So I was playing an old Connections from the archive and I think there’s a typo…the purple clue should say “ending in NBA teams” not “ending in NBA players”. Bulls, Kings, Bucks, Clippers are all NBA teams not players. Just wondering if anyone else caught this
I said it. And here’s why: Most things that could’ve gone wrong for the Knicks went wrong. Our threes weren’t going in. Our bigmen got in early foul trouble (and no Robinson). Paul George went insane in the first half and Tyrese Maxey too. And of course the refs.
And we still won the effing game. That’s how good we are. Not every game is going to be like G6 in Atlanta or G1 of this series. And we’re not going to win every game either. But that’s why seven game series are played. Showing we can win games like this is very important especially if we face OKC in the Finals (hoping we get there) with their stellar defense.
LGK! Still a lot of basketball to be played, far from over!
So, I just got off the waitlist for Skidmore College today, and I’m really excited! I love LACs (my first choice was Bowdoin, another waitlist but haven’t heard back), but Skid looks great to me. My other choice is Binghamton. I’ve heard good and bad things about Skidmore, but it seems great to me, I love nature and all that. I like an academically rigorous environment. I also am neurodivergent and am wondering what it’s like socially. There are definitely things that I like better about Bing like opportunities and research, but I wanna know more about Skidmore. Thanks! Also, I want to do mock trial but Skid doesn’t have a team, is there a way I can create one or join one that someone creates? Haven’t done it in high school but I’m very interested in law, wanting to go to law school.
So, like, I don’t really get the broken process of college admissions and prestige. I’m a HS senior with a 96 GPA with eight AP classes (plus three dual enrollment classes at Columbia) and a 1550 SAT with decent ECs. Yet I didn’t get into any of my reaches or even targets, just my safety Binghamton. I live in NY and can’t pay for OOS public schools like Berkeley. Like I know Bing isn’t a bad school, it just seems all my classmates are getting into really selective schools with much worse grades and similar ECs as me. My college counselor said my essay was really good too. Like again I know Bing is a good school but I often see it grouped into the category of “safeties” or “grouped with other SUNY schools—great value but little prestige”, and it just seems I did all this for a school that isn’t really very different to get into. Not sure what to do, this process is broken.