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Dear Mr. Kim,

We've heard of your top academic record and extracurricular success and we'd like to offer you a place at the American College of the Midwest

At ACM, you can have the all American college experience you've dreamed of for 47 years.² A warm and welcoming campus. Drinking and merrymaking. Deep and meaningful conversations with the brightest minds of a generation. Falling in love. A white picket fence and two and a half kids.

All you need to do is send us your SAT scores. No additional tests. No personal essays. No open-ended questions. No assessments of personal worth. No extracurriculars. No failure. No tedium. No stress.

We look forward to your application!

Sincerely,
Admissions
American College of the Midwest
Established 1876

Educational History:
Ottawa Hills High School. 2019-Present.

• Unweighted GPA: 4.0
• Valedictorian

Notable classes:
AP English Language, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Physics I, AP Biology, AP US History, AP US Government and Politics, AP Art History, AP Comp Sci Principles, HR Scientific Research

Extracurriculars

• Varsity Track Captain, 2022-2023
• Ottawa Hills High School Jazz Ensemble, Tuba, 2019-2023

Volunteer Experience
Builders Beyond Borders Captain, 2022-2023

• Fundraised and led a relief trip to Africa to build housing and infrastructure for impoverished communities

Publications:
Academic Publications:

• Economic and Sociological Effects of Betting Big on Bitcoin vs Traditional Casino Gambling, Journal of Student Research, 2023

Creative Writing in Epistolary Format:

• Parawatch Creepypasta Forums, 153 posts, username Akimb0w
• Scolipendra Wiki³, 100+ entries, username Akimb0w

Additional Awards:

• Scholastic Gold Key Award, Visual Arts, 2020
• Proficient in spoken and written Korean
• Recognized by Columbus Korean Association for Outstanding Student Leadership

Akimb0w

If you know me, you may have noticed I usually don't post in the real shit parts of Parawatch. I prefer the creepypasta boards because it's what I'm used to. It's what I'm good at. So this story's going to be a little rough around the edges, because it's real and not something I made up, and I've fudged a few details so it's harder to figure out who I am.

Parawatch creepypasta isn't the first place I've done creative writing. When I was 10, I discovered the Scolipendra Wiki. It's the kind of place that's difficult to describe. Imagine if the Kane Pixel's Backrooms was about cataloging monsters instead, or if the video game Control was a writing project. The X-Files, but the shadow organization isn't the FBI. The core stories were these made-up files about monsters, many of them insects, but slowly getting less and less insect-like.

I fell in love with it. I spent hours reading through it, learning about monsters like the Reticent Manlet, the Statue, the Immortal Arthropod. The wild adventures of Cataloger Shadow and Cataloger Scale and Cataloger Lever, and how they fought the Scolipendra and between themselves like crowd-sourced Olympian gods. And once I'd read everything there was, I started writing for it myself.

It was modest work — the sort of stuff that starts out as a hobby, but it quickly became much more. I would pull all-nighters to write my next Scolipendra. Every hour of every waking day would be consumed with thoughts of this. When I was running my 6 minute mile, when I was painting, even when I was building wells in Africa, I thought of how I could use that experience to improve my Scolipendra. It went great! I shot up the ranks, quickly becoming one of the rising stars of 2013. I started dreaming of how this could be part of my future, how I could be a real writer.

And then one day I woke up and it wasn't there. Nothing at all.

I poured so much of my life and energy into this — so much time I could have spent on developing skills, writing papers, reading books, working out. Even spending time with friends or falling in love. But none of it happened at all, nothing meaningful remains, and it was all a colossal fucking waste. I've wasted my life and now I have nothing worth living for.

sludgeman

Are you talking about the Backrooms Wiki? Most of them are 14 too.

maxmax

unrealistic — you can get away with some of these flourishes in the creepypasta boards because we all know those are made up but all of this sounds like BS. a 6 minute mile, building wells, and painting? come on. those are mary sue traits idk why you wanted to put them into a first person narrative.

also its really prosy which hurts the true crime vibe and u shouldnt try that sort of thing

Akimb0w

I'm not joking and I didn't make any of this up. Here's my resume with my name taken out.

(Subject originally linked his resume, which was removed by Parawatch moderator)

stormbreath

Dude if this is real wtf does this matter? You can go to a great school and get set for life. Leave the internet hobby site about stuff that isn't real behind. I'm talking about Parawatch, not "Scolipendra"

Also, snipped. Don't self-doxx you fucking idiot.

Akimb0w

I've been waitlisted from all of the Ivies. My chances to get in are shit. Even half my safeties turned me down. My only sure shot is ACM.

I guess it doesn't sound so bad. All my life I've been a piece of putty, stretched in every direction and as thin as a balloon, so I have no shape of my own. I had Scolipendra and I have Parawatch, but maybe I'll find something meaningful in the real world.

1/21/2023

Read a manga⁴ and a line stuck out to me. A genius is just someone who others can't easily understand.

I don't think I'm a genius. I'm just smart. People don't treat me like a genius in the good ways. They're just so far away.

I never wanted that. I just wanted to be happy.

But the only way to be happy is to get ahead.

Unless the easy way is the happy one.

3/16/2023

ACM it is.