@california32146 Oh my god! Now I’m so much more anxious hahahahahahah
glad we know the official date now.
Who released this official date? Because I never got an email or anything.
@myskoolcool If you read a couple of posts up the page, you will see the information came from Stanford’s Twitter.
lol I’m loving seeing people’s essay topics. For historical moment, I wrote the invention of the first violin… I’m feeling more insecure about that now after seeing other’s topics bc it’s not like a huge, history-book kind of thing, but I guess it does tie into the rest of my app (I play violin).
For the what’s significant to you and why, I wrote about being an only child and how that developed creativity bc I didn’t have any siblings to play with and often had to entertain myself using imagination. Reading it again I really hope it doesn’t come off as me just being an anti-social child with no friends ahh
For my historical moment I wrote about the people who prevented the Chernobyl nuclear disaster from being far worse and how inspiring their bravery was knowing that they would receive immense amounts of radiation poisoning. For my what’s important essay I wrote about how too often we’re caught up with being right in an argument and being divided in groups (left v right, black v white, etc) and we try to overpower the other side instead of listening and trying to understand. Might have been too general and philosophic (which I kind of regret) but I’m hoping it gets my character across
@nicolasdeadman I wrote something similar for the biggest problem facing society prompt. I said the biggest problem was the concept of identity because it’s such a primal yet sophisticated idea that we have yet to know how to use. Like identity can be used for such positive things (like gay pride parades and cultural awareness) but also can create such division and exclusion (nationalism and racism). And ultimately all social problems stem back to some diversion of the value or validity of an identity.
I like the concept of using identity/polarization as essay topics, those sound good. For my biggest problem facing society essay, I wrote about people being anti-education and how it’s actually the root of so may other problems… I think my idea was good, but it’s kind of awkwardly written because I was trying to fit into the word limit. I think I was trying to go too in detail and should’ve just focused on being clear and concise on that one 
The biggest problem facing society is cyberwarfare/cybersecurity. At least that’s what I wrote about. Not very creative, I know.
Something similar: I wrote about how we’re all virtually connected but irl we are so alone
These are all great ideas, I can tell the competition is fierce 
For biggest problem I wrote about our need to become sustainable… Not just in terms of energy but also politically, socially, etc
My note to my future roommate was a little different too. I didn’t write it as an actual letter to them. I wrote and formatted it as if we were already roommates at Stanford and this was like a post-it note where I jotted down some quick reminders for them. So I had bullet points like reminding them about a protest march coming up (to show I’m politically involved) and how I was gonna fix something that broke in the dorm (to show that I’m big on engineering) and reminding them not to eat from the “weird green jar in the fridge because thats science”. I also put normal roommate stuff like remembering to water the plants and buy tp to make it kind of realistic. I also kissed up a little bit because the last bullet point was reminding my roommate to never forget how lucky we are to be at Stanford :))
Also something I’m really self conscious about: did you guys send in supplements? I called to see if I could send in my resume, university transcripts, other essays and articles, etc. But they told me that they didn’t accept outside written supplements. And one of my supplements described a very important situation that I thought the admissions office should have been aware of but they were still like “nope we don’t need it”
I think I put April 6, 1453: Mehmed II’s siege on Constantinople, where legend says the Ottomans carried ships over land to bypass Byzantine sea defense and bombarded the walls with canons (Because it would be pretty freaking cool)
I likened myself to a vampire in my roommate one lol
I have adopted pretty much a nocturnal sleep schedule where I nap throughout the evening and do homework through the night
I have VERY sensitive eyes so I always wear sunglasses/hats in the sun
I have done research and plan to continue research on blood/the cardiovascular system
Pretty far out there, but I was just having fun with it
@nerdgirl97 Metoo!!!
I think your topics sound really interesting, I would have loved to have read them. The violin one could really hit all the senses too!!
For my roommate one, I just talked about various quirks I have, like eating straight up whole bell peppers, how I hate wearing glasses so I wear contacts instead, I’m addicted to hot drinks (tea, coffee, hot cocoa) etc. Started it off by saying we all have a lot of weird-isms, one of mine being that I tend to make up words like “weird-isms”… I think I was trying to be funny lolol
@Maschinenmädchen haha really!! and thanks, I hope so 
Speaking of hot drinks I just nearly died choking on my tea 