flux capacitor!

Posted by mellywa at 4:41 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Well, after treating myself to a piping hot dose of reality (and after chickening out of leaving the west coast), my college list has been significantly scaled down since my last post on the matter. :)

1. USC (Applied; Pending) Type: Reach
Bathrooms in some dorms?: Yes! :D Lots of sweet dorms!
2. UW (Applied; Pending) Type: Match/Safety
Bathrooms in some dorms?: No ;_; Consistantly ranks in top 10 of the Princeton Review's Dorms Like Dungeons list.
3. Carnegie Mellon (Not Yet Applied) Type: Reach
Bathrooms in some dorms?: Yes!
4. Boston U (Not Yet Applied) Type: Match/Safety
Bathrooms in some dorms?: Some ...
5. Fordham U (Not Yet Applied) Type: Safety
Bathrooms in some dorms?: Yup! Many nice apartment style dorms!
6. Case Western (Not Yet Applied) Type: Safety
Bathrooms in some dorms?: They have dorms?
7. University of San Francisco (Applied; Accepted - wow, that was fast) Type: Super Safety
Bathrooms in some dorms?: Like, 3. Probably reserved for upperclassmen. T_T

Could you tell that I really want a bathroom in my dorm? Seriously, UW, I'm not going to pay $700 a month to live in a shoebox when I could have a nice dorm with amenities at another college for $600 ... and, yes, I know that's a stupid thing to pick a college for. -_- Moving on ...

Anyway, so yeah, I got the email from USF that congradulates me for being accepted, and only two weeks after I sent in the app at that (roling admissions, I guess). Even though I knew I get in blindfolded it still feels nice. Mainly because I started and finished the app 4 hours before the deadline for EA (to get a huge scholarship), but also because I basically have a free ride to fall back on if USC rejects me or screws me over with my financial aid. And it ranks higher than U of O. Yay. But mom would still be upset if I didn't go to a Top 40 college. Too bad she doesn't understand that with my lack of extracurriculars, I'm just not that competitive of a student ...

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(From FaceAnal ... izer)

Take it as you will.

Despite the bad picture quality (should be a straight-on shot but I'm ugly so those aren't good for me or the internets), some parts were surprisingly accurate (note the CHECK WOW squiggles next to the traits) ...

And wtf is up with even a freaking computer program thinking I'm Korean or Japanese?

RaceAnalysis Explained

When a good quality image is uploaded (straight on picture, expressionless face, even lighting), the Race Analysis describes the racial features that are inherent in that face. Generally, people of a particular race will have racial features from many races. That means if you are east indian, you may have eastern european features, and vice versa. Your race analysis will reflect this.

Yeah. So I guess this thing just analyzed my hair and assumed that I was Korean or Japanese. And on a sitde note, I'm not sure any personal photo uploaded onto a public site (I'm looking at yoooouu, MySpace) matches all those criteria.

Posted by mellywa at 1:47 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

According to wikipedia (HAHAHA hmm), the following are the ratings given to Snakes on a Plane by various ratings boards around the world.

• MPAA- Rated R for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence.
• BBFC- 15 (Consumer advice: Contains strong language, sex and bloody violence)
• CHVRS- 14A (freaking Canadians don't even say why, but I bet it was SEX!)
• OFLC - M for moderate horror violence, moderate coarse language, sex scene and incidental drug use.
• IFCO- 15A (Strong violence and language, moderate sex/nudity, mild drug references)

As you can see, the only constant theme is ... sex. Despite the post title, what the snakes on the plane have to do with that I don't want to know, so I'll move on.

Anyways, Snakes on a Plane (it's only fitting to link it to its wiki again) is to Napoleon Dynamite as Samuel Jackson is to ... who am I kidding, I don't have a witty analogy. But it doesn't matter because this shizzle is likewise crazy. There's already a huge cult fan base on the internets, merchandising, WWF wrestlers wearing Snakes t-shirts, re-enactments, and for all I know a Disney Channel min-series is probably in the works, too. Indeed, all it needs now is Ubisoft to make a terrible video game based on it with a jumpy control scheme and wonky camera angles that make it impossible to see the snakes biting at your ankles.

