THE [OFFICIAL] The Official December 2016 Waiters' Thread - CONFIRMED GREY: 1/3/2017 @ 4:29EST Forum

[em15]

What is going on? Why is everyone getting all excited? Why the poll and title change?

Killoran and Spivey both put today as most likely release date. Hope is a powerful thing.

One may say that hope brings out audacity.

TBH - I could care less about today or tomorrow. It just makes focusing on wrapping up my applications SUPER hard.

+1000

[dontsaywhatyoumean]

Are there different curves for 160 and 170 in the sense that 170 could be less generous relative to previous administrations, than the 160 is relative to previous administrations?

[cherrygalore]

Real talk though... I hate those sayings. With a passion. I was super close to some girl that always said that stuff. It drove me up the wall.

Just because I'm "meant to be somewhere" doesn't mean I want to be there. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THINGS

Exactly! Thank you.

The only place I know I'm meant to be is dead when my day comes, but that doesn't mean I want to be there.

[Vino.Veritas]

What is going on? Why is everyone getting all excited? Why the poll and title change?

Killoran and Spivey both put today as most likely release date. Hope is a powerful thing.

One may say that hope brings out audacity.

TBH - I could care less about today or tomorrow. It just makes focusing on wrapping up my applications SUPER hard.

+1000

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

[34iplaw]

Was just talking about the last two games with my dad, put me into an absolute panic.

Join me

Already deep in it.

I told my mom I was stressed this am and she was sweet like "It'll be great whatever happens, you'll end up where you're meant to be!" and I was like "Uhhh ok so you're basically giving me a cop out because you think my score is going to be shit!?!? How can I believe in myself if you don't believe in me!?" So basically I'm insane this morning.

Real talk though... I hate those sayings. With a passion. I was super close to some girl that always said that stuff. It drove me up the wall.

Just because I'm "meant to be somewhere" doesn't mean I want to be there. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THINGS

For real. I also think it just absolves responsibility, agency, and willpower. I guess I'm a humanist when it comes down to it. Pico della Mirandola for life. Oration on the Dignity of Man is my jam.

Highlights:

[+] Spoiler

Let a holy ambition enter into our souls; let us not be content with mediocrity, but rather strive after the highest and expend all our strength in achieving it.

Adam, we give you no fixed place to live, no form that is peculiar to you, nor any function that is yours alone. According to your desires and judgment, you will have and possess whatever place to live, whatever form, and whatever functions you yourself choose. All other things have a limited and fixed nature prescribed and bounded by our laws. You, with no limit or no bound, may choose for yourself the limits and bounds of your nature. We have placed you at the world's center so that you may survey everything else in the world. We have made you neither of heavenly nor of earthly stuff, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with free choice and dignity, you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose. To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.

[cherrygalore]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

[em15]

Are there different curves for 160 and 170 in the sense that 170 could be less generous relative to previous administrations, than the 160 is relative to previous administrations?

Yeah. They look at how difficult the test is for people in different score ranges.

[Pozzo]

Was just talking about the last two games with my dad, put me into an absolute panic.

Join me

Already deep in it.

I told my mom I was stressed this am and she was sweet like "It'll be great whatever happens, you'll end up where you're meant to be!" and I was like "Uhhh ok so you're basically giving me a cop out because you think my score is going to be shit!?!? How can I believe in myself if you don't believe in me!?" So basically I'm insane this morning.

That's the pits. I'm pretty sure my family (and definitely Mrs. Pozzo's family) are actively rooting for a low score to keep me local. This blows.

[Instrumental]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

Harass the shit out of them IMO.

[Vino.Veritas]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

Blessed that the schools I'm applying to that require LORs need the letter writers to email their letter separately from my app, so I can still submit without them!

But not blessed that I need to MAIL my transcripts halfway across the country... and I don't even have them yet.

[cherrygalore]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

Harass the shit out of them IMO.

I am. So hopefully I'll get it today or tomorrow.

[em15]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

Blessed that the schools I'm applying to that require LORs need the letter writers to email their letter separately from my app, so I can still submit without them!

But not blessed that I need to MAIL my transcripts halfway across the country... and I don't even have them yet.

