Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Indian
• Residence: India
• Income Bracket: Full-pay
• Type of School: Private, semi-feeder
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Sibling legacy at UChicago

Intended Major(s): Economics/Finance
Grades: ICSE/ISC Board in India
9th - 92% 10th - 98% (ICSE Boards) 11th - 89% 12% - 90%
SAT - 1580 (One sitting, 780 EBRW 800 MATH)
APs: Micro - 5, CSA - 5, Physics Mech - 4, doing Calc BC and Macro in senior year
Awards:

1. Gold Medal, International Economics Olympiad 2022, China. Part of India's national team that was selected from 5,000+ students after 3 rounds of tests and interviews.
2. Featured on the Wharton website as the winner of one of their competitions (redacted to prevent doxxing)
3. Featured in major Indian newspapers, with 3M+ and 2M+ daily readers
4. Havard Business School x (Redacted) Institute Case Competition organized by (Redacted) Institute from HBS. Won Best Delegate, with a cash prize and networking sessions with HBS grads, Citi, and other corporates
5. Team Leader, Tiger Global Case Competition - placed 1st in a region, out of 1150+ teams from 74 countries

Extracurriculars:

1. Founder, CEO of a leading Indian (product redacted) dropshipping start-up. INR 250k in MRP sales in 3 months. Reached 40 countries, 55k+ visitors. Featured in multiple national newspapers. Received 300+ internship applications from IIT students and major CS colleges. Also featured on a v prestigious podcast, name redacted cuz it’s easy to doxx
2. Co-founder (1 of 2) at a consulting firm that helps non-profits and small businesses go digital. Helped 11 clients from 2 countries with USD 550,000 in combined revenues.
3. Founder of a global platform for teenagers to learn about the stock market (weekly newsletters, articles, podcasts, etc.). Reached ~6k individuals. Podcast has 13 episodes till now, 200+ listens.
4. Founder, President at my school's investment and finance society. Started this in junior year. Guest speakers, international competitions, finance newsletters (I'm Editor in chief), etc. Competed in the Wharton Global High School Investment Challenge as Team Leader, placed Top 10/2000+ teams worldwide on the profit leaderboard.
5. Econ policy research on migrant workers in India, published in a reputed journal w/ IF of 7+. Presented the paper at The University of Delhi. Also a Research assistant at Thiel College, with the Head of the Business and Accounting Dept there, who's a PhD.
6. Institutional Trading Intern at a 100-year-old prestigious trading firm. Wrote reports reviewed by institutional traders making trades of 10cr+ (USD 1m+). Also a Private Equity intern at an Indian firm.
7. Director of a committee at my school's MUN, the oldest and largest MUN in India. Member of school MUN Club since 8th grade. 2x Assistant Director, 1 Best del, 2 Oustanding dels, 3 hon mentions, all national and international MUNs.
8. President of school's Nature Club + House Captain of one of the 4 school houses. ClimateScience Olympiad semi-finalist (top 1% out of 10,000 people)
9. Currency collector and enthusiast, collected 40+ types of notes & coins
10. Prefect of student body + Debates Captain.

LORs:
#1. Counselor rec - written by school principal, extremely good relationship w/ her, apparently gave one of the best LORs in the grade - 8/10
#2. Econ teacher - best in years type, extremely good relationship w/ her - 9/10
#3. Math/Physics teacher - great, fun relationship and he knows me really well personally - 7/10
#4. Private Equity firm Managing Director - He was a Wharton alum and wrote quite an amazing LOR from what he told me - 8/10
#5. Managing Editor of the Wharton Global Youth Program - they had invited me for the podcast, and also reccommended me to Wharton (only submitted this to Wharton)
#6. Peer Recommendation - Submitted since Dartmouth wanted it, was pretty good since my best friend wrote it - 8/10
Interviews:
Had Penn, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, all went well
Essays:
Common App - chose an extremely unique challenge, tied it to my main EC as well. everyone who read it loved it, including counselor, friends, seniors, college students, etc.
UChicago - wrote some of my best essays here. Quirky essay revolved around a previous prompt that i edited a bit, and managed to connect a v niche thing to my ancestral heritage and culture. Why UChicago was also filled with unique experiences cuz of my sister.
Wharton - amazing essays according to all who read them, included a lot of specific stuff and stories as well.
Essays for the rest were also decent I’d say, not something that’d make me an auto admit definitely, but pretty good i guess.
Decisions:
Acceptances:

• USC (EA) w/ Presidential Scholarship (half-tuition)
• Northwestern University (RD)
• NYU Stern (RD)
• UCSD

Waitlists:

• UCLA
• Dartmouth University (RD)
• Columbia University (RD)

Rejections:

• UChicago EA → RD deferred, then rejected.
• Harvard RD
• Yale RD
• Princeton RD
• UPenn Wharton RD
• Stanford RD
• Duke RD
• UC Berkeley

Thoughts:
#1 - It didn't all work out the way I'd have wanted. NYU Stern is fucking great, I def know that, but can't help but feel a bit saddened by all the rejections, especially Wharton, given the amount of Wharton-specific stuff on my profile, as well as the LORs from Wharton-affiliated people, and the fact that my best essays were for them.
#2 - Another thing that could've affected me was that there were also some issues with my school since there was some drama regarding an applicant faking their resume, and that resulted in the school getting only 2 ivy acceptances in RD, while we have historically gotten more than 10 every year. We also got no acceptances from Duke, Stanford, or UChicago, despite historically getting at least 3-4, and having really great applicants this year.
#3 - Nevertheless, for all you internationals out there - there's a lot of luck involved in this process, especially if you're an applicant from an extremely competitive country like India or China. So definitely ensure that you've got good backups somewhere. I went all out for the USA, applying only to super-reaches because I knew that I had a good backup in India in case nothing worked out.
Keep looking out for opportunities for all types of extracurriculars, since they're a really important part of your application, and definitely ensure that your essays don't look refined or artificial, they should be something that makes the AO feel a personal connection with you.
#4 - Most importantly, don't let college decisions ever define you or what you'll achieve in life. If y'all have any questions whatsoever, feel free to DM, I'll be down to help out. Good luck to my juniors, wish y'all the best!

An author's note: Please read this post in it's entirety before you message me, I've added a follow up to answer most of the basic questions I've been asked over the last 3 years since I started posting my AD.

