't get home easily so many just sat outside and attempted to get in (Like My Super Sweet Sixteen status) --This was why the cops were called the first time
G) G just for giggles and kicks. :-P</p>
<p>In response we had to institute a policy where you had to be a resident in our town to attend the dances. Now we are just breaking 100 :-( </p>
<p>But the new lower numbers are also a product of the vicious rumors being spread by parents. On par with sexual acts on the dance floor, drinking, drugs and the ever so raunch freaking <em>gasp</em> (I always laugh at this one because come September of next year the 8th graders will have their first highschool dance experience and than they arent rumors anymore)
But the thing that bewilders me is that none of the middleschoolers are social. Only 9 kids came from the middle school i attended, where when I attended over 100 kids came-- Kids these days. </p>
<p>there is my middle school dance narative.
(Excuse me for the million typos in that)</p>
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<p>Oh yeah and what about that TASP. :-P
does anyone have an interview coming up this weekend....:)</p>