I don't even know exactly what schools I'm applying to yet. It all depends on this score. It's so hard to get myself to write any optional essays for schools that I may or may not be actually applying to

[cherrygalore]

I don't even know exactly what schools I'm applying to yet. It all depends on this score. It's so hard to get myself to write any optional essays for schools that I may or may not be actually applying to

+1

[wildquest8200]

I don't even know exactly what schools I'm applying to yet. It all depends on this score. It's so hard to get myself to write any optional essays for schools that I may or may not be actually applying to

+1

[Capt_Beatty]

So to kill time I've just been watching The Office while in my office. Damn, season 1 is so homophobic/xenophobic (terms that were definitely not in common use back then, back when? 2005). Could a show like the office be made again? I mean, in Season 1 there's the Sikh It guy, and Michael Scott literally starts to call the police when he sees him. Now, I know Michael Scott's humor is a third-degree type of opinion, like "it's not a racist joke that I made, it's one that Michael scott would make" therefore, the transference of racist blame goes from writer to character, with the added degree of parody. But it seems like even that sort of humor would be unacceptable now, in 2017?

thoughts? Can we ever be offensive again?

[34iplaw]

At least y'all will be ready to submit after you get your scores. I'm still waiting on my UG grades for my transcripts

I'm still waiting for a LOR

Harass the shit out of them IMO.

I am. So hopefully I'll get it today or tomorrow.

Yeah... I mean depending the relationship you could be more or less direct. My LOR guy from UG was great... he did it exactly when he said he would. I guess he studies process engineering and whatnot for a living though, so I imagine tardiness annoys him to the core. I've been debating getting one more from a professor I only had during freshman and junior year, as I know he would have it finished at the drop of a pen for me... I'd be a little concerned he may portray me in too jovial of a light though.

[Vino.Veritas]

It's so surprising to me how late the deadlines for applications are in the US. In Canada, most are due in November.

[34iplaw]

I don't even know exactly what schools I'm applying to yet. It all depends on this score. It's so hard to get myself to write any optional essays for schools that I may or may not be actually applying to

+1

+1... I am somewhat fortunate that my Sept score makes me a rather marginal candidate to the lower T14 (-1 75th %ile) while my expected score may make me a YP candidate... so I'm focused on those right now. I have a cousin and uncle that went to Penn for undergrad, but I think I rather that be a very short blurb.

[Vino.Veritas]

So to kill time I've just been watching The Office while in my office. Damn, season 1 is so homophobic/xenophobic (terms that were definitely not in common use back then, back when? 2005). Could a show like the office be made again? I mean, in Season 1 there's the Sikh It guy, and Michael Scott literally starts to call the police when he sees him. Now, I know Michael Scott's humor is a third-degree type of opinion, like "it's not a racist joke that I made, it's one that Michael scott would make" therefore, the transference of racist blame goes from writer to character, with the added degree of parody. But it seems like even that sort of humor would be unacceptable now, in 2017?

thoughts? Can we ever be offensive again?

I'm currently watching The Office (for the ten millionth time) too!

I have a lot of thoughts on this. I totally agree with the transference of blame, but I think with The Office it goes a step further. Because everyone in the show and the audience recognizes that Michael Scott's behaviour is wrong. They know he's racist/sexist/xenophobic, and the joke isn't whatever joke Michael makes, but rather the joke is that he doesn't recognize how socially inappropriate he is being.

[Capt_Beatty]

So to kill time I've just been watching The Office while in my office. Damn, season 1 is so homophobic/xenophobic (terms that were definitely not in common use back then, back when? 2005). Could a show like the office be made again? I mean, in Season 1 there's the Sikh It guy, and Michael Scott literally starts to call the police when he sees him. Now, I know Michael Scott's humor is a third-degree type of opinion, like "it's not a racist joke that I made, it's one that Michael scott would make" therefore, the transference of racist blame goes from writer to character, with the added degree of parody. But it seems like even that sort of humor would be unacceptable now, in 2017?

thoughts? Can we ever be offensive again?

I'm currently watching The Office (for the ten millionth time) too!

