# today is the best day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641 "2009-02-20T00:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/21 "2009-02-20T03:02:49Z")
Go **Olives**! Many, many congratulations. 😃 🆒 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/22 "2009-02-20T03:20:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: envious :: > > **olives** , how are you going there? Scholarship? Loans? Rich uncle? > > Man, I wish we lived in countries where university was low-cost. I can deal with being weeded out by a brutal selection process, but not being able to _afford_ it sucks. No, sadly, my uncle is very poor and so is the rest of my family. I am going to do everything I can to get grants and scholarships, and the rest I will take out in loans. Fortunately I escaped undergrad virtually unscathed. Since my husband is a Ph.D student, he also has virtually no loans to deal with either. I have already established a plan for repaying the loans within 5 years of graduation, even if, worse case scenario, I end up having to finance everything with loans. It means we won’t be homeowners for a while, but I’m happy as a clam living in an apartment, and we’re in no hurry to live the high life. Or better said, we already _do_ live the high life, and are aware it doesn’t require a lot of money. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/23 "2009-02-20T03:25:02Z")
OMG, YOU ROCK! Way to go, **olives**! Now I’ll go read the thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/24 "2009-02-20T05:46:24Z")
Well Done you!! Now, follow these instructions: 1. Raise your right hand. 2. Put it on your left shoulderblade. 3. Pat pat pat. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/25 "2009-02-20T06:00:00Z")
¡O guata guonderful fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilin, o guata guonderful deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, o guata biutiful moooooooooooooooorniiiiiiiiiiiin, ebryzin’s gouin mai güeeeeeeeeei! _dodge rotten tomatoes_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/26 "2009-02-20T06:08:05Z")
High five! You never know what kind of awesome is right around that corner. Sometimes awesome is like a puma that jumps out of a tree to ambush you and sink its sharp teeth into your neck. Today… that puma just bit your throat out. Congrats! (Apologies, I like really bizarre analogies.) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/27 "2009-02-20T09:05:12Z")
Congrats! I know it can be a pain waiting, I’ve got a friend waiting to hear back from several schools right now, and I see how frazzled she can get at times. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/28 "2009-02-20T09:39:16Z")
wtg! If you’d like any guidance with commuting issues, etc. lmk. I went to school there, lived in the area for many years, have some subtle points about Morningside Heights to pass along, maybe… Great news–just bask in it for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/29 "2009-02-20T09:43:44Z")
Congratulations!! You don’t know me, but I have read a lot of your threads over the years and I’m so happy for you. It really is the greatest feeling in the world, isn’t it? I will most likely be applying to Columbia’s art history graduate program next year, so wish me lots of luck! I’ll need it for sure, since especially with this economy, there’s going to be no money at all for my pointless little discipline… Yay for you!! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/30 "2009-02-20T11:10:18Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > wtg! > > If you’d like any guidance with commuting issues, etc. lmk. I went to school there, lived in the area for many years, have some subtle points about Morningside Heights to pass along, maybe… > > Great news–just bask in it for a while. [QUOTE=Douglas Adams] The mattress flolloped around. This is a thing that only live mattresses in swamps are able to do, which is why the word is not in more common usage. It flolloped in a sympathetic sort of way, moving a fairish body of water as it did so. It blew a few bubbles up through the water engagingly. Its blue and white stripes glistened briefly in a sudden feeble ray of sun that had unexpectedly made it through the mist, causing the creature to bask momentarily. [/QUOTE] _bask bask bask bask_ But yes, once basking time is over, I will have questions. Lots of questions. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/31 "2009-02-20T14:00:26Z")
Columbia? Pfft. Won’t they be disappointed when they find out you’re going to go to Penn? **hopeful look** ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/32 "2009-02-20T14:02:13Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/33 "2009-02-20T14:11:28Z")
Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/34 "2009-02-20T14:33:56Z")
Congratulations! From what I’ve read of your posts you have so much to bring to the field from your own background as well as your training. You’ll be a great social worker. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/35 "2009-02-20T15:05:06Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > This Fall. I don’t even know the date yet. I haven’t even visited the _campus_ yet. I didn’t want to get my hopes up. But I will go soon. As soon as my coworker gets back from Amsterdam I am taking a personal day! Congratulations! The campus is very nice (of course, most college campuses are). It reminded me of a walled city – once you step inside, you see this open quad with a decent amount of green, right in the middle of NYC (and with an actual Revolutionary War battleground!). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/36 "2009-02-20T15:32:54Z")
I’m so happy for you, and so glad that someone as special as you gets to make a difference in the world. Bask! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/37 "2009-02-20T15:38:52Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/38 "2009-02-20T15:55:02Z")
I’m really, really happy for you! What an accomplishment!! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/39 "2009-02-20T16:18:33Z")
Yay! Way to go!!! I took a stroll through the Columbia campus last fall when I visited NYC, since it wasn’t far from our hotel. It’s very very nice. It reminds me of the University here in Toronto, in that it’s both completely integrated into the city and yet a little bit separate from it at the same time. And the architecture is gorgeous. Now I’m all wistful for university. Sigh. Lucky, lucky you. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-best-day/486641/40 "2009-02-20T16:26:58Z")
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