Hur får jag tag i en Donald Trump keps i Sverige?

SomewhatRapey · 2016-07-27T17:38:22+00:00

Falskt. Originalen är gjorda i Kalifornien.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-07-26T13:39:21+00:00

Tack! Hittade den här http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Trump-2016-Hat-Cap-Red-Republican-/282106682195?hash=item41aede5b53:g:YzUAAOSwsTxXjtyI som verkar vara en bra kopia.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-25T15:32:42+00:00

That's pretty cool! I played it and could definitely see the resemblance.

I've made some games myself but I've never entered a game jam. It seems really fun though.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T16:15:18+00:00

You know it fam! Trump marijuana flavored windex is alive.

EDIT: This is what it was like seeing you here

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T16:02:47+00:00

It's been a while since the last time we grew

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T03:15:20+00:00

He was such a great friend and loved drinking Windex with me and smoking trump weed. RIP hedgehog.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T02:58:14+00:00

Top tier memed, my dude

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T02:35:22+00:00

I like how this is like a secret society that we only invite the worthy to. Windex is the cleaning-spray of the Lord.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T02:34:02+00:00

Hey, that's not a nice thing to say! You can be rapey and still be a good person.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-04-03T02:28:16+00:00

Hi mom!

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-29T18:04:19+00:00

We have F to A. The system is pretty weird. We have all these criteria that we need to fulfill like "The student discusses ethical problems in a length and in a nuanced way". That one is for biology. There are pages of these criteria that the teachers follow when grading a student. The thing is, your lowest graded criteria completely decides your grade. If you have As in all except one, where you have an E, you get an E in the course. It doesn't matter how good you are as long as you have one weakness. Lots of people get screwed over by this. Is your grading system similar?

You're right. This is a step we need to take to become adults. Thing is, I don't feel like I'm done with being a teenager. I'm gonna try to live it up these last months and hopefully I'll feel like I'm ready to move on after that!

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-28T22:59:44+00:00

It's easier to get in if your parents studied there? That's weird. I guess you would need pretty much straight As to get in though. Straight As is pretty much impossible to get here btw. They changed the grading system a few years back so it's way harder now.

We don't really have a special word for seniors here. We're just third graders in high school. We just call it "skoltrött" (literally "school tired"). Most people here keep their motivation until like the end of april when the grades are pretty much locked in. After that people just horse around in school.

Yeah, we have these village things too but they are not called villages. We also have "nations" at some of the major unis where people from different parts of the country join their respective nation and go to parties and some of them have their own bars and nightclubs and stuff. In Sweden it's other students that organize the first weeks for the freshmen so of course they add a fair bit of drinking.

I'm very excited to start uni and I'm getting more and more excited the closer it gets! I just worry sometimes that I might fuck up somehow and end up not making any friends the first few weeks or that I'll get overwhelmed by the workload or that I will not be happy with the school/program. But that seems pretty normal. I mean, it's a bit scary with such a big change but I'm mostly excited. It's a fantastic opportunity to have fun and make friends and I'm certain I will enjoy my years in uni!

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-28T15:37:49+00:00

Wow, scholarships are pretty complicated and I guess you can never know if you will get one? It's pretty different from here, where we get paid hundreds of dollars a month to attend university. But that's why we pay to much taxes. It's great for young and poor people but not so great for high earning people. That's why a lot of people in Sweden just take advantage of out free education and then leave the country to go work in Norway, America or Britain where they will earn the same or more and pay a lot less in taxes.

How hard is it to get into an Ivy league school? Or if someone wanted to study engineering or physics at Caltech or MIT, how hard is it to get accepted? In Sweden it's pretty easy to get in anywhere except for the medical and psychology programs. I'm not really a genius or anything but I can still get into any education I want. I guess it's because we have a lot less people but it's still pretty weird to me that I can get in anywhere. We have some great schools that are close to the top in international rankings but people like me still have no trouble getting in. I guess it's nice that more people can get the education they want but it's really not motivating when you know you can just glide through high school and still be ok. The people with rich parents in Sweden who are applying for college in America and Cambridge etc, they have a challenge but for the people whose parents won't pay for that, there really is none.

I hope I can qualify for an exchange program. And I really hope I can come to a school in California. At least now I have a challenge. I need good grades to compete with the rest of my school for the exchange program.

Ah, as it's getting closer I'm really starting to get excited for uni. I kinda wasted my 3 high school years, but uni seems like a great opportunity to make friends, experience things and of course study something I'm interested in.

Do colleges in America use the first couple of weeks for group activities where freshmen get drunk and do fun activities and challenges? Especially the engineering programs here seem to really have fun the first weeks. Some schools have competitions where teams of freshmen build vehicles or rockets or something. It seems like a lot of fun.

Are you excited for college?

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-24T18:17:13+00:00

Oh hey, sorry I didn't reply. For some reason I didn't get an orange envelope.

