TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
You people already get to graduate?! ug. I have to wait until the 13th of June. I hate my school.

O, Eunice, I too wore the Tasp shirt for the English AP (ha).
Generally I feel the AP's are alright (though I didn't start studying for AP Econ until 1 am the day of) and really what's painful is having to go to classes for a month after finishing these tests. It's not even like we get to play kick ball and have parties, as all the AP teachers assured us... we have all these stupid projects to do, and four or five of them are due in the next few days. ave. Here's a funny story that our Stats teacher was telling us about; students taking one version of the Stats test out west would open their books to find multiple choice questions 11-21 completely absent from the test. They then would have to reschedule. Wouldn't that suck? ha.

Jacob, on your computer, mayhaps it's fate. "Ay my dharma, ay my fate."

Let me say, Bryan and Alex, that during the old Chinese civil service exams, the students were allowed to bring in a small hankercheifs and a portable toilet bowl for just such problems. The practice was common for centuries; let us look to the east and learn. (ha)

I think the main reason that we all post so much has to do with the motivational force of Tae-Yeoun's personality. Maybe she slept around or something. no? ok. To answer that Cornell question; Do you all remember those dirty drawings? Pretend they were real. ha.

Yesterday for Anthro we saw this speaker on the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was painful. Not only did the guy underestimate the intelligence of the audience, but how liberal Oak Parkers are. It was all propaganda; for him Sharon was misunderstood, and the 6-day was the beginning of history (accept for when the Jews lived in Israel the first time). He was a journalist, and was exceedingly good at avoiding questions: Q) Do you believe in Preemptive war A) When it saves lives Q) What do you think of the missile strikes areas occupied principally by Palestinian civilians A) The Terrorists intentionally inhabit civilian areas, using the children as human shields ... and so on. It was infuriating because he would act as if the Palestinians were acting purely out of an intrinsic evil, that they wanted to blow up school children to go to heaven so live with virgins. right.

I have to get off of the computer because my mom needs it, so G'day all.

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