You know, bored that I am as it was pointed out to me by this so very awesome woman
, I going through some of the threads from 2001, or '09 in this case, and it's interesting how things really haven't changed in - essentially - a generation.
Guelph is a wasteland...Guelph Spa is meh....Where are the best hotels...who's hot? Who's not?
Tough problems all over right?
This has caused an existential crisis. I'm thinking I
must be born in the wrong body.
I was meant to be born in California as a Harvard legacy and take AP Calculus BC, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP US Government, AP Literature, and 2 more AP classes.
I would get a 3.9 GPA unweighted 4.6 weighted with a 1570 SAT and 33 ACT.
My extracurriculars would be some gold and silver medals at minor local hackathons, volunteer work, being the president of my school's coding club, and a portfolio of programming projects I completed over the year.
I would apply to college with an essay about my struggles with my geriatric parents, and how i had to learn the hard way what it was to be a man as my old man grew too frail to teach me.
I would get rejected from MIT, Yale, NYU, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford, and accepted to Harvard and UCLA.
I would then commit to Harvard, and get a dorm there doing my Computer Science degree.
My roommate would be a business major named Brad, maybe Chuck, who would become my closest friend through hockey and a few doors down there would be a cute blonde girl named Rachel who was studying Biology as Premed.
Rachel and I would share a few Gen-Ed classes and I would muster the courage to ask her out to a date; it would go well and we would begin a relationship the right way.
On one holiday, I'd fly with her to Alberta where her family lived and meet the old man, whom, whilst stern and strict, would eventually warm up to me.
We would then graduate together and I'd get an offer for a good internship back in California, but she'd stay in Boston for Medical School.
We'd have to make long distance work until her degree was finished. After a year, I decided that I didn't care what my job was, I just wanted to be with her.
I took a job in Boston to be with her. After she finished, we moved to California and eventually had 2 kids; a boy and girl, both goalies of course, and got ready to send them off to Harvard too.
Instead of this I'm actually looking at TERB posts from 2001 and realizing they're the same ones as today
Sigh....