<p>Wow you guys really post here a lot! I just posted like two days ago and I just read through ten pages of beatles and 9/11 and baked beans and pb&j… very interesting ha. </p>
<p>But anyway, I was just wondering what you guys are writing about for your essay that you can pick anything about (for the Yale supplement). I’m really stuck on if I should use one of the essays I’m already writing or pick something completely random and new.</p>
<p>On a semi-unrelated note, talking about crepes and nutella, if you ever visit Brown, go to the crepe place on the main street (the name escapes me right now). Best crepes I’ve ever had!</p>
<p>Scotland and the Beatles and Yale… these are a few of my favoriteee thinggsss.</p>
<p>Dancer, that is a good question. I haven’t seen that supplement because I’ve only looked at the common app. What are the prompts?</p>
<p>Thanks! Less than 500 words?! ARGH. I’m already writing a second optional essay for the common app, I have no idea what to do that second one on the supplement about.</p>
<p>You missed “because” rockermcr.</p>
<p>OH! Darn. That was hidden too well as a normal word, I didn’t notice it.</p>
<p>That doesn’t even count. There are like three instances of “because”. </p>
<p>Sly fox.</p>
<p>Why are you writing a second essay for the Common App? Is this beyond the one about an activity, and then the “personal essay” where they give you 5 prompts?</p>
<p>Yeah other than the ones that are compulsory there’s a space to do an optional essay. I’m doing it because I’m a nontraditional student and I feel like I need to explain myself a bit.</p>
<p>I don’t think that space is meant for an optional essay. Are you referring to “additional information”? Because that’s just reserved for some specifics, but I recall reading that a lot of admissions officers would get annoyed if that space were filled up with another essay. If I were you, I’m sure I would write about all of your music stuff as the Yale essay, and limit myself to just two essays… I kind of hate when people give me suggestions like this, so I totally understand if you think everything I’m saying is bs. Just my two cents :)</p>
<p>Also: Yale, I swear to God, UPLOAD YOUR DAMN SUPPLEMENT TO THE STUPID COMMON APP BECAUSE STUPID RED INVERTED TRIANGLES DON’T SUIT YOU.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>No rocker, I do appreciate the suggestions. It was the additional information I was referring to. I’m not completely decided on what I’ll do yet. I think it depends on the word count I get on my proposed ‘additional information’ bit. My thoughts are though that there’s things I want to say that I might not get the chance to on each individual supplement so that’s why I thought putting it on the common app might be better.</p>
<p>And I hate the little inverted triangles too. Grrr. <3 Oberlin, Grinnell and Colgate for their upward facing green happy triangles though.</p>
<p>I think you should be fine giving additional information in the additional information section (that’s what it’s for, obviously), I’m just hesitant about writing another essay. Might clutter everything more… </p>
<p>I think I might’ve asked you this before, but will you be applying to Yale as an Eli Whitney ([Eli</a> Whitney Students Program | Transfer & Other Programs | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/whitney/index.html]Eli”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/whitney/index.html)) student? Or are you still within the standard age range to be admitted as a normal freshman?</p>
<p>There is a craaazy thunderstorm now and I absolutely love it. I love seeing the sky flicker with lightning and hearing rolling thunder and seeing the crazy rain. I love it.</p>
<p>One more question: How easy is it for British people (with British accents) to imitate American accents? I don’t mean anything crazy, like southern accents or anything, but just like pronouncing Rs and stuff the “American” way? Because I know a lot of people here who can do passable British accents, but I don’t know if it’s as common the other way around. For some reason, I feel like it isn’t, which is why I have huge respect for people like Hugh Laurie.</p>
<p>I LOVE HUGH LAURIE. He is the most amazing person and he has an incredible American accent, I almost fell off my chair the first time I heard him in an interview with his natural accent. He also has the most amazing eyes. Did you guys know he wrote a book? I’m reading it right now, called The Gun Seller and it is just <em>overflowing</em> with that patented Hugh Laurie sense of humor. I highly recommend it in general, but especially to Hugh Laurie fans. </p>
<p>I’m really curious about this American accent question because I do British accents CONSTANTLY. And a lot of times it’s an accident, it just kinds of pops out when I’m concentrating really hard. Also, when I read a book, the narration voice inside my head is British, isn’t that so weird? I’m 100% American…no British roots whatsoever. </p>
<p>Okay, I’m sorry that Because wasn’t so obvious to you, but that was intentionally why I utilized it…it was too easy not to 
I am a thug lyfe sly fox, that is I. </p>
<p>Yale should be ashamed of themselves for taking so damn long with this supplement thing. I am tempted to start working on its requirements from the PDF just because I can’t wait any longer, but it just doesn’t feel as definitive and “I can’t believe this is actually happening” as it would to have the real thing opened. Stupid red triangles…at least have a little frowning bulldog icon there instead.</p>
<p>You know what I just realized…there are a lot of people named Eli involved in Yale, and non of them actually founded Yale. </p>
<p>…who founded Yale? Why don’t I know this?</p>
<p>James Pierpont founded Yale! 
And then they named it Yale after Elihu Yale, luckily not Dummer :]</p>
<p>Also, really weird: when I read silently to myself, for some reason it’s in a british accent!</p>
<p>Sometimes I tend to just pick up other people’s speaking habits, does anyone else experience this? For example, if I spent all day with someone who always says “like,” I’ll start saying “like” all the time (or at least for a little while). Or sometimes I do pick up accents, or different tones in the way I speak. It’s interesting.</p>
<p>I have a tendency to pay a lot of attention to people’s little habits and things in their speech and in the way they move… It sounds kind of strange but I notice little details about the way people walk, about words they use, about weird pronunciations, or about anything else, really. I can imitate basically anyone in terms of anything. I never really assimilate anything into my own behaviour, though…</p>
<p>My teachers take off points when I spell things like behaviour in essays 
But I prefer that spelling. Calibre, fibre, favourite, colour, recognise. Saddddd day. </p>
<p>I do that too demiitasse! I ALWAYS pick up other people’s speaking mannerisms when I’m around them, it’s particularly easy for me to slip into a southern US accent, so smile, stay far away from me </p>
<p>I am also extremely observant so that contributes to me picking up all the small things another person does. But it’s also interesting to pay attention to that kind of stuff, body language says a lot about a person. </p>
<p>This is slightly unrelated, but I have a wicked good memory so I also remember teeny tiny things that other people have said or done YEARS ago…sometimes this isn’t a great thing though…</p>