The Rotten Tomatoes Concensus:

The film does indeed feature [MUTHAFU-KIN'] snakes on a [MUTHAFU-KIN'] plane.

I'll probably never get around to seeing it until 10 years from now when it becomes the replacement for Raiders of the Lost Ark (coincidentally also containing snakes) as AMC's Bang Bang Action Movie that they play freaking every other week. Even then I'll probably only see bits n pieces of it because I'll get sick and tired of the MUTHAFUKIN SNAKES 10-minute commercial breaks.

But anyway, I think you should do yourself a favor and check out Cobra Starship's "Snakes on a Plane (Bring it)", which has been going around all the hipsters' mp3 blogs.

We seem to be losing altitude
at an alarming pace
Midtown downtown
Snakes on a blog
I suggest you grab your ankles
and kiss your ass goodbye.

Posted by mellywa at 10:05 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Unfortunately for this tee, I asked myself, "Would my grandma be OK with me wearing this?"



... And in case you couldn't guess, the answer was no.

However, upon asking myself WHAT WOULD JESUS DO, I think he'd totally go for it.

This and other great-fitting, awesomely-designed graphic tees for men and women at A-Nation Clothing Co. ... Tees 100% Made in USA by American Apperal, natch.

Posted by mellywa at 9:11 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

More than you, obviously.

Until I get around to putting up what I really want this blog to be about (HA), I'll drone on midlessly about this year's college admissions cycle. Snore, you say? Well, I and thousands of other pretentious nerds out there are absolutely and unneccesarilly obsessed with these things, so shut up and read my current College List of Pretentiousness, in a somewhat of a particular order:

1. (May apply Early Decision) Cornell University - NY (13)
   
2. University of Southern California (30)
3. Carnegie Mellon - PA (22)
   
4. UC Berkeley or UC San Diego (they're all the same!) (20, 32)
5. Tufts University - MA (27)
6. Boston College (40) or U Notre Dame - IN (18)
   
7. University of Washington (45) *
   
8. University of San Francisco (115) *
   
9. Case Western Reserve - OH (37) *
10. University of Oregon Honors College (12,334,555,601) *
    

The pretentiousness of the list comes from the facts that
a.) I hardly have a solid chance at about half of these universities
b.) An asterisk denotes a safety college (assumedly an almost 100% chance for me to be accepted)
c.) The number in parenthesis next to the college indicates its rank on U.S. News' America's Best Colleges 2006. Note that all of my match colleges are in the imfamous Top 40.

Lately, there's been a bit of buzz (well, not really, but humor me) about other publications' "new rankings" of the Nation's top universities. The Washington Monthly puts public school Penn State at #3, with Ivy League U of Penn at #30; unranked South Carolina State University at #9, with Harvard crying in a corner at #28; Texas A&M which soars 55 places to #5 , with Princeton writing dark emo poetry at #43; and Emory getting ready to commit seppuku at #96 (a full 46 spots lower than US News' ranking, the biggest looser of all).

The only thing "unsurprising" about the list is that MIT (Nance Nance Revolution!?!1) finally gets what it deserves--the position as top dog of America's universities.

The Washington Monthly says it ranked schools by deeming no single category to be more important than any other and also included the quaint element of "Social Mobility", basically dependent how many kids from the ghettos (and other lower-middle-class suburbanites like me that qualify for Pell Grants) graduate from the college, which is what sunk Emory's S.S. Pretentious.

Naturally, there is no real way to accurately compile a universal ranking of colleges. However, even if this list turned out to be the most comprehensive college list evAr, some things will never change.

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will always be the Holy Trinity.

Asian parents will always disown their children for not getting accepted into a Top 40 school.

No matter what rank it is, it will always be awkward for a White or Asian person to go to South Carolina State University, considering it is literally 99% Black.

And after all this long-winded psuedo-analysis, all I have to say is that you should go to where you'll be the most happy. If it makes you happy to go to one of HYPS just because of their prestige, go for it; it'll be a great conversation piece for the rest of your life and Prince doles out the aid like no other. But don't become unhappy because of numbers. If you're an good, intelligent person, no matter what college you go to, you will do well.

Better than this lady, anyhow.

The End.

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