<p>Honestly why on earth do they want me to base my essay on a quote? Please could someone give me 1 good reason so that I don't sit here procrastinating, annoyed at Princeton because I can't use my Yale and Harvard supp essay again.... (Oh for those open topics...)</p>
<p>I’m sure you can find a quote that you could tie to an essay you’d like to use.</p>
<p>Yeah, but that is my problem with the “essay based on quote” system they have. No-one sees a quote and thinks ‘Hey let’s essay this s*** up’. Everyone will just write the essay and the ‘quote the s*** up’.</p>
<p>I probably could, but don’t have many books with me atm so will just need to google for an hour or so.</p>
<p>Later :)</p>
<p>Because here at Princeton we care a lot about tying things we write to relevant pieces of the literary cannon of civilization, as opposed to Harvard and Yale where apparently you can just write ******** that comes out of your butt and has no relevance whatsoever to previously published works.</p>
<p>That being said, I think you should just make up a random quote that relates to your essay.</p>
<p>haha, dude google quotes! You’d be surprised what comes up! </p>
<p>I guess I was lucky because a quote from a Shakespeare Play that I was a lead on fit perfectly with my essay. :)</p>
<p>Or, you could take the easy way out like me and write about someone who’s influenced you.</p>
<p>Or your Harvard and Yale supp could plug nicely in that Woodrow Wilson (racist a$$hole, btw) quote. :D</p>
<p>^^ I would have to write A WHOLE NEW ESSAY then!!! </p>
<p>Gawd D****t how much more do they want from me! (and honestly, no idea who has influenced me?)</p>
<p>Still haven’t looked for the quote.</p>
<p>I lucked out… I found a quote from my favorite book that fit perfectly. I was so happy after hopelessly searching the Internet for 30 minutes lol</p>
<p>Oh boo hoo Princeton wants me to find a single 2 line quote. So hard.</p>
<p>^ exclamation marks quite often signal sarcasm.</p>
<p>Like; “What an intelligent post above me!!!”</p>
<p>Edit: If there is more than 1 exclamation mark it is almost certainly sarcasm so 9 following capitalised words should have alerted you to something.</p>
<p>I wish Princeton provided the following quotes to base our essay on…
“Boo, you whore.” -Mean Girls</p>
<p>“I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school… I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy…” -Mean Girls</p>
<p>I think they would get some interesting essays</p>
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He is wrong. You should be upset about having to write about a quote.</p>
<p>oh yeah…</p>
<p>!!!</p>
<p>@french:
“she doesn’t even go here!”
I thought about mean girls… After all it’s an american classic, right? Lol
except I wanted to use… “oh my god Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re white!”</p>
<p>^^Hahahah I LOVE Mean Girls!! That is the best movie–so many wonderful quotes. I wish we could’ve used a quote from a film! It would be something different, I will say!</p>