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[20:39] Break Miyama: Greetings.

[20:41] Createdandmade: howdy, what's up?

[20:41] Break Miyama: Not much. I'm merely....bored.

[20:42] Createdandmade: so you talk to me when you're bored? therefore I entertain you? YAY!!!!

[20:42] Break Miyama: >_> Well, think what you will.

[20:42] Createdandmade: I normally do.

[20:42] Break Miyama: Perhaps this may be interpreted as "I haven't much better things to do".

[20:43] Createdandmade: but talking to me is still better than killing yourself. so YAY!!!

[20:43] Break Miyama: o_)

[20:43] Break Miyama: o_0

[20:43] Break Miyama: Killing myself? I haven't a clue as to why I would do such a thing.

[20:44] Createdandmade: hopefully you wouldn't

[20:45] Break Miyama: It's an illogical and ultimately selfish act.

[20:45] Createdandmade: that it is

[20:46] Break Miyama: Akin to obsession or an inferiority complex.

[20:46] Break Miyama: THe latter of which bothers me greatly, as I know someone who has such a complex to a great degree.

[20:46] Break Miyama: Pardon if I am shoveling my thoughts upon you, but will you hear me out?

[20:47] Createdandmade: of course

[20:47] Break Miyama: To begin with, I'm sure you've heard of the college of UCLA, correct?

[20:48] Createdandmade: yes

[20:48] Break Miyama: A friend - and I use the term in a fairly loose sense - thinks that she will not get in.

[20:49] Break Miyama: She has a GPA above 4.0, and scored well above 2200 on her practice SAT exam, which bodes well, seeing as her score will likely improve when she does take the actual exam.

[20:50] Break Miyama: Of course, this is not my problem, but her attitude concerning the entire ordeal is simply pathetic and selfish.

[20:50] Break Miyama: It annoys me greatly.

[20:50] Createdandmade: have you told her that?

[20:50] Break Miyama: Yes.

[20:51] Break Miyama: Many times.

[20:51] Break Miyama: She insists that she will not get into college with no less than a 2400 SAT score, and a four-point-god-knows-what GPA.

[20:52] Break Miyama: Because she is Japanese, she also says that any affirmative action programs in place will decrease her chances of getting in, due to the already high amount of Asian students present.

[20:53] Break Miyama: The attitude is obviously pathetic and unrealistic, but some explanation is required as to why I consider it selfish.

[20:53] Break Miyama: That is, of course, disregarding the possibility that you may know why to begin with.

[20:54] Createdandmade: it is disregarding that possibility isn't it?

[20:55] Break Miyama: That depends. Do you know why such an attitude is selfish?

[20:57] Createdandmade: I think it is selfish because then they are trying to get attention from others and are doing that by getting appaise from others, because they are telling her that she is wrong

[20:57] Break Miyama: I'd agree were it not for the fact that she actually believes it.

[20:58] Createdandmade: then why is it selfish?

[20:59] Break Miyama: Because this attitude was conceived in utter ignorance of all else who apply for college.

[21:00] Break Miyama: I, myself, am Asian. My SAT scores and GPA are well below hers.

[21:00] Break Miyama: What is she effectively saying about my chances of ever making it to college?

[21:01] Break Miyama: This sickening attitude of "poor me" ignores all those in much worse academic situations (though pretty much anything lower than her current standing may very well be considered a disaster to her).

[21:02] Break Miyama: Why work yourself this much harder and have such a bloody ignorant concern over your acceptance to college when you have hit the academic ceiling of excellence?

[21:03] Break Miyama: She goes to a well known, relatively prestigious and difficult ACADEMY, for the love of God, and she is attaining such grades.

[21:03] Createdandmade: I understand now, have you told her that?

[21:04] Break Miyama: Not to this much of a ranting degree.

[21:04] Break Miyama: IT would be irrational on my own part to be angry over such a situation.

[21:04] Break Miyama: But I have made it perfectly clear to her that I think she is being ignorant and selfish.