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So, I am writing this entry in advance (August 8th), but for somewhat obvious reasons, I am delaying its publication until August 17th at midnight, once all the blogger apps should be in.

Okay, so, for those of you who somehow are unaware, one of the major reasons this blog exists is because I really want to be an admissions blogger for MIT (along with my general, long-held desire to keep a journal of some sort). This process is highly competitive, particularly this year. As with MIT Admissions in general, however, there is a bit of a philosophy that, just because it is important and competitive that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. As a result, in addition to the various more serious/mundane requirements of the blogger app, there is the following short essay:

Short answer #2 (please choose one of the following).

• Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is the single most important piece of art ever created. (Please include its URL)
• Option B: Create and submit MIT Admissions blog-related Lolcats (or Lolbeavers, or Lolsnivelys, or…). Submit a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4.

As you may have figured out by now, I decided on option B. I got a little carried away, however, and actually made 9 different designs. Choosing only four was incredibly difficult; I tried to survey many MIT prefrosh and students, but I had trouble finding ones that weren’t also applying to be bloggers. Finally after much deliberation, I settled on the following four which, while not necessarily my favorites, are probably the most directly relevant to Admissions (while also funny). They also happen to include at least one lolcat, one lolbeaver, and one lolsnively… I thought it was good completion. Anyway, without further ado, my four main selections:

This one is actually a recreation of one I earlier posted to the Facebook group. Since it was a good idea then, I still considered it a good idea for this application. Since its old hat to me, I don’t think its that funny any more, but hopefully it is still funny to the people to whom it’s new, like the blogger committee.

This is my incarnation of a lolbeaver. I believe the picture is from Battle of the Bands, CPW 2006. I forget where exactly I found it. Still .. its a true story. (Also clearly lolbeavers have slightly better grammar than lolcats).

I think this one should gain me points for being a simultaneous lolsnively and LoTR reference. It was also incidentally taken by Laura, who is on the blogger selection committee. I hope she will like the caption. I find it hilarious.

With the knowledge that Joey C. is also applying for blogger-ship, I hope he doesn’t mind terribly that I stole his picture. This is also not technically a lolthing, but I thought the motivational poster motif was a better format for this particular caption. Personally, of the ones I submitted this is probably my favorite (though the people I asked didn’t really agree). I just love it cause its a great caption for the picture, but is also relevant because with the blogs, and two-way comments.. it really is pretty interactive.

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So, that is it for the ones I submitted, but as I said, I got a little bit overzealous and made 5 more than the four I submitted. Some of them I actually find funnier, but they are also less relevant to Admissions or are otherwise less appropriate. I present them in (my opinion’s) order from least funny to most funny:

This is a great picture, and by Lulu, but it doesn’t really work with the caption because the cat doesn’t actually look all that happy. It is also too specific. I showed it to a friend on 1E, saying they could steal it for hall rush or something, if they wanted. Sadly, it was deemed not ammusing enough for this purpose and it isn’t really.

This is the first one I did. It is a bit too obvious to really be particularly funny. Still, its a decent application of lolcat dynamics to Snively– an early test in lolsnively technology, if you will.

This is a relatively entertaining picture all by itself. The caption doesn’t really add that much and all told, an implication of bribery (which would obviously be patently false) wouldn’t reallly be appropriate. Still, some of the people I surveryed liked it alot. Again, I think its just the picture. Matt, that is an amazing float.

I’m sorry. I find this one ABSOLUTELY hillarious, both for the original picture (by Lulu) and for my own caption (</vanity>). Nevertheless, I feared this would be a bit too controversial for official submission. I don’t actually think that (all) people on west campus hate kitties.

This is quite clearly the best one ever. It also has little to nothing to do with anything. Still, it is a great picture and I was proud of myself for the irony.

