freshly sharpened pencils...

well, my undercover self, with the help of my crafty uncle, devised a plan to lobby my intelligent self into Caltech and UCLA. so i compiled my statement of intent, emailed it to the colleges and go invited for a "chat."

i'm really chuffed to say that it worked like a charm. besides the academic hogwash we went through, i got what i wanted: them to be able to recognise my name when it comes to selection time. i'm very confident at this stage with UCLA. i can already see myself there, slaving away for the cool three letters, phd! i think the only reason i want to torture myself so much that fact that it would be cool to be refered to as dr. i already look intelligent, i may as well get the tag!