Princeton Quick Takes

Hey guys! I just recently submitted my app and the deadline is gonna pass soon. Just for fun and my curiosity…what did you guys put for your quick takes? :stuck_out_tongue:

Here are mine:
Your favorite book and its author: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Your favorite movie: Jurassic Park
Your favorite website: google.com
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: dedicated, meticulous
Your favorite recording: “Electric Love” by BØRNS
Your favorite keepsake or memento: Sketchbooks from middle school
Your favorite source of inspiration: Internet
Your favorite word: chocolate
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “I don’t like food. I LOVE it.” - from the movie Ratatouille

A template for y’all if needed (delete the spaces before you post):
[ b]Your favorite book and its author:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite movie:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite website:[ /b]
[ b]Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite recording:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite keepsake or memento:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite source of inspiration:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite word:[ /b]
[ b]Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title:[ /b]

Your favorite book and its author: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Your favorite movie: Les Miserables (2012)
Your favorite website: XKCD
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: confident, quirky
Your favorite recording: House of Gold by 21 Pilots
Your favorite keepsake or memento: Camp counselor ID
Your favorite source of inspiration: Rocket Launches
Your favorite word: Bombastic
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “Surely you can’t be serious!?” “I am, and don’t call me Shirley!” - Airplane!

Your favorite book and its author: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Your favorite movie: Do the Right Thing
Your favorite website: XKCD
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Self-driven, goofy
Your favorite recording: This may be cheating, but the video / audio recording of 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps" performed by Prince, Tom Petty, and company at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Prince’s performance is confident and sensational - the best part of the whole thing.
Your favorite keepsake or memento: A paper crane that my best friend gave me the day before he moved to Georgia; I still keep it in my wallet at all times.
Your favorite source of inspiration: Marvel Comics
Your favorite word: Gruntled
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “I don’t have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan.” - The Breakfast Club

none of this will matter because i accidentally used the wrong tense for a verb in one of my essays :))))

Your favorite book and its author: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
**Your favorite movie: **How to Train Your Dragon
Your favorite website: youtube.com
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: earnest, tall
Your favorite recording: Roar by Katy Perry
Your favorite keepsake or memento: A picture of my dad from the 80s
Your favorite source of inspiration: Music
Your favorite word: Optimism
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: I forgot what I said for this…

**Your favorite book and its author:**The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
**Your favorite movie:**Interstellar
Your favorite website: Xkcd (guess I’m not the only one who put this :-p )
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: exuberant, versatile
**Your favorite recording:**grissini project’s rendition of ‘no time for caution’ from Interstellar
Your favorite keepsake or memento: too personal. I’d rather not mention it here
Your favorite source of inspiration: the children that I teach through my organization
Your favorite word: serendipity
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: something from interstellar

Your favorite book and its author: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Your favorite movie: There Will be Blood
Your favorite website: westeros.org
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: lighthearted, witty
Your favorite recording: Mountain Sound by Of Monsters and Men
Your favorite keepsake or memento: first Chess board
Your favorite source of inspiration: the album “The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place” by Explosions in the Sky
Your favorite word: Ethereal
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.” George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings.

Darn, and I thought XKCD was so original… :wink:

@anotherdude Emperor of all Maladies is my favorite book too! what a coincidence. it’s such a great read

@azhang40 Finally another person who has read the book too! I agree, it’s an amazing book