<p>hahahaha! </p>
<p>anyways, my pm box is full, so i'll email all of those who asked tomorrow and thank you, dandelion.</p>
<p>How can so many people want her essays. I dont know about you but im droping Aidaism, that was so 2006... Veganolicism= The new craze.</p>
<p>I'll convert. Because I've seen her essays, but not Aida's.</p>
<p>So I was chugging along on my essays and all of a sudden I get this overwhelming feeling of doubt. What if my essays are too cliche? What if they're not "deep"? What if whoever reads them thinks my style is tacky? </p>
<p>Does anyone else get these whirlwinds of sudden emotion?? I try to push these thoughts to the back of my mind but they keep coming back and I can't really supress them. I hate this feeling of constant uncertainty!</p>
<p>I think by the time I mail my completed application in on the 22nd, I will be hanging on to my sanity by mere threads.</p>
<p>I don't get "whirlwinds", I just kind of constantly wonder if my work could never hold a candle to typical TASP acceptees'. But the thing is, there's nothing you or I can really do right now to revolutionize/improve our writing style, so all we can do is write as well as we can and send 'em off.</p>
<p>You're your hardest critic. Its good that you have doubt, if you were overly confident it means you aren't writing "deep" enoguh....Let me explain myself.</p>
<p>TASP gives you the chance to write such personal essays and some of these essays your writing may be the first time your openly talking about a certain topic, its only natural that you get emotional about [the essays]. If you were writing about cliche topics or simple things you wouldnt be questioning yourself. Like you could write a book summary and feel perfectly fine about it because you know your facts are straight, but what these essays ask you to do is go indepth and really explore. Your charting new teritory (so you naturally second guess yourself) its a learned habbit taught by the education proccess and philosphies in most schools today.</p>
<p>Atleast that is MY opinion</p>
<p>hey umm.. i have a question that isn't quite as philosophical. or in depth i guess. :)</p>
<p>do we mail in our transcript + 2 copies in the SAME envelope or mail one in each of three envelopes? (same goes for the evaluation letters)</p>
<p>it says place in an envelope so it implys one envelope.</p>
<p>If your really worried just call 2mrw. But they shouldn't really care.</p>
<p>so its okay if we mail the stuff a few days after the 15th?</p>
<p>Yes. Just mail it ASAP....</p>
<p>So they aren't going to void your app if you mail on the 17th.</p>
<p>i figure i'll just send in one envelope. saves on postage. thanks :D</p>
<p>haha they said last year about 900 people applied. i think this year we'll have a LOT more...</p>
<p>IDK about A LOT more. There are just alot of CCers that apply; your seeing a skewed population.</p>
<p>last year we had about 25 people on the boards who got in. that's not a totally accurate figure though, because many of them joined after they were accepted. i would say maybe 9 or 10 regular TASP-thread posters were accepted. still, that's a good 10th of the acceptees. CC is crazy.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Do you recall how many regular posters on the thread were NOT accepted? What fraction got in?</p>
<p>well, there is also the whole correlation vs. causation argument, in which cc and getting into tasp can have very little to do with each other.</p>
<p>i think the best you can do is to write good essays and put a lot of thought into them. i'm pretty excited because i have all my essays drafted out (i picked a topic for my issue one!), even though i'm not nearly as finished as some of you guys are. oh well, we still have a little over a week (for those of us who are applying by paper). </p>
<p>anyone want to share essays after we submit them? i don't mind, but i think it's better if we finish our own first so that reading other peoples' essays don't influence our own.</p>
<p>Haha Roamorse, good to see you aren't superstitious. </p>
<p>AHHH T-minus 24 hours. You guys are lucky you gety an extra week :-/</p>
<p>I Have my whole next 24 hours planned out to maximize the work hours.</p>
<p>Now till 8: Japanese children book project (GAH)
8-9: EC meeting
9-10: Kinkos
10-3/4am: Essays
4-7:Sleep
7:50: school starts
11:20: school ends
11:20-2:20: lunch then apple store to replace my ipod which died on me (conveniently friday is my last day of warranty)
2:30-3:30: work on my essays from apple store- Format than PDF
3:45: Kinkos to print
4:00: Mail packet :-) <--This will be a well photodocumented moment :-P
4:15: See Stomp The Yard
6:00: <em>DIES</em></p>
<p>Good Luck Giantredlobster! </p>
<p>This weekend = serious redrafting of essays. In every one, there is something missing - I just can't put my figure on what exactly that missing part is. I'm hoping it will just hit me one fine day while I'm not thinking about TASP at all (hopefully, that day comes before the 22nd - lol!).</p>
<p>And congrats on picking a topic for your issue, Roam! It took me forever to decide on one too.</p>
<p>i finished emailing the essays to all of those who pmed me, but i'll reiterate (again, lol) that i don't have aida's (aka musechick's) essays. </p>
<p>anyone else who still wants ryan's essays, you can try pming me, but i think my inbox is one or two below the limit. </p>
<p>anyways, i hope you get into TASS, giantredlobster! good look on completing all your stuff on time. </p>
<p>lol, yeah, i couldn't decide whether to do my issue essay on something global or even political, but ultimately i decided on a personal topic, just because i know that i would write a better essay this way. thanks to all the taspers who gave me insight and advice, because i mentioned this a couple (maybe 40) pages back. </p>
<p>how is everyone else coming along?</p>
<p>two essays done, 4 left. i'm not worried, though.</p>
<p>will tasp even consider me with a 3.3 uw GPA?</p>