The office supervisor put a copy machine where my workstation used to be because he forgot I existed. FML
He felt bad and gave me a better spot with a newer computer. MLIG
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Dear Yale, The only thing you do technologically well is the VPN server. PS, I hate the Horde mail system. OLAreAverage.
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I was doing alright with missing Yale until i spent the last 45 minutes reading EVERY yaleFML post since May. CANT WAIT FOR SEPTEMBER! FM(HOME)L
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I know that I will look back on my excitement over OCI during midterms and curse myself for having been so excited. FML.
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My mother’s garden will not stop producing squash. We eat it every day. This is the only resemblance between my summer at home and my life at Yale. FML.
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OCI was finally posted the day that I sent an email to my dean to start the processing of withdrawing for the year so that I can focus on getting treatment for advanced cancer. I still spent the afternoon looking at what classes I want to take. FML.
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anonymous.newhaven@gmail.com
Find one or two you really like yet? If so, pass along an address and I’ll send you the textbooks and more once the class starts up. You can go ‘full nerd’ even while not at Yale. In fact, I’d expect nothing less from a Yalie.
Cancer sucks. I hope your treatment goes really, really well and you come back and see us soon.
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Anonymous
In addition to this nice person’s offer, if you pick one from here: http://oyc.yale.edu/ you can watch the lectures as well. Since you won’t be graded AT ALL you can “take” something really challenging. Or you could do one that would be fun but doesn’t fit with your major/career plans. I’m sure the professors won’t mind if you write them with questions, either. And you can do it at your own pace, too.
Don’t feel pressured to go “full nerd,” though. The important thing is that you can have as stress-free a life as possible so you can focus on recovery. Reading comic books all day is perfectly acceptable when your mental energy needs to go towards maintaining a positive attitude.
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anonymous.newhaven@gmail.com
Good point, Anonymous. OP, don’t feel any pressure to keep up with your studies, just focus on being positive, taking it easy and doing things you enjoy. If that includes studying, more power to you, but you can certainly catch up on everything AFTER you beat this.
And if this is all new to you and things like chemo and radiation are in your future and you don’t know what to expect, let me know and I’ll drop you a line. I’ve been through some of that and know others who have been through other kinds of treatment. It can be intimidating at first, but there’s a great community out there that is more than willing to help (and your family) through this.
Hang in there and let us know what we can do. I’ll also amend the previous offer to not just include textbooks, but also a rather awesome Calvin and Hobbes collection. Personally, I think I learned more from those two than from any textbook anyway.
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Anonymous
I’m so sorry. You can beat this cancer! And then come back and take all the classes you want to take. Hugs!
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Anonymous
You win at Yale FML.
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lovesyalefml
I love that, though it is to a certain extent understood, the FML here is not “I have cancer,” it’s “I have cancer which means I can’t take AWESOME CLASSES AT YALE”
Stay strong and when the treatment is over, we will be ready to welcome you into our cabal of nerd-dom with open textbooks -
BulldogAbroad
What a lovely student body!
OP, you can beat this! Stay strong
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Anonymous
you can do it! we’ll send you all the math textbooks and sunday sundaes you can handle.
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I had a giant pastry balanced precariously on a little plastic plate, and I managed to bike back half a mile one-handed, holding the plate and pastry with the other hand, without dropping it. MLIG
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Today, I was watching 2012 when I realized that the white jazz player’s son is wearing a Yale t-shirt. When he dies. FOL/OLAG?
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Anonymous
It took me three reads to figure this one out. Good bit of trivia, thanks!
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I fell in love with Yale, but my parents forced me to go to Harvard! FML
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Anonymous
Your parents didn’t FORCE you to do anything. Grow up.
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sucks for you...
agree.
at least make the most of it and major in engineering or math or something. otherwise, it honestly wasn’t worth it.
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Anonymous
You never know. Maybe they’re those type of parents that keep a “naughty whip” on their wall.
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Hey
If they’re paying the bills, sometimes they want to call the shots. My parents were like that with the classes I should take. Rather than fight and lose, I’ve just stopped telling them.
Sorry OP! As much as we mock Hahvahd, it’s still a great school. Good luck to you!
