<p>shockwave, you are hilarious. XD
That made you sound like a lunatic, bahaha.</p>
<p>greetings! i just found this forum and wanted to say hello to all you tasp applicants. i sent in my application a couple weeks ago and i'm REALLY nervous about being accepted. anyway, where are you all from? i'm from kalamazoo, michigan.</p>
<p>almost forgot... my name is riva :)
(hence the username)</p>
<p>Riva, I had a friend from Kalamazoo years ago, but he faked his death online and that kind of ended it for me.</p>
<p>True story. o_o;</p>
<p>Anyway, good job applying! I'm from NYC (represent!) and everyone is from a different part of the country. Which semenar was your top choice?</p>
<p>I had Cornell I followed my WashU but I am really having doubts of getting in because I rushed two of the essays at 11:00 Eastern. I didn't know the deadline was 3 Eastern, and I decided I needed sleep for SAT.</p>
<p>cornell II was my first choice. what other programs are you applying to? i'm thinking about aaja (which I just discovered 2 minutes ago!... this site is amazing) and rsi. i'm getting a ton of mail from pre-college programs, but they are sooo freaking expensive. just another reason tasp seems amazing.</p>
<p>haha what's ajja and rsi?</p>
<p>aaja is a journalism camp. rsi is the research science institute (through the national institute of health), basically doing research. both of them are free, but idk if rsi provides boarding.</p>
<p>Hey, everybody. I've been trying to stay away from this thread, because obsessing over TASP was just killing me. After I submitted, I slept for 17 hours. (!) I cried a lot, too. I normally am a lot more type B than this. I hated my essays when I turned them in, but now that I'm a week removed from that insanity, I decided to read them over and they aren't that bad. I've posted my topics a couple of times before, but since they changed, again, here you are:</p>
<p>Critnal: On a Theodore Roethke poem. I'm happy with the selection; I fell in love with the first line: "I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils". Wow! I'm pretty sure I f-ed up all my quotation marks, though, and didn't elaborate enough on my argument.</p>
<p>Topic of choice: Tao and the manifestation of emptiness (still). A big worry is that it sounds pretentious. I might have gone a little overboard on metaphors as well. My biggest worry of all is that the Tao involves paradoxes, and during the interview stage, if I make it there, they'll be trying to get me to contradict myself, which is very easy to do when one is talking about the dualistic nature of the universe.</p>
<p>Conflict essay (CRINGE): Wrote on racial tensions between Native Americans and whites in my hometown and me feeling caught in the middle of it.It has major syntax issues and is 3/4 of a page long. Plus, it's cheeseball, but it's hard to escape that with the prompt. My least favorite.</p>
<p>Educational objectives: This paper will probably be the most revealing about my beliefs. I could draw fire for it, though, because my ideas about education are somewhat unconvential, and I take a slightly confrontational tone.
Also, I didn't know how else to end my projected education but with my death. The writing, once again, is a little rough.</p>
<p>Booklist: My categories: Anthologies, Children's Books I Refuse to Outgrow, Fantastic/Horror Fiction, Mysteries, Nonfiction, Humor/On Pop Culture, Periodical, Philosophy/ "Self-Help", Realistic Fiction, and Trivia, with number of titles under each heading ranging from 1 to 17. I almost included the heading Unintentionally Humorous Erotica, but I decided it wasn't that representative of what I read overall (I only listed selected titles, so each heading carries some weight).</p>
<p>Rankings: Haven't changed, but I'll list them again, for the hell of it>
Cornell II
St. Louis
Cornell I
Texas
Don't want Michigan</p>
<p>I was a little worried that writing about race might make them think I was Michigan-inclined. However, I decided that it was more important to write about something that I felt passionate about. My main issue with Michigan is the American Studies part.</p>
<p>And I'm already obsessing again.</p>
<p>Linkdeek! Essay orgy me! In other words, email me your essays (unless you feel uncomfortable doing it, of course).</p>
<p>I like reading this type of thing.</p>
<p>P.S. - Our TASP Specs chat last night was NUTS. I'm sorry I disappeared. My AIM died and everything died and then I fell asleep.</p>
<p>Hi to everyone again! Congrats on submitting! (Btw, I hope that the people who were having troubles with their apps got it all worked out.) For my ranking, I put</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell II</li>
<li>UT Austin</li>
<li>Cornell I</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>WashU</li>
</ol>
<p>It took me forever to kind of/sort of decide between Cornell II and UT Austin. :P Anyway, gl! We just have to wait now. :)</p>
<p>musechick, I'll essay orgy you (haha) if you pm me your email. :)</p>
<p>^aida = <a href="mailto:gozni38@hotmail.com">gozni38@hotmail.com</a></p>
<p>but be careful! she might be your interviewer! =O
hahahaha, juuuust kiiidding. (but not really if you live in pr. lmao.)</p>
<p>hahaha uh-ohhh... it's a good thing i live in the midwest. :) (or is it?) thx roamorse.</p>
<p>lol, aida would be a wonderful interviewer.</p>
<p>She would.</p>
<p>I'm stressing about my future plans essay, eespecially after reading yours, Susan. Actually, both that and my book list. My future plans was a simple, half-page account of going to college, probably getting a Ph.D, then becoming either a historian or businesswoman. Or a jeweler, which is a "forbidden career." Then for my book list I picked a tiny sample of what I had read and wrote my impressions on them. It was just a page. I wrote about books from the classics (P&P) to the trash (Hokkaido Popsicle, though it's really good) and the bizarre (Coin Locker Babies....what a mind trip.)</p>
<p>And the rest of you went all philosophical. Eek.</p>
<p>Hmmmm, my book list was just an ordinary list. No categories at all. And my future essay certainly wasn't as narrative as Susan's.
Conclusion: I think we all did this a little bit differently, iriseyes, so I don't think variations in our interpretation of the prompt will hurt us. I wouldn't "eek" about it :D</p>
<p>Can I read essays from anyone who's gotten in before? Just want to see what calibur our essays are expected to be at..</p>
<p>aim=zachsta830</p>
<p>btw, taspers--where are you guys applying besides tasp?</p>
<p>NJ Gov school of the Arts</p>
<p>LOL. I'm flattered you like my username, guys...:)
For those of you who couldn't submit...
Immediately after posting on this forum, I called Telluride. A wonderful lady for whose existence I will be eternally grateful picked up the phone, and she let my application through! The only problem is, I haven't gotten a confirmation email yet...So I'll probably call again tomorrow, just to make sure something weird hasn't happened again.
The point is, just call and explain your situation. The people at Telluride will understand.
However, I really don't think they'll understand my second essay. I wrote it in ten minutes :(. I even forgot to save it on my computer, so I don't even know how bad it was. It was only about a page long, though. :(.
Ah, well. I liked the rest of my essays...I'm rambling.</p>
<p>Sheep (I just love doing this.)</p>