SILBER, nolita linnet, sophomore

nolita linnet silber


thank you, nolita l. silber, for showing interest in ellison academy.
after contacting your previous school, we here in the admissions office have
decided to offer you admission for the 2009-2010 academic year. however,
first we’d like to make sure that you meet our high standards for enrollment
in the academy. we have scheduled an interview for you on october 30, 2009.

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welcome, nolita. this interview is basically to learn a little about you
and your personality. here at ellison academy, we like to stimulate the creative
side of your mind - really make you think and come up with inventive and
detailed answers. come in and take a seat. now, tell me a little about yourself.

tell me baby, what’s your story?
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how about we start with your full name. do you like it?
does it have any special meaning to you or your family?
well, even though this is about the eleventy-billionth time i have been asked that question, i will answer it anyway just for the sack of this application. my name, well, the name that appears on all of the applications in nolita linnet silber. it is the coolest name possible right, right? right, especially when you're parents have a whole formula for your name, that in a shortened version went like this for me: i was the third daughter of a fourth son and a third daughter, somehow this corresponds to the letter--drum-roll please...."N!" which is just about the greatest name ever. now because of the fact that my birth month is november, my name also had to be the name of a place. that place just so happened to be nolita, which is a little place in new york. my middle initial had to be something that started with an l, because that somehow corresponds to the eleventh month, so it became linnet due to french roots somewhere in my family. and my last name isn't my father's, by the way, it is actually the last name of my father's best friend, a man who was killed after some guy held up a convenience store and just opened fire. my parent's last name is henrie, but i'm fine with my last name. oh yeah, by the way, never ask my parents about my initials, because those have a story too. and for nicknames, i like to be called lita, lola, lo or nolee but linnet and silber work too, if you're feeling bold and/or lucky.

so, when is your birthday? would you rather have been
born on a different date or time of year?
sadly, my parents just didn't have as much control over my birthday...but hey, it still is kind of their fault. oh well, i was born in november on the eighth in the year nineteen ninety-three. yes, that does mean that i am sixteen and no i am not kidding you. what happened was, i was home-schooled before i started school but when i was supposed to start first grade that told me that my home-schooling didn't count and that i had to retake kindergarten, no, i am not stupid, that was just a huge misunderstanding. if i could choose my birthday, i'd want to be born sometime in may, it's just my favorite month of the year, but november pwns, like epically, k, and that's all that needs to be said on the subject.

can you tell me a little about your home life? where were
you born? have you moved at all since you were born?
my home life is pretty functional and completely normal, i guess. i was born in los angeles, california which isn't that amazing when you factor in the crime, smog, etc., but people are always in awe about that fact of my life, so i felt i should throw that in there. when i was about three years old we moved to hicksville, for some reason. at the time, it seemed like a horrible decision but i am in love with that place now, for a place that's barely on the map, i still am super fond of it, hicksville is home, at least to me. my life was pretty normal like i said.

when i was finally old enough to go to school, it was in hicksville and i went to elementary school and middle school there along with that one year at holy trinity. i used to be a cheerleader for awhile for the little pee wee football games, i still have pictures of me in my little uniforms, i was a cheerleader from age 7 to age 10, it was amazing, it was fun. i was a little ball of energy. in middle school, i got involved in volleyball, it was an agressive sport for a former cheerleader, but it became my passion by accident. it was also around that time that i decided i liked to dance, hip-hop especially but it didn't really matter, i loved it. i also discovered music in about 8th grade, it was another outlet for me, i loved the saxophone, it was such a connection, but i also found out that i could sing back then.

my family spent a lot of time being kind of oriented by education and family bonding. we spend a lot of time together. we were the type of family with dinners together and family game night, etc. we're weird but family time is huge for us. what i did on a daily basis depends on who i was with. if i was with my older sister megan, we'd hang out and watch plays or movies or something. if i was with damon, we'd play football, it all depended and yeah, they teased me but i learned a lot from my siblings. my routine was pretty much to wake-up, make my bed, eat breakfast with my family, like a scene from one of those movies from the fifties and then everyone would all go to where they needed to. on the weekends we would go out to various places. everyone got to pick on there own weekends and when everyone went to college, we would spend time doing family things on vacation. on a school day, we'd come home, mom would cook and we'd work on homework, unless they needed to go to a sports game or something, which was always fun with my family. so yeah...my homelife was pretty normal, definitely routine, but i feel lucky cause not everyone gets to have a family like mine and have this kind of routine and stability.


