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aww, jamie, if i could do torrents i'd help you out! :sad: i have to say, though, that the episodes were surprisingly good. i'd been more and more dissatisfied with the later scrubs season, but these two episodes were promising! i hope you can find someone to help you out.

haha, i have to say, though, i rather coldplaying survive than go to one coldplay concert. yes, i am a complete saddo.

:freak: wow, i never really thought about it, but that's more than i thought it would ever be worth, for some reason. ian, don't sell it! please! :bigcry:

good to know that you're still allowed to change then :D. i guess i thought you weren't allowed to change your mind because i have a friend that goes to cambridge in england, and she's not allowed to change her major at all, i guess because the academics are so intense. and @ rolle: some people really like that lifestyle, but i HATE it. i want no part of it, and i hate even being around it. for me, it makes college a complete nightmare, but a lot of people really like it.

mine hasn't shipped either :sad:. i think we should get suspicious if they haven't shipped by friday or something.

really? how do you check? i think they said they'd send me an email when it shipped, and shipping was more expensive than usual and they said most items ship same-day, so i expected to get an email by now :mean: :P i'm glad that there's a totebag now for the whateverittakes thing :D. i came very close to ordering the coffee mug or canvas wall-hanging over the past year or two, but i'll get SO much more use out of the totebag :nice:

:lol: guy's face! how cute is he? :nice:

the fedex guy came today, and i thought it was my totebag, since shipping was so expensive and they said it would ship soon. but it was just currency exchange for my dad :dozey:

it's EXACTLY like that. of course, some univeristies/colleges have more of that stuff than others, but basically in my experience and in most of my friends' experiences, academics are second to social lives, which almost always include getting piss-ass drunk, going out to a party, and hooking up with people you don't know. an astonishing number of people enjoy that, but i'm biased because i'm a more quiet, calm sort of type and don't like doing ANY of that stuff :P. and that's true about the drinking age thing. i think the drinking thing is so huge in part because it's illegal, so it's this forbidden thing that most teens find intriguing and rebellious. anyway, i'm biased and jaded about it all, but YES, it most definitely is like that. every friday and saturday night i lock my door and put my head under my pillow so i don't get harrassed by all the drunks.

ooh, can i join in that hunt too? that would solve a lot of my problems: get married, pop out a kid, and not work for like 10 years :lol:

haha, i didn't mean intense in terms of competition. i meant intense in terms of hardcore binge-drinking, sex, and partying. that's not saying that europeans don't know how to party, but from what i can tell, education and all that other stuff seems to be separated a bit more, and by college/uni age, the europeans seem to be over that a bit more than american kids. in some ways, i think it's totally mind-blowing that european schools make kids decide exactly what they want to do at such a young age :freak:. how are you supposed to decide what to do for the rest of your LIFE at age 17 or 18?! if i had to make a final decision a few years ago, i would be one stuck, depressed person now. and even though i've decided my major now, it's so open-ended that i would have a lot of potential career options (if i wanted any of them :dozey:).

haha, well it's true, grace! when i first came here, i thought you were kidding with the german flag and that you were actually a brit or an american. i would bet that american university would be a big shock to the system in a lot of ways. i would still recommend england, and once i get there myself in a few months i can confirm that :P and nick: i don't think that's too much to ask, but society does. i think you're right in not making huge, unrealistic goals about being a rockstar like a lot of people do, and you're also not willing to pour yourself into something you don't like just for the money (like me). but i think what it comes down to is whether or not you define yourself by your job. you're probably going to have to do SOMETHING to make money, but you don't have to make that your life. i think it's better to be a bit bored for 5 hours a day at a ho-hum job and love your home life (family, music, whatever) than to pour years into studying something like medicine or law just for the money. i know i'll be ok if i have a boring office job as long as i can leave that job at the office and have time for family or writing or whatever.

