<p>Wow! I can’t believe no one’s asked this one yet. I must be incredibly obtuse. Anyways, in this topic, what exactly does your autobiography have to be? As in, a fictional autobiography that you’re supposed to be writing at 70 or whatever (you know… something about pg, 217 being a stage in your future, highlighting your career goals and stuff) or a true one which limits itself to the incidents in your life up till now?</p>
<p>anything you want....</p>
<p>I have a friend doing the former and I am doing the latter. Either works.</p>
<p>its open-ended so u can just do whatever u please</p>
<p>its openended but i hate it when people do their life up to this point. 17 years of your life shouldnt cover 217 pages in an 300 page autobiography AT ALL.</p>
<p>Well, I guess you haven't really lived life to the fullest then, have you, chocoman?</p>
<p>But then, won't the whole thing seem awfully fake? As in, it isn't really an honest potrayal of yourself then is it, if you write it the other way - as in in the future?</p>
<p>I've lived life to the fullest... its just a sickening thought though if I'm 60, writing an autobiography and the first 17 years of my life takes up 2/3 of it.</p>
<p>yeah. u make it up. so?</p>
<p>i did a day at penn, and like so, lets say i wrote my autobiography when i was 35 or something.</p>
<p>Aaah... okay, I get it now. Whatever you think would be important to you. Coolies. Thanks a lot. :)</p>
<p>my friend is just saying he died on page 200, and not doing it.</p>
<p>Clever friend. Sometimes that works.</p>
<p>The 217 as I interpreted it was where you see yourself at the peak of your career, maybe how Penn's opportunities helped you achieve your vision.</p>
<p>haha vas_natarajan that's funny. Does he really want to go to penn?</p>
<p>johnnk thats an awesome interpretation...</p>
<p>Brave friend. Reminds me of this stunt a guy in my school pulled. There was an essay where you had to talk about courage, like what was the most courageous thing you did, and he sent in a blank sheet with just the words "this" on it. LOL. Got into Yale too. Although maybe that was just cuz' of his amazing grades and ECs.</p>
<p>oh jeebus that is crazy.
i think either way works first of all
doing 217 of your entire life shows what type of ambitions you have
doing 217 of your up-to-current life shows what accomplishments you have already</p>
<p>Interesting story one of my floormates here at The College of New Jersey told me.
When he went touring one of his adcoms talked about the page 217 of the autobiography essay and how some kid asked the guy for an extension. The adcom asked why the kid needed the extension and the kid replied by saying that he was only on page 200 on his autobiography... </p>
<p>Personally I have trouble believing the story because no kid could be that obtuse and be applying to Penn... but then again I could be wrong.</p>
<p>hahahahaaaaaaaaa that is so funny!</p>
<p>omg that IS hilarious. i hope he didn't get in.</p>
<p>i read the question as "you have just completed your 300-page autobiography", saying that just now, at age 17 (16 for me) you finished your 300 page autobiography. then i started thinking about what i could write...and, with so much that COULD be said, i actually did a proportion to figure out WHERE 217 would have coincided with my actual 16 years, and ended up somewhere around March of junior year. then I went into my Livejournal (almost every day, i write up all the funny things that happen to me...and surprisngly i have like 100 daily readers, some of which i've never even spoken to) to see what happened in March of junior year, and i found this really funny entry about a trip to my great-grandma's house where my grandpa, for the millionth time, suggested a really AWFUL possible career for me. and - tada! i wrote about my grandpa, reading his autobiography which helped me understand him, and comparing it to my own livejournal: both of us only write the good/happy stuff and years from now can go back and relive the memories we preserved...</p>
<p>bluirinka, i took the question as a 300 p autobio of my 17 years, and wrote abotu something that happened last year; i wasn't sure if they wanted things about when i was 40 or not, so i went through some books, and a lot of books, at the top of them, they say the title and page, so i typed at the top p217 and something like memories of a 17yr old;</p>