I'd rather be done

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<p>They'd like to be removed from the guilt.</p>

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<p>For all we you know, someone is reading your application right now and thinking "ugh....moron".</p>

<p>This was my biggest fear when applying- not that I'd be rejected but that the admissions officer would think very little of me.</p>

<p>I read an ex-duke admissions officer's memoirs about her time working in admissions, and there was a frighteningly large number of applicants whom she thought were pretty mixed up....like the countless applicants who wrote of Gatsby as their hero.
eeek</p>

<p>....no good can come of this.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I've got to say, Gatsy as an ideal to live up to is frankly quite scary... Talk about totally misreading a character. That's nearly as bad as admiring Ethan Frome or some other such miserable character-- about the only things Gatsby truly had going for himself were his industriousness and his optimism.</p>

<p>Wow, those poor admissions officers, though. What a miserable job-- I'd hate to hold someone's dream in my hands.</p>

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<p>Hahahaha, my gf calls me Gatsby. We're both well-aware that he's not a hero. It's scarily fitting though.</p>

<p>And kelsiface, yeah, that'd be unnerving. Or exhilarating. Depends how you feel about wielding absolute power.</p>

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<p>I wield absolute power.</p>

<p>It's DELICIOUS.</p>

<p>MWAHAHAHAHA</p>

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<p>Total Control. . .</p>

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<p>Delicious?</p>

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<p>oh you heard me!</p>

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<p>I'd like to hear more...</p>

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<p>"I'd rather be done with life."</p>

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<p>I actually said in my application that I fancy Snape from Harry Potter because he is the most complex character and that he is played so well by Alan Rickman. The Un-Common App lets one really shine their personality, i think.</p>

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<p>I missed the part about the primates. I actually got bitten by one of those unfortunate creatures when i lived in India (and a squirrel and a dog).
Oh well, life goes on.</p>

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<p>I've seen squirrels attack dogs. </p>

<p>(pause for 1..2...) </p>

<p>....so I joined in.</p>

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<p>A few lines from my personal essay: </p>

<p>Even if I wasn’t the first to read the classics
I could cull new meaning from Fitzgerald
Teach or give lectures
On these “findings.”
Yes that’s me; I find meanings in the ordinary.</p>

<p>My Whitman interviewer said that he reads a lot of analytic essays on Gatsby, that he thinks that students can still generate creative interpretations and construct delicate arguments. (They require a graded piece). I told him, essentially, to shove it, and that saying he would rather read that than a creative piece or a not-so-mainstream analytically sound piece was frankly offensive. Then I didn't apply.</p>

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<p>Did you apply to Reed?</p>

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<p>Yes I did. I sent them a term paper, though, as with Swarthmore, because my personal statement was creative and I felt that if I bombarded with another "creative" piece I would come off as unable to string together coherent sentences.</p>