how about your family - your parents, any brothers and
sisters? did you have a good childhood?
my family is pretty big, but honestly i like having a big family, we're supportive of each other and stable. okay, fun fact, i am the only child in my family who was born by myself, you'll see what i'm talking about in a little while. my dad's name is connor joshua henrie, and i love him to death. he currently works as a teacher at holy trinity high school in hicksville. he honestly loves people, even high school students and to be honest, they love my dad too. he teaches chemistry there and makes it pretty interesting, even though he obsesses with it at home. my mom's name is rebecca marissa meade-henrie and she happens to be a french teacher at holy trinity and no they did not meet on the job, contrary to popular belief. they were in love way before that, since high school and it's so cute that they stayed together that long.

so...my siblings...okay so the twin gene is pretty common in my family and so is the triplet gene. my mom was part of a set of fraternal twins, but my dad has an identical twin. my parents first kids were my identical twin sisters, ariana and megan. i love them to death even though they totally clash with each other. they're about three years older than me and ariana is currently attending school at columbia, she was always the more academically minded one and megan is going to the academy of performing arts in new york. my older brothers, the triplets, brock, the more outdoorsy one, damon, the jock and ian, the nerd. they're all three years older than me and brock is going to ohio state, damon is attending ucla and ian is at mit. then came me, the middle child with no other child attatched. below me are the younger three sophie and corey, both about three years younger than me, fraternal twins, if you couldn't tell and both of them attend middle school in hicksville. so yeah, my family is kind of monstrous, especially if you count the animals: coco, our labrador retreiver and our beagle, snoopy. we also have samson, our tabby cat and my baby, my chinchilla, sugar...not really original but whatever.

my childhood was amazing, no complaints here, i mean yeah, i have a big family but we manage. hicksville was an amazing place to grow up and my family was super supportive and everything. i mean, i was kind of the odd one out...i still am but i like it that way, especially when your family is a as cool as mine. sorry if you were expecting a sob story of some sort but it isn't like that with my family, i love them to death.

high school never ends
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we'll continue with some academics.
what grade do you plan on enrolling into at ellison?
me...i plan on enrolling as a sophomore, you know, the grade between a lowly freshman and a wannabe junior.

can you give me a list of, oh, say nine classes you'd like
to be placed in for the semester?
algebra II
ap literature
european history
ap biology
french III
intro to psychology
photography
chorus
concert band

how about sports? plan on representing the black and
gold on the field?
volleyball-fall
ice hockey-winter
lacrosse-spring

or are you not the athletic type? maybe a club or two?
i am athletic, but joining a few clubs never hurt anyone, right? so i want to join the school newspaper, debate team, dance team and drama club sounds good.

it’s all about you
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now, a little about you - i want you to be as honest as
you can in this section.
tell me about your personality - how do you react around
others and such? give me around three paragraphs
worth of "you".
I am normally at my schools for being pretty popular, although I am not totally sure why. One reason is possibly because I am extremely outgoing, of course. I am fun and unbelievably crazy, in the least psychopathic kind of way. I tend to be a bit more emotional than logical, often considering people's feelings but never to the point where I'd let people walk all over me, after all, I'm way too cool for that. Around other people, I may seem calm and collected but if you really know me, I'm totally out there, a complete weirdo...well, actually I’m like that even if you don't know me. I kind of act like a little kid sometimes, the way I plays little childish games and jokes on people, possibly another reason for my popularity.

I love new people. I'm the kind of person who will walk up to someone and talk to them, saying exactly what's on my mind or introducing myself. I's not really afraid of what people think of my because I's pretty confident in myself, I always has been. I'm a charmer and I know just what to say to people, I've also got an arsenal of weird, stupid and slightly effective pick-up lines, ice-breakers, compliments, everything, not that I won't just go up to a guy and ask him out if I have any interest or something like that, I'm just pretty formulated. I'm kind to most people, unless I have reason to hate them and I am not as easy to manipulate as people think or want me to be, seeing as I'm unbelievably firm in what I believe.

I can be irritated easily though and that is one of the few times when you will see me in total bitch mode with no thought of consequences of my actions, almost like being drunk, but not. I'm rarely ever seen not laughing or smiling, but if I am then I'd stay away from me, because that means that I could blow at any possible second. On a regular daily basis though, I am a bundle of energy. I am pretty sarcastic though and if you’ve pissed my off, I can be pretty bitter. I like to consider myself a party girl, despite only being a sophomore, but alcohol is not my friend, which is why I tend to try and stay away from it, because when I am drunk, I can get a little crazy, stupid, slutty and weird, like any normal girl would, except about 10x worse.

