5901. Anonymous (c-68-62-120-143.hsd1.al.comcast.net) –
07 Jun 2007 01:18:05
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
I'm a sophomore (rising junior) with at least a 3.9 GPA, which should boost back up to over 4.0 after I take my AP courses.
Reading: 730
Math: 610 (I'm ashamed)
Writing: 680
Essay: 8/12 (very disappointed, as I got an 11 on my ACT essay.)
Total: 2020
I scored a 217 on the PSATs, so my SAT score was disappointing. I was disappointed in the 30 I got on the ACTs. I studied for the PSATs and slightly for the ACTs and SATs, which shows.
Basically, my problem is math, which is ironic since I have a math professor for a father. I'm a sophomore, so my scores don't count yet, but I'm worried I won't be able to boost them up by next year. Except for my PSATs, all my scores are only slightly above average, and definitely not ivy league material.
I'm in three honor societies, soon to be four, and also in key club. Should I be worried? |
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5900. AdamNYC (cpe-69-201-180-49.nyc.res.rr.com) –
06 Jun 2007 21:59:17
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
Might as well add to the list.
Living in Manhattan, moved into a ground level apt in a brownstone about 3 months ago. The bathroom's always been kinda leaky but I never paid much thought cuz I'm just a youngin'. Whattya know, outta nowhere a mushroom popped outta where the tile meets the wall. Here's a pic:
www.isgoingtoeat.us/shroom.jpg
Can anyone identify?
I'm going to tell the landlord (he lives in the building so I'm sure he'll be somewhat concerned) and probably use salt - I'll follow up with results.
Good luck everyone! |
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Yeah, CMU is pretty serious about it! It's definitely one of the biggest programs.
Mike likes MechE. He works hard but gets to do a lot of fun stuff and ends up in the popular press a lot. He didn't do his undergraduate degree here, though. |
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Wow - that's dedication to CS. I actually almost went to CMU myself . . . but that weather would have driven me nuts . . .
Man, you guys have got some brains in the family . . . what's your brother think of it? |
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5897. Tom 7 (h-66-167-56-241.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
06 Jun 2007 00:06:00
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
No problem. It's my own fault that these things are not obvious in the game.
CS is actually its own whole School at CMU, including Robots, Machine Learning, Computer Science Department, Software Engineering, etc. My brother is a ME PhD student though. |
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I don't think so . . . I think he's either EE or ME. Is CS its own department at CMU, or is it under Engineering?
You should check out www.steelernation.com/forums. =)
Thanks so much for the delete info - I actually think you may have told me that over a year ago, but I forgot after all that time away. I can stop bothering you now . . . =) |
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5894. Anonymous 3 (dsl-070.rpt.pmt.org) –
05 Jun 2007 18:43:46
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
okay so i know i'm not that bright and all. But I really don't understand these scores and all. So far from all of you I've learned that you add up all of the 3 things and that's your score out of 2400 right? Well i guess i got 1390 and so that's not really good at all is it? I don't have
a great gpa either...so what should i do? Can I still go to college? maybe even NYU or UCLA or any of those, because i don't really care if i get into an Ivy school, but I don't want community college either. The best college i found that i wanted to go to was Occidental in California, but i doubt i will. So any help |
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Hehe, yeah, go Steelers! =)
Is your friend going to be in the computer science department?
You can indeed overwrite a level that you've created. First, delete the old one by finding it in triage (it should have a key icon next to it) and then pressing 'del'. After that's done you can upload a new level with the same name. We never actually delete levels for good here because it would mean losing any comments, etc. for them. |
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Tom -
I just want to let you know that I love this game. Great work.
I do have one suggestion - allow users to overwrite levels that they've created. Maybe there's already a way to do this and I just don't know about it . . .
PS - I have a friend who will be a freshman at CMU next year - any advice?
PPS - Go Steelers! |
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Wow, looks like you could fit a lot of ultra lounges in a bartini. |
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5889. Tom 7 (h-66-167-56-241.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
05 Jun 2007 11:23:37
[ 1km ]
There are a number of things, but particularly I'm thinking of the dissonant trailing off trumpets whenever something bad happens. It just gives me a chuckle every time.
(PS I'm still on Season 1 so no spoilers please!) |
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1. Here is a Beriev-Bartini:
http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/img/vva.jpg
Here is an ultra lounge bar:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/pub/media/1521/who1521re.35528_ub.jpg
2. She's got laughing gas in the bag. |
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5886. Sridhar (c-69-181-149-117.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) –
05 Jun 2007 04:31:07
[ 1km ]
Incidentally, what is it that makes the incidental music in Lost hilariously bad? I can't stand the cheap "Hurley listens to music on his headphones for an ending montage" stuff from Season 1, but I don't suppose that's what you're talking about. |
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5883. Tom 7 (h-66-167-56-241.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
05 Jun 2007 01:29:20
[ Stuck! ]
Sorry to hear that, Jordan!
