How I Spent My SIM Vacation

Robin Tan · Post by **Robin Tan** » 18 years ago

P.S. Oh yeah, Ara, I forgot to mention that I applied to schools to be an aerospace engineering major! That will probably change once I get to college, but yeah, thought you might be interested since that's what you're pursuing as well.

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 18 years ago

Ooooh me and Rob can be in Mission Control together!! It'll be fun, when I went to Houston last year we got to look down into Mission Control and they had doughnuts and pizza. We'd be totally cute!

Eric Nalbone · Post by **Eric Nalbone** » 18 years ago

Robin, where did you apply?

-Eric

Steph Wilder · Post by **Steph Wilder** » 18 years ago

Eric,

Do you have 20 minutes?

Robin Tan · Post by **Robin Tan** » 18 years ago

Eric Nalbone wrote: Robin, where did you apply?

-Eric

The better question would be: where didn't I apply?
Let's see... schools I've heard back from: Penn State (got accepted to Schreyers, they're offering me $9.5k/year), Pitt (got into Honors, plus a full tuition scholarship), Maryland (got accepted to Honors and Gemstone programs as well), University of Southern California (half tuition scholarship).
Schools I'm still waiting on: Duke, Stanford, Brown, MIT, Hopkins.

I think that's it. Ha.

Mandy Saunders · Post by **Mandy Saunders** » 18 years ago

MARYLAND!!!! GOOOO TERPS!

And we could hang out and I'd take you to Pimlico, Laurel, Charles Town, Colonial, and show you the ropes....plus Country Life, Maryland Stallion Station, Northview Stallion Station, Bonita, Murmur, Blue Ridge, and Newstead (Genuine Risk!), not to mention the Fair Hill and Bowie training centers.

Plus there's tons to do like the MovieCo, Medieval Times, Renaissance Festival, and the new (and very huge) Maryland Equestrian Center. It's so very awesome in Maryland.

Just a suggestion

Plus UofM ROOOOCKS!

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 18 years ago

All I can offer as a suggestion is: You can't spell "SUCK" without U-S-C

Post by **The Steward** » 18 years ago

She already said to me that she's going to USC because she misses me SO much she wants to be near me.

And also she would rather get a tan at Santa Anita in January than get cold on the East Coast.

I made this up, but this would be MY logic if I were her.

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 18 years ago

Rob should go to USC (the Cali one, not the Carolina one) so she'll still be there when I graduate and go work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and then me and Em and Rob can all go eat corn together again and watch pig racing. Daryl can come too if he wants. And then Steph will have to move out there because she will miss us so much.

This is a good plan.

Eric Nalbone · Post by **Eric Nalbone** » 18 years ago

Robin, nice list. I'm a big fan of Penn State!

Eric Nalbone · Post by **Eric Nalbone** » 18 years ago

Daryl, your commentary sounds to me like a sore Bruins fan that wasn't so pleased to see Reggie Bush put up 200+ yards on his team in the first half! All kidding aside though, UCLA is great too.

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 18 years ago

It is basketball season, man. Quit livin' in the past B)

And if you are going to talk history, don't bring up Princeton beating UCLA in the NCAA tournament in 1996.

Eric Nalbone · Post by **Eric Nalbone** » 18 years ago

Basketball season used to be a good time for us here at Princeton. It is no longer. Despite contending for the Ivy League title this year, before league-play started we manage to achieve a few dubious feats:

1) We set the record for fewest points scored in a Division I basketball game since the invention of the 3-point shot, managing a whopping 21 points in an ENTIRE GAME. ESPN does a lot of "Top 10 Plays of the Week" types of features, well, we made ESPN's "10 Worst Moments of the Week" or some such thing.

2) We lost to Carnegie Mellon, a DIII school, and watched Georgetown, with our old coach at the helm, roll towards the top of the rankings.

Its a bitter, bitter basketball season for the Tigers this year! On a better note, our heavyweight men's crew team, which I'm a coxswain for, should be the best in the country this year, so at least the Princeton athletics I'm a part of are doing well!

-Eric

Robin Tan · Post by **Robin Tan** » 18 years ago

If I go to USC, I'll have a lot of problems because I'm a huge UCLA fan because my dad went there. A conflict of interest with Duke, as well, since I am a huge Tar Heel basketball fan and not so much big on the Blue Devils...

Steph Wilder · Post by **Steph Wilder** » 18 years ago

Well, I have you all beat. If I go to Villanova, I'll be watching the basketball team that I've been obsessed with since I was 4. So....there.

And Ara - I'll go to Vet School in Cali, okay?