A day of various happenings

First of April. I had my US History II trial on that day.All of you, who have taken Professor Borges's class would have known what a trial would be like.This trial is part of our coursework, so it's important. My case, was a case about the Japanese internment during World War II, where the US government which was prompted by war hysteria moved to interned thousands of individuals of Japanese ancestry. If you have no prior knowledge on world history,think about the Kampung Baru established by the British during the communist era in Malaya.The only difference is the severity and the individuals involved. The case started when an ex-detainee@ Kataki Yamamoto (me), who was a nisei generation in the United States, sued the government for additional compensation amounting to $ 10 million for each Japanese survivor and an admission that the government policy back then was a deliberate act of racism. The government, then counter-sued , seeking to rescind the apology previously given and retrieve all the reparation money given.  They had previously given the detainees and their survivors , an apology letter acompanied with a sum of money as reparation.

Olivia, me, Stan,& Arthur

The lawyer and I.

The team.

Anyway, we sort of lost the case. Lost as in we failed to the get the additional $ 10 million. Well, the jurors voted to maintain the status quo, so we didn't like lost absolutely. Haha.

Speaking of which April 1 was a day that many awaited for. Ivy League admissions results! Last year, I was rejected by U Penn, specifically  Wharton Business School. Only one of the scholars in my batch got in. 

The nicely worded rejection letter.

And this year, the juniors are doing good. Two of them got into Wharton, while a number of them are admitted in a various Ivy League or Ivy standard universities.  These include Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, John Hopkins, and University of Pennsylvania to name a few. Congratulations people ! No names are mentioned here, as some of them might want to keep a low profile . =)

If you're interested to know who got into where, check out Chen Chow's blog.

Speaking of admissions results, Abraham got into Wesleyan University. Woots. This I must spread. Haha.