Wait, what?

imsorrythankyou:

jonathantinglingtsunami:

So I’m in the Chinese Newspaper…

Too bad I can’t read Chinese

Not sure if I should laugh at Jonny in a paper

or

cry over the fact that this guy was in Chinese for four years and can’t read Chinese.

I’ve decided to get caught up on all of my college information crap

This post is a bit rant-y and I mainly wrote it just to get it off my chest, and probably makes no coherent sense.  Just disregard it, unless you want to read about the insecurities of a High School Senior Nerd.

After submission late December, I haven’t touched anything in regards to college.  Today, after downing a can of Monster Rehab (These things are so fucking good), I decided to take a crack at all of the colleges, logging all of the information and login information and Financial Aid opportunities.  Man, I cannot thank my parents enough for doing most of the Financial Aid crap;  while I’ve been slacking off and not doing diddly shit, they’ve been busting their humps at work and at home, filling out forms and whatnot. Yeah, my parents are pretty freaking awesome.  Anyway, I was going through all my scholarship crap, college crap, Financial Aid crap and whatnot, reading through CollegeConfidential and US News and World Report Rankings and basically researching what’s going on, when it hit me.

Holy shit I have no idea what I’m doing.

What do I want from college?  Do I want to go to a big school or a smaller school? Does the ranking really matter that much?  Does prestige of a school matter to a point where I should worry about it when determining my college, or should it be a “by feel” intuitive choice?  What happens if I have to choose between a great school and a good school with great financial aid?  Will I regret my decision?  How am I going to finish filling out all the forms in time?  What the fuck is a W2 form, and how come I haven’t turned it in yet?  What should I write for my Midyear report?  Did Tsuneyoshi send out the Midyears?  Even if I do get into an amazing school, do I really want to go to a school that stresses education, as opposed to one that is more relaxed and will allow for a less stressful college experience?  Will I even get into the “amazing school”?    What am I going to write for my essays?

bah.  This is suckish.  My sister, who often trolls me, once made a point when I told her I wanted to go to MIT: “Why?  It’s going to be stressful as hell, you’ll barely have a life, and you’ll have to study basically all the time.  After graduation, no one really cares where you graduated from, as long as you can get a job done. Who are you really trying to impress?  Just go to a school like UCLA, where you can get completely smashed on the weekend and take a test still a little drunk, and pass the course with a B.”

This blew my mind.  For my entire life, I’ve never really had a choice to not work hard academically.  I mean, I played a shitton of games, but I always stayed on top of my work.  Who was I trying to impress?  I thought about this for a while, and realized I was trying to impress the world.  Yes, cliche, I know, but it’s the truth.  I’ve been churning out good grades, good scores, good behavior, etc etc for as long as I can remember. Is it wrong that I want to tell the world “Fuck you, this is what I can do” ?  Then again, I don’t want to do hardwork for the next 4 years of my life.  I’ve been in school for 13 years now, and I’m starting to burn out.  Call it Senioritis if you want, but I think I’m just tired of doing all this work, all the time, staying up til 4 or 5 o’clock, churning out a 4000 word essay, downing monster after monster.  I know you college students will scoff at me, but hey.  I’m only human.  Essentially, the question boils down to whether or not I want to spend the next 4 years of my life at a prestigious college, working my ass off, or a kinda-prestigious college, where I can party hard and study a bit less hard.

This is, of course, assuming I get accepted into schools like Stanford and MIT.  Jesus Christ, this is an entirely different point.  MIT and Stanford are damn near impossible to get into.  I can guarantee there are more than 3000 students in the US in my class who are better suited for both schools  than I am.  I’ll send you the list if you want to see it.  Luckily for me, they seem to group up those who are in the “academically inclined” group and just randomly select a few, so I guess it’ll just come down to sheer dumb luck.  These arn’t called the Ivy Plus schools for nothing.  I have about 7% chance for both MIT and Stanford.  Not something I’d put money on, I think.

Which brings up another point.  I was accepted to USC with candidacy for  half-tuition.  Half tuition is a lot of fucking money.  So, even if I do get into these god damn colleges, what choice do I make?  Who am I to ask my parents to pay twice as much as they have to, just because I want to go to a prestigious college?

This pretty much sucks ass.  Decisions coming out, rejections, within the next 2 months or so.  In about 3 months, I’ll know whether or not I got into all of the colleges I applied to.  In the meantime, I have to worry about AP tests, IB tests, EE’s, IA’s, CAS hours (oh, shit), and other bullshit.  I’m maintaining a “Just don’t get lower than a C” policy, so I should be ok IB wise.

Back to looking up ranking, student satisfaction, tuition, acceptance rate, and financial aid for me.  Do you guys have any suggestions or words that could help?

the new track is the shit

Is it?  I haven’t heard it 

IB is insane as shit

But I fucking love the people in it.

Books that have made me cry:

In Chronological Order of Reading, to the best of my memory.

Animorphs #54- K. A. Applegate
The End - Lemony Snicket
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
Looking for Alaska- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars- John Green 

Dammit John Green, stop playing with my emotions

aaronjasperdeng asked: In a nutshell, explain the reason why males do stupid things to impress females.

From a biological prospective, males who are willing to act dangerously and erratically are more likely to be able to protect the female and eventually child in question, which means that, practically speaking, they are a suitable mate.  After generations and generations of evolution, it has been ingrained in the male’s mind that acting “erratically” and doing “stupid shit” allows for reproductive success because, to some small extent, it is true.

As for why guys really do stupid things to impress girls, it’s because guys are fucking retarded.