<p>I second the stuff about grades and ability not going together. My essays were good enough to make the cut, but not good enough to make a B- one time at my school. =O I got a C+ on a paper on Pride and Prejudice, which made me sad because I actually really liked the book!</p>
<p>Wow...time flies and my interview is in one day. Yikes.</p>
<p>Good Luck iriseyes and procrastinate i'm pulling for everyone-I am actually excited, too calm really. But yeah that's funny about the grades-I've given up on getting an A in English but am published in a text book and got an interview for tass, so whatever-it's all subjective anyway. :) I think the cookie cutter kids at my school get A's and the deep thinkers get B's, but I'd rather be a thinker than just mindlessly writing scripted essays.</p>
<p>And he says, "Yeah, Jenny I think you totally deserve to get EIC. But I think you're going to be stuck in centerspread because there's nobody else who can do it."
Jenny should mess up fast! ha ha
TAKO-cheer up! :)</p>
<p>Dude I am hecka hating centerspread right now...yeah, sabotage status :P</p>
<p>I don't know. I just want EIC so badly. More than TASP, I've decided (yes, go ahead and gasp) because if I don't get EIC it will be shoved in my face every single day of my life next year.</p>
<p>TASP, on the other hand, will always be like a, oh what a great time I would have had if I had gone, but I don't think that rejection would change my life like EIC rejection would. Acceptance would probably change my life, of course :) </p>
<p>I mean, I want TASP more than anything. But I guess I'll get over it, whereas with EIC I will have to face it every single day. That would be painful. And I'll have to see those people who stole my position AND the people who chose those people over me...and yeah :P I'd like to say I don't hold grudges, but never have I wanted anything so badly before. :(</p>
<p>It's hard to cheer up. My best bud and I are having a sleepover tomorrow where we're going to do MAJOR EDITOR IN CHIEF PLANNING. It'll be a blast.</p>
<p>stages of grief: anger, denial, acceptance..... oh wrong topic o.k. well act like you don't care then no one can give you grief. It's like bullies in elementary school-the power comes from knowing they can get to you! Besides, there are tons of EIC's applying to college but not everyone can say they went to TASP! Oh and don't send bad juju out about TASP, you'll jinx yourself :( Statistics: 22,000 high schools=22,000 EIC, How many TASPers?200 TASPers, that is a huge difference. Not to minimize your plight. I wish you all the luck in strategically taking over the EIC position.</p>
<p>"juju" - rofl, what an entertaining word :P</p>
<p>But actually, offthetreadmill, I believe only <em>86</em> lucky kids get to be TASPers :) </p>
<p>And Tako, I hope you get BOTH! </p>
<p>Eeek! 3 more days! (<---I have it marked in like 8 different places around my room: planner, bulletin board, back of my wrist, computer...etc etc)</p>
<p>Just in case you forget Inkspill.</p>
<p>Juju-- I love it.
Another short story from English-- So we are reading Things Fall Apart (Story about the Igbo people of Nigeria) and there are italicized words that are native words so one of them was Obo-<em>something or another</em> and he asked me, "can you read this" and then he was like "oh no I forgot your not Ethiopian." So he asked the kid that sits next to me (One of the 4 other black kids at our school) and hes like, "you read Bush, tell me what this says."
<em>Sigh</em> </p>
<p>Ooh and has anyone else seen blades of glory I saw it during drama today, twas rather funny.</p>
<p>Juju is SUCH A COOL WORD. Seriously. Jujubee (or jujube, whatever, but that sounds/looks like "jew lube" in my head) is one of the cutest words ever.</p>
<p>And zomgsz, college acceptances. THIS WILL BE YOU IN A YEAR, KIDS!</p>
<p>roflmao. Excellent comeback. Kudos to him.</p>
<p>And tako, GOOD LUCK ON GETTING EIC! <3 <3</p>
<p>wow you guys definitely weren't kidding about trying to get interviewees to contradict themselves
tried to convince me that everything that i had said/written made no sense whatsoever
oh and he didn't even bring up my conflict essay, didn't even acknowledge its existence...</p>
<p>and to all those people who are worrying about books you put on your books list - do it. He actually read one of the books on my list just for the interview and spent like 15 minutes talking about it....aghh</p>
<p>Finally I thought I was the only one!!! Although mine didn't bring up any books on my list. I would classify my interview as brutal lol!!!</p>
<p>aw nate. that sounds pretty harsh. i'm going to read over some of my books this week (SPRING BREAK!!! finally.) that correlate with my essays. i had an interview for another program this morning (that i totally forgot i applied for until i got the letter in the mail) so i guess it's semi-preparation for my TASP interview. it was more of a discussion than an actual interview; five kids sit in a circle and the interviewer throws out some obscure question, we debate and argue and listen to each other. the scholars from last year's program gave us a tour and the only thing i gleaned was that TASPers are much cooler. LOL</p>
<p>on another note, miss aida here got accepted at every school she applied (duh), namely brown, swat, and chicago. =D</p>
<p>Aidaa I love your college choices :) I hope to be you in a year! :D Which probably won't happen. But oh well, life's life :D I just don't want to get stuck going to a UC...California? Gross.</p>
<p>Anddd I know that there are only 86 TASPers and 22,000 EICs...BUT who cares about what colleges think? I mean, I guess I do. But it's wayyy more about the experience for me. And I know that TASP will be an awesome experience. (Okay, more than awesome. It will be life-changing :D)</p>
<p>But EIC will be absolutely amazing too! Because we'll be in a transitional period next year where we start a major revamping in the entire system because we're moving online (meaning articles start rolling deadlines and many, many more stories will be written and game reviews and INSTANT news articles and oh my gosh it's so exciting because so much more will be covered and we'll get to write wayyy more) AND we plan to start audio slideshows and podcasts AND possibly (actually, probably won't happen next year...but eventually :D)* video broadcasting and oh my gosh I want to be in charge of it all and spend hundreds of hours putting it all together and leave a legacy for the rest of history :D</p>
<p>I mean, next year is like THE year for our newspaper. The editors in chief are setting the foundation that will last for a while, at least until the next kind of journalism comes around...maybe 20 years? :D And I know* (like, basically, for a fact) that me and my best one are the only ones willing to put hundreds (and thousands) of hours and sacrifice our lives and sleep for the newspaper. And if a foundation is going to be set, then, yes it is going to take hundreds (and thousands) of hours. Anddd if we don't get it, we know we'll end up picking up everything anyway which would be entirely unfair to us. (It already happens this year, too...which is quite infuriating, and ends up making US look bad because it looks like we take forever on stuff, when honestly, it's not even our responsibility, we just take it on because they don't answer phone calls and ditch and if we didn't do it our newspaper would be be published on time.)</p>
<p>I really better not get stuck in a rut. :( </p>
<p>So yes, cross my fingers for both >.< Oh my, this is SUCH a stressful time for me.</p>
<p>anyone else not have an interview yet?</p>
<p>my interviewers contacted me, but they have yet to make an appointment yet.</p>
<p>same here jason...are u in socal area?</p>
<p>I know some of us have our interviews as late as April14th so its all good.</p>
<p>Jason, if your worried (as was I) just email your interviewer. Ended up my interview had been scheduled for a while, I just hadn't been notified.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Yeah I live in the Socal Area.</p>
<p>I think we may be interviewed by the same person.</p>
<p>yeah...are his initials jk or sk?</p>
<p>hey, any TASPlicant from upper-NY/Albany area here?!</p>
<p>Tomorrow's my interview. Wish me luck! =O</p>
<p>Good luck!!! :D</p>