I had bothersome floaters for a year or so, but now it's back to normal. So they may go away on their own? |
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5882. Jordan (ip-216-23-55-140.adsl.one.net) –
04 Jun 2007 23:36:18
[ Stuck! ]
Hi:
I had the exact same type of accident. The airbag deployed, slamming into my face, pushing my glasses deep into my face and creating a permanent dent in my nose.
A few days after the accident, I started see flashing lights in my eyes, followed by some deep, dark eye floaters. That was two years ago. They're still with me to this day.
From what I understand, there's really nothing you can do about the eye floaters. They don't go away and rarely fade. There is some doctor in Washington DC that I might go see that claims to rid or break up the floaters using laser surgery. His website is eyefloaters.com, if you're interested.
Do you still have the floaters? Mine are very bothersome. Fortunately no other real damage. |
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5881. Tom 7 (c-24-131-65-110.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
04 Jun 2007 00:21:52
[ 1km ]
Ha ha yes, that gap is my favorite part. |
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5877. Lindsey Dez (pool-71-179-155-19.bltmmd.east.verizon.net) –
03 Jun 2007 20:26:41
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
This is so unfair. i'm in the top 2% of my class, I got a perfect 80 on the math section of the PSATs and a 65 and 71 in the other two sections, and now when I take my SATs what do I get? A freakin' 1950!
i can't believe my essay score was so low ... i got a 7 ... and I usually write GREAT essays ... it's because i didn't use their phony SAT words that make the essay sound forced & unnatural ... and the section I absolutely HATE is the one i did the best on ... and I don't know WHAT happened in my math section - i got a 650 in it! my calc teacher was like 'whoa, what happened' ... i SO have to retake this ... i want these scores discarded altogether! |
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5876. Sridhar (c-69-181-149-117.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) –
03 Jun 2007 19:47:58
[ 1km ]
(That having been said, I do really like the clean minimality of the title sequence and its accompanying "music".) |
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5875. Sridhar (c-69-181-149-117.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) –
03 Jun 2007 19:45:39
[ 1km ]
Oh, yeah, that glitch in the Lost title sequence has been irking the hell out of me for a while. |
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5874. Adam (pool-72-77-31-156.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net) –
03 Jun 2007 19:43:10
[ 1km ]
And incredible floating-point error title sequence |
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I agree, Wrong Time Capsule is great. I wish my guitar sounded like that. I think there are a lot of songs like that on the new album Friend Opportunity, like +81 and The Perfect Me... I bet you'd like that album a lot. |
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I like this "song of the month" idea very much. I read through all of yours. I'm always into music recommendations from folks whose tastes I match up with pretty well, plus also I enjoy all your background stories and also like your descriptions of why you like the songs (written in a language I very much understand and appreciate precisely, not usually the case for me when folks do try to write about that).
As a result, I would have to say that my song of the month now is the "Wrong Time Capsule" by Deerhoof (the song right before your favorite from that album). I'd been meaning for a while to seek out Deerhoof's last two albums, cuz I had heard they were especially good, but after being so underwhelmed by "Milk Man", I was having trouble ever getting the motivation to do it, so I'm glad that your journal prodded me a little more on that. Also it got me to revisit some old Magnetic Fields albums that I hadn't listened to in years. And while actually I'd say I've never been that into "Distant Plastic Trees", I have now fallen in love again with "Holiday".
Ummm, I guess that's all then stuff (or at least musicians) that I was already into, but I also am working my way through familiarizing myself with the other stuff that I'd never listened to (like Blackalicious and Andrew Bird), so perhaps I will have new things to get into as well... |
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5871. Corey7 (cache-dtc-ab14.proxy.aol.com) –
02 Jun 2007 13:37:51
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
I just got my scores today. A 550 in Reading, 430 in Math, and and 500 in Writing. That comes to bout 1480...new SAT btw and I gota gpa of like 2.9. Ya think this is good enuff to get in NYU or should I not hold my breath |
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5869. Kalypso (c-71-229-49-203.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) –
02 Jun 2007 09:26:43
[ Quake 3 Done! ]
Im back, after a 9 month leave, I had to post something Once more.
Im not the person to ask for maps, q3dm6 is timeless to me.
thread never dies, quake 4 enemy territories or Huxley any one?
... take some time, and think about it.
Mad love - Reporting Live from New York City.
peace
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