<p>I can’t LOG IN TO COMMON APP WEBSITE
I can’t LOG IN TO COMMON APP WEBSITE
I can’t LOG IN TO COMMON APP WEBSITE
I can’t LOG IN TO COMMON APP WEBSITE
I can’t LOG IN TO COMMON APP WEBSITE</p>
<p>I just realized that my biology meeting is next week lol</p>
<p>^^omg that’s not good. Aren’t apps like all due in 2 days??? (I’m done lol)</p>
<p>I just realized my math team meet is next week. I don’t even know why my teacher recommended me for that, I’m waaay better at history.</p>
<p>I keep on procrastinating and I know my break homework is just going to creep up on me. I won’t be sleeping on Sunday, I guess…</p>
<p>And I just realized I am so far from my state’s PSAT cutoff that I should just go throw myself in a ditch right now. Next year, I better get a better score.</p>
<p>i think i’ve wasted my life.</p>
<p>I still have essays to write. And I really couldn’t care less about the essays themselves. But I still have to do them.</p>
<p>hifoudveahuihuiweoh uo we, hudiawhuqohuohuqwro .</p>
<p>That’s much better.</p>
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<p>You typed a ‘we’.</p>
<p>Give a monkey a typewriter, and if you wait long enough it will type out the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.</p>
<p>This is the infinite monkey theorem.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about how much monkey typing is needed, and decided to do some tests. I acquired a small gedanken monkey that can type randomly at 48wpm (4 keystrokes per second) without stopping for food or rest. I gave my monkey a small typewriter with 26 letter keys (capitals only) and a space bar five times as big as the others, and (forgiving soul that I am) excused it from any punctuation. I wanted to see if he would type the word MONKEY at some point over the next 5 years.</p>
<p>In fact, he did, and it was hidden away like this: “… SJKBV SDG FMMONKEYP SRGH DKAFJI …” near the bottom of page 230 of volume 798 of a thousand volumes of monkeyprint. I have built a library to hold these volumes for the benefit of future generations.</p>
<p>To clarify my “it is likely”: the probability of the word appearing in 5 years is about one half, because it either appears or does not appear. So I was lucky: it’s 50:50 whether the word MONKEY would be found at all.</p>
<p>I decide to raise the bar to MONKEY WANT BANANA. (If my monkey had typed this, I would have fed it. But it didn’t, did it.)</p>
<p>Monkeys have been around for about 50 million years. What if I had acquired all the monkeys in the world from the very start of monkeys, and had them type continuously at 48wpm for 50 million years? If anyone can help me with how many monkeys there are and have been over the last 50 million years, please let me know. I’m going to suggest 10 billion, on average. They would have produced a hundred thousand trillion tons of monkeyprint by now. Might they have managed a MONKEY WANT BANANA? Yes: the probability that one of them would have done it is an impressive 89.5%.</p>
<p>This is promising. Now, what if the universe was filled with tiny monkeys right back to the Big Bang, typing as fast as possible until now?</p>
<p>So, how tiny? One per atom? That would be good. And how fast can they type? A billion keystrokes per second? Now we’re talking! We have a 98% chance of one of them managing a SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE TEMPERATE. 98% is good! But add one more word, and the probability of one of them knocking that out drops to one in fifty million, which is not so good.</p>
<p>I have to make my monkeys smaller! One per atom is not very many, as most of the universe is intergalactic space with less than one atom of matter per cubic metre. There should be more monkeys than this. I shrink the monkey until it occupies the smallest possible space there is. Quantum gravity physics tells us that there is a smallest possible distance, known as the ‘Planck length’. So of course I want to use this.</p>
<p>If you were to try to examine anything on a smaller scale than the Planck scale, the sheer effort required to do the examining would be so great that you’d create a tiny black hole there, bigger than the size of the thing you were trying to see. (The black hole would vanish very quickly as soon as you stopped looking.) The same thing would happen if you tried to chop anything into smaller pieces than the Planck length – you’d make a black hole and end up with bigger things than you started with. In fact, nothing can happen on a smaller scale than this – at least, not without radically altering the laws of physics so much that you would all but obliterate any meaning in the word ‘smaller’. Experimentally, no-one has come anywhere near getting there, which is probably just as well.</p>
<p>As well as being the size limit on smallness, the Planck length is the fundamental unit of distance – the only one that is not made up with reference to anything else, as are metres and miles and the like. This elegance and purity makes it very important in physics.</p>
<p>I can’t see it catching on though – it’s way too silly. You wouldn’t really want to measure your inside leg in Planck lengths. One Planck length is a hundred billion billion times smaller than the distance across a proton, which is a tiny speck of a thing that sits at the very centre of a hydrogen atom (the smallest atom).</p>
<p>Back to the monkeys.</p>
<p>I’m going to divide the universe into Planck-sized regions, and put a monkey in each one. You will ask what the monkey is made of, when nothing can be smaller than the Planck scale, and I will say that it is not made of anything – it is a single, fundamental monkey particle. One in every Planck sized region of space. These regions are very small – there will be nearly as many monkeys inside the space occupied by a single atom as there are atoms in the universe. And there will be monkeys in the spaces not occupied by atoms too.</p>
<p>And they will type faster. How fast can a thing happen? Just as there is a shortest possible distance, there is a shortest possible time, and it’s called the Planck time. The Planck time is how long it would take you to cover one Planck length if you travelled at the speed of light.</p>
<p>My monkeys will type at a rate of one keystroke per Planck time.</p>
