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| For your viewing pleausre, read the whole thing. It's absolutely hilarious
Caltech students have been known for the many pranks (also known as RF's) they have pulled off. The two most famous are the changing of the Hollywood sign to read Caltech, by judiciously covering up certain parts of the letters, and the changing of the Rose Bowl scoreboard to an imaginary game where Caltech soundly trounced MIT. During the 1961 Rose Bowl Game, Caltech students altered the flip-cards that were raised by the stadium attendees to display "Caltech." This event is now referred to as the Great Rose Bowl Hoax. Recently, a group of Caltech students, during the admitted students program at MIT in 2005, pulled a string of pranks, including covering up the word Massachusetts in the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" engraving on the main building façade with a banner so that it read "That Other Institute of Technology". A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that the inscription read "The Only Institute of Technology". The nicest touch was the passing out of T-shirts with MIT on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech" on the back (complete with palm tree). MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser Moving Company stole the 130 year old, 1.7 ton Fleming House cannon and moved it to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, repeating a similar prank performed by Harvey Mudd College in 1986. (The name "Howe & Ser", if said rapidly, and if read recognizing that the & symbol is a ligature of the Latin word "et", sounds like howitzer; it could also mean "how we answer", since the latest prank was an answer to the 2005 prank on MIT.) Thirty members of Fleming House traveled to MIT and reclaimed their cannon on April 10, 2006. They left a toy cannon with the note, "Here's something more your size." [9] In recent years, pranking has been officially encouraged by Tom Mannion, Caltech's assistant VP for campus life. "The grand old days of pranking have gone away at Caltech, and that's what we are trying to bring back," reported the Boston Globe, which noted that "security has orders not to intervene in a prank unless officers get Mannion's approval beforehand."
Source: Wikipedia.org. This is real stuff  | | |
| I decided to put this song up after hearing it on Vigor's site haha.
I think the song does a good job reflecting my ideas and feelings right now. Another year has gone and now a new one will start. New time begin and old times come to a sweet end. Yet despite the coming of the new, some things...never change. Sometimes that's good, other times that's bad. Right now, this song reflects my view on one of the bad things that will never...change.
Regardless of your reiligious affiliation, if you're a friend of mine...I beg you to please take a few seconds to pray that "The times I spent together with a special someone will be remembered". I know you're all probably wondering why I'm asking for something so strange....and I'm sorry that I'm being unfair by not telling you guys the reason. But I hope that knowing your prayers means a lot to me will be sufficient enough reason for you to help me out a bit. Thank you, and have a wonderful new year.
For tonight, I am a believer | | |
| Wow, so I haven't updated in a long time. It's probably becuase I didn't have much to update about. But for those of you who are wondering what i've been up to....the list below sums up my life, for the past 6 months, rather adequzately.
1. homework
2. college essays
3. COLLEGE essays
4. college ESSAYS
5. interviews
6. Science fair research
7. eating, sleeping, etc. (the necessities)
Today, I was finally able to go outside and hang out with some old buddies =P I also got to meet some interesting people (i.e. Jack Qian, Tonnie Lu, Melody Grace Chen, saw caleb again, weirdo Leo Lung, etc.). I had lots of fun with you guys. Hopefully we'll hang out again soon!
After playing basketball, we headed over to James's apartment to eat a buttload of chicken wings, play with his "weee"mote control-based nintendo games, smash some cards in egyption ratSCREW (emphasize screw since some people were rather embarassed to say that last part of the word), and slaughter melody and linda in darts (500-3? what? yeah i thought so. haha). I'm so glad I got a chance to go outside and have some fun 
On other news, during the past 6 months, I've also caught up on some anime series too! horrah! So to represent my pride in my aniti-social activities, i decided to start putting up theme songs from my favorite animes as my xanga background musics from now on.
This first song is called "Rewrite" from Fullmetal Alchemist | | |
| Alright! Finally the SAT I : Reasoning Test results came back and I got around a 2300! woot!
[edit] oh snap...i just realized i got the test date wrong...i'm taking SAT IIs in december. lol anyways, relaxation time then! woot! | | |
| Edit: Thank You to whoever changed my xanga skin!!! I think I have a good idea of who it is 
Hmm...so now this weekend are SAT II: Math IIc and Biology E/M. I'm rather ticked to find that UC Berkeley requires you take an SAT II: English as well...so yeah...definitely not happy right now with that. That will be like my 4th or 5th SAT II...talk about waste of money  . Sigh..
On a lighter note I got back, on Friday, from my interview at the University of Chicago. I think I did rather well. And when i mean by well, i mean that i did a decent job in generating answers from my mouth that sounded intelligible, among other things . The campus at the University is gorgeous. Gothic structured buildings, scholar-like campus, and amazing resource centers (Crerar Science Library, largest science library in the nation I had a party in there). In addition, the people were also really nice as well. But I had a horrible time getting to the University, since i got carsick from the taxi drive there. The guy loved to speed forward and slam on the breaks for absolutely no reason. I ended up throwing up in a bag and when he asked me what was wrong, my dad told him "oh he has car sickness" and the guy replied in a freakish african accent "What is car sick?". Lol, yeah. From there, we realized we were in for a long ride.
The trip back was even worse. We ended up reaching the airport at 7 or 8 pm for our supposed 9:00 pm flight out of O'Hare airport. However, it wasn't until like 5 hours later did we then board the plane (even after boarding, we waited another hour due to air traffic). I arrived home at about 4 a.m, Friday morning. Ugh.
So yeah, that's a little update on my life. More for later. I'm off to do some hwk now. Toodles (and yes, i just said that)
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