Getting Served: Celebrating Common App Submissions
It’s silent, but deadly. Its victims are rendered helpless and are dependent upon a team of highly skilled individuals who can be anywhere from 10 to 3,000 miles away to resolve the matter. The victims can tweet and update their Facebook status to their heart’s content, but at the end of the day, there’s still not much they can do.
Oh, server-related crashes. Last week, a server outage knocked out Skype, the hosted-VoIP solution that allows users to make free calls over the Internet for several days. Skype engineers determined that the root cause was the inability for several cluster servers to interact with Windows 7 users (a jargon-laced, technical explanation from Skype’s CIO can be found here).
And given that today, December 31st, is the final day for many high school seniors to apply for college via the Common Application website, they too might be concerned about server-related issues.
Rather than lament over what could happen to the Common App site between now and 9 p.m. PST, we felt it would be appropriate to celebrate the joy and happiness from those diligent and hopeful high school seniors who can officially begin to enjoy their remaining days of winter vacation, after many months filled of brainstorm sessions, rough drafts, revisions and finally, a polished personal statement.
Check out these tweets from select high school seniors who can now relax (read: not slack off), for the next several months as they await their acceptance or rejection letters.
Just_insanee The common app needs an iPhone app
pfurb possibly the most beautiful thing i have seen recently are those little green triangles on common app next to my colleges telling me im done
christoper OKAY plan: work on my common app during the NYE party. I GOT THIS UNDER CONTROL
JackBroChill17 the Common App has made me appreciate green arrows
sunnydaylove There are people who look at the UChicago prompts, close the Common App website, think for a long time, and cry.
indyfilms17 About to hit SUBMIT on my LAST COMMON APP(NYU)!!! This is nerving. #lastminutecollegeapps
_Fred_Erick_ Ah! Finally done with this common app :D now, winter hw -___- lol
benjisa The Common App should hire me to redesign their entire website and interface. It’s such an unintuitive mess.#commonapp
Wishing lots of luck to folks adding the finishing touches to their personal statements, extracurricular activity sheets and supplemental essays! We hope the Common App website has plenty of server redundancy to prevent a website crash of sorts. And if all else fails, there’s always Greendale Community College. Dream big in 2011!
