PS: I don't have to go to school until 8 in the morning! I have know this for a long time, but it has just now sunk in.

i checked again. it was impossible to get a 176 on that test; i got a 177.

*expletive stream censored for DDT*

Engage Sleep

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Sleep is a-go.



Yes sleep makes a clicking noise, you don't notice because you're asleep.

You guys are making me want to do an LSAT. I'll do it after my stupid school gets out... in a long time. Gahhh

How is it impossible to get a 176? The only impossible scores are like a 121?

Anyway, I got raped nonetheless by one of the 2006 exams. I'm mildly pleased with my 165, but nearly half of my wrong answers came from the reading comprehension section, which is uncharacteristic for me. Should be relatively simple to study, though. Five more points and I'll be where I need to be, and that's more than do-able in three years.

What does the lsat entail? Is it like the sat on steroids?

No math, no grammar, and the reading comprehension is focused on rhetorical strategies and constructing arguments. Math and writing are replaced by logical reasoning and analytical reasoning sections.

VPS: I got straight As this semester. First time since like... sophomore year of high school (when I was all, "screw you guys, I'm going home!"). Man, about time. and I'm glad I'm getting good grades for the right reasons, too.

I want to take the LSAT now.

Only on ADT do people discuss the tests they WANT to take.

I want to take an LSAT too... I would probably have better luck with that than the MCAT I attempted last summer. It raped me. Violently.

Yeah well... yeah.

HR/UC/IDRK: I smurfing hate not having any real friends. A few people act like they are my friends, but talk with their other friends about the cool stuff they did that weekend and it never crosses their mind that I was not there or that I might want to hang out. I have had two people (not counting youth leads or scout trips) ask me to hang out in the 2 years. I smurfing hate my life.

College is a great time to meet people who aren't jerks...

I hope so. I just have to make it through a lonely summer first.

Smurf those punks then. Do awesome things when they aren't around.

I would, but I would be by myself. None wanting to do anything with me is the problem.

For the most part, I keep to myself. I can definitely sympathize with the first post. However, there's a surprising number of cool things to do on your own. Read a book that you've been meaning to get around to. Build a wicked awesome model airplane. Write a short story. I don't know what you like, but do something vaguely constructive. Not to be Mr Motivational Poster, but when life sucks, give life a kick in the pants. It's better than getting into a blue funk about things.

THIS

Seriously, pretty awesome. Actually, even though I usually get invited to do things, I typically prefer to keep to myself for exactly this. You can do so much cool stuff on your own.

No joke dude, if you want to hang out sometime over the summer, I would be down. There will be many a time where driving out of the heat down here for an afternoon would sound awesome, and Prescott is less than two hours away.

I think the problem is my dad won't let me go to the library till I finish all my Eagle Scout stuff, so I am stuck rereading things for the 3rd or 4th time. And after 13 years of being pretty much on my own with my nose in book it gets old. And watching what my "friends" are doing just makes it worse or it would probably bother me way less.

That'd be great. I don't think I will be leaving ton much, so whenever you want to come up, I know some good stuff up here.

I don't think I'm doing anything next week during the week, so I might ask around the AcDec team and see if anyone is interested in heading to Prescott for a day trip. If not, I'll find a time and head up myself.

Slightly random question: do you play golf?

I didn't know pinko commies played golf...

I used to hit every once in a wile a long time ago.

It's "know your enemy" type stuff, so we're ready for the proletariat revolution

I used to get upset about this as well, to be honest (although my situation was/is different in some respects). I think the big thing is that, you can't wait for someone to come to you and ask you to hang out. Go up to those 'friends,' suggest that you guys do something interesting together, and maybe they'll get accustomed to you being in the fold and invite you to do things with them later on.

Even better, find people that have similar interests with you: I'm almost positive you like hiking, so ask around your church or troop or school for people who like hiking, and organize a Saturday hike and picnic! Or host a movie night at your house to watch all three Terminators in a row, and then see the new one (came out today!) (: Or something.

Idk, from the way you post and appear, it feels like you're not much of an initiator type? But sometimes, if you want to change things, then you've got to do something different and take the initiative to do things. Most of the time, people don't invite other people out simply because they're too damn lazy to do so. D: It sucks, but that's how life is.

By the way, Ian, if you go to Prescott, I'm so coming with you. I'm itching to get outta the house next week.