All my previous iterations were mostly about what role I could fulfill; and while this mostly still is true, walking amongst the elites the last week has opened my eyes... I'm looking for a complacent trophy to put on full display. Arriving to this city I already had a deep... Passion for power, governance; and just over all domination -- Washington DC fulfills my lust, and thirst for both political power, and monetary gain. Now I want, not need an adequate toy to share this experience with. Before I was playing conservatively; not anymore,
I've allowed my ego to rampant and on auto-pilot; thus far everything is according to design.
I'm as amoral as they come; I will eviscerate my way to the top of the governmental, and corporate ladder(s). I'm a retired hacker that has realized my full potential is being squandered away, so I'll begin to kick in the doors of 3 letter agencies until recruit me; or I die trying.
I've come to the conclusion that you need to make an impression with these sort of things, so I'm going to just let my words flow freely. So here we go:
Basics:
Height: 5'7
Weight: 175, could stand to lose a few lbs to get my abs back.
Eyes: Brown eyes.
Hair: Long curly brown hair (think Slash Rose's illegitimate son.)
Race: White.
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Cuban.)
Languages: Spanish, English, Sign-language.
Profession: Network Engineer in NW DC.
Religion: Agnostic.
A little about me:
I like long walks on the beach, sunsets, oh did I mention that I'm a sadist, and that I'm utterly insane?
I've been called a silver tongued devil; Quick witted, charismatic, with just the right amount of sarcasm.
Hobbies: Not being bored, it's a lot harder than it sounds. I enjoy learning/conversing about The Universe/space, science, and technology. I was quite nomadic in my 20s, having visited two different countries, lived in over 17 states, visited over 38.
Music: I'm more of a rhythm of the beat type of person vs. lyrics, but generally I've found myself to enjoy electronica. Definitely like a lot 80s synth pop, but again, this is just the preference, not really against the rest of the genres.
Shows: Billions, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Board Walk Empire, Billions, Rome, Deadwood, Halt and Catch Fire, The Sopranos, South Park, Mad Men, Dexter,
Movies: Beetlejuice, Brain Scan, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,
"What are you looking for?"
Well I can encompass a Master, a Dominant, or a Daddy, so it's really what can I provide for you?1
"How is such a thing possible?" Antisocial Personality Disorder (3.4 for those interested.)
"Why was it necessary to mention that?" To give credence as to how I can, and have been all aspects of Dominance.
"Monogamy or polyamory?" Favoritism towards polyamory, but seeing as it's rare to find multiple partners that allow me to explore my more sadistic side without tension, and/or drama, I'd go with monogamy if the individual allowed me to be depraved.
Preference in the following order: Slave, submissive, little (I will explain further below.)
Kinks: Sadism, TPE, CNC, bondage, degradation, humiliation, knife play, rope play, rape/abduction play, choking, impact play, spanking, hair pulling (I think you get the idea by now, there are still far more, here's a more comprehensive list.)
Experience: 15+ years.
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So about that whole preference thing, as I am on the ASPD spectrum I'm capable of fulfilling whatever role(s) are required of me to get what I want. So let me explain further, I'm openly telling you far ahead of time that I lack emotions and empathy, with the hopes that me giving you the illusion of whatever it is you require, will be met with reciprocation of the kinks we can agree upon. This is where the waters get muddied for little's, I can definitely treat you like the princess you want to be, without all the douche-baggery you'll deal with as people tugging at your heart strings. Plenty of people around here pretend to be Daddies and will leave you absolutely heartbroken. Tired of games? Tired of bullshit? Well here's someone willing to give you all the care, attention, and affection you desire without any hassles.
"Why would you want to be a Daddy Dom given your lack of emotions, and empathy?"
I am a social chameleon. I've been perfecting my art for the majority of my life, I like the challenge. I like to learn people and, give them what they want with the idea that I get what I want in the end, it's called a social transaction. I know what respect is, and I believe I need to write a little about this. Once we've discussed clear limits, and terms, they shall not be crossed, it's counter productive for me to lose my play thing(s). I can be fiercely territorial of all my possessions, that includes the individual(s) I'm involved with, what is mine will be protected, whether you're a slave, a submissive, or a little.If you want someone to completely treat you like trash, I'm more than willingly to oblige, if you need a savior and a protector, well I can do that too. I'm able to encompass what is required; a means to an end.
"What are you looking for in a submissive?" I'd like it to extend outside of the bedroom, but if it doesn't, whatever, I'm not going to repeat myself, so hopefully you've read this in it's entirety.
"What are you looking for in a slave?" Mostly aesthetics, and objectification. Of course I'd expect loyalty, servitude, and there's a plethora more, but I don't feel I need to be too descriptive on this part.
Now that I've written a fucking novel about myself, let's get to you....
Age: I prefer them younger (18+) , but have dated women as old as 45; generally if I find you attractive, I won't care.
Height: the shorter the better, but I've dated women taller than myself, not a deal breaker.
Weight: I'd like someone on the smaller side, a few extra pounds will be acceptable, but no one overweight please, just not my thing.
I will list things below in order of preference, not necessarily a disqualifier. (This is only opinion, not a rating system.)
Race: White, but as long as I'm attracted I won't care, I don't discriminate.
Ethnicity: N/A read above.
Language(s): The more the merrier, accents are a huge plus, whether a southern drawl, or other.
Religion: I'm completely open to allowing you to practice whatever you'd like, just don't expect me to participate; I can be respectful of your beliefs, as long as you're respectful of mine, I am a man of science, The Universe is my religion (so to speak.)
Eyes: Blue, green, hazel, brown (If you have Heterochromia iridum you move to the front of the line, I like mutations.)
Hair: The longer the better, no preference as to style, as for color: I prefer true blondes, redheads, dirty blondes, and then brown.
Tattoos: Sure, whatever, as long as it's not overwhelming or flat out tacky, in this day in age it's harder to find someone with none, so as the trend follows above.
Piercings: Depends, some people can pull off septum piercings, but I personally dislike them, so if it compliments your facial features, sure why not. But there is definitely a breaking point where it becomes overwhelming and you just look like Hellraiser.
Education: Strong preference towards educated women, this does not necessarily mean academics, open to all.
Profession: No preference, but I do tend to like women in psychology (I have my reasons.)
Personality: If I have to learn "your" pronouns, or apologize for my "white male privilege" you can fuck right off; I don't care about politics.
Children: Strong preference in favor of not having them, unless we never intend to meet, or you don't expect a level of commitment from me to them, then I don't readily care, non-factor. To explain a tad bit, it isn't that I can't, I just would rather not raise children, I have too many plans in life that children would derail, maybe later.
If you're interested in communicating further, I prefer talking on these platforms and in this order: Discord, WhatsApp, Reddit Chat\, Skype, Kik,* open to other forms of contact.
\Reddit Chat isn't the same thing as their mailing system, just an FYI.*
Go ahead and shoot me a message, I'm waiting.
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An update:
