Random Rants LXVII: Emptiness = Melancholia*Cheerlessness^2

[schlaufuchs]

Okay, yours was worse. Assuming each UC campus does its own admissions, I wonder if going to one of the others for a year or two and then reapplying is a way to 'sneak in the back door'? I went to a nearby community college for a year before getting into UMass. I guess I don't know for sure that it helped, but I felt like it did.

:shrug:. I'm still waiting on Chicago, Yale, and UNC, so hopefully I'll have better luck there.

I don't think there's anything I could have done to manage a better app. My GRE scores were very high, my GPA was good, I had fluency in all the languages I needed going in, my personal statement was strong, I had good recommendations. It's just a hyper-competitive school. It's all out of my hands at this point, so moping about it won't do me much good. It just sucks, is all. Berkeley was the school I thought I had the best shot at getting into.

 

[Perfection]

So this is how liberty dies . . . with thunderous applause.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Our local Alamo Drafthouse is going out of business and I am crushed by it, easily the best movie theatre experience I've ever had there and they did so much neat theming stuff and screenings and ahhhhhh

 

[shadowplay]

Blah, I got rejected from UC Berkeley. Great start to my February.

:shrug:. I'm still waiting on Chicago, Yale, and UNC, so hopefully I'll have better luck there.

That sucks, dude. Now you might have to go to Yale!

 

[Takhisis]

And leave California?

 

[schlaufuchs]

That sucks, dude. Now you might have to go to Yale!

And leave California?

lol. If I got into Yale I'd all-in for rah-rah Connecticut

 

[azzaman333]

Haircuts are expensive, and I blame hipsters.

 

[Takhisis]

lol. If I got into Yale I'd all-in for rah-rah Connecticut

And then you'd be registered as a voter in two states, you liberal.

 

[Hygro]

Blah, I got rejected from UC Berkeley. Great start to my February.

that sucks

 

[choxorn]

I haven't heard back from any of the schools I applied to yet, as far as I can tell, but I mostly didn't aim as high as you did (other than Berkeley, which I also applied to)

 

[Perfection]

I'm having a hard time being productive at work instead of checking my phone to see what Trump crapped on this hour.

 

[JohannaK]

Connecti-what? You just made that up, didn't you?

 

[Snerk]

En evil robot busted a muscle or something on right side of my neck going down my right shoulder. This area is regularly giving me trouble but it's never been as bad as this. Gave me hell last night and I did't get much sleep. Timing is awful, I really need this to fade away over the next couple of days. It was a robot because initially it was only a slight familiar pain in this area, and I got it after lifting. But then my massage chair, which usually helps, made it ten times worse! So now it's aching and I'm totally handicapped. Is this the start of the robot rebellion?

 

[Takhisis]

I've already told you we must robotise you so that you an become an evil cyborg yourself. Perfection is an engineer IIRC, so we have the technical know-how at hand.

 

[Snerk]

Can't I become a friendly cyborg who helps people carry their groceries and stuff? But perfection not going anywhere near me in an intent of robotisizing me!!

 

[Kyriakos]

Rave-rant:

I am eating a gyros
but it will be over in 15 min :/

 

[Takhisis]

Can't I become a friendly cyborg who helps people carry their groceries and stuff? But perfection not going anywhere near me in an intent of robotisizing me!!

At most Perf will just give you super-strength and replace one of your hands with a bio-laser cannon. You can still use the other hand to carry people's groceries.

Rave-rant:

I am eating a gyros
but it will be over in 15 min :/

 

[Snerk]

What's the difference between gyros and souvlaki?

 

[Perfection]

I've already told you we must robotise you so that you an become an evil cyborg yourself. Perfection is an engineer IIRC, so we have the technical know-how at hand.

I've done work on active implantables...

Funny enough, pain management is actually the biggest application of implantable nuerostimulators.

 

[Takhisis]

Perf, if we use the Snerktron-5000 to conquer a sizeable chunk of the world in the name of Mise you're in then?