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I am planning on buying a new laptop in a week or two that I will be using in college (also because I need one right now), and I would like to get some feedback. MacBook Pro (15 inch, 2.4 GHZ: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro) is on top of my list right now, but some people told me that it's definitely not worth the money.

Is it really overpriced? How much better of a laptop can I purchase with the same amount of money? Since I would have to take it around various classes, what are some other ideal high performance laptops? By the way, I am not really interested in building one. Thanks!

I have my first college (undergrad) interview tomorrow and I have no idea what to expect. Are the questions just typical "What are you passionate about?" and "Why do you like this school?" I am hoping the interviewer is nice, it's some 50 year old woman.

Does anyone have any important last minute advice? I am kinda scared..

So yesterday I looked at the calendar for the first time in a while only to realize there are 5 days of summer left. Panicking, I went through my backpack and pulled out the untouched Extended Essay (4000 words? fuck), some history reading, and about 5 other assignments I forgot about.

Oh shit, school is backkk

But hey, I am finally a senior! Everyone talks about how great senior year is, so I will try to enjoy it as much as possible. I just can't wait until second semester when I will be done with college apps and all that fun stuff.

Looking back, I can proudly say it's been a very productive summer:

1) Got through the internship well. Received some excellent recs ;D
2) Studied for SAT IIs. Fucking history was the worst book I've ever had to go through.
3) Finished writing college essays for the most part.
4) Visited colleges. I actually just got back from California yesterday, after taking Berkeley/Stanford tours. I think I might've seen evanthebouncy at Cal but I was too scared to go up and say hi.
5) Had a nice time with family/friends.

Goals for upcoming school year:
1) No StarCraft.
2) Edit college essays, I think they still need some work. Also finish the early action application by mid October.
3) Study more for SAT IIs. Fucking history.
4) Go to bed early. I guess this kind of relates to my goal #1. Throughout my entire junior year I never went to bed past 1:00AM because I would always stay up to get some StarCraft session in. Then the next day my economics teacher would get very very mad when I fall asleep in class.

A video taken by my friend in the dreaded Econ class (Don't know how to rotate it):

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5) Play lots of tennis. I didn't get to play as much last year because I was busy all the time but definitely going for the number one spot this year
6) Have a successful year in Leadership. Been in it forever, it's finally my chance to take charge.


Goodbye Summer 08, you have been good.

Looking for practice partners!
My internship has ended and college essays almost finished, which can only mean more Starcraft
I haven't been able to play too much lately so I am looking for some folks to practice with to get back in shape.

I am a Protoss user. Any map, any matchup.

Even with Chaoslauncher I still like playing on Hamachi, so come to Clan Art 1//liquid and hit me up on OneOther.
Otherwise, I'll be on sMi.Frozen - US West.

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Ahhh that fucking time of the year.I am currently in the process of gathering ideas for those damn college essays, and you could do me a huge favor by sending me your old essays! I don't care what the prompt was, how good/bad you think they are, or any of that. I just wanna get some juices flowing.

Send away!
sayheytoray11@gmail.com (preferred)
PM on teamliquid

THANKS

EDIT: Not interested in ideas, just all the different styles of writing. I don't really know how formal/informal and all that those essays should be.

Did anyone else go see this movie?
I just watched it today and I must say I am pretty disappointed...I guess I was expecting too much. The actions were awesome and badass but I don't know, something was just missing. CRAZY twist though, when "Cross" ends up being his REAL dad and Weasely finds out the entire Fraternity was playing him. I was like whaaaaaaaaaaat.

Overall I give it a 3 out of 5. What about you guys? Thoughts? Comments?

PS Angelina "Fox" Jolie looked hot

I stayed up til 2:00 AM on a school night to check my SAT scores from May and I see this message after refreshing about 500000 times. FUCK I AM PISSED






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Haha I just played the most pathetic yet interesting Iccup game. A PvT on Gaia. I was absolutely sure I was going to lose but I knew it would be last game for tonight so I just stayed and played for the heck of it...and!

http://www.battlereports.com/viewreplays.php?replaynum=33063