Anyway, I guess if this is published, I am en route to MIT … that is scary .. but also amazingly exciting. It also means that the blogger selection committee is probably in their selction process. Thank you for making such a tough decision. Regardless of if they include me, I hope you pick awesome bloggers to represnt our class for posterity! ^_^

See you all at orientation.. some of you tommorow! :-O

~Donald

For the last hour and 4 minutes, it has been my last day at home. My last. day. at home. You know what though, I am tired of whining about leaving… I will, in fact, miss many people, but I’m about to meet a lot of other cool people. I’ve now seen pretty much everyone I know for the last time for a long time. I am about to see a lot of people for the first time that I will see often. It’s time to become an optimist. (This reminds me of a terrible joke:

A pessimist, an optimist, and an engineer walked up to a table where they observed a glass at half capacity. “That glass is half full!” exclaimed the optimist cheerfully. “That glass is hald empty,” said the pessimist gloomily. The engineer just got extremely frustrated and said nothing. After awhile, the optimist and pessimist noticed the engineer’s condition. The optimist, always one to try and cheer people up, finally turned to the engineer and said “What’s wrong?” “CLEARLY THE GLASS IS TWICE AS BIG AS NECCESARY!”

)

Anyway, today is all about preperation for leaving for MIT tommorow. ( I have packed substantially less than I ought to have). No more focus on the past. No forgetting it either, but it is time to think futureward. On the not of the future, I found out today that my HASS-D result is for 24.900 ^_^. Other than being at 9:30am on Tuesdays and Thursdays, this is awesome.

To MIT, see you in 2 days!!

~Donald Guy

P.S. The Blogger App is due today, so you can expect a pre-written/scheduled post of my lol-things tommorow morning.

So, I’m sure you have all heard that supposedly the world is supposed to end in my/our college graduation year, 2012 (or at least there is supposed to be some major psychic shift or something .. trouble with this Mayan predictions is we can’t really ask them what they meant). Well, I’m not talking about that … I’m talking about now.

Like most of my peers, I am afflicted with the lovely ailment referred to as senioritis. On top of that, my teachers (particularly my english teacher) thought it a good idea to set up a negative correlation between seniors’ motivation and seniors’ workload .. it’s actually insane.

<whining about english>

Consider that, in the first place, our AP English Lit exam was last Thursday, so by all reason, the class should be pretty much done or at least switching over to “fun” activities. Yea, we aren’t. At my high school (and by all accounts, only my high school within the district), we are required to submit a senior english portfolio composed entirely of NEW compositions.. in the order of 12 of them. For most of them, we have to submit 3 drafts + pre-writing (as though we actually do prewriting). On top of that, she thought it a good idea to assign us a series of poetry journals. Not only are these of substantially larger quanity than those earlier in the yaer (6, each requiring analysis of 3-6 poems), but they are in the majority due BEFORE the  portfolio. But no, it does not stop there, on top of this we have been assigned to read and keep “a detailed character list” for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. So, in summary, the first day after our AP exam, we have the first poetry journal, 69 pages of Cuckoo, and a check on our senior portfolio progress (theses checks are graded seperately). Also, keep in mind, it is still AP exams .. I won’t be there.. I have AP Physics C, for which I do not feel prepared and won’t feel prepared, despite studying more than I have for any other AP exam. Then the next day, I have AP Psychology.

</whining>

On top of the insane English load and AP Physics C, I have a chorus concert I need to work to prepare for, and a 2 day Enviornmental competition (about which I am less than enthralled) that will wipe out my ability to work on the english portfolio Sunday or Monday of next week, with the portfolio itself due .. let’s see… WEDNESDAY. Oh and on top of this I also feel physically ill.

Basically .. my point is that of my title, I feel doomed plain and simple. That said, I also know myself and having gone through this cathartic excercise would expect that this prediction of doom will go the way of most (i.e. it will turn out false, but its true believers will continue on unphased). We’ll see.

Anyway, if I get through this one, I’ll see you in 2013.

Thanks for listening to my doomsaying,

~Donald Guy

P.S. one other prediction, amongst my HASS classes, I will probably never take another english class proper.