I have a lot of thoughts on this. I totally agree with the transference of blame, but I think with The Office it goes a step further. Because everyone in the show and the audience recognizes that Michael Scott's behaviour is wrong. They know he's racist/sexist/xenophobic, and the joke isn't whatever joke Michael makes, but rather the joke is that he doesn't recognize how socially inappropriate he is being.

Oh that's genius, so the other characters aren't being complicit.

[DKilloranPowerScore]

Lsac's offices closed December 24th and won't reopen until tomorrow (January 3rd) so I highly doubt we will get scores before tomorrow. This is from the message on LSAC's phone line when you try to reach an actual person.

Just fyi, multiple times in the past LSAC has released scores on a day they were "closed." So, the fact that they are closed doesn't mean a whole lot to the chances of score release today. Part of me thinks they release it late or on closed days to avoid that initial flood of phone calls.

[Capt_Beatty]

Lsac's offices closed December 24th and won't reopen until tomorrow (January 3rd) so I highly doubt we will get scores before tomorrow. This is from the message on LSAC's phone line when you try to reach an actual person.

Just fyi, multiple times in the past LSAC has released scores on a day they were "closed." So, the fact that they are closed doesn't mean a whole lot to the chances of score release today. Part of me thinks they release it late or on closed days to avoid that initial flood of phone calls.

Thanks for checking in DK! We're all doing fine here, nothing to see here, move along, thank you officer, have a good day.

[amta]

Lsac's offices closed December 24th and won't reopen until tomorrow (January 3rd) so I highly doubt we will get scores before tomorrow. This is from the message on LSAC's phone line when you try to reach an actual person.

Just fyi, multiple times in the past LSAC has released scores on a day they were "closed." So, the fact that they are closed doesn't mean a whole lot to the chances of score release today. Part of me thinks they release it late or on closed days to avoid that initial flood of phone calls.

REKT

[Vino.Veritas]

So to kill time I've just been watching The Office while in my office. Damn, season 1 is so homophobic/xenophobic (terms that were definitely not in common use back then, back when? 2005). Could a show like the office be made again? I mean, in Season 1 there's the Sikh It guy, and Michael Scott literally starts to call the police when he sees him. Now, I know Michael Scott's humor is a third-degree type of opinion, like "it's not a racist joke that I made, it's one that Michael scott would make" therefore, the transference of racist blame goes from writer to character, with the added degree of parody. But it seems like even that sort of humor would be unacceptable now, in 2017?

thoughts? Can we ever be offensive again?

I'm currently watching The Office (for the ten millionth time) too!

I have a lot of thoughts on this. I totally agree with the transference of blame, but I think with The Office it goes a step further. Because everyone in the show and the audience recognizes that Michael Scott's behaviour is wrong. They know he's racist/sexist/xenophobic, and the joke isn't whatever joke Michael makes, but rather the joke is that he doesn't recognize how socially inappropriate he is being.

Oh that's genius, so the other characters aren't being complicit.

My hobby is thinking too deeply about The Office.

[34iplaw]

So to kill time I've just been watching The Office while in my office. Damn, season 1 is so homophobic/xenophobic (terms that were definitely not in common use back then, back when? 2005). Could a show like the office be made again? I mean, in Season 1 there's the Sikh It guy, and Michael Scott literally starts to call the police when he sees him. Now, I know Michael Scott's humor is a third-degree type of opinion, like "it's not a racist joke that I made, it's one that Michael scott would make" therefore, the transference of racist blame goes from writer to character, with the added degree of parody. But it seems like even that sort of humor would be unacceptable now, in 2017?

thoughts? Can we ever be offensive again?

I'm currently watching The Office (for the ten millionth time) too!

I have a lot of thoughts on this. I totally agree with the transference of blame, but I think with The Office it goes a step further. Because everyone in the show and the audience recognizes that Michael Scott's behaviour is wrong. They know he's racist/sexist/xenophobic, and the joke isn't whatever joke Michael makes, but rather the joke is that he doesn't recognize how socially inappropriate he is being.

Oh that's genius, so the other characters aren't being complicit.

My hobby is thinking too deeply about The Office.

Sounds like a Y250.