Well just to filter some things out, since I get this so many times... I will not be putting a big editorial process to this update(I say this now, after already re-reading, and editing a minimum of 5 times; I'm a slave to my own perfectionism,) so if you mostly have questions about me, ASPD, and things of the like, read this before you message me.
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While I absolute love to talk about myself because I'm just such a narcissistic-hedonist, I also do get bored of repeating myself, even if it is a new person. As such read everything in it's entirety before you message me, as I'm going to entertain less, and less messages about me, and not what I'm seeking, I'd rather focus on only replying to potential partners, and absolutely nothing else, that being said if anything I have not covered in this update, or post still burns an answer from you, by all means message me.
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"Were you formally diagnosed?"
I get asked about this A LOT, I'm not going to go into very many details, suffice it to say, yes, but it's been labeled as a misdiagnosis, all you need to know is I score high, and I do the things you'd expect, the pyromania, the violence that is actually associated at early age, the works, I'm not comfortable giving you more beyond that, and I will not be entertaining questions about my personal life, maybe a partner could ask me those questions, but I'm not letting you in my head, that's my game, not the other way around :).
Please do your own research beyond this point, it's borderline laziness how often I keep getting asked about this.
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"Why are you so open about it(ASPD)?"
Isn't it obvious? A lot of you can't fathom why someone with ASPD would just openly come out, and admit to people, well I guess I really should've brushed up on this when I first made my post, or at least go into a far more descriptive detail than I had originally, so here goes:
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If I'm ever to lead a sort of a long term relationship based on trust, and honesty, just how in the HELL do you expect me to explain this to you ever so casually? It's best to show your cards in the beginning, this is my own baggage, or some form there of.
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There's two reasons I'm choosing to do this online, and vehemently under anonymity; 99% of you will be irrelevant to me, 99% of you will never meet me, it's just that simple, ergo why wouldn't I just preface my entire description as such, and as brutally honest as possible? Secondly I do not want a partner whom I need to continue to wear a mask for, I want to be me, the real me, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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What I find the most is women that fetishize the entire ordeal, that's all fine and dandy, but it does show just a lack of understanding about what APSD is as a whole, and to be perfectly blunt, you're wasting my time, I don't need to feed into your lonely thrill romance you spun in your head from watching true crime dramas. More often than not, this what happens, spare us the role-playing, I'm just not that bored.
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"Empathy"
One clear distinction I'd like to make, so I can stop getting asked about it, we DO have empathy, it's just not how YOU experience empathy. Think of a light switch, by default most of the population's is on, ours is off by default, and furthermore we have the ability to turn it on, and off. Yes, it is that simple, yes we use it for manipulation, now stop asking me about this, it's boring to repeat this.
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"Emotions"
Boredom, rage. This is what I'm capable of in the dark, empathy off. I'm constantly seeking stimuli, if you notice by actually looking through my posts, I've moved a ton of times, and always national parks... New atmosphere, new adventures, new dangers, you know, the shit that gets your heart pumping, adrenaline. This is my favorite drug, this is the high I constantly chase to kill the boredom. Rage is just self explanatory, my defaults are animalistic.
I am fully capable of experiencing all emotions, it's just for the most part, because I don't want do, I don't allow myself to.
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"Manipulation"
For the longest time I told myself who cares if I burn bridges in my wake, I'm building a highway in its place. Mostly still true, and I absolutely use it on a daily basis for survival, I must stress, and emphasize survival, here is why; I'm human, like the rest of you, what do you do on a daily basis, if not find means, and ways to survive, and entertain yourself? I know no other way other than to use people to my advantage, I minimize the damage where I can, and move about my daily existence, guilt, and worry free about doing any wrong, an argument could be made that we all use each other in some weight, or capacity, and that's good enough for me.
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I'm sure by now you're probably wondering what the hell any of that has to do with anything, it's simple if the point flew over your head, again. I'm tired of manipulating people, using them, abusing them, discarding them, I didn't grow a conscious I'm not "growing" as a person, but much more likely, I'm just bored of the routine, or the process, which has become the symphony of my life.
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"Love"
I by no means ever want to experience this love you all chase like Alice clumsily falling down the rabbit hole. I've seen it so much in my life it's downright pathetic, and I actually feel bad for those of you that have such strong emotions, see empaths. You're slaves to these emotions, you let people use and manipulate you, you've been hurt, and had your heart ripped from your chest, and it feels like you no longer have purpose, lacking direction, and meaning in life. I merely know this from generally observing humans for most of my natural born life. I'm more than happy to remain the way I have always been, and never wish to experience emotions in the way you do, I find it to be an advantage, one I can apply to more important things in life, like the pursuit of knowledge.
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I hope the psych nerds will now stop asking me these questions, I've paid my dues.
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"Preferences"
My preferences, are just that, a list of my preferences, at no point in any of my writing did I say I was prejudice between one thing, or that I show favoritism. I merely made a chart listing some of the attributes that I myself, personally find to be significant to me, but that isn't to say, or detract from other things. It's the equivalent of asking me if I prefer Metallica, or Megadeth; well I'm going to say I prefer one over the other, but I enjoy both, and the genre as a whole, the genre being women in this case. I enjoy women for my own personal entertainment, and amusement -- which makes it all the more hilarious to me when I get called a misogynist.
so please spare me all your comments, and messages telling me that it's so "intimidating", if my post intimidates you, what can I really even begin to say about that? It doesn't sound like we'd be compatible, or much less you'd be able to accept me as a person, in any case this is a personal issue.
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"You Need Help!"
I know what the help is, they just remind you repeatedly that your actions have consequences, they do not prescribe a medication for this, just therapy, and I know enough already to check myself, it really is that easy.
P.S:
"To My Adoring Fans"
You call me an edge-lord, cringe, and a wide range of inane insults, that truly don't phase me, since I get a lot of these messages, I thought I'd give you my rebuttal; just so you know I sleep naked so that anyone that doesn't like me, can kiss my ass - feel free to visit anytime!
P.S.S: I now operate, function, and walk amongst the elite of the nation; I see my kind everywhere, this is what Rome must of felt like in it's heyday; Cicero you clever bastard... I bid you all adieu -- and depart with this:
{"Το σύμπαν είναι αλλαγή. η ζωή μας είναι αυτό που την κάνουν οι σκέψεις μας.";}
Sincerely,
<~sodomy>

