<p>For my favorite website I put Wikipedia.</p>
<p>I chose this (as I would say to an interviewer) because it is one of the greatest depositories of human knowledge. It is the actual equivilent of of the fictional Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It has done to general human knowledge what the Gutenburg press did to the written word.</p>
<p>What do you think of this?</p>
<p>I was considering wikipedia too, I completely agree with you on the above. My other option was google. My only concern is that both of them are too common? That, or wiki sounded a little pretentious. I mean, like I’m trying too hard to impress them. But I guess if your application brings out you are intellectually curious and love learning, wikipedia would be a fine fit there?</p>
<p>I thought it was a bit pretentious too, but given its height of popularity and the amount of people who use it, there is bound to be cross-overs of interest for it. </p>
<p>It is like Facebook, given many people use it, MANY people are obssesed with it. It is like disavowing any particular thing just because a lot of people use it. i.e. the iPod, A&F, or even a particular brand of guitars.</p>
<p>But I’m biased, I used to read encyclopedias for fun when I was little, then I found out about wikipedia. To me it was like being lost in a virtual candy land. My experiances are best summerized by this
<a href=“http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png[/img]”>http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png
</a></p>
<p>Stop worrying. Put down what is actually your favorite website. If you don’t, you’re lying and that’s a pretty bad precedent to set.</p>
<p>They’re not looking for particular answers. They’re looking for honest ones.</p>
<p>I said dictionary.com :p</p>
<p>Definitely Google for me. I Google everything. If not Google, than this site: D</p>
<p>You could also kiss major @ss by saying [Princeton</a> University - Welcome](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu%5DPrinceton”>http://www.princeton.edu)</p>
<p>^ lol</p>
<p>you could’ve been like
“harvard.edu…because it convinced me to go to Princeton!”</p>
<p>^ BEST.ANSWER.EVER.</p>
<p>@Shnead I LOVE THAT COMIC. It’s one of those many xkcd moments where you feel the artist has taken the plot RIGHT OUT OF YOUR BRAIN.</p>
<p>EDIT: Should just put xkcd.com in.</p>
<p>Well, its better than putting encyclopedia dramatica…</p>
<p>I might almost go out of my way just to get a really creative website that I go to, not necessarily the most common one.</p>
<p>Oh goodness, I already applied and I put “Google”… so common! And cliche, but it’s true.</p>
<p>How about the Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling tumblr? Or the feminist Ryan Gosling tumblr? Would that be bad?</p>
<p>Really overdone answer choices:
wikipedia.org, google.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, **********, yahoo.com.</p>
<p>But hey if you love the site just be honest.</p>
<p>Truth is fine, but so is something that is more revealing. I might spend most of my time on Facebook, but that wouldn’t have told the adcoms as much as The Sartorialist, which I put and on which I spend a great deal of time.</p>
<p>In other words, Facebook, Google, and Wikipedia are all totally fine. But you have limited space on an app, and you might want to put down a more revealing (though by no means false) second or third favorite.</p>
<p>sporcle.com :)</p>
<p>I put pandora! I love that site :)</p>
<p>theonion.com :)</p>
<p>I almost put Wikipedia, but I ended up putting Marginal Revolution:
[Marginal</a> Revolution ? Small steps toward a much better world.](<a href=“http://marginalrevolution.com/]Marginal”>http://marginalrevolution.com/)</p>
<p>i put silverfishlongboarding, cause I love making longboards!</p>
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