OOC CHATTER POST #1

[finchmods]

Just for chattin'! You monsters.

Please put a subject on your posts so it's easier for everyone to figure out what's going on.

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Re: PSA for seniors

[upperhandsen]

i applied only for canadian phds bc the GREs were too scary

Re: PSA for seniors

[harmreduction]

i had a hot garbage GPA in high school and the CSU i ended up going to is one my grandfather taught at and basically my entire family has matriculated at, which i definitely put on my application, so i feel like that had something to do with it

Re: PSA for seniors

[upperhandsen]

what's a csu btw??

i get it the only reason i didn't apply for the program my gpa taught at .... is bc they are one of the few canadian ones to ask for GRE scores 😭

Re: PSA for seniors

[harmreduction]

California State Universities are the less prestigious of California's two public school systems

Re: PSA for seniors

[empereurs]

i know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the american college application experience and am now regretting my choice to make a smart character

Re: PSA for seniors

[trailerparkprincess]

I still remember way too much about the horrors of applying to 6 private schools early action so... if anyone wants details on how to try too hard***

Re: PSA for seniors

[unironickylorenfan]

Being from a small poor town and having all the adults in your life suddenly go from "YOU CAN DO ANYTHING" to telling you at 17 to temper your expectations, look at public schools only and don't even bother with out of state because you'll never be able to afford tuition is ... Definitely a formative experience.

Re: PSA for seniors

[opalescents]

Scream I hear that. And then since you’re 17 you’re stubborn and apply for expensive private schools only and still are drowning in debt as a result (the Lyss Story now on lifetime!)

Re: PSA for seniors

[highercalling]

mpleas...... don’t mention student loans here........ not in this, my safe space

Re: PSA for seniors

[opalescents]

They don’t exist it’s all free by debt I meant popsicles

Re: PSA for seniors

[trailerparkprincess]

:C

Re: PSA for seniors

[highercalling]

hey math fans! riddle me this! if cameron gets a piece of penny candy for every dollar he owes the US government, and he eats one piece of candy a day, how many years before he develops complicates from his diabetes?

Re: PSA for seniors

[unironickylorenfan]

Med student debt is like...so huge and evil it threatens to become sentient zhsjsnshhs

Re: PSA for seniors

[highercalling]

i went 😎 to TWO 😎 private colleges 😎

Re: PSA for seniors

[trailerparkprincess]

College is so expensive it’s disgusting???

Re: PSA for seniors

[unironickylorenfan]

SERIOUSLY it's...so absolutely wild I don't think I ever completely internalized it lmao

Re: PSA for seniors

[empereurs]

everything about this is relevant to my interests and also, completely awful

Re: PSA for seniors

[survivalof]

I'm not from a small town but I did go to a shitty poor high school, so it's kind of the same thing!

Re: PSA for seniors

[trailerparkprincess]

I had to take the GRE after a REALLY terrible day and somehow managed it so I bet you would’ve been fine!!!!

I am a little sad I didn’t go to Canada for undergrad though :c

Re: PSA for seniors

[survivalof]

I got the same exact numerical score on the math portion as I did the English portion and I almost flipped the table because I was convinced it meant that I bombed the English? But then someone actually explained that your score is less relevant than your ~percentile~, and it turned out that the English test was just harder, so that I scored in like the 50th percentile in math and the 90th in English?

It's such a whack test, man.

Re: PSA for seniors

[survivalof]

I probably should have been scared of the GREs and actually... legit studied, but it was fine