<p>Here meaning CC or the Pak thread?</p>
<p>You can read my work at atthegrapevine.com I write a weekly column. I also covered the elections for other papers/e-zines. Have worked in parliament and the City of London etc etc.</p>
<p>I’m applying to US for the Class of 2015. I meant CC originally. I can understand why you’re here very well (I’m here too, right :D).</p>
<p>Which schools?</p>
<p>You know before partition my grandfather spend 20 years in Calcutta as part of the British Indian Army. He was 100% Punjabi, but lived/worked there (also Pune and Bombay) before settling back into his ancestral lands in the North Punjab.</p>
<p>If you want the specifics of the schools I’m applying to I can always PM (should I?). Vaguely speaking, a couple of ivies, MIT and a few LACs. </p>
<p>Your grandfather’s story is interesting. I wish I could extensively travel Punjab and rest of the subcontinent.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wish for unhindered travel between the lands too.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Decision Date 2011”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/decision_date_2011.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/decision_date_2011.shtml)</p>
<p>so geeky… so MITish 
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<p>^ i saw that. the comments were hilarious, especially those from the desperate pakistani kids (and one of their teachers). my favourite comments though were the ones where they’re like “may Allah make it go well.” funny how people think praying to their god gives them some sort of advantage. </p>
<p>reality check: every religion has its own god, and all of these diverse gods are working extra hard to get their followers into MIT. </p>
<p>tip: find some super deity to worship, who is much higher in the clouds than your current god, to beat everyone else out. :D</p>
<p>comic relief anyone? :P</p>
<p>the teacher comment, in case you guys can’t find it:</p>
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<p>^That was actually written by my best friend. He told me about it. I LOL’ed so hard, it hurt.</p>
<p>^ that’s a relief. i was starting to think that the Roots ‘director’ desperately needed a remedial writing class. either that, or she was just plain ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>P.S: where did mathsfreak go?</p>
<p>‘kumael’
He’s the guy who wrote this.
And the guy ‘muhammad ibrahim’ got so effing mad at this that the guy who wrote this literally begged him to forgive him.</p>
<p>lmao, i’d be mad too. but then, i guess it’s kinda funny. gotta ask though: does the ‘director’ actually talk like that? </p>
<p>i wonder if i should post ■■■■■-like comments… :p</p>
<p>Sadly, no. But she tries to impress everyone by imitating the accent of an admissions counselor. She fails horribly, though. Her resultant accent is a cross between British and American, and just doesn’t sound natural. For example, ‘univarsities’.</p>
<p>pakipower your notions about god/God seem pretty inaccurate to me.</p>
<p>GOD! that MIT article so totally geeky…</p>
<p>maybe mathsfreak is off getting his (soon-to-be) acceptance celebration party in order :P</p>
<p>“Univarsities.” Lol, I can totally hear that in my head. Isn’t it funny how people create fake accents just to sound ‘smart’? </p>
<p>The worst is when high-pitched voices are coupled with fake accents. Lol, they’re so annoying, you have no idea.</p>
<p>They were meant to seem inaccurate qwerty11. In case you didn’t see my original post completely, I wrote at the end that it was all for comic relief.</p>
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I know, right?</p>