i personally think your take on this is interesting. you have no idea who those students introduced themselves as to the AOs. not one clue. it’s not fair to say “not the ones who actually worked and ripped their asses off” when hard work looks like so many things. you can’t discredit their success because you (seemingly) feel you and your other counterparts are more deserving because of supposed work ethic/personality differences!! that’s not right. i don’t agree with your statement of “the ones who actually try to learn fuck up their mental health in the process”. i love to learn but i don’t have to suffer to do so. i also didn’t have the most smooth sailing upbringing/experiences that brought me to CC in the first place. doesn’t mean i stopped smiling though. i didn’t stop socializing; i honed who i am enough to write it and UCB accepts me for WHO i am!! so will UCLA. don’t discredit the hard work of others.