i literally could not be more anxious for tomorrow so i figured i’d join in to take my mind off of it!
Your favorite book and its author: No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Your favorite movie: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Your favorite website: WordReference.com
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Kindhearted and driven
Your favorite recording: “Defying Gravity” from the Wicked Original Broadway Cast Recording
Your favorite keepsake or memento: A Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal that I’ve had since birth
Your favorite source of inspiration: Blank manuscript paper and a piano
Your favorite word: Deodorant
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.” - About Time
Your favorite book and its author: “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac
Your favorite movie: “Summer Palace”, a 2006 Chinese Film directed by Lou Ye
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Blazing, perceptive
Your favorite recording: “The Dark Side of the Moon”, a 1973 studio album by Pink Floyd
Your favorite keepsake or memento: A handwritten page of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mad Girl’s Love Song”, given to me as a birthday gift by a friend
Your favorite source of inspiration: Modern Art
Your favorite word: Anthropomorphic
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “…because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles…”, from the novel “On the Road”
I’m so relieved many people’s quotes are from their favorite book. People told me it was a mistake but I liked the quote and book too much to change it. Not that it really matters overall but its the little comforts
yooooo @AnthropoLusion I see you with the Beat Generation literature! Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Kesey, and the rest of the gang are super hip! Nice choice!
My graded essay is actually a research paper that I did on the Beat Generation, 1950s suburbia, and Bebop Jazz!
@Robotics2001 It’s nice to see FRC people on the Princeton thread! I feel like most people apply to schools more specifically known for engineering, like MIT and CalTech. My team’s been pretty impactful to me, so some of my application was just me going on about robots.
Good luck to everyone tomorrow! Unlike other forums, scrolling through this forum and reading your favorites(rather than stats) are surprisingly destressing
Your favorite book and its author: The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt
Your favorite movie: The Cove
Your favorite website: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Peppy and understanding
Your favorite recording: “Fly Me to the Moon” cover by Olivia Ong
Your favorite keepsake or memento: Red envelopes from Chinese New Year with hand written notes by my grandparents. Red envelopes are a way for my family in China to pass on new year wishes to me in the US.
Your favorite source of inspiration: The weekly long-distance phone calls that I have with my family. It reminds me that I am sacrificing the time I could spend with my family to take advantage of the educational opportunities in the US.
Your favorite word: serendipity
Your favorite line from a movie or book and its title: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” Winnie-the-Pooh
I self studied BC while taking Precalculus got a 5 and skipped to MV, ODE, LinAlg, and Complex Analysis does that help A LOT or it just like “you have more math classes so that’s good” type of thing
Seeing everyone post their favorites is actually pretty calming! Here are mine:
Favorite book and author: Far From the Tree - Andrew Solomon
Favorite movie: Hidden Figures
Favorite website: www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/book-statues
Two adjectives: Passionate, strong-willed
Favorite recording: It’s Been a Long, Long Time - Helen Forrest and Harry James
Keepsake/memento: Encouraging letter written by a friend while I was going through a rough time
Favorite source of inspiration: Katherine Johnson
Favorite word: Spaghettification
Favorite line from movie or book: “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.” - The Song of Achilles
here from the yale 2023 thread… good luck to everyone! no matter what happens today, you are all going to do incredible things just because of who you are, not because of the school that accepts you. you guys got this!!
Wow, I can’t believe we find out today! I remember submitting my application and thinking, “Gosh, it’s going to take forever until these Princeton decisions come out.”
These past few months have surely been quite the journey! I’m so glad that we were able to bring life to this college process through humor and honest input. As we open our decisions today in less than 10 hours, I hope we note that today’s decision won’t necessarily reflect the quality of us as applicants, but rather Princeton’s (near random!) selection of who they believe would make a great fit…while keeping in mind that they need to admit 1,000 or so applicants RD!
I hope we all hear great news! If this won’t come today, I assure you it will come in March.
