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[笑一笑]大学招生程序(有真有假)
This week hundreds of colleges across the country will be notifying applicants whether they’ve been accepted, waitlisted, or rejected. Here’s how college admissions departments determine their incoming freshman class:
- Step 1: Admissions officers immediately reject all applicants who have the same first name as anyone they don’t like
- Step 2: Colleges dispatch officials to monitor students while they sleep to see if they actually dream of going to their school
- Step 3: School calculates a raw ranking score for each applicant based on all the standardized tests they took, including the SAT, ACT, SAT II, PEMCAP, GANT, Intermediate Bovis Assessment, ATK, PDB, Advanced Bovis Assessment, and the BLIM
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雪地野营
周末和孩子的童军部队到加州内华达西岳山脉(Sierra-Nevada)雪地野营,一个很特别的活动。
今年加州干旱,8000尺以上在最近两周才刚刚积下4尺左右的积雪,我们赶上了雪夜风暴,也赶上了风和日丽,晚上睡在雪地里,终生难忘。
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我结的绒线帽
结这个帽子,真是打肿脸充胖子。自己找事做。事情是这样的。二年前,我的朋友从上海来美国准备定居。她结了10顶帽子,叫我帮她去推销。她给我15刀一顶。我不好意思去推销,也不知道人家喜欢不喜欢。那时正好是圣诞节。我就把帽子送给教会里的姐妹。还打肿脸充胖子说是自己结的。想不到她们都很喜欢。
1/29日讲座:如何预防各种常见癌症,让每一天都活得精彩
虽然常常听到肿瘤,癌症这样的字眼,也认识几个癌症患者,但总是感觉“癌”只是一个名词,和自己没有多大关系。直到一个月前,医生对我说,“需要进一步检查,就看是良性还是恶性”的时候,才意识到自己对周围人担负多么大的责任。虽然最后医生说不像是癌,却敲起了我防癌的大钟。期待朋友们无论您现在有多健康,来参加这个讲座吧。 Continue reading
打油亚裔家长廿七态(27 Signs You Were Raised By Asian Immigrant Parents)
随笔:从西藏旅游说起……
咏皮带打孔机 兼叹减肥难
去科罗拉多山区当农民(十一)
还有一件事是我后来才知道的。在我来之前,已有七位WWOOF会员来这里体验过生活,但非常遗憾的是,课题还未完成,他们就纷纷提前打道回府了。原因无非是嫌这里劳动强度太大,或者自然条件令他们沮丧。每当凯利与当地上了年纪的长者谈论起此事时,他们纷纷摇头叹息,现在的年轻人吃不得苦。
我遇见一位名叫迪科琼斯的老头,年龄七十岁左右,特能逗闷子,超级爱说话。迪科告诉我,他曾经招聘过一些身强力壮的年轻人来帮忙秋收,结果这帮人才干了半个小时,就累倒爬不起来了。 Continue reading
去科罗拉多山区当农民(九)
Kelly is a dreaming man. He has big plans for his farm and a lot of work has to be done. He wants to build a sauna in the back acreage of his farm and create a locally legendary gooseberry farm on the land that is now just weeds and dirt. He wants many goats and chickens in a pasture northeast of his home so that they can begin eating and de-weeding the area. And that is just his backyard. His front yard needed a lot of landscaping work and gravel needed to be moved. Continue reading