<p>Well who would you consider an intellect?! We've had no Einstein's lately!</p>
<p>Noam Chomsky? Or Peter Singer? Or Steven Pinker? Or the lady in Burma who wants human rights?</p>
<p>Ok, there is now a thread in all the obnoxious ivies.</p>
<p>maybe I'll write about Jean-Paul Sartre. He appeals to the French in me.</p>
<p>That's hot. Really. Sartre is freakin' awesome. Don't tell me you're existentialist to boot.</p>
<p>Oh baby, talk existentialist to me ;)</p>
<p>indeed I am. I have an academic crush on philosophy.</p>
<p>Haha, here's something from the UChi forums you might find interesting then: "our parties can be kind of a mind*<strong><em>, if you're not used to them. i have seen drunk </em></strong>**s come to blows over passages in nietzsche. at most schools, the drunk guys just grope you. here they corner you and start reciting prufrock. it's a weird scene."</p>
<p>damn..maybe I SHOULD have applied to UChi. A friend of mine goes to columbia and he does drunk calls on the bias of herodotus and the background of brandenburg v ohio.</p>
<p>i think people like..this / us belong in ivy / ivy-like schools so we dont get beat up / groped at normal schools.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah. Well, I don't have to worry about being groped. You're the one that looks good in a bikini. Although I have heard very good things about Penn parties.</p>
<p>...havent we all.</p>
<p>Yeah. We're definitely the coolest Ivy.</p>
<p>I'm scared my Wake essayS are going to come off as hella pretentious.</p>
<p>Why? What did you say?</p>
<p>Well one was about academic passions and I wrote about my love for politics and how I like reading locke and hobbes and machiavella. and jon stewart.</p>
<p>another one was about the greatest challenge of our generation and i ranted about apathy and the burden of knowledge.</p>
<p>then it was "Me! In 50 words or less!' and I talked about my love of Greek philosophy, Roman history, Audrey Hepburn and 80's music.</p>
<p>And now its Sartre. </p>
<p>Plus lots of United Nations references scattered throughout.</p>
<p>Maybe I DO have ADD</p>
<p>Hmmm, I don't think it'll seem pretentious. It depends on the tone of the essay. I think the greatest challenge one is the riskiest.</p>
<p>I feel like a jerkface writing about how existentialism has basically been embraced and embodied by our generation. Who writes that stuff?!</p>
<p>Honestly. People who belong at UChi.</p>
<p>If You Like UChi So Much, Why Dont You Marry It?!</p>
<p>oh. and I also write about how I have recently read 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and found it englightening.</p>
<p>Hahahahaha. Amusingly enough, UChi has the highest alumni marriage rate of any american university. And yeah, you're either going to show them you're brilliant. Or come off as obnoxious. It's a calculated risk.</p>
<p>Calculated or not, I love that book. That and a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Love as in my personal copies are highlighted to death, have notes all in the margins and are dog-eared.</p>
<p>good literature makes me swoon.</p>