I am loud, almost to the point where it’s kind of obnoxious, but I’m so lovable, people most of the time don’t really mind it, everyone loves crazy obnoxious girls. I am smart, but not overly so, I’m at about an average level of smarts, but I am a bit ditzy and forgetful. I am smart enough to know how to use and manipulate people, though; I am skilled at the art of manipulating and tricking people. Maybe it’s because of my mother, but I am also a huge fan of gossip and I’ve been known to start a few rumors myself. I love having a routine or a set of instructions but I also loves messing them up and adding my own twist, so sometimes I can go either or, most of the time. I am rarely ever on time, except to class, it’s a bad habit for mine, not that many people notice.

I am also known to hold grudges for long amounts of time, as though I never forget anything. As I said before, I stick to my beliefs and I always get a set of new ones. My morals and beliefs on the world are always changing and no matter the cause, I’ve probably supported it at some time. Currently, I have no causes that stick out, but I am an on and off vegetarian. I have an huge obsession with sweets however and any celebrity gossip. This is a characteristic from my father, but I am also brutally honest, a tell it like it is person, and a realist, even though I plays the part as an optimist for other people. I am also very competitive and am never really sure what to do when I lose something. Honestly, all I wants out of life is to be like those girls in history who made a difference and at the same time be like the girls who had a fairytale ending.


if you had to place yourself in a stereotypical clique,
who would you be with? the jocks, perhaps? or maybe
the drama troupe?
stereotyping is wrong...blah, blah, blah, but for the sake of the question, i guess i'd be with the popular group...or the preps.

any interesting hobbies? how do you like to spend
your free time?
sure, depends on what you define as interesting. i love photography, especially when it involves taking random pictures of random things and posting them on various social networking sites. i don't suppose sleeping is a hobby, but i count it as one any so i love sleeping. i also enjoy putting on make-up and giving people make-overs. listening to music is another hobby of mine. i love to dance, anything from hip-hop to ballet. and i love to shop, shopping is the best. i play the keyboard and synthesizer and i love to sing. i also learned to play the saxophone for awhile thanks to my mom. i also love to horse-back ride, it's just so much fun. and swimming, i love the water. i also love to go camping and go for walks outdoors, i just love the outdoors in general to be honest. i do love playing with anything electronic, in fact, electronics are my toys, i love them. and i know this may make me a nerd but video games and reading are some of my favorite things in the world. in fact, i love new york, i also love ribbon, because it's just fun to play with and i love animals. i also love the random youtube videos i post, my blog, writing random stuff and social networking sites, especially facebook. i also love taking random pictures of myself and other random things, it's just so much fun.

how about some things that you like - anything that
makes you really happy. it could be your favorite food,
places you like to go on vacation, kinds of movies you
like to watch.
okay, it'd be so much easier to say the things i don't like but since it's part of the interview, i will answer this question. even though i love everything. first off, i love pizza, it is the greatest thing in the history of the world, in fact, i love pretty much any topping on pizza ever invented, it is the best food ever. i love sweets, anything sweet is an addiction to me. black forest cake is my one weakness, haha. i am also a huge caffeine addict so coffee is my love, it started at a young age and developed even more. i love music, the whole process of it, from the beats, the lyrics, everything and i love making music, music is life. i also love drama, i am definitely the artist in my family. i also love cooking, in itself, it is an art and thanks to my mom, it just comes natural. speaking of natural, i love nature, it's just so pretty, but also dangerous and unpredictable which makes it amazing. being a total girl, i love guys (despite them being so complicated)...and jewelry (especially rubies) and even though this may make me sound like a nerd, i love books and video games, i promise you, i can kick your butt at halo all while reading jane eyre...okay, maybe not, but i'm practicing. i love pears, by the way, the make me happy. and i love scented lotions, perfumes, etc and i love make-up. i enjoy giving people make-overs and playing with people's hair. i also love going shopping, especially in new york. oh yeah, and last but not least, i love to perform in front of people and give speeches, i love stupid jokes, comedy movies, dancing and sports, volleyball the most.

now, tell me about some things that you don’t like -
things that make you angry and upset, bothered even.
it could be anything really - from politics to food.
i don't like a lot of things, many of them are really random though, but some are normal. i hate the smell of cigarette smoke, it's gross, i don't even really like cigarettes. i don't like being called fat, because whether you're joking or not, i will take it seriously. i hate blood, it's just gross. i also hate throwing up, it's just a horrible feeling, in general. i don't really like tests or long boring lectures, by parents or teachers. i hate being sick, because i miss so much. i also hate being at home. i loathe having to sit still and i don't like waiting. i hate stalkers, from personal experience and i despise blackmail, it's just wrong. not really into broken promises...or breaking them and i have a low threshold for pain. i don't like cramps, especially those associated with that time of the month. i hate drunk driving and alcoholics, as well. i don't like mean people, jerks and sluts, but who does? i also don't like headaches, loud noises and strange shadows...or the dark.

