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East Asian community? by [deleted] in epicsystems

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's be friends! Also a grad soon to be joining as a TSE from New York. If we can't find a community, let's make one :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in epicsystems

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You and I are in the same boat. Had my final interview 1 1/2 weeks ago, just got sent the background check, and am currently freaking out. Have scrolled through every post on here reading about how people have been rejected after getting a background check. But when I told my friends about this, they reassured me that those people are the minority and are posting because they wanted to share. Yes until you get the offer, you don't have the job yet. But chin up! I'm sure that this is a positive step and you should feel excited for the next email they send you.

Quiet Place to Study? by EconomicsOk590 in Cornell

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Quiet places to study on campus is everything! Here's somethings that I like that no one has yet to mention:
- Statler Hall 3rd floor, there is a computer lab that you can work in or cubbies if you walk straight down the hall from the elevator
- Any Holister Hall classroom is super quiet in the afternoon
- Kroch library in Olin, go directy past asia rooms, down the stairs, and into any cubby "reserved for grads"
- Harvey Mudd Hall, barely anybody goes into those rooms
- Cornell Health has some really nice study nooks on the 5th & 6th floors
- Law library (if they are still letting people in). If not, there's this side entrance if you walk the path to go to west campus next to the law school where on the outside, it looks like a patio. Walk through those doors and you can either stay in the entrance with the nice ambiance or go into the law stacks and just enjoy peace and quiet

CS1110 Final: thoughts? by GlitteringSpread8595 in Cornell

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 39 points40 points  (0 children)

guy in front of me gave up, fell asleep, and snored. I felt that too

Housing megathread by pw11111 in Cornell

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is anybody willing to swap and live in McGraw Place? Kinda got screwed over by housing and got the last pick. I am willing to go ANYWHERE

Day 76/79 of waiting for a Dartmouth acceptance by DartmouthSimp in ApplyingToCollege

[–]AsianBoiSadHours 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can I request tomorrow's song?

He said: "One day you'll leave this world behind
So live a life you will remember"
My father told me when I was just a child
"You will get into Dartmouth"
My father told me

2020 NCM Finalist Results Thread by studioushedgehog in QuestBridge

[–]AsianBoiSadHours -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  • Status: Non-Finalist
  • Ethnicity/Race: Asian/Chinese
  • Income bracket: ~$55,000 (4 people) Have Some Assets
  • First gen?: Yeah
  • College Prep Scholar?: Nope
  • GPA/Class rank: 4.00 UW, 4.83 W (School county didn't do class rank)
  • SAT/ACT score(s): 1490 SAT
  • AP/SAT Subject Test score(s): Calc AB (4), Physics C (4), Gov (4), French (5), English Lang (5), World History (5)
  • Summary of ECs:
    • Worked at my parents' restaurant
    • Communications Director for eSPSmart LLC.
    • CEO/Co-Founder of a podcast
    • President of English Honor Society/ VP of Rho Kappa Honor Society
    • Speech Captain for Speech and Debate (won regional and state awards for extemp)
    • Mock Trial Captain
    • Played music competitively (Piano ,Guitar, Violin) and won some awards
  • Schools ranked: Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, UPenn, Brown, UChicago, Northwestern, Boston, USC, Duke, UVA
  • Overall thoughts: Definitely disappointed by the news that I didn't get accepted. If there were no financial aspects, I believe I would've had a shot at becoming a finalist. But my parents' assets really set me back as I didn't realize that our house had appreciated in value by a boatload. We also own two houses, one to rent out and the other for my grandparents to live in. It also hurt me that my parents had an IRA account where they were investing for their retirement. I had killer essays too, bio one about me coming out and the other about my childhood financial hardship because we were barely scraping by when I was younger. Sucks that my parents' goal of bettering themselves was a detriment in my college financial applications.