1998 chevy silverado 1500 4x4 just got a new engine put in January its been back to the shop 3x . All work done new hoses even oil cooling lines . New distributor. New radiator . New oil pressure sensor. Truck was running great for 1day and a half . Parked at auto zone to buy head lights and flashing relay turn Truck on to leave saw pressure gage drop to 0 turned engine off immediately look under and was leaking from the back of the engine above the starter somewhere can see where but only leaks when engine is on stops when engine is off . Now I'm bummed out again . It's still under warranty mechanics want vehicle back . Any ideas what it could be they had problems with oil pressure being to low then to high ??

“Mike Himche say GM will phase out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto with upcoming electric cars, beginning with the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV. Instead, you'll have to rely on Android Automotive and its apps.
Users will get eight years of free Google Assistant and Google Maps use at no extra charge, GM says. The company doesn't mention what you'll pay if you still need those functions afterward. We've asked GM for comment. It will still offer CarPlay and Android Auto in combustion engine models, and you won't lose access on existing EVs. GM plans an all-electric passenger vehicle line by 2035.”
I’m all apple all day and have been for over a decade. Moreso, I’m all about modularity and open source, and hate when companies knee cap themselves. This is a dumb move, and I think I’m out. Thoughts?

Demographics

• Gender: F
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Residence: Florida
• Income Bracket: Low
• Type of School: Not at all competitive, rural public high school
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): FGLI

Intended Major(s): Applied everywhere as CS, very unsure though. Might double major in something like PoliSci, History, English etc. My path is very undecided and my app is not remotely spike-y so I rlly got blessed lol
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.7
• Rank (or percentile): top 2%
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 AP, probably around 16 Honors classes
• Senior Year Course Load: APCalcBC, APCSA, APMacro, APLit, non-honors art, Honors econ class, Honors cybersecurity class (technically only needed the english to graduate but yknow)

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT : 1560 (770RW, 790M)
• ACT: 36 (36E, 34M, 36R, 36S) yes I submitted both of them :I
• AP/IB: 5's on everything so far: APUSH, APWH, APAH, APHG, APMicro, APUSGov, APPsych, APLang

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. #1 NAHS National Art Honor Society, very low commitment easy club and just a member. basically some art related community service and activities and stuff
2. #2 Job at McDonald's. ~25-30 hours a week.

That's all folks.

1. #3
2. #4
3. #5
4. #6
5. #7
6. #8
7. #9
8. #10

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. #1 National Merit Semifinalist

That's...all, folks. Although I am a finalist now. Lol.

1. #2
2. #3
3. #4
4. #5

Letters of Recommendation
1st recommender was out of necessity to have a STEM recommender teacher. We chill but aren't super close and I'm not like an exceptional math student. Had their class for multiple years different courses. doesn't dislike me or anything (that i'm aware of) but probably added nothing substantial for my application. 4/10?
2nd recommender and I vibe :D a social studies teacher i had for two AP years, chill asf, said many times he was impressed with my work in his class and compared me to another student years prior who "also" walked in knowing almost everything already. i'm not like earth destroyingly exceptional in any class because i never really had the foresight to be like SUPER INVOLVED and crazy but i'd say probably 8/10
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Interviews
Georgetown: (9/10): We vibed so hard !!!! Very relatable, younger person who was funny and super chill, full of energy, and actually fun to talk to. Dissipated my nerves very quickly. It was over zoom and i had like five pages of notes/discussion topics around me just out of the camera's view... LOL.
For all other schools I made the (probably stupid) choice to check off the not requesting an interview box on the common app. Honestly even though Georgetown's went so well, the nerves in the days leading up to it were literally destroying my mental health and I just couldn't put myself through it again no matter how detrimental it may have been. Since I didn't much care for UPenn, when my interviewer emailed me i just ignored it. And his two follow up emails. I kind of feel bad, but I just couldn't take the stress. :I
Essays
My personal statement essay was balling I'm not going to lie. 9/10 IMO for the acceptances I got that seem kinda... outrageous I genuinely believe my writing carried. Because if there's one thing I can do, it's write. Wrote about All Dogs Go To Heaven, the heat death of the universe, and programming to make life easier.
Supps:
The difficult conversation one long-form (400 words) was balling, again probably carried. But when I went to fill out other schools' supplementals who had the same or similar prompts but lower word counts, I just scaled the original down badly and it lost much of what made it good originally. So 400 words 9/10, shorter ones 5/10.
My "Why College" ones mostly sucked I'm not going to lie, I did not prepare myself sufficiently for this process and I never had a real dream school so I wrote some pretty silly stuff. Lol. 4/10
I think some of my little 50 or less word miscellaneous ones were balling though. Except for UNC i rushed to submit it for EA and they were cringe asf. 7/10.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
some of the EA/RD etc might be wrong because I deleted most of the ones I didn't care abt off my pins fairly quickly, and I applied to like 38 schools and I might be forgetting some decisions. Also some auto rejects coming bc I didn't finish their app checklists lol
Acceptances:

• Florida State University (EA w/Benacquisto Scholarship)
• University of Connecticut (RD, some scholarship but i dont remember it)
• University of Maryland (EA)
• University of Virginia!! (EA)
• Georgetown!! (EA)
• VANDERBILT!! (RD + Crescere Aude Summer Merit Scholarship, & lots of need based aid!!!!!)
• William & Mary (RD with the likely letter postcard thing)
• University of Oregon (RD, some scholarship i dont remember)
• University of Vermont (RD I think, + honors college and some scholarship i don't remember)
• Saint Leo University (RD, early game safety, mostly applied there to practice applying)
• James Madison University(RD I think, applied for decent safety/target)
• Seattle University (RD, Only applied bc i read they might send a custom poster w/a quote from ur essay.... and they did not..... :I )

Waitlists:

• American University (RD)
• UChicago (RD, I didn't even finish the application checklist... applied through scoir and my counselor never sent materials through it, luckily only applied for the chance of a scarf but like bruh)
• Swarthmore (RD, this one did hurt a bit. thought they were rlly cool.)
• Davidson College (RD, this one too, liked the vibe I gleamed from what others online said about it)
• University of Washington(RD, only applied bc they were ranked high on something early in app season, but still that single line waitlist notification was downright disrespectful)
• Emory University (RD, waitlisted at the Oxford College. Was not fond of Emory so not heartbroken.)

Rejections:

• UPenn (RD, didn't even do the interview)
• Yale(RD, highly expected, not a Yale simp)
• Princeton(RD, highly expected, mildly Princeton simp but it's okay.)
• Cornell(RD, moderately expected, not a Cornell simp)
• Brown(RD, this one hurt, did like brown a lot)
• Duke(RD, same as brown)
• Tufts(EA, applied for funsies, didn't finish app checklist, highly expected)
• Georgia Tech(EA, guaranteed transfer pathway, but i wouldn't want to go to such a tech focused school now)
• UNC Chapel Hill(EA, my OG dream school I did the most research on early in the process, expected at least a deferral or waitlist like bro)
• George Mason, Colgate, Reed, and many others I'm def forgetting (RD, stopped bothering with the app checklists when I got reach offers, haven't been notified of my rejection but it's coming)

Additional Information:
No one around me had much guidance to offer and I really walked into this process blind. My school doesn't provide ANY resources about applying to college that's not a local community college or a nearby, unknown state school. Thankfully my gifted counselor at least knew what the common app was, I had to explain to my regular guidance counselor how to submit the mid-year report (their caseload is way too high and they aren't actually super well versed in competitive admissions, they don't do much guidance other than setting up our schedules every year) I discovered A2C a little late in the process but who knows where I'd be without them and also my fee waivers for everything.
I know my ECs are unimpressive to say the least, but honestly, I barely knew what kinds of things colleges liked to see until very recently. I just did the art club because I enjoyed it and my job because I needed money. There were other things, like a Spanish club freshman year and sporadic volunteering, but I never wrote any of it down and was mostly doing it for fun (and not super often) so I didn't bother with it.
I've always loved school and naturally excelled in my classes, which does make me a bit nervous for college because my study habits are definitely underdeveloped, lol... but I'm going to do my best. No one in my life was ever pressuring me or anything, which is kind of unfortunate as I'm a chronic procrastinator and probably could've done something more impressive with my time if I wasn't constantly playing video games and then cramming to play catch up before quarterly grades come out.
But you know what? In spite of it all, I'm freaking proud of myself. I did my best with what I had, had numerous mental breakdowns over the workload that literally no one but myself was pressuring me to have, and now graduation is nigh. And I got into mf UVA OOS, Georgetown, and VANDERBILT, which is looking like where I'll probably end up (going to tour the campus soon on admitted students' day!) I think the prestige opportunities they provide, being slightly closer to home than Virginia, and the greater flexibility to explore subjects across their CAS and engineering schools is optimal considering my uncertain path.
I like to think of myself as a kind of underdog (lol) as with the one glaringly obvious disadvantage to my application, I still kinda made it. And I'm proud of every one of y'all too, wherever you're ending up!!!!!

NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four

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(2) #3 Iowa Hawkeyes vs. (1) #1 South Carolina Gamecocks
Tip-Off: 9 PM ET - Friday, March 31, 2023
Venue: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
Line: South Carolina -11.0
OveUnder: 150
TV: ESPN/ESPNU
Streams: ESPN+, ESPN App

Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
(2) #3 Iowa (30-6)	22	16	21	18	77
(1) #1 South Carolina (36-0)	13	24	18	18	73

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NCAA Women's Basketball
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(3) #9 LSU Tigers vs. (1) #4 Virginia Tech Hokies
Tip-Off: 7:00 PM ET - Friday, March 31, 2023
Venue: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
Line: LSU -2.0
OveUnder: 133.5
TV: ESPN
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Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
(3) #9 LSU (33-2)	16	16	18	29	79
(1) #4 Virginia Tech (31-5)	13	21	25	13	72

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I started searching for quotes on a website that said that it would help me compare quotes from different auto insurance companies. I filled in my information, and it gave me some results. However each result was another insurance comparison website and not an actual quote. I’ve gone from compare.com to savvy.insure to Ever Quote to Insurance Rates for Less to Insured Nation. None of these websites ever give me a quote, they only give me links that redirect to another page where I will find more links that will redirect me again. Why is it like this? How can I compare actual quotes? Sorry for the rant but I need help.

I can’t believe Chevy will stop supporting CarPlay (maybe unless subscription). Greedy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2023/03/31/gms-electric-blazer-and-its-future-evs-to-lose-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-support/

Hey all! I have a bunch of sets for sale from miscellaneous themes. I've added a few more sets since my last post, including Robie House in Architecture, and MetalBeard's Sea Cow from The LEGO Movie. I'm currently only looking for sales. I am willing to discuss possible trades, but there's not a lot of sets I'm looking for at the moment (Possibly: Mountain View Observatory, Ninjago City Docks, Home Alone House, Loop Coaster).
All sets are NIB (new and sealed), and come from a smoke free home. As many of the sets are 5+ years old, some boxes have some minor creases and/or wear, but they are all new and sealed. Here is a link to the pictures:
https://imgur.com/a/aaAaXIl
Please find the list of sets and prices in the tables below. I separated the tables by theme as much as possible. Prices do not include shipping (but I am willing to cover some shipping, especially for larger orders). I'm also open to offers, and willing to discount on multiple sets. The more you purchase, the more I'm willing to discount.
Sets that I have multiples of will have a "x2" next to the name. Sets that have strikethrough text have been sold. Anything that has "PENDING" next to it, is currently in discussion and may not be available. Mini Modulars is wrapped in bubble wrap already. If you want to see additional pictures with the bubble wrap removed, please let me know.
CreatoCreator Expert

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
10230	Mini Modulars	$185

Cuusoo/Ideas/Ghostbusters

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
21302	The Big Bang Theory	$200
21305	Maze	$175
21313	Ship In a Bottle	$95
75828	Ecto-1 & 2	$110

Creator 3-in-1

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
4886	Creator Building Bonanza	$130
31037	Adventure Vehicles x4	$25
31038	Changing Seasons x3	$55
31052	Vacation Getaways	$105

Architecture

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
21000	Willis Tower	$120
21001	John Hancock Center	$180
21003	Seattle Space Needle x2	$100
21004	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	$120
21005	Fallingwater	$400
21006	The White House x2	$90
21007	Rockefeller Center	$145
21008	Burj Khalifa	$75
21010	Robie House	$550
21011	Brandenburg Gate	$85
21013	Big Ben	$85
21015	Leaning Tower of Pisa x2	$145
21016	Sungnyemun	$340
21017	Imperial Hotel	$195
21018	United Nations Headquarters	$120
21020	Trevi Fountain	$190
21022	Lincoln Memorial x2	$110
21023	Flatiron Building	$95
21024	Louvre	$115
21026	Venice	$215
21027	Berlin x2	$230
21029	Buckingham Palace x2	$85
21031	Burj Khalifa	$80

City

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
3180	Tank Truck	$85
60017	Flatbed Truck	$50
60044	Mobile Police Unit x2	$70
60056	Tow Truck	$68
60060	Auto Transporter	$60
60084	Racing Bike Transporter	$30
60097	City Square x2	$185
60115	4 x 4 Off Roader x3	$20
60116	Ambulance Plane	$25
60117	Van & Caravan x2	$22
60118	Garbage Truck x2	$70
60121	Volcano Exploration Truck	$27
60123	Volcano Supply Helicopter	$70
60124	Volcano Exploration Base	$150
60125	Volcano Heavy-lift Helicopter x2	$220
60132	Service Station x2	$105

Friends

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
10727	Emma's Ice Cream Truck	$35
41095	Emma's House x2	$125
41097	Heartlake Hot Air Balloon	$27
41098	Emma's Tourist Kiosk	$8
41101	Heartlake Grand Hotel	$220
41106	Pop Star Tour Bus	$110
41108	Heartlake Food Mart x2	$55
41109	Heartlake Airport	$110
41119	Heartlake Cupcake Cafe	$70
41125	Horse Vet Trailer	$75
41129	Amusement Park Hot Dog Van	$38
41130	Amusement Park Roller Coaster	$140
41133	Amusement Park Bumper Cars	$60
41135	Livi's Pop Star House x2	$180

Scooby-Doo, Jurassic World (2015)

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
75901	Mystery Plane Adventures	$75
75915	Pteranodon Capture	$50
75916	Dilophosaurus Ambush	$80
75917	Raptor Rampage	$120
75919	Indominus rex Breakout	$350
75920	Raptor Escape	$160

The LEGO Movie (2014)

Set Number	Set Name	Ask Price
70800	Getaway Glider	$20
70801	Melting Room	$20
70802	Bad Cop's Pursuit	$40
70803	Cloud Cuckoo Palace	$25
70806	Castle Cavalry	$40
70807	MetalBeard's Dual	$120
70808	Super Cycle Chase	$75
70809	Lord Business’ Evil Lair	$70
70810	MetalBeard's Sea Cow	$415
70812	Creative Ambush	$38
70813	Rescue Reinforcements	$90
70814	Emmet's Construct-o-Mech	$120
70818	Double Decker Couch	$35
70819	Bad Cop Car Chase	$100

It was a lot of sets to list, so if you notice anything wrong/incorrect, please feel free to let me know. Let me know if you have any questions or need any additional info. I'm happy to take additional photos of any sets that you are interested in, as well as estimate shipping by location. Thanks for looking!!
Chris

