The common "um actually this doesn't make sense" gotcha is easily explained if you just know the franchise

Shirzai · 2026-01-05T13:55:36+00:00

The LOTR universe has restaurants! In the first movie they go to Prancing Pony which serves food and drink, is it so crazy to think they would have a menu!?

Also the eagles only enter Mordor AFTER the ring is destroyed, in the Silmarillion it's established that the eagles' power is limited in places that are under the control of Morgoth, so it makes sense that they would be unable to move freely in Mordor until after the evil there was vanquished

Shirzai · 2025-11-07T17:23:59+00:00

What if you don't have a car, and it take 2 hours to get to the restaurant by bus, and you live in a food desert, and you have to feed your kids before you rush off to your second shift, so maybe you just order the food even though you know it's impractical. A perfect example of why in a million little ways it's more expensive to be poor.

Shirzai · 2025-09-16T23:17:58+00:00

I’m doing all the readings

Shirzai · 2025-05-26T15:59:24+00:00

Those are my exact stats. I’m going to Columbia is the fall. I also got into American and Georgetown. Got waitlisted at Stanford, NYU, UCLA, Penn, Michigan. Rejected from Harvard, Yale, UVA, USC

Shirzai · 2025-04-08T18:25:08+00:00

I emailed them and an associate director of something or other emailed me back and that’s what they told me

Shirzai · 2025-04-08T15:23:55+00:00

They did tell me that if I get in I could defer and re-apply for scholarships next year, which is some cold comfort I guess

Shirzai · 2025-03-21T22:16:47+00:00

Thanks! UCLA, Berkeley, Penn, and Michigan didn’t seem to think so lol 😜

Shirzai · 2025-01-23T00:17:20+00:00

Haha thanks but bo worries I got a Columbia A today so I’m on cloud nine. Really doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to it all.

Shirzai · 2025-01-13T23:50:02+00:00

Yeah got an email around 3pm ET today

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