<p>Wow I'm back and this thread has multiplied! I read through the entire thing, of course :D</p>
<p>Lol Aida thought I was a guy...nope, not me!</p>
<p>Dang, I feel so...free now. It's kind of scary. I'm simply going to forget that I ever applied for this program. Yep. Never happened. Except I'm still going to post on this thread, hehe.</p>
<p>This is definitely the most active thread on CC, jeez.</p>
<p>Well, I can't wait until the 27th to discuss essay topics freely. I'm really into hearing what everyone else wrote about, as I'm kind of afraid my analysis essay was a bit out of the box. Getting noticed won't hurt, right??</p>
<p>BUT 24'S ON NOW. Hail the power of Bauer, for sure.</p>
<p>gah I hate you polka. East coast gets to see it 3 hours earlier. My mom is in newyork on business and she is watching it right now (grrr)</p>
<p>24=<3 of my life</p>
<p>Well actually it falls like this</p>
<p>Loves of my life list:
1.CC TASP 2007 thread
2.24
3.Girlfriend (dont have one though :-/)</p>
<p>:-P</p>
<p>lol i remember 50 pages back or so someone mentioned "hmm i bet by march we'll be at 100!"</p>
<p>and look. its jan 22 and its at 122 pages already -.-''</p>
<p>justin do i know you, lol. >.>;;
i think i do <.<</p>
<p>how come i wasn't shown the megahotspeedopicture? >=[. </p>
<p>=P</p>
<p>p45510n I was actually the one who mentioned that. Coincidental, yes, that when I returned you guys were like on p. 119.</p>
<p>p45510n pm me? AIM maybe?</p>
<p>lol passion wont just talk to you that easy....</p>
<p>convo 2 nights ago</p>
<p>Passion: So who on CC you talk to?
Me: Lists ppl says Justin
Passion: Justin?
M: Yea hes from dublin/pleasnton...Justin <em>lastname</em>
P: Oh yea i think i know him. He went to middleschool with me
M:For real he lives hella far away....
P:Yea asian boy with glasses and black hair
M:That narrows it down to a few 100 kids :-P
P:Like a trillion in this area
M: (shows litttle tiny facebook photo)
P:Hmm doesn't like him
M: Yea the eurasian bone structure must be it.....</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>ALso was it BRE that said one of her interviewers knew who she was from CC????</p>
<p>I am officially a TASP stalker. I have people I never met on my facebook, even though when I made it, I told myself that would never happen...</p>
<p>AND i copied and pasted our TASP chat and saved it in word (it was like 25 pages long). This was the long essay orgy thing that took place sat night (?)</p>
<p>LOL Eurasian bone structure eh?</p>
<p>Hope I don't get any random stalkers now. :)</p>
<p>okay, i hate to bring us all back to, well, the point here... but i'm still really struggling with question number two. i know this seems stupid, especially so late in the game, but i've been overthinking it and pretty much have nothing. i have one idea, which is very vague and about the definition and purpose of place as well as travel.... but that's just something metaphysical (kind of) that i think about sometimes. it's certainly not a problem or issue that i am interested in and blah blah blah. i don't necessarily need tips on thinking, but if anyone would please please please post up your own ideas/topics to stimulate my mind, i'd really appreciate it. you could even pm me if you're uncomfortable with posting it. </p>
<p>k thx!!</p>
<p>directorscut - 25 pages? i don't think anyone is going to read that unless you turn it into a book. :)</p>
<p>find an issue. it has to be something you can firmly take a stance on. Travel doesn't allow for that :-/</p>
<p>You can always pick something more personal. It doesn't have to be "The use of treaty ports as means of British imperialism in China during the francoprussian war era and how Otto von Bismark could have stopped the conflict and how red is a symbolic color to this expose" (completely non factual BTW) Pick something sort of more general but allows you to take a good stance that doesn't waiver. Even use refutations or something :-) IDK. Just don't let your insecurities in picking a topic carry into a weakly assertive essay. Have fun be YOU, not wikipedia on nootropics, CDON you are NOT a blabbering Lexicon.</p>
<p>P.S. I wrote mine about the N-word. Not going to delve into details, but i picked a topic that was very strong to me and to African Americans and even used my journal as a Primary Source.</p>