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Imagine living in a world where the gas station has trouble providing gasoline.
Every few times a driver fills up, something goes haywire — the gas doesn’t flow, or it flows fast for a while and then slows to a trickle. Other times, the credit card payment is mysteriously rejected or the screen is blank.
If the consumer wants a helping hand, too bad. In this world, the gas station has no human, and the only option is a 1-800 number. The gas pumps are alone in the middle of a big parking lot.
Swap the word “gasoline” for “electricity,” and this is a realistic description of what happens every day at electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States. The high-tech, high-speed highway fueling system that America is building to power its EVs and replace the gas station is riddled with glitches that are proving difficult to stamp out.
Individually, they are hiccups, but collectively, their consequences could be profound.
“It adds to the non-EV driver’s view of the world that EV charging is painful,” said Bill Ferro, a software expert and founder of EVSession, an EV charger analytics firm. “People feeling that it’s a risk to buy an EV because the fast-charging infrastructure stinks is going to slow down EV adoption.”
The problems are experienced by those who use fast chargers on the go and who aren’t driving Teslas. Studies and innumerable anecdotes describe the strange stumbles they encounter: a blank screen, a broken plug, a credit card payment that fails, sessions that abort without warning, electric current that flows fast this moment and slowly the next (Energywire, March 21).
Behind the snafus are a daunting set of structural problems. They are tied to the peculiar way that EV chargers have evolved, and the fact that wires and batteries are way more complicated than what happens at the gas station.
“It’s a harder problem than pumping fuel from one reservoir into another,” Ferro said.
The problems are persisting even as billions of dollars pour into the charging sector from the federal and state governments, network operators and automakers.
Several recent studies of the charging system have found discouraging results.
Last year, researchers visited every public fast charger in the San Francisco Bay Area and found that almost 23 percent of them had “unresponsive or unavailable screens, payment system failures, charge initiation failures, network failures, or broken connectors.” And in a survey of EV drivers, the auto consultancy J.D. Power found the public charging network “plagued with non-functioning stations.” One in five sessions failed to deliver a charge. Almost three-quarters of those failures involved a station that malfunctioned or was offline.
Realizing the urgency of a fix, a variety of public and private players are trying out solutions.
The Biden administration, for example, set standards for “uptime,” or the percentage of time a charger is operational. California is launching a major inquiry into how to improve the customer experience. Automaker Ford Motor Co. last year deployed its own squad of station auditors (Energywire, Jan. 4, 2022). The largest public network, Electrify America, is replacing a fifth of its stations with newer models.
But many of these actions work at the edges of a black hole.
No one can define what it means for an EV driver to have a satisfactory charging experience. No underlying data exists. As hundreds of thousands of Americans buy EVs and start traveling the highways, this lack of a yardstick means that no one is accountable. Without accountability, problems are likely to persist.
The concern for industry is that the swelling ranks of EV drivers will tell their friends that highway charging is a little buggy, a little annoying — just enough of a hindrance that those millions of friends hold off from going electric, while the planet steadily warms.
Government steps in
Difficulties with EV fueling aren’t encountered everywhere. But they’re common in areas where the government is spending the most money and has staked its claim on improving the charging experience.
Home charging generally goes off without a hitch. The same goes for other “slow,” or Level 2, chargers that are sprinkled at workplaces and in parking lots and fill the battery by sipping on electrons for hours.
The bugs are most common with fast chargers, known as direct-current fast chargers, or DCFC. These are the charging solution when a driver is on the go and needs to refill the battery in 15 or 30 minutes.
These super-outlets exist near highway stops, in urban cores and at suburban crossroads. Building a network of them is the top priority of the Biden administration as it spends $7.5 billion for EV-charging infrastructure that Congress approved in the bipartisan infrastructure law. The first funding round is intended to blanket the country with DCFC chargers at 50-mile intervals along major highways.
Besides just building the stations, the government’s goal has been to create high standards, including better customer satisfaction.
The Federal Highway Administration, which is administering the program, said it “intends to incentivize charging station operators to improve reliability not just for chargers purchased with [government] funds but for all charging stations in the country.”
The irony is that a reliable, national charging network with high customer satisfaction already exists. It’s called the Supercharger network, built and run by Tesla Inc.
Users and experts are in wide agreement that Tesla has generally solved the problems that dog other networks. Its drivers plug in, pay and charge with few fails. Superchargers were exclusively for Tesla drivers until last month, when Tesla started opening parts of the network to other EV models (Energywire, Feb. 15, 2023).
Tesla also pioneered and excels at other practices that competing networks struggle to match — and that gas stations can’t do at all.
For example, punch in a destination on the Tesla app or the dashboard screen, and you get a route of Superchargers to stop at, with reliable information on which plugs are working and whether or not they are currently occupied.
A prime reason for Tesla’s success, experts say, is that Tesla owns and controls the entire ecosystem and all of its data. It built the cars, runs the chargers and manages the payments. If something breaks at the station, it’s Tesla’s job to repair it. There’s zero doubt who’s responsible.
The reason other, non-Tesla networks are having such troubles is that the public charging system has a lot more actors. They include a panoply of automakers, charging network operators, route-finding tools and now the government.
None has stepped up to take Tesla’s level of responsibility, and it’s not clear anyone will.
“Who’s owning this experience for me?” said Matt Teske, the founder and CEO of Chargeway, a EV-network software platform, putting himself in the position of an EV driver. “The answer is no one.”
A product not for customers
One reason today’s charging stations don’t work very well is their strange evolution as a consumer product.
Like EVs themselves, charging stations first arrived on the roads not because customers sought them out, but because regulators required them.
In the early 2000s, the California Air Resources Board demanded that automakers sell EVs to participate in the state’s auto market. Charging stations followed a parallel path.
One of today’s leading networks, EVgo Inc., was born from a 2012 legal settlement between NRG Energy Inc. and the California Public Utility Commission to resolve the electricity-market power crisis of the early 2000s. Another, Electrify America, is an entity that automaker Volkswagen AG was forced to create in 2016 as a penalty for cheating on its diesel emissions.
Tasked with satisfying regulators — and not customers — these companies saved money with a particular set of solutions.
“It was treated like it was really simple,” Teske said.
The charging station wouldn’t work like a gas station, with an employee in a nearby kiosk. Instead, it would operate without human intervention, like an ATM or a vending machine, but one that sells high-voltage electricity instead of Cokes.
But, unlike the ATM or vending box, the charging station wouldn’t get the full customer treatment. It wouldn’t be located under an awning, or be particularly well-lit or observed by security cameras. Instead, the electric car would be treated more like, well, a car. Stations were sited out in the elements, in the middle or at the edges of a parking lots, far from watchful eyes and easy targets for vandals.
