<p>hello fellow applicants!</p>
<p>I have been reading this thread for a while but I guess I was too stressed and nervous to join the conversation. I thought that maybe it was a good start to tell you that they announced the decisions date. </p>
<p>“Early Action decisions will be available in your UChicago Account on Wednesday, December 18th in the late afternoon.”</p>
<p>Have a great day! It would be awesome to meet you all!</p>
<p>Don’t be nervous! We don’t bite(: we can’t talk about the “D”, it’s forbidden. Btw, by “D”, I mean decisions… Feel free to start a discussion about macaroni if your heart so desires!</p>
<p>We should talk about the snow storm! Apparently they’re calling them names now. Snowstorm Electra will bring 5 to 8 inches in my area of MA.</p>
<p>Really?! Do they name snowstorms alphabetically too?</p>
<p>I feel like they do; Electra is a weird name and it begins with a letter close to the beginning of the alphabet. </p>
<p>I hope we have a snow day or something. That would be wonderful.</p>
<p>I wish I had a snowstorm here… it is just so cold and snow-free, if there is such a term. Electra sounds like a superhero name</p>
<p>@poisinbee, where do you live? In AZ it’s going to be 77 degrees next week -___- Winter neglects us.</p>
<p>It’s about 25 F for me. Practically tropical, considering the fact that it’s been in the single digits for the past few days.</p>
<p>Around 65 degrees here! Also, Electra is possibly the coolest name for a snowstorm ever. And don’t judge me, guys, but when carter said “we can’t talk about the ‘D’” I grossly misinterpreted that statement for a minute there…
oops -_-</p>
<p>@carter001 I am from Romania…it should snow a lot here 
I want a Christmas with snow.
After the discussions about bands and actors, I just want to ask: anybody here fan of Muse? :D</p>
<p>We usually refer to the snow storms one way - “$#@!, it’s still snowing?!” :P</p>
<p>Anyone here every read anything by Richard Feynman?</p>
<p>@fireballs619 yes, I did. 
Six Easy Pieces. He is such an amazing scientist.</p>
<p>@poisonbee I love Muse! My favorite songs by them are “Uprising,” “Stockholm Syndrome,” “Starlight,” and “Hysteria”. You? :)</p>
<p>@neontissues you are from MA too? Boston or western Mass? The snow in Western Mass doesn’t look too crazy so far…</p>
<p>I live in Alaska, so we get used to snow storms.</p>
<p>Ah! Hey guys! I’ve been seriously lurking this forum for a while and you guys just seem so awesome so I finally mustered up the energy to make an account. I’m just as nervous for wednesday as you guys are but I supposed making an account would at the least make the wait entertaining :)</p>
<p>welcome ita! we made a truce not to talk about decisions/our chances until wednesday, but feel free to talk about anything else</p>
<p>@ita Hi there! It’s great to have more people here, the more the merrier :)</p>
<p>I’m glad to join! I suppose I should share an interesting fact about myself. My name is Margarita. To the confusion of most, I am not hispanic, nor was Margarita my birth given name. I changed it legally last year by choice it fit my personality better than my original name. I suppose my family felt the same way, since they have been calling me Margarita nearly my entire life. I wanna hear about you guys too! Whats your best (non-academic- you guys are oh so qualified for U of C, by the way) interesting fact?</p>
<p>Oh by the way, I experienced my first dreaded UIC/U of C mixup by a distant family member yesterday. It’s real, people.</p>