Antici

Antici DID YOU KNOW? The name of the avocado comes from the Spanish abogado, or lawyer. This is because the Spaniards who came to the New World couldnt pronounce the Nahuatl word ahuacatl, so they simply chose the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt, theyre mailing regular decisions out tomorrow! I can feel you shivering with anticipation, with constructive interference and radiant energy and whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision from MIT. It was Monday March 17, I believe. I forgot it was coming and Sams Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. Thats probably accurate. She tells me that I took extra long to walk home from school that dayI was usually home by 3:15 on Mondays, having finished up most of my extracurriculars by my last semesterand she probably almost fainted or something. Anyway, Sams Mom was waiting at the door when I was like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high school, so I didnt realize that anything was really out of the ordinary. Anyway, she didnt really say anything, when I walked in, but merely thrust the large, non-tubular envelope at me. It was kind of exciting, and there was some jumping as we spilled it out on the kitchen table. We were going to go out to dinner or something to celebrate, but we had already ordered pizza and didnt really want it to go to waste, so we postponed that a few nights. Anyway, that was way more exciting than sitting at my AOL inbox at 6 PM on April 2 and pressing reload over and over again but whatever floats your boat! When I am wealthy, I will float my boat in a swimming pool full of strawberry soda, and will ride in it with four mute Japanese girls, who I pay to model my own line of designer clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing these psets Tomorrow: A portrait of my UROP as a young man.