<p>They will type so fast because the energy required to confine a monkey to such a small region will make the monkey extraordinarily hot.</p>
<p>You will ask what the typewriter is made of, and I will say it is not separate from the monkey: typing is what a monkey particle does. (I don’t know what happens to the letters that the monkeys type. There is no room for them or anything else, as the cosmos is jam-packed with hot monkey particles. But I’m not going to let this stop me.)</p>
<p>So, from the Big Bang, with a monkey in every last tiniest unit of space possible, typing at the fastest speed there is, for the entire history of the growing Universe, and do we have a deal?</p>
<p>Yes! The first four lines of the sonnet “SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE TEMPERATE ROUGH WINDS DO SHAKE THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY AND SUMMERS LEASE HATH ALL TOO SHORT A DATE” will be knocked out somewhere in the cosmos several times a second!</p>
<p>This is good! In fact, every few dozen thousand years, it’ll come together with the next word – SOMETIME – to boot. Will we ever get the next two words (SOMETIME TOO)? We might be lucky – there’s something like a one in three chance in the age of the universe.</p>
<p>So there we are. One in three. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, from the Monkeys of the Cosmos, four lines and two words of a sonnet!</p>
<p>…FOESZH GIMCED GHN ASIO AKHPS WRSHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE TEMPERATE ROUGH WINDS DO SHAKE THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY AND SUMMERS LEASE HATH ALL TOO SHORT A DATE SOMETIME TOOSFB L FPGPAAO XUN WVIKGXWS TX FSAOL PABK…</p>
<p>I don’t know about you, but I think that’s rather impressive.</p>
<p>^ All of that because I typed a “we”…</p>
<p>crap. break is almost over. i haven’t started any homework…uh oh</p>
<p>why can’t colleges make my life easier and use technology more?
it’d be so much more helpful if i could do some interviews that don’t require me to go halfway across the nation D:
it would be extremely helpful.
i think they should start doing webcam interviews or something for those who don’t have much time to dedicate to flights or for those who can’t sit and wait as their flights are delayed and interviews missed.</p>
<p>Ughhh AP exams :(</p>
<p>^ It’s January (almost). Stress about college apps, not APs. Or scholarship apps. Which are making me <em>headdesk</em> right now. And Lit essays, which will be making me <em>headdesk</em> in less than 48 hours.</p>
<p>This thread already makes me feel bad about myself. Well, here it goes.
I’m Facebook limbo with a few people I requested that were in the same extracurricular and classes as me. Also being rejected by people that I was in multiple extracurriculars. I try to talk to everyone.
My family constantly criticizes me. Things my family tell me: How come you’re only 5’5? How come your teeth aren’t white? How come you didn’t get a 36, when my co-workers daughter who has ADD got a scholarship to U of M? How come you have an 85 in Calclus? You need to get a new face? You need a new hairstyle! Your room is so messy!
Skipped powerlifting winter break practice since I was in Canada and had cramps.
Have friends that say they want to hang out with me but never take the initiative to call.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Don’t know when indoor track is pratice.
Extremely out of shape.
GPA and class rank dropping.
losing sanity.</p>
<p>I’m so sorry Starstruck…
eeergh. I hate being rejected by freinds. Don’t worry , the CC community is here to help 
I know you may not be feeling smiley at the moment but,hey, even this will pass away.</p>
<p>I really needed to do this:</p>
<p>After spending the last two months stuck in my high school’s college office filling out apps, asking for recommendations, and doing stupid college stuff, I have no friends. No one cares about me. I HATE HATE HATE having no one to talk to and to top it all i don’t even think i can get into my dream school. So all the work i did is basically waste and i end up with no friends. :'(</p>
<p>Is your school ultracompetitive and secretive?
To try and not lose all contact, one of my friends and I traded essays so we could revise them and check for voice, etc. I think it really helped me bond with her too, so we are better friends! But I did probably not talk to a couple people for a while, since all I had to talk about was college apps, complaining about SAT scores (which makes me sound like a snob, since my score is wonderful compared to people at my school and in my classes), fret over other testing, and the enormous amount of fees for college apps that I was able to pay ($700 isn’t as much as a lot of people on here, but huge compared to anyone I know, and since they know about it, I probably look even more snobby with the complaining about my SAT scores).
I guess I ranted a bit in that myself >_></p>
<p>I hate how my school doesn’t send out report cards until mid-January. My entire winter break was ruined because I thought I did horribly on all my finals, and English and Spanish are the only two classes I know for sure I got A’s in. With that in mind, the worst case scenario is a 3.33 UW GPA for junior year (the most important year - yay for me :() and either a 3.83 or 4.0 UW at best. Things aren’t looking good at all right now. Plus, it will be a huge disadvantage for me if my junior year GPA is crappy, not just because it’s the most important year, but also because I’ll have a downward trend (3.86 UW freshman year and 3.74 UW sophomore year - I was hospitalized so that was part of the reason for the drop). </p>
<p>Yet I don’t understand how this is happening. I’m a member of Mensa, so I’m definitely not stupid by any means, and I also know that I worked very hard this past semester and tried my best on all my finals, but right now I just want to curl up and cry. :(</p>
<p>i am very bitter right now and feel like i am some sort of failed experiment or broken computer. i used to be top of the line, state of the art, beautifully polished software and then i got dropped on the floor too much and now i crash a lot and they try to patch me but i end up worse</p>
<p>and i hear you andromeda, it is really lonely at the top</p>