so, how about your fears? anything that scares
you unconditionally?
fears...i don't have any! okay, yeah right, everyone is afraid of something. i just so happen to have some weird ones. i am afraid of heights, but for some reason, i can still ride in a plan, i don't like to, but if i have to there won't be much freaking out. i am also afraid of clowns...it was dark and i watched the scary movie, it, based on that stephen king book...to this day, i hate circuses. i am afraid of death, of course, maybe just because of the uncertainty of it. i am also afraid of being alone, i hate that feeling of having no one around you, maybe it's just because of all of the people who have been around me, like my family and friends. oh yeah and i am afraid of china dolls, mannequins and escalators (bad experiences, i don't talk about it) and i hate tiny purse dogs, they are the most annoying things in the world.

what are your expectations for life? do you have
anything in particular that you’d like to accomplish
throughout your life?
hmm, what do i expect to accomplish in life? well, i of course want to go to college, just like everyone else in the world, although i'm not sure where i want to go or what i'd major in, but i'm leaning towards psychology or journalism. honestly, i want to start a magazine, like the new vogue but only 80x times more epic or record my own album and sing...or make movies, i haven't really decided, like i said, i'm not too good with decisions on this. eventually, i want to travel the world and live in someplace fancy and nice, or a small town, i love small towns. actually i could live anywhere as long as i had financial stability, privacy and security, all shared with a husband and kids, but honestly at the moment, my biggest goals are to graduate high school and find love, eventually, you know, my perfect fairy tale ending.


run your hands through your hair
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tell me a little about your general appearance. i
assume business casual isn’t your normal attire,
so describe to me your style - things you like to
wear and such.
you're correct, business casual is definitely not my general appearance. i don’t really have a style to be honest. outside of school uniforms, i do tend to wear whatever i'm in the mood for. Despite this, i do find myself leaning towards t-shirts, especially ones with sarcastic sayings on them, and jeans, especially skinny jeans and any kind of shoe or accessory. i do dress girly on occasion, though and i love, love, love skirts. to be honest i just wear what i feel and add on random accessories. there are days when i will be inspired (ie: french revolution soldier or harajuku girl) or want something weird, like a fancy skirt with tennis shoes and long socks, so she gets pretty into what she wears sometimes, other times she’ll just throw on whatever pleases her just then.

have you ever dyed your hair before? gotten any
piercings recently? any destinct characteristics?
i've never dyed my hair. to be honest, in fact, i'm kind of obsessed with it. it's like my pride and joy, but to answer your other questions: i do have other piercings, such as the three piercings in my ears and my amazing parents allowed me to get belly-button piercing, it's not like the greatest but it's kind of badass, yes? and my distinct characteristics are my dimples, my shiny, almost perfectly straight teeth (thanks to four years of braces) and my reverse widow's peak. i also have a birthmark on my knee, my right shoulder and my lower stomach, on the left side, along with a scar on my right knee.


has anyone ever told you you look like a celebrity?
some similar resemblance to an actor or actress
perhaps?
well, i have been told that i look like victoria justice, which is a major compliment to me because she's pretty much amazing looking. i love the comparison, even though i'm not too sure that it's true.

just say what’s on your mind
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now for a few fun questions.
if you had to be an ice cream flavor, what flavor
would you be and why?
i think i would be vanilla. why? well because vanilla is a classic and it's like the base for any ice cream flavor. in fact, it's what makes chocolate taste so good. i love vanilla ice cream because it sort of blends in with anything, just like me.

what’s your favorite color? any particular reason?
my favorite color is blood red. it's the prettiest shade of red and that's so strange because i hate blood, but it's such a pretty and sophisticated color. it's been my favorite since as long as i can remember.

tell me something no one else knows about you -
whether it’s a deep secret or just a little known
fact. i promise it won’t get out.
i have two: un) i only started using because i wanted to rebel against my parents. now i can’t stop and deux) i started starving myself because my mom said i was fat

describe yourself in three words.
spontaneous, loud, outspoken

now, give me something that describes your
life. like, lyrics to a song, or a quote. this will
be, well, we'll call it your member title.
``BURN the NIGHT [a W a Y].

this concludes our interview. thank you so much,
nolita, for taking the time out to speak
with us today. we shall review your academics
once more and inform you shortly on your appli-
cation status.

it’s only life
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so, my name is brit and i’m fourteen-years-old. i’ve been role-playing for years role-playing. i found `albr through one of your BAMF-mazing members <3. you know i read the rules because i'm telling you it's all time low, there for tomorrow, 3OH!3, owl city and cobra starship. here’s a little sample of my writing:

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