<p>:D
GL!!!</p>
<p>hmm... thanks. i think i was thinking more open ended than the question really is, if you know what i mean. i wasn't thinking issue like societal prblem ... but whatever. thanks, and if anyone else has ideas, thanks in advance for contributing. </p>
<p>and oh, for online apps, where do you include a pic?</p>
<p>no pics for the online apps.</p>
<p>Back from la tarea (right before in room). I'm a little worried now; I didn't include any bibliography. Well, it's been sent, no going back now.</p>
<p>For an example of a topic for essay 2: I've been studying geisha for several years (I am one of the main contributors for the article on wikipedia...yeah...) and I am ANGERED by the stupid idea that they are prostitutes. So I wrote about the historical and economic evidence contrary to that fallacy, how the idea came about, and the adverse effect it has had on the tradition and culture.</p>
<p>Whatever weird academic thing you have a passion for, write about it. I considered the life and mistakes of Elizabeth I's early reign (also an area of personal study) as a topic, but I couldn't cram all that information and opinion into two to three pages. >_>;;</p>
<p>haha nobody included a "BIBLIOGRAPHY" <em>says in assertive powerful macho voice with ignorant overtones</em></p>
<p>Its cool SOME ppl cited like articles or something nothing serious though. I just had 3 sources in mla as a footnote on the last page of one of my essay. It was an after thought, not a big production.</p>
<p>Also you are quite the precocious studier. Geisha....Elizabeth I.</p>
<p>Very nice.</p>
<p>Do you have any connection to Japanese/Japan? I'm a silly little boy who takes Japanese language. (boy am i DEE dee DEE)</p>
<p>:-D</p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
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<p>Cdon I didn't mean to be mean. I was saying that instead of having an expository essay, which anyone can write with the facts. Write a more argumentative essay, where your own personality can come through based on the way you assert yourself.</p>
<p>Like I said anyone can write the facts but everyone will have a slightly different opinion. So as long as you show that you are good with that essay. I just don't want you to come off weak or unsure. Your original idea will work just try to maybe apply it to a grander scale or relate it to something else so you have a stronger foundation :D</p>
<p>-Corey</p>
<p>heh heh. don't worry, i totally wasn't offended. </p>
<p>i think i found my topic anyway... finally! and not that other thing...pretty stupid really. heh. </p>
<p>there still seems to be some indiscretion between things more personal (the n-word and another on buddhism or some such thing) and things more expository (stravinsky, geishas) i have a lot of knowledge in certain areas of special academic study (elizabeth i happens to be one of mine, too, lol... we should compare notes ;) ), but i feel the personal essay (which will be religion based) will be stronger. </p>
<p>thanks for all the help! (seriously, corey. hahah)</p>
<p>I agree with Corey. TASP definitely looks for your values, thought processes, and viewpoint, which are better manifested through incorporation of the personal voice. But don't get too bogged down in anecdotal tangents at the expense of your convincing arguments. </p>
<p>In addition, here's another tip: don't cite experts or organizations unless they're necessary in providing objective information; you should not be quoting the opinions of others to substitute for your own perspective.</p>
<p>cdon - I know how awful writers block can be, but one fine day (before the 26th) an idea for a marvelous topic will miraculously hit you and all your troubles will be assuaged, lol. Anyways, if you still need some mind stimulation, I wrote about how abstract art is generally percieved as a "lesser" art form and I discussed my resentments towards that misconception. I don't know if any of that helps you at all, but there you go!</p>
<p>Lalalala.</p>
<p>I feel empty :(</p>
<p>My mom laughed at me for leaving everything to the last moment.</p>
<p>Strangely, I don't feel tired...in spite of only getting 1 hour of sleep last night.</p>