For all the points of the compass

Oct 13, 2008 21:29

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alanv October 14 2008, 03:06:09 UTC
It is because you are awesome and we love you :D

Or we just love nerds.

Or both.

Have I shown you your Student Wars card yet? (You also have one with cpride)

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alanv October 14 2008, 03:15:41 UTC
(Realized after the fact that my first comment could come off as pretentious)

Where "we" refers to all the people you know, since I don't think I'm one of the "brilliant, willing, etc" people you were referring to :)

I felt the same way a lot back at CMU. All of these crazy smart people, ahhhhh. But they're all really nice too. (Much like you, in fact.)

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joyful_vydra October 14 2008, 18:40:52 UTC
No, I didn't realize there was a student wars card of me :)

Also, *hugs* :D

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aleffert October 14 2008, 03:06:46 UTC
Congratulations! It takes a lot of hard work to become a great person.

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mellowcupcake October 14 2008, 03:07:09 UTC
Reasons I love CMU: We are the awesome people we always were. But now it's so much cooler and more fun!

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platypuslord October 14 2008, 03:33:34 UTC
People-organizing is an excellent power.
I wish I had more of it.

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phoenix1701 October 14 2008, 05:36:49 UTC
You know the really great part? You sort of touched on this, but... It's not because you're smart that we love you. In a place like CMU where that's pretty much a given, other rarer qualities become more important, like empathy, the capability to see people both for who they are and who they wish they were (and to tell the difference), and the bravery to make yourself just a little bit vulnerable when there's a good reason to do so. All these things you have, and then some. That's a pretty long way from a prideful, mistrustful middle-schooler, don't you think? :)

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twizmer October 14 2008, 06:27:57 UTC
+∞
Like Alan said, it's because you're awesome.

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phoenix1701 October 14 2008, 21:25:18 UTC
My intent was the former, not the latter, as I thought was pretty clear from my saying that being smart is pretty much a given.

Also, I am apparently misreading your "perhaps it's not for you" comment, because that sounds an awful lot like an attempted insult, which I feel is most likely not what was intended.

We'll make it misunderstandings all around, then?

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