<p>Hahaha, that is an excellent point.</p>
<p>I feel so lame compared to the rest of you guys!</p>
<p>Newspaper: Editor-in-Chief and active writer since day 1 of high school
Literary Magazine: editor (for a year)
Math Team: pseudomember
Writing Seminars at local college fresh and soph years (I may have forgotten to include that on my app though)
Write a lot on the side.</p>
<p>Past two summers:
Creative writing program at UIowa
Hospital Volunteering
Intern at local newspaper-- wrote sports articles.</p>
<p>amykins - What have you written so far?</p>
<p>most recently, personal reflections that I've been flooding local newspapers with</p>
<p>lots of news and feature articles in the past...</p>
<p>some short stories, a few poems...</p>
<p>and I'm working on a novella that might get done before the Cubs win the world series.</p>
<p>Ever heard of... National Novel Writing Month? (NaNoWriMo</a>) </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>absolutely... my friend did it. It's such a cool idea, but I'm the antithesis of an efficient writer.</p>
<p>Wow - that's I definitely have to try that next year! The most I've ever written was 104 pages - and that took me four months! The only real writer that I've ever heard of, that wrote a <em>real</em> polished novel in one month, is Isaac Asimov. That man was so amazing. Anyway...I digress. Are any of you guys thinking about pursuing writing professionally - I would love being an author - although I know it's incredibly hard to break in to. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I want to know the title of the book you reference. </p>
<p>I am a writer - actually, I'm a very poor writer in that I create long rants and unwieldy sentences that spiral into long ribbons of digression. </p>
<p>However, yes... I do fancy the idea... of becoming some sort of professional in regards to that field... At the same time, I consider myself incredibly fickle and will likely pass up any required passion for the above. </p>
<p>I think you'd be slightly hard-pressed to do NaNo whilst studying at Chicago and likely your writing skills will develop significantly during your time there that your current concerns of four-month novels will have dissolved.</p>
<p>NaNo or any time limits will do you well, in regards to the somewhat apparent writer's block.</p>
<p>I have a magical oitment for writer's block</p>
<p>Spirited - as for the Asimov book I was referencing - seriously pick any of his books. The shortest time that he ever wrote a book (non-fiction) was one afternoon (eight hours), from idea to having the manuscript in the mail. The guy wrote over 500 books in his lifetime - and his writing was GOOD. Then again he was a genius. At one point he was international Vice-president of MENSA. But then he resigned because he thought the whole organisation was too snobby and pointless. </p>
<p>Argh - am I the only SF fan around here? Heinlein anyone? Clark? DeCamp? Pohl? If you haven't you've seriously missed out on some good stuff...</p>
<p>Oh and Eric - does your ointment smell like prancing unicorns and moonbeams? Because if it does I'm going to have to pass - I've already been getting some comments ever since you leant me those magical purple pumps that destroy the universe. On the other hand your business is your own. I won't pass judgement. You be who you want to be...not that there's anything wrong with that...</p>
<p>Being who I am is all I have to live for.</p>
<p>You guys probably live for it too....you know, because I'm incredible.</p>
<p>Daydreaming... </p>
<p>I once read that someone put that as an EC on their MIT application.</p>
<p>Anyway it's probably one of my most important.</p>
<p>Am I apart of those daydreams?</p>
<p>A friend of mine put "Demon Hunting" on her EC last year xD</p>
<p>Hahahaha! Omg... :) </p>
<p>Go go go Arthurian tales!</p>
<p>track, youth commission club, save darfur club, TAB, library volunteer, play lots of basketball in my free time</p>
<p>When my relative dropped her child off at the U of C for the first time, and met other parents and students, she realized that the thing practically every new U of C student had in common was that they had not only had great grades/test scores, but earned them while they were heavily committed to some other activity/activities (whatever they were.). They weren’t just “great students.” And, the ECs were closer to “passions” rather than ECs they did only to look good on college apps.</p>
<p>And, my relative who is now a second-year at U of C, has continued that at U of C, and is very involved in several ECs that the student loves.</p>
<p>The lists I’ve seen so far make me feel really small! I guess the system’s somewhat different over in Singapore (either that, or I’ve been wasting the past few years of my life).</p>
<p>Been in track and was a house captain in (the equivalent) grade 10. My high school of sorts function as a 6 year programme from grade 7 to 12.
Plenty of photography in my free time, and am in the jazz club and am the president of the students’ council currently.</p>