<p>Acturial:
oooh thats a tough question.</p>
<p>the answer is YES. Thats cool you write poetry. I tried a haiku once.... no need for explanation</p>
<p>Just be careful, since you know what the lines mean 100% you might just translate the piece not really interperate how it makes you feel ect..</p>
<p>My advice would be a PARTIAL NO. I might suggest picking an other story/book and then doing a comparison or something.</p>
<p>Do you guys know if we can type our essays in size 10 font (Times New Roman) as opposed to size 12 font?</p>
<p>I might really be one of the few here who is worried about writing too little as opposed to too much. I read so many newspaper columns and short articles that the style sticks with me!</p>
<p>yes </p>
<p>most people use the smaller font to have a shorter page number</p>
<p>director. This is fine it is good to be concise. Only thing is articles often only give the details and TASP wants the emotions so if you are at a point where they are way to short take a look and see if you can put more YOU in the essays</p>
<p>GL!!!</p>
<p>actuarial--I would recommend not doing your analysis on your own work. You already know what it means, and writing about it might make you seem cocky about your writing abilities.</p>
<p>avonlea--10 point should be fine....because they don't specify a font. just as long as its readable.</p>
<p>on factota: they're amazing college age-ish people (two for each location) that give guidance, help deter interpersonal conflict, get people to do the reading (not always successfully), oversee events, make important suggestions, etc. I think all factota have somehow been affiliated with Telluride before, whether from TASS, TASP, or from living in one of the branches.</p>
<p>I feel like when I write that it is a different part of me with the pen or keyboard in hand--sorta weird but it is true</p>
<p>so if I can capture what "this part of me" was trying to do and how he went about it, then it would be okay?</p>
<p>BTW if anyone would like to read the poem... please PM me
it might help</p>
<p>I still think that lacks the critical thinking part of the assignment. Like, it's a great idea to study this alternative persona that appears when you write, but I don't think this is the essay in which to do it.</p>
<p>Maybe you could twist it into your personal conflict one??</p>
<p>actuaria:</p>
<p>I think that'd be really risky, but could turn out great. It's out to you, ultimately, because we don't know how these TASP people think.</p>
<p>LOL my teacher forgot about my rec too.</p>
<p>Last Friday:</p>
<p>Me: Hey, I need my letter of rec by next friday.
Lit teacher: OH YEAH.
Me: So...yes.</p>
<p>Today:
Me: Hey, my rec letter's due tomorrow.
Lit teacher: OH CRAP
Me: Yeah, I figured
Lit teacher: ...</p>
<p>Hehe. I think that I will pretty much stay up all weekend to finish essays. For some reason my teachers have decided to be mean and assign loads of homework/tests.</p>
<p>lol tako, my teacher offered to write the rec (she knows about the program) and asked to see my rankings so she can base it off of my first choices. i <3 her. </p>
<p>looks like this weekend's gonna be entirely tasp essaying. not a bad thing, though. =)</p>
<p>OH my teacher has never heard of the program. Which is strange, since everybody at this school seems to be overachiever-ish.</p>
<p>Anyway, I emailed her. So she had better remember. OR ELSE!</p>
<p>And I would love for this weekend to be entirely tasp essaying, except we have a journo field trip from 8-5 on Saturday. ERGGG plus I have to study for SAT's. Plus I have an APUSH test on Monday. Whatever. Three all-nighters in a row? NO PROBLEM.</p>
<p>LOL I'm never even pulled a single all nighter. Sad.</p>
<p>me neither. the latest i stayed up was 3am, and that was for an art assignment for a teacher who wasn't even my teacher and wasn't going to be grading it.</p>
<p>Wait so an allnighter means u stay up ALL night? People do that?</p>
<p>Wow i've never been studying past 12...</p>
<p>thanks bre</p>
<p>Yeah I don't get people who don't sleep.</p>
<p>Like my friend basically sleeps at 2-3 every single day. And wakes up at 6. I'm like, how do you function off so little sleep? Crazyyy.</p>
<p>lol 3 in a row. Im close</p>
<p>Monday night: Studied until 5:30 then went to sleep until 7
Tues night: 3 hour nap from 6-9pm than studied through the night till 7
Last night: studied until 3:30 slept woke up at 5:30 to finish studying</p>
<p>Not to mention I had a true "all nighter" Last Thursday when I finished my TASS app :D and di my japanese book</p>
<p>Gah I have dedicated this weekend to sleep</p>
<p>Wow poor Corey.</p>
<p>I don't think very well without sleep, I'm afraid. I know this weekend is going to suck. I had better plan it out very very well. PLUS I STILL NEED TO THINK OF TOPICS GRRRRR</p>
<p>All-nighters are horrible. It's better to fit in a powernap. Just an hour or less. If you sleep for more than an hour, your body sinks into deep-sleep mode.</p>
<p>I know all about cheating your body of sleep.</p>
<p>Yay for an 80-line script for French!!</p>
<p>Hopefully my teacher will have my rec by tomorrow. When I asked her today if she'd have it by tomorrow, she said, "Maybe..." ***?! I asked her about it a week and a half ago!! Crazy lady. Her letter better be killer...</p>
<p>Thanks bre.</p>
<p>haha, I've never pulled an actual all-nighter either. I've been up until 2:45 a couple times, but I'm usually in bed by 1:30. And then up at 6:15, ugh.</p>
<p>I am sooo making progress, guys. I made copies of my filled out application form, finished writing my rankings (just need to edit a bit), and finished COMPLETELY my critnal and actually printed out all the copies.</p>
<p>So, now I just need to
- finish booklist
- edit rankings
- proofreed issue, conflict, and future ed objectives</p>
<p>I am SO ALMOST DONE!</p>
<p><em>excitement</em></p>
<p>i think usually you're suppose to give them 2-3 weeks in advance. luckily for me, my teacher already wrote me a rec before for something else, so she just has to edit it instead of starting from scratch.</p>
<p>The teacher I asked is realllly awesome, so she gave it to me promptly. And she even said that I can read it "when I get accepted." ARGHHH she has WAY TOO HIGH expectations.</p>