Tasp

<p>omg. i just submitted. and. i ran out of time, and my essays are awful.</p>

<p>crap.</p>

<p>i almost died when i was submitting it at 11:58, and then it said something like you have data verification error cuz i used quotes and I couldnt submit that kind of format. </p>

<p>if the deadline passed, do they not allow u to submit anymore? cuz i'm not sure if I got in on time...</p>

<p>my responses for the last question ("list the seminars" etc) were literally 3 lines each because i had no time. why can't i stop procrastinating???</p>

<p>i'll just try to forget about it, and if by some miracle i get an interview...let's just say it'll be a pleasant surprise. but i'm not counting on it. dammit.</p>

<p>Can someone invite me to the chat??? Don't want to miss out on the celebration Mindy's throwing!!!;)
IM=monster31989</p>

<p>Edit: OMG I just read the most godly TASP essays ever from an applicant who posts on CC. I am speechless!!! SO SCREWED...</p>

<p>Dammmit I submitted mine like 3 minutes late, stupid formatting whatever. Oh well, I'm DONNNNEEE.<br>
And now I'm going to send my transcript/pictures/rec off at the post office. Whew. </p>

<p>Anybody know when they tell us about interviews? (Assuming we get one. Heh. Unfreakinglikely with my essays.)</p>

<p>Sorry to double post, but does anybody know what PST means?</p>

<p>I just checked my time stamp, and it says "9:04 PM Jan 26 2006 PST". </p>

<p>I'm glad I somehow made it within the time frame, but still...odd...</p>

<p>I believe that is Pacific time.. or something.</p>

<p>on the WC, we still get until 12 right? </p>

<p>holy *****, if not.</p>

<p>Wow. If my transaction ID is really the time of which it was sent... Well, let's just say I was really lucky.</p>

<p>January 26, 2006 at 11:59.11 pm.</p>

<p>LOL!</p>

<p>Lmao chillaxin... XD</p>

<p>so i just looked at my timestamp and i realized that it said 9:01...in other words, i could've worked on my essays for 3 more hours, and maybe they wouldn't have sucked. gah!</p>

<p>yes! so we're all finished.
now comes the waiting.
oooooy!</p>

<p>AND essay swapping galore...;)</p>

<p>Edit: I found some lame grammar mistakes in my essays which means I probably should have proofread them lol.</p>

<p>What do you all think of your essays...? Looking back, do you think they were horrible, bad, decent, good, or great? o.o</p>

<p>There is no way anyone could get me to look at my essays right now.</p>

<p>Mmm I'm too scared to look at them again. heh. I liked my criticial analysis. I think the rest were decent except for my any-topic/problem one which was mediocre. I'm hoping that my ec's (started my own charity, see below) and my rec (my English teacher, who LOVES me, wrote it and she said it was amazing. She's married to a history teacher who a few years ago wrote the rec for this guy who got accepted into TASP and ended up at Harvard) will be enough. What'd everyone write about?</p>

<p>Educational goals: Talked about my first close-up encounter with this beggar in my introduction and how it led to my interest in helping impoverished Chinese kids. Then talked about how volunteering at the hospital, teaching English to Chinese kids last summer, and my current charity work (I started my own nonprofit to raise money to build a library for a really poor Chinese elementary/middle school where the students are peasants) and how that all led to my decisiion to one day start a nonprofit hospital resembling St. Jude's except dealing with beggars instead of cancer patients.
Critical analysis: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (I thought it'd be original to do a play)
Any Topic: Meeting this Marine who died at age 18 in Iraq during my freshman year and how that impacted me. I spent about a page describing him though so I don't think it was very on-topic. My topic was basically news-weariness and indifference despite the media's barragement of figures about deaths, etc., and how meeting him and his death led me to see the people talked about in newspapers and TV as people isntead of just computer pixels and black-and-white numbers.
Conflict: how 12 neurotic teens stayed up till 2 am during the weekend at a leadership conference to finish our presentation. Basically, we ended up fighting with each other until we decided to split up into committees and just do whatever the other committees told us to do. Big lesson on trusting others, not necessarily being the leader, and cooperation.
Seminars (in order of preference): WashU, CornellI, UT-Austin, CornellII, Michigan</p>

<p>And page lengths...
Educational Goals: 1.5 pages
Book list: 1 page
Critical analysis: 2 pages
Any topic/problem: 2 pages
Conflict: 1.75 pages
Seminar choices: 1.5 pages</p>

<p>Right now, I'm just hoping that I'll have the opportunity to wow them at an interview.</p>

<p>chillaxin, did you form a nonprofit foundation or public charity?</p>

<p>Nonprofit public charity. Well, forming because I'm in the middle of a stack of paperwork to properly register it. lol.</p>

<p>lol, yupp been there</p>

<p>i've already posted about this, but, yeah...mine were terrible. some of the worst essays i've written in my life. i decided to apply the night of january 20th, which probably wasn't the best idea.</p>

<p>oh, well. at least i didn't have to pay an application fee.</p>