<p>Whoa! Excellent suggestions!!! I just headed down to the library with a grocery list of books and came back almost 100% successful (Coin Locker Babies was out!). </p>
<p>Thanks Iris for Hokkaido Popsicle, GREAT SUGGESTION!!!! I just started and it's the only thing I could do to get on CC and thank you! </p>
<p>I never thought CC could be so productive??!!!!?!?!</p>
<p>P.S. I think I've, at least temporarily, cured my PTS!! So once again, thanks!</p>
<p>Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. It's daunting, but I am near conquering it, and it's well worth the struggle. My favorite quote so far (placing in my top literary quotes of all time): </p>
<p>"As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty remembering the earlier rise of heart, the sense of overture and possibility, and went back to seeking only orgasm, hallucination, stupor, sleep, to fetch them through the night and prepare them against the day."</p>
<p>Yes, it's that good. Yes, it includes names as marvelous as Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin and a "camel twader" named Al-Mar Fuad who bears striking resemblance to one Elmer Fudd. </p>
<p>After ATD, it's on to Les Chants de Maldoror, which I've heard is highly influential and disturbing. I really need to find a new Catch-22 to take the edge off of some of this stuff. Wang, you referenced Bataille earlier - are you a fan of surrealism?</p>
<p>Hopefully that didn't come off as pretentious or ingratiating.</p>
<p>Lanky don't push it.... :-P</p>
<p>I believe Wang was also making the point of. A whole lot of people read this thread. And you never know who or how they react to your posts. and a lot of times some people (me included) say things that we are not entirely conscious of. People READ and JUDGE what you write on here so just make sure you use your discretion.</p>
<p>Im not preaching as I know 80% of the time I do this, but what i am saying is realize the possible ramifications of what you write on here. If you understand and except them, as far as Im concerned write W/e you want. (Wow Im not very wise)</p>
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<p>Im not judging people but I feel like there is a sort of natural veneer that forms over all of us, especially on this site. I know all (most) of us got to where we are right now because we are naturally bright and intellectually curious people. Yet curiosity is deemed a sin in today's society, where always being judged objectively, right or wrong. Telluride is the exact opposite, to them there are some shades of gray (maybe even purple too :-P) TASP/TASS judges for character, curiosity and individuality (not to over generalize their application process.) Take advantage of this to let yourselves shine through. At the end of the day your SAT score will get you into college....And then what? You will use it as a superficial means to compare yourself to others...Till the day you die.</p>
<p>COREY RATEAU
1991-2074
URM : SAT:1245</p>
<p>I would prefer a quote of inspiration on my tombstone. </p>
<p>I know we have already applied and all but, for the lucky ones who make it to the next round, GL and like I said I don't mean to preach. But just think about it...perhaps.</p>
<p>I would have to agree with Corey here. This is an online forum. We write and speak differently; what we say here is not necessarily reflective of how we actually are in person. Things might come out in the wrong way on here since its so hard to judge tone on the internet.</p>
<p>Oh and of course, you can only edit your posts within a certain time period so that accounts for something.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's true.</p>
<p>I haven't really felt like anyone here is pretentious, honestly. Last year that was a problem but everyone has struck me as really cool, down-to-earth intellectuals.</p>
<p>What's the problem?</p>
<p>Bah. I'm an elitist prick. I'll come out and admit it.</p>
<p>im not elitist im just better than all of you...</p>
<p>XD</p>
<p>seriously tho, the most elitist/rude comment i've seen in this thread is wang's post
maybe thats cause i've only been in the tasp thread, but you all seem pretty chill to me</p>
<p>offensive posts? I don't see any :/. Maybe me?</p>
<p>I hope I'm not the offensive one? I was just giving an honest criticism of what I thought An Inconvenient Truth was...not making it directed at anyone. Of course, I then have to start a debate about it. LOL...me, always one to start up a fight!</p>
<p>We're all friends, right??</p>
<p>I'm with Nate. Everything seemed fine until wang came along.</p>
<p>Bleh.</p>
<p>On a different note, I believe that every school should require its students to watch Little Miss Sunshine. It changed my life!</p>
<p>iriseyes - I know, isn't it great? Plus, it's won the Producers' Guild and Screen Actors' Guild awards for best feature, which bodes well for Oscar night.</p>
<p>Thank god. Classy movies like that only come around once in a blue moon.</p>
<p>OH DEAR. I have a horror story to tell you. I was talking to the teacher who wrote my rec (awsome lady, Swarthmore undergrad and Yale Ph.D in philosophy, funny, SMART and a great teacher with a really intelligent kid...he's only two and the other day he said "The dinosaur bird flies," in response to a perydactyl. =O) and she said that she had applied to TASP back in the 70's or whatever...and was denied.</p>
<p>Eeeeeeeeeeee........ >_>;;;</p>
<p>only goes to show that if you don't get in, you won't be immediately relegated to a life of dumpster-diving.</p>
<p>lol, true that.</p>
<p>what was wang trying to tell us? Be careful of what you say because the admissions committee might see? Huh?
sooo confused....</p>
<p>My topics:</p>
<p>Critical Analysis - oh dont want to talk about it
Issue - stereotyping
Conflict - a sports scenario, reflected leadership/teamwork skills
future essays - boring, what i want to do when i grow up, no creative details or formatting
Book list - incredibly sparse
rankings - said how i loved cornell II and just wrote some random rubbish on the other ones.</p>
<p>lol. 1 month guys!</p>
<p>Haha I'm right there with you dandelion concerning the book list. I feel really really REALLY underread compared to all the other TASPlicants. Meh I ought to read more. Thats great how everyone's been giving recommendations; I'm just sitting here thinking "Wow, I gotta read that, and that, and that, and that..."</p>
<p>Ahhhh 1 month.</p>
<p>Haha, TASPlicants. That made me smile. :)</p>
<p>Sideways should have won Best Picture of 2004; The New World should have won for 2005; as for this year, I haven't seen Babel, and I'm tempted to support Little Miss Sunshine just for the novelty of seeing a comedy actually win, but really, stop teasing the great man and just give it to Martin, for once. Thank you academy voters. </p>
<p>Also why hasn't Steve Martin hosted since 2003??? Seeing him make fun of Russel Crowe live, with Russel Crowe giving him the "I'm going to kick the living **** out of you," look back at him was one of the highlights of my tv watching career. He's also a great writer....!</p>