Finally, the early networks didn’t offer the option of paying by credit card, although Electrify America was required to. Charging networks preferred to avoid the fees and complexity of Visa or Mastercard. Rather, payments would go to the network directly through a membership card.
What goes wrong
In the early days, none of these decisions much mattered. Early EV buyers were true believers who shrugged off the inconvenience of a dark parking lot or a frustrating charging session.
But as EVs not called Tesla have started to sell in earnest, the cost-trimming decisions of yesteryear have contributed to today’s outbreak of snafus.
A charging station, it turns out, is vastly more complicated and breakable than a vending machine.
“If you’re looking for a checklist of what could go wrong,” Teske said, “it’s a long list.”
Inside the kiosk’s metal shell sit sophisticated power electronics. It sends dangerous levels of electric current through a heavy-duty cable and to a connector, which can be easily disabled with a wad of gum. The video screen — crucial for communicating information to the driver, like the prices and how long a charging session will last — can be defaced or broken. Any number of problems can befall a driver trying to tap, insert or swipe a payment card.
And then there’s the computer code.
“It’s all software, at the end of the day,” said Ken Tennyson, the director of quality and conformance at Electrify America, which has 800 or so stations around the United States.
The recipient of the cash from an ATM or the Snickers from a vending machine is a human hand. The recipient of the electrons from a charging session is an electric vehicle — or better put, an ever-changing, ever-widening array of electric vehicles, each of which communicates with the charging station with its own version of software.
While software protocols exist for the charging industry, “adherence to those standards is not perfect, and the standards themselves are not perfect,” Tennyson said.
Some of these software problems are the growing pains that come with any young and high-tech industry that hasn’t worked out the kinks. This one, however, is complicated by the sheer number of systems involved.
A satisfying charging session is an orchestra. The charging station, the network operator, the vehicle and the payments all work together seamlessly. But today, the orchestra is out of tune.
These disjunctions create problems that to the driver are inexplicable.
For example, the kilowatts delivered at any particular moment during a charging session — the rough equivalent of the amount of gasoline tumbling out of a pump — can fluctuate up and down without explanation. This is often due to faulty communication between the station’s electronics and the car’s, as they try to speak the same software language but fail.
All these handoffs also make it hard for networks to emulate Tesla’s navigational prowess. Tesla competitors, like General Motors Co.’s Bolt or Ford’s Lightning F-150, might be able to tell you that the next station is working and has room — or it might not. Software incompatibility makes things janky.
“It’s hard because people are bundling all the pieces together and there’s not one owner of the process,” said Ferro of EVSession.
A solution, of sorts
To improve reliability amid this confusion, industry and governments have turned to a measurement of dubious value.
That metric is uptime. Applied to machinery or systems, uptime is a simple measurement. It is the amount of time in a given period that a machine is operational, stated as a percentage.
Uptime is a binary. A machine is either up, or it’s down. A charging station is considered “up” if its operator pings it and gets a positive response. But that narrow definition can collapse with an experience as complex as charging.
Uptime “doesn’t measure whether the connector is broken, or there’s payment-processing issues, or the parking space is ICE’d,” said Loren McDonald, an independent EV-charging analyst. ICE refers to a EV-charging parking space being occupied by an internal-combustion engine vehicle, another bane of EV drivers.
The metric fails, McDonald added, because it doesn’t answer the key question: “Can I charge or not?”
“Uptime doesn’t capture that,” he said.
Nonetheless, uptime has become the foundation on which federal and state governments are measuring performance as they dole out billions of public dollars.
For example, the Biden administration decreed last year that charging stations receiving federal money from the bipartisan infrastructure law must achieve better than 97 percent uptime.
It’s not alone in that target range. Colorado, New York and Vermont have adopted a 97 percent standard for their charger funding, while the state of Maine has adopted a lower 95 percent. Some electric utilities, like Louisville Gas & Electric in Kentucky and Consolidated Edison in New York, have aimed for as high as 99 percent.
Narrow as it is, the federal standard is at least a start. “It’s really helpful to have that federal guidance out there,” said Jesse Way, a clean transportation policy advisor at Nescaum, a nonprofit association of air-quality agencies in the Northeast.
Whether a 97 percent uptime is rigorous or not depends on whom you ask.
Tennyson of Electrify America considers it quite rigorous because it leaves a charging station with little room for error. A breakdown requires repairs that can consume days. In a year, he said, “You don’t have a tolerance for more than two or three failures.”
The reverse is argued by McDonald, the EV analyst. He points out that 97 percent uptime means three percent downtime. In the course of a year, that’s downtime of 11 days.
“Which is a really low bar if you ask me,” he said. “Could you imagine Amazon Web Services” — Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud product for businesses — “being down 11 days a year?”
A data void
One reason the Biden administration may have seized the narrow solution of uptime to solve the broad problems of EV-charger reliability is that no other options exist.
“The uptime calculation does not address all categories of failure or ways that chargers may fail to provide a satisfying customer experience,” the Federal Highway Administration conceded in guidance it released to states earlier this year.
Why not do better? “Insufficient data are available,” FHWA said.
That lack of data is a key gap, experts say. No independent, third-party source of charging data exists in the U.S. today. If a charging network claims to achieve 97 percent uptime — and many do — there’s no way to check out the claim.
That’s a worry for states that are entrusted with spending millions of dollars of federal money to build charging networks. The feds require them to achieve 97 percent uptime. But Teske, of the company Chargeway, pointed out that states who are vetting the companies to build those networks are “taking the sellers at their word.”
Solutions may be coming, but they will take time.
As part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Biden administration gained the authority to gather data from the charging stations it funds. States are required to start sending data along a year from now. That information will, FHWA says, become “a national database and analytics platform” with “a public-facing dashboard.”
A major structural solution may be in the works in California.
Last year, California lawmakers passed a bill that requires new record-keeping and reporting standards for charging stations that get state money. The rules, to be drafted by the California Energy Commission (CEC), are due by 2024. They could eventually be copied by the numerous of states that align themselves with California’s transportation emissions policies.
“It’s very complicated, we don’t have all the answers,” said Patty Monahan, a CEC commissioner, at a Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference earlier this year. “This is a huge inquiry.”
In the meantime, the gritted teeth of those using highway fast chargers are unlikely to relax anytime soon. The next wave of EV adoption will, in part, continue to be a story of inert plugs and frowning drivers, posted on Instagram for all to see.
“I see this is a problem for the next five years,” said Ferro, the EV charging expert. “Either Tesla will take over the entire charging network of the U.S., or everyone else will get their act together, or a little bit of both.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/why-americas-ev-chargers-keep-breaking/