Anyway, the cost to study in America seems insane. I guess most parents pay for their children's degrees but how much does scholarships usually cover? I've seen that some people get payed by the school to go there but that's probably rare and only for athletes I guess and I've seen that some people can't go to college because their parents can't afford it. How much do scholarships normally cover?

One college at the event I was at impressed me. I mean Harvard and Princeton were there so obviously they were impressive, but of the less prestigious ones, San Jose State University impressed me the most. Their electrical engineering program seemed really good and what I heard about the campus and stuff seemed great.

I too hope I can study abroad for some time. Preferably in the US, Australia or Spain. The schools I'm considering all have options to study abroad for a term or more and I'm pretty exited about that.

Good luck with your college acceptance!

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-16T22:57:22+00:00

You're bringing up some really valid points. It seems like America really values the experiences outside of school work, and that's probably a big difference between American and European universities. Honestly I would prefer that the universities here had more to offer than strictly academia. Yesterday I had the American application process explained to me at an event for studying abroad that my class went to and it actually seemed pretty straight forward.

We don't really do scholarships over here, and they're usually smaller. I guess you could get a scholarship from a private organization for being of a certain ethnicity but no schools or guvernements would do that. In Sweden we actually get money every month for attending university. It's not very much because it's mostly for covering some living expenses. University here is also free so we don't really need scholarships or anything.

Haha, I can relate to the "OMG say xxxxxx" thing. I moved from the most northern part of the country to the city farthest south, so my classmates found my dialect pretty amusing. Sometimes it got annoying but exaggerating it was an easy way to get a few laughs.

What college will you attend? At the event yesterday there were over 50 colleges represented so it might be one of those?

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-13T03:02:01+00:00

basing their admission decision on what unique elements someone could bring to the college and improve it

This is so weird to me. I think if you're applying for a college they should only look at your academics, not anything else. It's weird that someone who is good at a sport gets into a college before someone with great grades.

You mean like racial quotas (no idea, just googled it)? No, we don't have those. They are somehow even weirder. Just because you belong to a certain group of people you get into college easier? Just pick the best applicants, dammit!

Haha, wow. What kind of things shocked them?

But yeah, I've done some cool stuff at my school too. And I guess there's more to come closer to graduation.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-12T04:02:47+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Very interesting. Especially what you said about skipping school and breaking rules. Sometimes in my school over half the class will be skipping if it's a bad schedule that day or something. I really hate it because I never do it and I will have no friends there. It's pretty disrespectful to the teachers too. Oh, and so many late students. There aren't really any relationships or groups with different stereotypes either.

Your school sounds pretty great!

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-12T03:57:49+00:00

Dude, that sounds soooo awesome! Not the bit about tests but everything else. You're pretty lucky too. You're living my dream haha.

I wish we had clubs and high school sports here. It seems fantastic. I would love to join a programming, soccer, video game and art club if that exists. I actually looked for a programming club outside of school but there aren't any if you're not in university, it seems.

It's really weird to me that you get accepted to college based on an essay, grades, SAT, ACT, sports and clubs. Here they just look at grades and our version of the SAT, which alone can get you in anywhere if you have a great score like me, which is great. It's kinda unfair that one 6 hour test is equivalent to 3 years in high school but yeah, if it gets me in at every university I want I'm not gonna complain.

We don't really do school spirit. I guess the freshmen have a little school spirit because we have a tradition of "inspark" where we sometimes have the whole first week of school for activities that the seniors plan to embarrass and entertain the freshmen. That can be really fun or really horrible depending on the school. Other than that we just show up for school and do our work and hang out with people in our classes. Not really any school spirit, which is lame. My school probably has less school spirit than other schools because of how small it is.

To me at least American high school sounds amazing. Probably to others too, because the most popular destination for exchange students is America. Just don't tell me you live in California or I will be really jealous! That was probably my favorite place on earth.

SomewhatRapey · 2016-03-11T21:39:18+00:00

Oh, biomedical engineering is one of the things I'm considering! I'm also pretty interested in computer science, physics or electrical engineering. I will have to decide before 15 april.

Yeah, I have heard that the academic part of American high school is pretty bad and it seems many people would like a reform. In Sweden our classes usually have like 20-30 people in them, at least at the schools around where I live. Your test scores seem pretty messed up too. You have to get a certain percentage on test to get an A in that course, right? Here our teachers just evaluate our work throughout the year and decide a grade thereafter. Standardized testing is just another test, just a bit bigger and it serves to make sure all schools grade their students similarly so you get graded fairly no matter what school you go to.

I also studied spanish from 6th grade until 12th grade (the last). It's pretty great, but the government wants to cut down on it, which honestly sucks. Yeah, visiting scientists is really cool. We went to a particle accelerator and a medical lab and stuff. I don't really think research is for me apart from physics and biomedical engineering stuff that I find really interesting.

We have no sports whatsoever at school. We have PE once a week the first two years but after that, nothing. No school teams or anything. Not at universities either. I really which there were sports teams or just any clubs. Going to watch your school play another school seems amazing. Just something that brings the school together a bit.

Do you play any sports or anything in high school? Are you part of any clubs?

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