@ nick: i'm about to embark on my 20's with no idea what i really want to do. actually, i know i want to do nothing, but i also know that's not possible. i think i'll probably end up being low-level management in an office somewhere or a high-school english teacher. at least where i come from, society tells you that you have to have some burning, realistic passion that will earn you a lot of money, and i don't fall into that category. it leads to a lot of existentialist freak-outs, believe me :P what about being a teacher, if you like writing so much? that's what i plan to do, and write on the side to see if i can make anything of myself with that.

oof, where do i begin about american colleges and universities :thinking: first of all, they're HUGELY expensive, more expensive than any other countries' universities, i would think. and yes, the american approach to higher education is very different than most other countries' approaches. at almost all colleges (and most universities, i think), you have to take lots of required courses that don't really have anything to do with what you intend to get your degree in. this liberal arts approach is really good for some people, like the people that don't know what they want to do (in america, you don't have to decide what your major will be until two years into your college education), but for other people, it's just boring and a waste of time. and then there's the whole matter of american college/uni culture...which i hear is a bit more intense than european uni culture. it can be pretty hardcore, and most american teens seem to like it like that, but i've heard that there's nothing like it in europe. you guys seem to mature way faster over there :P. i think lots of european students in american colleges/unis end up a bit shocked about the maturity level. about studying journalism: do it! :D at least over here, you're more likely to get hired if you studied journalism in college than if you didn't. in my opinion, college/uni is (in some cases) less about what you actually learned there and more about getting a peice of paper that says you went through the proper motions and society now allows you to get better jobs. and you have an amazing grasp on english, grace. i would never know that you weren't a native speaker, so at this young age, i'd say you're WELL on your way to writing in english if that's what you want to do :D i have a bit of a biased view on american college life, but if you want to ask me about stuff at any time, feel free to :nice:. but i would say GO TO ENGLAND. that's where i'm escaping to next year! :P

haha! i should have! :P i didn't, though. i don't want them thinking i'm COMPLETELY clinically insane! :lol: if they put various instances together and knew they were all me, they'd probably have a restraining order against me. best not let them think i'm even more crazy than i've let on :P

ooh, thanks mich! :D "play for a bit longer" at the stadium gigs? :cheesy: WHOOOOO! :dance: i know i've always been more of a chris-girl than anything else, even though i do love them all, but MAN, guy is gorgy :sweatdrop: :lol: @ chris in the background! it sounds like him to me, but are we sure? also, is it just me, or is guy's scottish accent thicker in this interview because he's talking to a scottish interviewer? maybe i'm just hearing things (because you really shouldn't trust an american girl about various british accents :P), but that's what it sounds like to me :D

i'm glad to see my phrase in such world-wide use :lol: no emailz today :sad:

*POSTING IN THREAD TO MAKE PEOPLE EXCITED* :sneaky: nahh, i'm not that mean :P. i'm still not convinced we'll necessarily get word from debs on the day she delivers them, but no matter. for now, i'm just hoping we get a moderately detailed report! :D (by that, i mean something slightly more than "i delivered them, they thought they were great," but i also don't want to be too demanding on debs when she's done so much for us already. i just hope she knows how crazy we all are waiting for her word! :D)

i don't know what i got on my actual finals, but i got my final course grades back. they were all pretty much as i expected besides my film studies grade...somehow i only ended up with a B+? of course that's not that bad, but it was such an easy class and i got nothing less than As in it all term. i guess my final paper really must have sucked :lol:

haha, good point alison. i love having nothing to do, in all seriousness. this is the lifestyle i thrive on. i just didn't want to sound like i was showing off :\ @ ari: i assumed i went back to school on the 12th like most other unis, but i randomly checked my uni's calendar and saw that it was a week later. i did a wonderful little dance when i found out :dance:

10 i causually liked clocks when it came out, but i didn't really pay any attention. for me, it was speed of sound in may 2005 when i saw the video. i still have a huge soft spot for that song because it made me sit down and go "whoa, THAT'S why everyone loves coldplay."

hahaha, i love that i'm spreading my phrase to other countries! :lol: use it in your real lives, people :P

i still have two weeks break, which came as a surprise to me--i thought i went back on the 12th, but it turns out it's the 19th :thinking: can't complain, though. i'd rather be vaguely bored for the rest of my life than be back at uni :wreck:

can you preorder this yet? i'll look myself if no one knows :P

oooh count me in for the next one! if i had know i so would have joined in this one.