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The Art of Negotiation

// March 22nd, 2008 // 36 Comments » // Academic, Quotables

On the phone a few days ago…

Me: I’M GOING SHOPPING!
Mum: Sure have fun.
Me: ALSO GOING OUT FOR DINNER!
Mum: Sounds good.
Me: CAN I GET A LAPTOP?
Mum: Yea okay. Call your dad.
Me: *jump up and down*

Ladies and gentleman, how does one convince one’s strict mother the necessity for the above three things - shopping, food, and laptop? Simple, one precedes the conversation with this.

Mum: Hello?
Me: GUESS WHAT?! I GOT INTO UCLA! MY FIRST UNIV ACCEPTANCE WOOOOOOT!!

The end. Go Bruins. Can’t afford it so probably not going there but oh well XD.

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Link Love

// March 20th, 2008 // 15 Comments » // Academic

A few days ago I posted the school colours of some of the universities I applied to. I’ve got quite a few guessers (some very wild ones)!

Regina and Wednesday got UBC XD

Meg gussed Stanford and Princeton correctly.

Arielle got Columbia and UCLA right (tbh I had to double check the blues and oranges for the UCs as well). She just got accepted into NYU so I was shocked she didn’t get the White & Purple

Marie took a leap of faith using other people’s guesses and got Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, and a place in my sidebar and RSS!

The answers are posted below.

Yes yes, some very big names up there. But really, the one I’m counting on is UBC, and a big fat scholarship from them as well. $40 000 a year for those elite US private schools, seriously! It’d be nice if NYU sent me something though, seems like everyone else have been getting letters. *Prays*

March seems like the month of huge contests around the blogosphere. The main incentives are pretty much 1) free advertising 2) free layout 3) entrecard credits 4) cash. I won #1 and #3 and Mindblogger, thank you!

If anyone is interested, I’m also selling 6000 Entrecard Credits for $19.99 here. It’s the cheapest out of all the ones listed right now, so start bidding!

Lastly, don’t click here. Just don’t. Okay now do it. Please and thank you.

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