<p>haha. How many of you are being unnecessarily obsessive about your answers in the quick take section?</p>
<p>I mean, you want to pick an impressive quote for the "favorite quote" question. But you don't want to be obvious by picking Emerson or Thoreau or something. You gotta go for something you actually like, but is still somewhat pretentious. ahaa. I think I'm going for some James Joyce. :D</p>
<p>Hahah I picked a quote from The Office. Good ol' Michael Scott. Gotta love him.</p>
<p>Haha what quote?</p>
<p>The quick take answers need not be super serious and they are not judged. They're just there to give both the applicants and admission readers a break from the seriousness of the other stuff. They even read out some of the funnier and more original answers in the auditorium at the Explore sessions for accepted students.
For the quote though, just choose one that has some meaning to you, whether profound or light hearted.</p>
<p>Oh I know they don't seriously consider the Quick Takes. I was mostly just joking about how I can't really help but obsess over them. I've been obsessing about this application for so long that I'm even overanalyzing the simple, irrelevant parts.</p>
<p>AhoyArielle: "Do I want to be feared or loved? Um...easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."</p>
<p>I can't figure out what to do for my leisure activity though...I'm debating referencing Guitar Hero.</p>
<p>That's an excellent quote.<br>
For my leisure activity I considered saying, "Late night In-n-Out runs with my friends." Because I seriously do that just about every weekend.</p>
<p>What if I sent this in?</p>
<p>*Three words to describe yourself: intelligent, motivated, and awesome.</p>
<p>*Favorite leisure activity: Late night runs to In-n-Out fer sum burgerzz. </p>
<p>*Role model: My mommy?</p>
<p>*Favorite musical performer/band/composer: Iron Maiden </p>
<p>*Most prized possession: My pulitzer prize, ya know.</p>
<p>*Favorite food: "Shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes..."</p>
<p>*Last book you read for pleasure: World War Z: The Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks</p>
<p>*Best movie of all time: Beverly Hills Chihuahua</p>
<p>*Favorite quote: "You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and youre going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you." - Bill Murray as Herman Blume in Rushmore </p>
<p>^I thought that was painfully ironic.</p>
<p>*Dream job: Hustler</p>
<p>I actually might use some of those answers. heh.</p>
<p>I originally had a quote from fight club.... which to be sounded like a grab hold of the moment and just do it kind of thing... but someone pointed out to me that it sounded quite pessemisitic it was "on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone becomes zero" or something along those lines... so I changed it... found another quote which sounded just as good and that i liked just as much... but I obsessed over my entire appliction... so didn't make much of a difference which section it was</p>
<p>I JUST SUBMITTED MY APPLICATION YESS.
My life is already so much better now that this is over. All my applications are now submitted. All I have to do now is wait.</p>
<p>By the way, my fav quote ended up being: “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” - James Joyce
And that actually is one of my favorite quotes. So yay? I really did want to use that Rushmore quote, though. It's so perfect.</p>
<p>haha
feel good?
I still have two more to do... one is technically finished I just need to get off my butt and go to the post office!</p>
<p>Hahah I SO wish I could've said In-N-Out runs - I absolutely love that place, but alas, I'm quite far away here in MA. </p>
<p>My favorite leisure activity was:
"Melting the hearts of men with my impressive Guitar Hero Skills."</p>
<p>I put a quote from Mark Twain...</p>
<p>All I can tell you is that last year someone got in who said that his role model was McLovin'. Really. (Parents were told about this in a speech during an accepted students weekend.)</p>
<p>All I remember from my application was that for my three words, I put "succinct." It was read at Explore and I was really happy, haha.</p>
<p>somebody else wrote "deserving of admission"</p>
<p>thats cute...</p>
<p>my favorite foods make me sounds a little weird... or a health nut: chickpeas, beetroot and avocado...</p>
<p>haha, i took the short answer quite seriously
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<p>"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones." -Lord Chesterfield</p>