Hey all, my ‘95 Chevy g20 has been harder and harder to start lately. It cranks and cranks, but the engine doesn’t want to turn over. Usually once I get it started it’s fine for the rest of the day, but in the last week or so it’s been hard to start even after I’ve just driven it. Today I went out to start it and it cranked for just a second, then nothing. No crank, no click, no start. Battery is fine. Here’s my question: would I be stupid just to go ahead and try replacing the starter? I ordered a new starter and I will pick it up after work, but I don’t want to waste my time if there is a good chance it isn’t the starter. So, what are my likely odds here? Is it one of those things where it could be ANYTHING and I’m almost certainly going to end up back at the auto parts store tonight? Or is it more likely than not going to be the starter? I’m fine giving it a try as long as my odds are better than 50/50! TIA

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Residence: TX
• Income Bracket: $500k+
• Type of School: Ultra Competitive College Prep Private High School
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Legacy to Rice, Grandma got Masters, PhD, and taught English there

Intended Major(s): Finance
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.3W, school does not report UW
• Rank (or percentile): School does not rank
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 AP, 4 Honors (school heavily limits the amount we can take, I am technically above the maximum.)
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics 1, AP US Government & Politics

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1530 (780M, 750R)
• ACT: 36 (36/35/36/36)
• AP/IB: Calculus AB (5), English Language & Composition (5), Microeconomics (5), Computer Science Principles (5), Macroeconomics (4), Computer Science A (4), Statistics (4)

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Accounting Internship - 40hrs/wk, 10wks (400hrs) - Created a master customevendor contact list for both accounts payable and receivable, hunting down contact info and customevendor activity for 15,000 customers. Implemented automatic invoice submittal via E2 by uploading the master list. Jumpstarted a project for the company involving W-9s that was handed off to another intern so I could focus on my main one. Transferred clients with outdated banking info to the company's new bank. And of course filing, meetings, etc.
2. Program Development and Personal Training - 10hrs/wk, 20hrs/wk during summer - Constructed a comprehensive all-in-one fitness program designed to accommodate any gymgoeathlete's personal needs, anthropometrics, and goals. Included computationally complex self-developed algorithms to auto-regulate caloric intake and training volume based on user response to stimuli. Conducted intensive kinesiological research prior to beginning development. Full-time coach several clients free of charge while I grow my network and continue updating program.
3. Content Creation & Semi-Professional E-Sports for Tier 3 Org - 20hrs/wk (9th): Signed to an organization with a following of 250,000+. Notable teammates on organization included FaZe Clix, KNG Psych0, and SerpentAU. Garned a following of 30k on my personal page. Posted biweekly videos on several platforms. Competed in tournaments at the semi-professional level. Recorded first consecutive quad-edit on controller. Though I did not intentionally monetize it, I made a good amount of money.
4. Work Experience - Country Club Materials & Check-In Management - 10hrs/wk (3yrs): Staffed the front desk of the pool area, ensured tracking of the flow of members/guests.
5. Ant-Keeping, Independent Formicological Research - 10hrs/wk, 6yrs: House two large colonies of Solenopsis invicta (~25,000 workers each). Conducted experiments regarding the behavior of queens and workers amongst queens and workers of other colonies. Observed and recorded polygynous behavior amongst a strictly monogynous species. Regularly feed colonies and clean formicariums.
6. School Leadership - Officer in my "house" (like Hogwarts) at school. Lead, plan, and coach events. Conduct the orientation of freshmen within my house at the beginning of the school year.
7. Chess - Played for 15 years, intermediate level player, participate in tournaments, club member all 4 years.
8. Tennis - 10hrs/wk, (9th, 10th): Freshman team captain, sophomore doubles district champion.
9. Recreational Powerlifting/Bodybuilding (15hrs/wk) - Wake up at 4am to lift before school. Attained a top set max bench press of 225 for 10 repetitions at a 23.7 BMI. Follow a strict diet and training regimen to ensure maximum progression speed.
10. Service - Elementary School Rebuild (5days, 10hrs/day) - Led a team of younger high schoolers to repair a low-income public elementary school that had been heavily damaged by multiple hurricanes in a nearby state; Volunteered in a retirement home, volunteered as a tennis coach, and delivered 500 sack lunches to low-income children in my city by myself.

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Collegiate-level Business Idea Presentation Contest Finalist as a late entry ($250 prize)
2. Doubles District Champion (Tennis)
3. Freshman Team Captain (Tennis)
4. AP Scholar with Distinction
5. National Merit Commended Scholar

Letters of Recommendation
I'm not going to give a numerical rating because that is extremely arbitrary
-AC Algebra II teacher - Was the most vocal student in the class, known as the curve buster, only freshman in a class full of sophomores and juniors. Teacher is very eloquent. Have maintained somewhat of a relationship with him.
-World History teacher - was not my best performance grades-wise, but I submitted a project on the French Revolution that he cited as the "best presentation he's ever received." Also had a close relationship with him as we'd discuss shows and email each other memes.
Interviews
Georgetown - Interviewer was an alum of my high school. That being said, I blundered the "Why Georgetown" question and asked him about Greek Life not knowing that all the fraternities at Georgetown are off-campus.
Penn - Connected well with my interviewer. He was in Greek Life which was good because I plan on rushing so we talked about that. He knew my internship employer due to corporate connections and I recognized the parking lot his office building was in through his window because my doctor's office is there. Nothing crazy but certainly solid.
Essays
I've always been a strong writer, perfect grammar and good diction. I spent months on my personal statement, although I could've done more with it looking back. I thought my supplementals were very strong and I was able to recycle topics for most schools, so I didn't spend a whole ton of time on each individual supplemental because the ideas were mostly already fleshed out, I just had to relate them to the school and my aspirations there. Mostly wrote about my deceased trainer who was my role model and how he inspired my fitness EC that is dedicated to him.
Personal statement was about self-acceptance with my Tourette syndrome, and how through perseverance and optimism I was able to push through the depression and anxiety that accompanied it and gain full control of my emotions and most control over my motor, which has caused my tics to subside.
Wrote extenuating circumstance essays when available about sicknesses, as I missed months of school in both junior and freshman year (200 excused absences each) which affected my grades.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:

• The University of Texas at Austin (EA)
• Texas A&M University (RD)

Waitlists:

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (EA)
• The University of Georgia (EA -> deferred to RD -> waitlist)

Rejections:

• The University of Florida (RD)
• The University of Southern California (RD)
• Rice University (RD)
• Georgetown University (RD)
• Notre Dame University (RD)
• The University of Pennsylvania (RD)

Additional Information:
Thank God for The University of Texas

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The UK government has said it is still on track to meet its international climate commitments under the Paris agreement, as analysis of its energy plans suggested more drastic policies would be needed to make the required carbon cuts.
The government's analysis shows that its new policies will meet only 92% of the emissions cuts required and, without further changes, the target will be missed.
At the heart of its strategy is the UK's legally binding requirement to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and its commitment under the Paris agreement to a plan - called a nationally determined contribution, or NDC - to cut emissions by 68% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.
Within the dense pages of analysis and recommendations, the official assessment of the NDC stood out: "We have quantified emissions savings to deliver 88 megatonnes or 92% of the NDC. We are confident that the delivery of emissions savings by unquantified policies detailed in this package will largely close this gap and the government will bring forward further measures to ensure [it] will meet its international commitments if required."
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero told the Guardian: "We remain committed to delivering our international commitments, including the 2030 NDC under the Paris agreement which we fully expect to meet. We are on track to deliver our carbon budgets, creating jobs and investment across the UK while reducing emissions. Our carbon budget delivery plan is a dynamic long-term plan for a transition that will take place over the next 15 years, setting us on course to reach net zero by 2050.".
Dr Daniel Quiggin, ​a s​enior ​r​esearch ​f​ellow​ at Chatham House​, ​said onshore wind could bring greater real emissions reductions than removing emissions from the air via carbon capture technology.

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