{"id":49888,"date":"2024-04-12T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49888"},"modified":"2024-04-12T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T04:32:51","slug":"tryhardszn2024-tryharding-out-of-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49888","title":{"rendered":"#TRYHARDSZN2024: Tryharding out of boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sauce<\/a>: St. Louis #TRYHARD accepted into 40 different schools<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say this is probably one of the weaker #TRYHARDs of the season, since of all this one\u2019s 40 acceptances, there are no notables named, and from the cherry-picked humblebrag screen shots of her holding acceptances, none of the schools that I can see are particularly anything to ring home about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus, no academic merits were listed anywhere in the article, which means that this kid didn\u2019t have a brag-worthy SAT score, ACT score, GPA, AP class regimen or already begun amassing college credits.\u00a0 But hey, she can wrestle and is a part of the step team!<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally the weakness of a #TRYHARD usually resorts to the cumulative amount of scholarship dollars they\u2019ve been offered, and in this case, this #TRYHARD has amassed over $1M in offers but lest we forget that it doesn\u2019t work that way and $1M does not go to the school of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

What really sets me off about this particular #TRYHARD is the seemingly flippant attitude demonstrated when it came to the college application process, to which anyone who\u2019s ever done one knows, is a colossal pain in the ass where you might excited and optimistic when you start, but by the time you\u2019re getting to the end, you\u2019re over it and glad to just be done with it.\u00a0 And to repeat that process more than 3-4 times, to the magnitude of 40+?\u00a0 Yeah fuck that.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for this #TRYHARD, applying to colleges is something that she seemingly did, out of boredom:<\/span><\/p>\n

I would just be sitting in my room applying, just as I am with scholarships right now. When I’m bored, I’m just applying. When I\u2019m not bored, I’m just applying,\u201d the 18-year-old said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For starters, I\u2019m guessing there\u2019s some amended process available to them, otherwise I don\u2019t think they\u2019re filling out 40+ college applications.\u00a0 Either that, or they\u2019re copy\/pasting their personal essays, if they\u2019re required to write one, and I\u2019m sure colleges are as thrilled to be reading someone\u2019s copy\/paste as much as the kids are thrilled to have to write them in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the attitude of someone applying out of boredom that kind of irks me; now I didn\u2019t finish college in the traditional sense, but I still know that there\u2019s a lot of power in the degree, and I know the value of a strong education.\u00a0 It make me feel annoyed that there are people who apply for schools out of boredom, and I\u2019ve touched on this before, because if and when they are accepted, they\u2019re effectively blocking someone else from getting the spot, and forcing people to be put on waitlists until #TRYHARDSZN winds down, people make their choices, and the scraps of slots are re-opened up to people who have had to wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately in the case of this #TRYHARD, it doesn\u2019t seem like a lot of necessarily prestigious schools are being clogged up by her.\u00a0 Based on her aspirations and what I can tell are some of her acceptances, there was a fairly mid-tier ceiling to all of her boredom applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering her top pick is Alabama State, I\u2019m guessing they\u2019re one of the schools that probably offered a full-ride, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with phishing for that because school is an expensive endeavor, but I\u2019m also allowed to opine that as #TRYHARD as applying to 40+ schools is, settling on a school like Alabama State might be reaching for some low-hanging fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sauce: St. Louis #TRYHARD accepted into 40 different schools I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say this is probably one of the weaker #TRYHARDs of the season, since of all this one\u2019s 40 acceptances, there are no notables named, and from the cherry-picked humblebrag screen shots of her holding acceptances, none of … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2024: Tryharding out of boredom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,100,78,83,52,146,182],"class_list":["post-49888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-lowered-expectations","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-triggered","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49890,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888\/revisions\/49890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}