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Kid
Grow up
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Anonymous
Shut up, guys. You think people can just go where they choose if their parents don’t want to fund them? It’s easy for you to say “pay for college yourself” if you’re on financial aid and only need to cover a few thousand a year. It’s harder if your parents are capable of paying your way to Yale, but won’t because they want you to go to Harvard. Without financial aid, that’s 54k a year and growing. How’s any student supposed to come up with that themselves?
That’s the way financial aid works. If your parents are capable of funding you, you won’t be funded.
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oh please.
you gotta learn how to play the game. are parents going to want to say, “oh, yeah, billy got into harvard and yale, but he’s not going to be attending either next year since we refused to pay his way to _____.”
it’s called civil disobedience. some of us learned how to use it early on. others…apparently not.
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Mistaken
It’s called making your own damn choices (especially a huge one that the you earned, not your parents). If you can’t do it by senior year in high school, you shouldn’t be going to college.
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Touch the cornballer! You know best!
OP, don’t listen to all the harsh people. They’re probably all just bitter because they would have chosen Harvard if they’d gotten in.
People, not everyone comes from a relaxed family. Throughout my time at Yale, my friends have struggled with parents only paying on certain conditions, such as not being gay or not majoring in the humanities. For all we know, the OP comes from a culture where obedience to parents is paramount, even at 18. Think of all the people out there who can’t even go to Harvard/Yale/whatever because their parents refuse to pay for anything other than state school, or because their parents refuse to let them go so far away. Basically, just don’t judge people for how their relationship with their parents works, because these things are complicated.
OP, I hope you can maybe talk your parents into seeing reason and letting you come to Yale. It really is better here, and they do accept transfers
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Why does my twin brother always have summers that are 8958x more fun than mine? Lol. FML.
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Anonymous
“Lol”?
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Anonymous
Lol
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My computer is so old it won’t show the thumbs up/thumbs down ratings on the FMLs. FML.
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Anonymous
You’re at +6/-1 right now. You’re welcome.
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Anonymous
Now you’re +9/-1
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:D
Now you’re at +11/-1, the second highest like on this page.
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Anonymous
Now it’s +13/-1
The above comments reminded me how much I love the people at Yale! -
Actually a Troll.
I’m sorry, but I’m actually a Harvard troll, but I likes Yalies too!
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Anonymous
Just to be a jerk, I’m voting on this. Your running up/down count is no longer accurate.
Just to be more of a jerk, I won’t tell you if I voted up or down.
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Anonymous
That’s not your computer being old, that’s your browser. (IE6, I expect?)
Download pretty much any modern browser (I think Chrome has the lowest memory usage, so try that), and enjoy the web as it’s meant to look.
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Anonymous
Unless the OS is too old to handle a more modern browser.
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I was looking through the source code of a brilliant and revolutionary groundbreaking program. It had been a collaborative effort. In it, I found this comment from one of the programmers:
/* wtf this is i have no idea -wtm */
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Anonymous
Mind I ask, what program?
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Anonymous
Stanford POS (part of speech) tagger
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Anonymous
Ooooooh.
shiny!
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Guinness. MLIG
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I’m in the UK at the moment, and YaleFML features an advertisement for ‘online master degrees’ (sic) at the University of Liverpool. MLINotThatBadYet
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horsedick.mpeg
Didn’t you know there’s a degree issued to online masters? It’s sort of like a jedi certification…
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Distracted all day wondering if the post below about the girl who loves her guy friend is me. FML
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Anonymous
Instead of wondering, if YOU like YOUR friend, why not make a move? Fortune favors the bold.
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horsedick.mpeg
So does natural selection. Only in a bad way.
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micropenis.mpeg
I think natural selection is pretty unbiased.
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OP
Yes, and I have won several relationship darwin awards…
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anonimo
go for it! trust me, either she says no, but you talk about it and the friendship remains the same, or she says yes, and its a win
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anonymous
well, this is really a tragical situation…do you like her?
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horsedick.mpeg 10:13 pm on July 24, 2010 Permalink |
IMAP, Forward to GMAIL, use gmail or hotmail to access via imap or pop3 – the mail system really isn’t that bad, horde sucks, but it’s not for regular use. Besides the network at Yale is actually pretty amazing and I have really missed it -10 MB/s downloads :’( – ever since I got home.
Anonymous 4:01 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
You can access your yale email directly via imap. You don’t have to forward it to gmail to do that.
Anonymous 8:52 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
yea, imap with any email program like apple mail or outlook. oh so convenient