<p>Hi, just interested on what everyone's Stanford essay is about. It shouldn't be much of a security risk since the applications were due yesterday.</p>
<p>Here let me start off:</p>
<p>Outside Activity Essay or Activity for Fun Essay:
Talked about my participation in the First Robotics Competition and what I learned</p>
<p>Intellectual Essay:
Talked about how I lead a team during another scientific competition. And how I applied what I had learnt from Robotics. It sort of works together with my outside activities essay.</p>
<p>Roommate Essay:
I discussed how I became independent in my early stay in America</p>
<p>11A: discuss a quote, a state... that really impacted you
Finally, I used "the end justifies the means" I talked about how it works to a limited degree. I stated my in America as an example and used college application and my passion as a closer.</p>
<p>whew, now that's over. what is everyone else's topics for their essays and what do you guys think of mine?</p>
<p>Well, I think any topic can be done well. I know someone who compared himself to one of the muppets in his yale essay, and got in.</p>
<p>That said, it seems like you wrote what you know, that your essays resonate with part of who you are. </p>
<p>For the long essay, I approached it a different way. In 11b, you're prompted to talk about a picture you would like to have, and why it's meaningful to you. I just took an experience I wanted to immortalize (no I didn't use that word), and described a picture of a certain piece of that moment. I wrote about my 5-year-old sisters birth. </p>
<p>Outside activity:
What I feel my internship with a nonprofit car-reduction organization is doing, on a larger scale. And no, it didn't come out as jumbled as that last sentence.</p>
<p>Intellectual Essay:
How my academic motivations were tested by going to an alternative high school.</p>
<p>Roomate:
This one has a story behind it. I couldn't figure out just what I wanted to do for this essay, and I hadn't written it thursday. I live in Seattle, and thursday we had some serious weather, knocking out power to nearly a million people up here. I decided to do it on bicycling the eight miles to school in a peapod costume (true story), but couldn't start it because of the weather until 7 pm yesterday. It it really wasn't a note to a roomate, but it is something I could see myself sharing, so I hope it's all right. I freaked out about the submission deadline, since on the website it says it's due dec. 15th eastern time (it's pacific, by the way).</p>
<p>Well, there you are. I've got to get to work, good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>Outside Activity Essay or Activity for Fun Essay:
I talked about what I learned from policy debate over the years.</p>
<p>Intellectual Essay:
For me this essay was about the joy I got from creation.</p>
<p>Roommate Essay:
Mine was about the importance I attached to a second-place trophy (It might sound superficial, but the essays about the effort behind the item rather than the item itself).</p>
<p>11A: My quote dealt with mistakes and their artistic potential. I talked about how I grew by allowing myself to make mistakes: "Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."</p>
<p>Outside Activity Essay or Activity for Fun Essay:
Talked about piano, but in an unique approach ;]</p>
<p>Intellectual Essay:
Talked about my intern at stanford</p>
<p>Roommate Essay:
Talked about my love for math, and how I am really social. yeah i managed to incoporate them into one!! hhaha</p>
<p>11B: picture, it was really bad...talked about shoes of all things. unique, but wasn't really "deep"</p>
<p>got deferred :/</p>
<p>Isn't 11A the picture while 11B the quote?</p>
<p>I just checked the application and this is correct. You people nearly scared my heart out of me.</p>