<p>Chicago applicants are badasses.
Just telling you guys. We should revel in it. :P</p>
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<li>A writer of fiction -- an intrepid balloonist explorer -- & a director-screenwriter-auteur of films. </li>
<li>Englihistoriphilosoreligiolinguipoliticoscientificomathemastudies. </li>
<li>I'll just go on a tangent here: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Lolita by Nabokov; The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton; As I Lay Dying by Faulkner; Catch-22 by Heller; The Moviegoer by Walker Percy; lots of stuff by Salinger, Poe, Borges, Stevenson, Wells, Vonnegut. David Foster Wallace. ...there's probably more I'm forgetting. </li>
<li>A healthy... 8.5. </li>
<li>Eating chili cheese Fritos with salsa and cheese, which I have been told is disgusting but I find pretty darn delicious. </li>
<li>I love a lot of stuff. Currently listening to: Blur, Fleet Foxes, GZA, Alan Parsons Project, Spoon. People here have good taste!<br></li>
<li>Hm. To be honest, I'm not sure. Maybe my test scores. [Yes, I know - sad.] If I get through NaNoWriMo, maybe that. </li>
<li>Making it to the finalist stage for TASP, and then failing at the interview. :( </li>
<li>Chicago is probably tied for tops with a few other schools, if financial aid is equal among all.</li>
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<p>we are badass... we represent THE badass nation... funny enough we also represent the future.. so let's make it out a live together... BRAAH BRAAH... </p>
<p>OO and id play volleyball...non competitive.. because im a shallow guy who would like to see the girls play LOL LMFAO.... IM KIDDDIIINNN.... but id probably be to busy with basketball/boxing...</p>
<p>"an intrepid balloonist explorer"</p>
<p>Bamboozler... take me with you? Also, best major EVER.</p>
<p>Thanks! And, yes, I want to organize a group called the Chums of Chance (...I've read a little bit of Against the Day) someday, so you can feel free to join the ballooning group.</p>
<p>Oh, also, as for other places I'm looking at, there's way too many right now: Princeton (Amazing financial aid and they seem to focus on undergraduate education - but I won't get in), Stanford (I've visited and it's beautiful, chill, and warm--there's this living-learning program that I'd like to do there), Emory, Wash U, Swarthmore/Amherst/Williams/Carleton/Haverford/Southwestern/Washington & Lee (LACs), UTexas at Austin (Plan II!), etc., and then some weird ones like Deep Springs and Shimer. The list is way too big. I've visited UChicago on two separate trips, however, and sat in on something like nine classes, overnighted, and interviewed, and my experience was a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Wait Bamboozler, so you applied to Deep Springs? That is really awesome! I don't know a single person at my school who has ever heard of it. I get a lot of mailers from them and my dad one day asked me, "What is some community college in the middle of god-knows-where sending you all this propaganda. Are you going to end up at this ranch? Because I don't know how I would feel about paying for a school like that." He changed his opinion when I explained the Telluride connection and that it is free... I have no idea why I just told you that story, especially considering I decided to not even apply. Lol, I have gone insane from being home sick all week. gah!</p>
<p>I haven't applied yet, actually. Round 1 of the apps is due Nov. 15th---I really doubt I'll get into Round 2, but even if I do, I'll probably end up looking incompetent as a ranch worker when I have to go there. However, I love the concept, educationally, philosophically, etc., except for the males-only part, since I honestly can't see a good reason to not give females the same opportunity (apart from the fact that some donors stipulate that the college has to remain all-male). But yeah, funnily enough, my dad recently had seen this article about free-tuition colleges and encouraged me to look at them, and it included Deep Springs. I haven't talked to my parents about Deep Springs either, so that was pretty coincidental.</p>
<p>Also, I have never received mail from Deep Springs. I first heard about it when I read that William Vollmann went there... but I only started considering it very recently when I saw some other stuff about them, here and on other sites. I did request a brochure, though, so hopefully that'll come soon.</p>
<p>I'm actually pretty disappointed in the males-only part too. If I weren't a girl, I'd definitely be applying to Deep Springs. I first heard about it a couple years ago when a friend applied, and it sounds fantastic.</p>
<p>Yeah. I've read that the recent Deep Springs classes have generally been against the policy, but no change has yet been enacted. But maybe in a few years...</p>
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<li>Senator, political analyst, political journalist... If I could, I would be Rahm Emanuel.</li>
<li>Political science, economics, history, philosophy.</li>
