<p>Yeah I definitely do, Giantredlobster. Haha. Whenever people think of California, they think of Southern California in all of it's sun-bathed "perfect" weather glory. If a little polluted. At least we keep it clean here in the Bay. Kind of. Yadadamean? </p>
<p>NorCal is just temperate. It's been pretty damn chilly lately though. Admittedly we're not freezing like the folks on the East Coast, but we're far, far away from paradise. XD</p>
<p>It's ok though. NorCal is still hella cool.</p>
<p>giantred: lol woww. anybody else speak other languages?</p>
<p>"i go to some school in dublin/pleasanton, CA
im a secret spanish spy so i cant reveal my identity B-)</p>
<p>yet." which is relatively close to where you live :]</p>
<p>my friend goes to saratoga O_o</p>
<p>forgottenhawk: yessss norcal owns !</p>
<p>haha pm your friend passion</p>
<p>and yaddido</p>
<p>YEE!!!!</p>
<p>Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish (my foreign language in school). :)</p>
<p>oooh asians unite! ;D</p>
<p>hey guys... i have two quick questions</p>
<p>1) i know this is really dumb, but did you include authors names on your book lists, or just titles? </p>
<p>and 2) i've been playing with the idea of doing my lit crit on a periodical as a whole... by playing with i mean i've actually done more than half of it. anyway, i really love the newspaper and i think the ideas are good, but it limits me as far as rhetorical strategy, use of language, etc... thoughts/ideas? i figured TASP is looking for something original, which this would be, but is it too far off the prompt?</p>
<p>thanks for the help.</p>
<p>AAh.... im gone for a few hours and the thread has grown another 2 pages. Thats nuts, I don't even spend this much time online.</p>
<p>BTW... awesome, another canto here!
ku day tang em dou o day gong mat ye! haha sorry, i don't know IPA or whatever for Cantonese.</p>
<p>On a more serious note, are you guys having your teacher send in the recommendation or are you sending it yourselves?</p>
<p>youre supposed to send it yourself i believe..</p>
<p>the signature of confidentiality would be to prove that you didnt rip open the letter to read it once the teacher finished writing it and gave it to you</p>
<p>cdon: author names not necessary, would be nice i guess
and wow thats original, i think go for it as long as you express critical thinking and a keen eye</p>
<p>lol I'm mandarin, but I'm illiterate, and I can speak a liiiil bit, but I'm way far from being fluent. -_-;; </p>
<p>I'm just having my teacher give me the rec letter with his siggy over the flap, and sending it in with everything else...</p>
<p>My school is being difficult though, b/c apparently students "are not permitted to have a hard copy of the official transcript" yadda yadda yadda...so they're sending my transcript in separately (that is, if I give them an addressed manila envelope with affixed postage, a week for processing transcript requests, and $3 for "administrative fees"). </p>
<p>These logistics drive me crazy. >_<</p>
<p>I believe the general consensus for the book list is titles only. That's what I did, anyway.</p>
<p>Cantonese is pretty hard to type on the internet. So I could probably understand if you don't understand what I'm going to type. The pinyin for Mandarin is easier to understand, but even that isn't very straightforward.</p>
<p>Hai ah! Dou so doh hai bak yun sun qing hui TASP, hahaha.</p>
<p>shockwaveride - if you're mailing the app, mail the rec with it. If you're doing the app online, have your teacher mail it himself.</p>
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<p>Goodbye.</p>
<p>hahahaha, whatismouse!</p>
<p>haha good one, whatismouse. :)</p>
<p>anyone want to copy and paste all the people applying and their seminar choices onto one post? i would, but i'm too lazy. heh, and also trying to finish essays for school. tasp is gonna have to wait...</p>
<p>lol wow, i love how whatismouse's tactic worked xD its quiet now</p>
<p>roamorse:
this is from assorted</p>
<p>"market state
roamorse
dandelion27
giantredlobster (TASS)
thecomisar
A-san
kyzan
OptimusPrime
daenerys
ActuarialDJ
xwang90
<strong>lover</strong>789
sidjenks
PurpoisePal
yanners
forgottenhawk
Billy_Liar
whatismouse
unefleursauvage
Vango
shockwaveride
jason4444
kbguey21
wendy08
goldstars
p4550n
Toast Womble
assorted</p>
<p>Maybe (people who either said they weren't sure if they were applying, or posted random things so I couldn't tell if they were applicants or not)
cecils15
crimson12
tryin2Bcool
DinaZhang
suom_ynona"</p>
<p>haha thats because I left :-P</p>
<p>Don't worry i have no more screamo in me. On my way home I fell asleep in the car. I think I am going to call it a night with TASS.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I never figured this many Asians would be applying to TASP! Awesome, I join the ranks of great men, which are the mandarin people obviously :D</p>
<p>haha giantredlobster i always thought "hen" meant either bad, strange, or perverted...guess i should work on my japanese :P</p>
<p>asian languages are the awesome</p>
<p>and still no one has sent me even one tiny part of a musechick essay T_T</p>
<p>I think it was just that no one wanted to compile the list again. Haha.</p>
<p>Yay for speaking both Cantonese and Mandarin. :D</p>