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03-12-2008, 06:40 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  What was the most nerve racking admissions process you have gone through ?
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What was the most nerve racking admissions process you have gone through ? Without a doubt both of my graduate admissions processes have been the most unnerving.
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03-12-2008, 06:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Tahoe-Reno with 16 ski resorts | | | When the I became Made in the family business.
I'd talk about it more but I have to restructure stuff since that Elliot dude sang like a canary.
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03-12-2008, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimS  When the I became Made in the family business.
I'd talk about it more but I have to restructure stuff since that Elliot dude sang like a canary.
. | Joining my current band. They jumped me in. Steel toes, brass knuckles. The works. It was liking the admissions process for joining the Shady Tree Crips, only with less paper work. A little bit less nerve-wracking was the process of admitting to a good friend I slept with his sister.
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03-12-2008, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Missoula, MT | | | So far, the only thing I've really done is University of Chicago, undergraduate. I got deferred on the first cut, and didn't get in until April 1 even though I had applied in October. That was a nerve wracking series of months.
That said, I'm much, much more worried about graduate school. The acceptance rate is around 10%. I have to find 10 schools that a) I could see myself at for the next 6 years and b) are worth a damn, then c) get into one of them.
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03-12-2008, 06:54 PM
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03-12-2008, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | Trying to become a member of B.L.O.W. Everything was going along fine, ...until they told me that I didn't meet all of the requirements and then started laughing at me and called me "balloon-boy".
It was not a fun day!
(wow, that story could very easily be taken the wrong way!  )
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03-12-2008, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Trying to become a member of B.L.O.W. Everything was going along fine, ...until they told me that I didn't meet all of the requirements and then started laughing at me and called me "balloon-boy".
It was not a fun day!
(wow, that story could very easily be taken the wrong way! ) | Our admissions process is just fine, thank you. You cluster guys are mere amatuers. Simply disgraceful.
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03-12-2008, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mike_v_s Our admissions process is just fine, thank you. You cluster guys are mere amatuers. Simply disgraceful.
Mike | I'll ask again, how is a fan propelled balloon-chair not a blimp?
Definition:
-blimp
n.
1. A steerable, nonrigid, buoyant airship.
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03-12-2008, 07:06 PM
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03-12-2008, 07:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Have multiple doctorates & never sweated any admission unless you count getting into a bar with a fake ID. |
03-12-2008, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman I'll ask again, how is a fan propelled balloon-chair not a blimp?
Definition:
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n.
1. A steerable, nonrigid, buoyant airship. | We are allowed to set our own membership criteria. As it sits, your contraption violates a number of these. A quick summary:
1) Your fan had to be plugged in.
2) No safety belts for the pilot. Your Dockers belt ducktaped to the armrests isn't going to cut it.
3) No true gondola. Sorry, but a nylon strap lawn chair from the seventies doesn't count.
I'll give you this, against all odds, it appears to be both more safe and more classy than your last offering (remember the 1986 Toyota Corolla with the hydrogen-filled Hefty bags? Sorry about that cigarette.) Better luck next year.
Mike
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03-12-2008, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mike_v_s We are allowed to set our own membership criteria. As it sits, your contraption violates a number of these. A quick summary:
1) Your fan had to be plugged in.
2) No safety blets for the pilot. Your Dockers belt ducktaped to the armrests isn't going to cut it.
3) No true gondola. Sorry, but a nylon strap lawn chair from the seventies doesn't count.
I'll give you this, against all odds, it appears to be both more safe and more classy than your last offering (remember the 1986 Toyota Corolla with the hydrogen-filled Hefty bags? Sorry about that cigarette.) Better luck next year.
Mike | First, I had an extension cord!
Second, I used a lot of tape! If Red Green can make a snowplow, I think I can manage a seat belt.
Third, That wa... wait, you didn't like my chair? 
Still, even it wasn't as fancy as y'alls factory-jobs, you didn't have to laugh and call me balloon-boy!
Anyway, you just wait till next year! I found a couple pool liners, and I'll show you what having determination and a dumb friend, with a loose wallet, can get you.
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03-12-2008, 08:00 PM
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03-12-2008, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | admission into this country was a freakout. still is.
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03-12-2008, 09:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | | unless i wind up in santa barbara, i'm going to be much more worried about STAYING in grad school than getting in!
(santa barbara doesn't require a prelim exam for physics students, unlike other schools. berkeley, for instance, has a 12 hour written exam, plus a two-ish?-hour oral exam.) |
03-12-2008, 09:12 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Frankly, I am more worried and worked up about my son's college admission process than I was about my own undergrad and grad school admissions that seemed to go pretty well.
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03-13-2008, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | The initial safety training when I started working at a nuclear power faclility a few years back. It was rather intesne... Man, I wish I still had that job...
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03-13-2008, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Tahoe-Reno with 16 ski resorts | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mike_v_s A little bit less nerve-wracking was the process of admitting to a good friend I slept with his sister.
Mike |
YOU ARE A GOD!!!
I had something similar but it's way too taboo. Wayyyyyyy.....
No, not my sister. .
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03-13-2008, 02:14 PM
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