<li>Any Albert Camus novel, any John Donne poem, any Shakespeare drama... Nineteenth century British lit is up there, along with 1920s and 1950s American lit. Oh, and Harry Potter, Holocaust/Jewish lit, systematic philosophy, Henrik Ibsen, and The Wealth of Nations, even though capitalism kills.</li>
<li>4-6.</li>
<li>Greasy food. I find it nauseating most of the time, but it heals my soul when I'm overly stressed or fed up.</li>
<li>He himself is not a genre, but JOHNMAYEROMG<3. I like the Beatles as well, and Radiohead.</li>
<li>Not sure... I think liking the person I am is an awesome accomplishment.</li>
<li>Not to be exceedingly school-oriented, but sucking at physics has to be it.</li>
<li>Pretty high, but my list is short.</li>
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<p>ElizabethBennet, so you want to have only 9 1/2 fingers?</p>
<p>I thought that was fascinating Rahm was missing half a finger, he is such a bad-ass for lack of a better term. I love it!</p>
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<li>politician/historian</li>
<li>history/american studies</li>
<li>History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia</li>
<li>6.5</li>
<li>reading biography/lil wayne</li>
<li>rock</li>
<li>beasting out my school's archrival on tv in a quiz show</li>
<li>finding the second derivative implicitly</li>
<li>3 (out of 8)</li>
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<li>Author/illustrator or biomed. Either would do. </li>
<li>well, I'd like to study everything, but I dunno about the feasibility...</li>
<li>At the moment, Ender's Game or Shadow of the Hegemon, but it changes</li>
<li>8</li>
<li>books in the fantasy/swordmaiden/evil sorceror named Zog/magical familiar genre, and editing wikipedia</li>
<li>Classical or whatever's on the radio. Indie/Alternative is second fav (regina spektor, mostly)</li>
<li>learning that I need to (le gasp) study in order to get good grades (this came in about 10th grade)</li>
<li>saying 'e' instead of 'a' on national TV at the national spelling bee (yes, this puts my nerdiness rating at about 15/10) (curse you, braggadocio. I make it through words like rijstaffel and I miss you?)</li>
<li>#2/8</li>
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<li>concert pianist</li>
<li>biochemistry</li>
<li>lolita</li>
<li>7.5</li>
<li>gossip girl, grey's anatomy</li>
<li>classical, indie/alternative</li>
<li>making a cookie.</li>
<li>life.</li>
<li>3 or 4</li>
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<p>wow, i like you guys
1. dream career: hmm writer? or English professor, or potentially doctor, who knows
2. intended major/academic interests? English (Creative Writing if possible), Psychology or Neuroscience
3. favorite book? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, Lolita and Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov, Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, Swann's Way by Proust, A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter, Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
4. nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? I guess being in a band and all of that stuff totally decreases my nerdiness factor but I'm a geek at heart so I say 7
5. guilty pleasure? making loud recordings with too many harmonies too late on a sunday night; reading wikipedia for hours
6. favorite music genre? I'll go for artists: Magnetic Fields, Okkervil River, New Order, The Smiths, The Beach Boys, Joy Division, Beat Happening, Jens Lekman, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, The Microphones, M83, Broken Social Scene, Yo La Tengo, Great Lake Swimmers, Sufjan Stevens, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Panda Bear, Wilco, The Dismemberment Plan, The Mountain Goats, The National, The Pogues, etc.
7. greatest accomplishment? doing an AP Psych independent study and owning that test
8. greatest failure? not being challenged junior year, bad SAT IIs, a bad essay on the past SAT (but my one before that was just fine)
9. how high is chicago ranked on your list? well it would be 1 but there is no ED! So I applied ED to Columbia, which, in my opinion, is the closest school to U of C, but there is no way that is happening, so I guess U of C is still my number 1!</p>
<p>My Bloody Valentine? Awesome! Loveless is definitely one of my favorite albums.</p>
<p>madguitarmikey, awesome taste in literature.</p>
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<li>Furniture Tester? If that goes sour, I'd like to be a literary critic.</li>
<li>Mathematics and Economics, with a little Philosophy on the side</li>
<li>I'll go with fav. authors: Camus, Scott Card, Dostoevsky, Kant, Sartre, Marx, Rowling (duh), Saint-Exupery</li>
<li>6</li>
<li>Heroes</li>
<li>folk/indie/alt</li>
<li>#3 in the state in NJ Math League.</li>
<li>Thinking that I'd be able to play varsity soccer (I made the team) and take 6 APs at the same time.</li>
<li>1</li>
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<p>Furniture tester, brilliant!</p>
<p>Haha thanks Backslash and stasis, I feel right at home</p>