<p>What did everybody do for their "specific problem or topic in a field of interest" essay?</p>
<p>I wrote a response to Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language".</p>
<p>How about you?!</p>
<p>hahahha, awwww! you are so ridiculously hot, passion, i hope they pick you after seeing your photo.</p>
<p>Passion, mmm yeah I'd tap that...</p>
<p>Appologies if that comes off too awkward.</p>
<p>Whoa, whartonhopeful.. who are you?</p>
<p>I actually wrote two... I'm trying to decide which one to send: I wrote one on "Stavinsky's use of 12 tone music and society" and another one on "Ayn Rand's Philosophy" for the specific problem essay. But I also wrote my literary analysis on "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Would it be bad to send in 2 Ayn Rand-based essays?</p>
<p>i'm from cali. how about u?</p>
<p>About time all the lurkers showed up. So, who predicted this would happen? :P</p>
<p>I did something about what I felt about strongly. I don't feel like giving it away... yet. Some people might lash out at me. :P</p>
<p>My top choices are U Texas and U Michigan. The rest I can't quite decide.</p>
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wow. Five posts in the time it took me to write one.</p>
<p>Definetely Washington U for me. That program sounds amazing.</p>
<p>Sending two Ayn Rand-based essays probably won't hurt you. It'll just you're ...passionate! But the Stravinsky essay sounds really cool!! Are you a musician? (I'm assuming you are...)</p>
<p>ya. I play piano (mostly jazz, but some classical) and recently did a sort of independent study on 12-tone music. So which would look better, the Ayn rand one or the stravinsky one (or does it even really matter?)</p>
<p>Moi aussi whartonhopeful!</p>
<p>Actually I'm kind of still stuck between the renaissance/science citizen ones too. All of them sound so good :(</p>
<p>as;dlfja;skldfj;asdlkfd. issue essay. blagh! it's straying so far, far away...</p>
<p>hey billy_liar, thecomisar, whoever submitted already, did you get anyone else to take a look at your essays, or did you just finish them and sent them off?</p>
<p>Hmm...not really. My parents helped me as much as Asian parents can (they have a decent grasp on grammar) and I had a friend/teacher/advisor look over my critnal...but c'est tout! I didn't have time for anything else. I wish I could've taken them to the Write Place (like, an English help thing we have at school), but I have practice before and after school, a full schedule, and half my lunch devoted to the stupid little freshmen (who I love...)</p>
<p>But if you have time, I'd get them looked over.
You'll probably gain new insight and catch more mistakes.</p>
<p>To whartonhopeful: Just send the one you like the best, or the one you would feel most comfortable discussing in an interview!!</p>
<p>lol... one of my friends hasn't even started her essays yet. I'm just waiting for my rec letter...</p>
<p>your parents read them over? my mom didn't even know what tasp was until i told her two days ago, and she still doesn't really understand the concept. </p>
<p>plus, two of my essays are (semi) directly related to her. she'd have seizures if she read my issue one... lawl.</p>
<p>Capitalist harlot (though I did enjoy the Fountainhead, as I recall).
Go with Stravinsky, he's much cooler/Russian.
Of course, it's really up to you blah blah STRAVINSKY blah.</p>
<p>Whartonhopeful: Oh, haha, I thought you were someone I know. Wharton isn't incredibly popular among TASP'ers, but props for loving Penn! That's the way to go :]</p>
<p>sacrilege. I'm a die-hard Objectivist (a die-hard theistic objectivist, if such an individual exists, but i do suppose i exist...)</p>