<p>J.D. from Scrubs :)</p>
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telling my parents i love them every morning. But is that too cheesy?
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Can I adopt you? ;)</p>
<p>I don't know if it is cheesy, but it sure is endearing. I am sure that if there are any parents of teenagers on the admissions committee, they will feel the same way.</p>
<p>haha, oh, and my daily ritual was watching the daily show every night... it's really sad that both of my essays are about TV and i don't even watch much of it. oh well. hopefully the adcom won't think i'm too uneducated :/</p>
<p>my character was lily briscoe from to the lighthouse (i wrote about how i could relate to her struggles/joys as an artist and writer), and my daily ritual was reading the newspaper... kinda boring.. but i couldnt really think of anything else!</p>
<p>cimmoresque--the Daily Show is one of the most educated things to watch-it shows you understand satire and care about politics!</p>
<p>My daily ritual was choosing an outfit or something like that (it's hard to describe), but I looked at it from the point of view that it expressed my personality.</p>
<p>My daily ritual was similar to honied_dreams's: dressing my hair every morning. I have crazy curls which I rarely straighten, so yay for metaphors!</p>
<p>My daily ritual was daydreaming...</p>
<p>My character was Pilate from Song of Solomon, and my daily ritual was eating breakfast, lol.</p>
<p>HAHAHAH vgurl08, I DID VERONICA MARS TOO!</p>
<p>i love veronica mars. she's incrediby witty and hardcore risk taker. </p>
<p>daily ritual and community leader were my favorite prompts though.</p>
<p>coffeetoffee--I love that idea...</p>
<p>thanks--i'm not sure if it's too unintelligent sounding or not...</p>
<p>I did the fox from le petit prince... which y'all should read cause it is amazing!</p>
<p>i did molly shannon as mary-katherine gallagher in the 1999 hit movie Superstar</p>
<p>i was sort of worried about all of my supplementals because i wrote them sort of hurriedly (didn't decide to apply e.d. until 11/14. am very last minute) and wanted to counteract my really trippy common app essay. ended up writing about the snooze button for my daily routine and an animal from a children's book (i am almost 100% sure that no one else wrote about this obscure book). i like hearing what other people wrote about though its really interesting!</p>
<p>Barnard's supplement was by far the most involved, but the most fun to write. For daily ritual I picked listening to the BBC News every night before I go to bed (I can't sleep without it, my local NPR station took it away and I'm dying). For literary character, I picked Nora from A Doll's House and talked about being a strong woman (kind of weak at first, but I think it turned out okay). For government representative, I wrote about global warming.</p>
<p>I feel like every college should require you to write that many essays because I feel like Barnard is going to really know me by the end of reading my application, but Columbia didn't get to know me at all because they only asked for one.</p>
<p>Wait a minute - I thought the supplement said to stick to "two well-developed paragraphs". My responses were accordingly trimmed down. Damn! I knew I should have written more! I hope my mini-essays don't screw me over or anything...God forbid some admissions person interprets them as showing a lack of interest in the school. That would majorly suck.
Anyways, I put Hal Incandenza as my fictional character (from the book Infinite Jest.) For daily ritual I said reading something every night (I am a bookworm). For government representative, I said Robert Gates - and wrote that even though he wasn't technically a government rep, as an appointed member of the Cabinet, he inarguably has a very important job. My answer was kind of left-leaning - do you think Barnard admissions will mind that? I get the feeling that Barnard is more of a liberal school.</p>
<p>Two well-developed paragraphs are fine. If they are light-hearted and reflect a great sense of humor, that's o.k. too. Left-leaning is normal - if your politics don't make you an anarchist, then "left" is mainstream. (My daughter made her "short answers" short, and to the point, for ALL of the supplements to all of the reach colleges she applied to that had those sorts of questions, and she got accepted to all, including Barnard -- so if anything, I think you are at an advantage if you follow instructions and give them what they ask for. Though of course I have no data on what happens to the applications of those who succumb to temptation to submit longer answers).</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone is even reading these now, but it was an interesting topic so I thought I'd comment. I wrote my character essay on holden caufield from catcher in the rye. I was afraid it might be too generic (not the essay itself, but just the character), but I think i put a new spin on a tired character, or atleast attempted to?</p>
<p>For my "charecter essay" I wrote about Tituba from "The Crucible", but my essay was bout how I didn't want to be type casted (I'm black) and it was about how even though I didn't like the charecter i could still learn from her.</p>
<p>For my daily routin i wrote about fighting with my friends and how it was a good thing because we could always get over it.</p>
<p>and for my government essay i worte about abolishing the electoral college</p>
<p>i thought my essays were pretty spiffy</p>
<p>This thread is great!! I love hearing about what all of you wrote about.</p>
<p>I had about a month to complete my supp.; Barnard was originally on my list, then off(I applied to mostly music performace schools), then on again. But I must say that I had the most fun applying to Barnard and I agree that every school should should require such personal questions (not to really judge on the writing perhaps, but more to see the applicant more intimately).</p>
<p>For my character I chose the characters from the Lord of the Rings (they will probably slight my indecisivness), specifically focusing on Eowyn. The trilogy just meant so much to me as a whole and pretty much altered my life, and so that's what I tried to convey to them.
My daily tradition was my favorite to write, although I am paranoid that the topic will be seen as too sappy. I wrote abotu how I watch the sun set out of my bedroom window each evening, and how the sheer magnificence of the sight reminds me of the meaning and importance of this life.
For the gov offical question I chose to talk about the under-cared for elderly in America. I feel its a very seldom-dicussed issue but is nonetheless a problem which needs to be dealt with. It was very sad to research and write, I must say.</p>