Ryan "Cooper" T. Chong
19 years old
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Life In The Big Apple

8/22/2007 12:39:00 AM Well... its been a bad 2 days. Lets start off with Monday shall we?

Got a call from Alvin in the morning telling me that he got his translated transcripts from Mr. Azahari at the UN building. (Damn its cold tonight... *goes off to close the windows*) He told me that he got it for only $25 and he's never going to go to the translator that Chester went to. I decided to join him in Manhattan later in the afternoon and we both went Krispy Kreme Doughnuts hunting thanks to a few friends of mine. I kinda forgotten where it was so in the end i couldn't find it. And due to the lack of an umbrella we were both wandering around while a light drizzle rained down on us.

Then we walked 12 blocks to the SVA at 23rd St and 3rd Ave. I had to wait for Mr. Jaime (pronouced hai-mei) Garcia to come back from his lunch break before I can ask him about my application. When he came back and I asked.. well... ended up I didn't get in. My GPA is very low : 1.8. Its below C average. So he told me that its not worth getting into the college with that kind of results and paying $22,080 for tuition alone. As for my SAT results, he said it was irrelevant when comparing a 1 day exam to a 3 year school report. My portfolio passed though ^^. So yea he told me the only option I have now is to get into a community college for 1 year, improve my grades and then apply for a transfer for next fall. If my results are good enough there's no way that they won't accept me.

So I came home and searched collegeboard.com for community colleges in the area. Closest one I could find is the City University of New York's (CUNY) Queensborough Community College at Bayside. Which is east of Flushing about 8.7km drive by car from my house. Except that I don't have a car =_=". So today, I walked through the rain to the bus stop, got on the Q44 bus to Roosevelt Ave. in Flushing, got off, met up with Alvin again, then got on a Q27 bus all the way there. It was raining the whole day btw. So... we got off and walked to the Admin building. Inside I waited for my turn to see the admissions counselor. When I told her that I was rejected from the SVA and was asked to get into a community college for one year then transfer, she told me that its too late for me to get into the Fall Semester for this year, and if I want to get into the Spring semester in January, I'd have to get my stuff done ASAP cause it takes about 3 months to get all the stuff settled.

Later at McD, I spilled my LARGE Sprite all over the floor when my bag slipped off my shoulder and knocked my arm. Walking to the library after that I almost slipped on the sidewalk when I was about to cross the road. So yea... really bad 2 days...