Not a bad idea. Maybe I'll become a vegan so I know what's up when we finally quash all those welfare queens...

Epic. Do you have any Monday-Friday preferences?

HEY GUYS CAN I COME TOO

Oh wait, I still have school. WHY, CALIFORNIA, WHY?

Thanks for the suggestions.
I have always been kinda shy at school and at church a lot too. I love my scout troop, but they are all way younger than me, so it's kinda awkward. But I think I will try to bust out o my box alittle this summer and do some of the initiating. I have done it a few times, bu apparently not often enough.

I can tell you Monday I can't hang out. My grandparents fly back to Tennessee and Virgina that day.

Having no real niche socially can suck, I got sucked into a real pit of depression over that same thing when college came around, it did me no real good that I had tons of time to dwell on it. I think the best thing you can do is to A) Not think about it Occupy your mind and C) Try and break out of the shell a bit. I still have problems with it. I put on an act around my friends that imo leads them to believe I'm a lot more extroverted than I am, it's tough, and when it comes down to it I'll chose a night by myself reading/doing whatever over having to make that damn call and see if someone wants to do something.

A and B have worked well for years. Now they are starting to wear out. I am trying option C, but dang is that hard. And I put on a show for a while until I realized people just found me annoying, so I went back to my books.

Doesn't it seem weird that all of us, myself included, on ADT have the exact same social insecurities?

ADT: For introverted nerdly types. ONLY


And debator GET OUT YOU EXTROVERTED FIENDS


I think I'm about even on the spectrum depending what day it is, to tell the truth,

No. We all tend to be very close in a lot of ways, at least socially.

The best way to get people to like you is to completely lose your sense of shame. I can give examples in a PM haha, not sure if it would be a ToS violation. But yeah, sometime in the last year or two I just stopped caring what people thought of me at all and suddenly everyone who gets to know me at all tends to like me a lot. So it's working out pretty well.

AND ME SEE POST ABOVE

Well I used to be like that, but not anymore.

Don't worry I ran out of smurf to give too, it works about as well as breaking out of your shell. Doesn't mean I still don't like to just stay in and listen to muzak now and then though.

That's what I am trying to do by breaking out of my shell. I just have a very thick shell, so it is hard for me a lot of the time. Those walls you build around yourself in elementary school to help protect against the kids picking on you last a long time and hurt you in high school.

There's way too much truth in this.

I totally understand, BadgerCam. Often I feel like I've had my whole life ripped away and I'm not worth much to anyone. I'm just going to work pretty hard this summer and try to get together with those people I care about (family and the few friends who have been really helpful), and hopefully they'll remember to return the favor.

DUDE YOU SHOULD DRIVE TO PRESCOTT WITH US WILL


Okay, and it looks like we'll head up next Friday morning sometime? Hari and one of next year's captains are coming up too.

You crazy kids with your Aca-Meetups.

Actually, I'm in Phoenix. How off-the-beaten-path would that be for you guys?

I'm doing jack-all this weekend, as far as I know, so I'd possibly be able to tag along.

What about next weekend? A week from this Friday?

If you're free that day, we have to drive straight through Phoenix anyway (we all live in Chandler, by South Mountain) and would be happy to pick you up.

That probably works. Chances are I won't have a solid job by then, given how depressingly horrible my paycheck-hunting has gone so far (HR!), so that'll probably work out fine for me. Get back to me on when/where/how long at some point soonish and I'll definitively clear my schedule.

PS: Magic are still a great team. I love both the Magic and the Cavs, so I don't really want this series to end.

UC: In times of trouble, the otherwise awesome Cavs seem to convert into the old "throw LeBron everything and assume he will make everything" team, complete with no ball movement and barely visible D. And they still only lost on two open looks that didn't fall. Sucks. At least LeBron performed in crunch time, getting his teammates ridiculously open looks and making that beautiful three point play. But damn if that's not depressing, getting a beastly game from your star player and still losing just because your bit players decided to drink fruity drinks and wait for LeBron to crush everyone instead of showing up.

Dude. It would be awesome to meet you.

And about the cavs, I agree. But Williams had a good 4th quarter. He missed that great buzzer beater by 2 inches at most.

Cavs pulled off the humongous chokejob. Blowing a 16 point lead on their own home court. I thought they were supposed to have the best defense in the league? Cleveland sports are cursed.