Time for another mass update post
If I learned anything from Josh's successful go at this a few weeks ago, it's that these things work best if I say something insightful and poetic and the beginning and then ask the question at the end. So here goes, impromptu poetry style:
Awash in cataracts of time
Rivulets of quantized future
Informed by mountainous ranges
Of past and viewbooks
We draw on whimsy, fancy, lore
And basest instinct
About RAs
PhDs
Associate Deans' wary optimism
How many of us have stood backward
On the 10 meter diving board and
Dared to look down?
One can see the grated rubber
Grounding one's feet
And, out of the corner of one's eye
A drop
Beyond which the world evaporates in a blur.
Anticipation abounds
Will you leap?
Dive?
Tumble?
Fall?
Gracefully pierce the water you imagine waits below
or clumsily belly-flop onto fresh concrete?
Gently, delicately,
The mere fact that you dare to contemplate it
Speaks volumes
Whispers epics
Leaves unsaid myriad encyclopedic volumes.
So, where are y'all going to college?
I've heard from many of you, but wouldn't dare pre-empt you on the blog.
Do comment. 'Twould be a shame to not do so.
Michael Barany
Awash in cataracts of time
Rivulets of quantized future
Informed by mountainous ranges
Of past and viewbooks
We draw on whimsy, fancy, lore
And basest instinct
About RAs
PhDs
Associate Deans' wary optimism
How many of us have stood backward
On the 10 meter diving board and
Dared to look down?
One can see the grated rubber
Grounding one's feet
And, out of the corner of one's eye
A drop
Beyond which the world evaporates in a blur.
Anticipation abounds
Will you leap?
Dive?
Tumble?
Fall?
Gracefully pierce the water you imagine waits below
or clumsily belly-flop onto fresh concrete?
Gently, delicately,
The mere fact that you dare to contemplate it
Speaks volumes
Whispers epics
Leaves unsaid myriad encyclopedic volumes.
So, where are y'all going to college?
I've heard from many of you, but wouldn't dare pre-empt you on the blog.
Do comment. 'Twould be a shame to not do so.
Michael Barany
posted by Michael Barany at 9:32 AM
9 Comments:
For me, it came down to:
CBTA or Wash U (as a Compton Scholar=full tuition schol.)
As of this afternoon, my acceptance postcard is in the mail for Cornell. I liked a lot about both schools, and in the end it came down to math departments. As a math major, I will want access to, for instance, more than one combinatorialist, more than a handful of algebrists and analysts, etc. and ample study opportunities with said profs and other students.
Smiles for all,
Michael Barany
I am headed to UChicago. It's good to be done with this game.
Harvard, so it seems.
Mike, hope this adds to the momentum of your post.
Good job, folks. Keep 'em coming.
harvard
stacey--i was thinking of taking a year to go around china, but my parents were against it, so it's not gonna happen.
Although I still have yet to decline Davidson, I'm 90% sure it's UAB.
Harvard
At this point, UChicago. However, I'm still pushing for Harvard. In my mind, they're the two most pretentious schools in America, and essentially equal. Harvard, however, has the invaluable bonus of being AwayFromHome. Either way, I'm happy.
Yale is in da mail!
DS!
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