<p>I'm Asian as well. Wow...though I guess I shouldn't really be that surprised. One of my friends is also applying (and Asian...).</p>
<p>So far, my essays are very very colloquial. But that's the way I write when I'm not restricted. (Unfortunately, everything also ends up rather jumbled up into a mess).</p>
<p>Contemplating doing my critnal on His Dark Materials, and talking about a literary topic in my issues essay. Conflict is family-related and likely to be boring.</p>
<p>Twilight. That made me smile. My friends liked it. Well, some of them did. The rest of them bashed it to bits. :P</p>
<p>I haven't started my critical analysis yet. I'm nervous for that one. I'm thinking L'etranger or The Picture of Dorian Gray.</p>
<p>My essays aren't colloquial at all. I didn't even use contractions because that's not proper essay form. The only one that has a dose of humor is the conflict one (oddly enough).</p>
<p>It's all good. I'm just...colloquial probably because I've been too restrained at school when writing formal essays. It's a way to vent, I suppose. (And yes, contractions all the way!)</p>
<p>Never read L'etranger, but The Picture of Dorian Gray would be a good one, I think. I can't remember much of it, because I'd been cramming in a bunch of school reading at the time.</p>
<p>And don't hyperventilate. They'd probably like more intellectually-sounding people than people who sound like they're rambling (like me).</p>
<p>i'm still really pi$$ed at myself for missing the stupid 1/15 online deadline. should i scratch the online idea and print off everything, or risk sending the transcript and recommedation in late and risk being disqualified?</p>
<p>um, when you say l'etranger, do you mean the stranger by camus? just wondering.
Interesting! I wrote half an essay on The Picture of Dorian Gray (AWESOME book... have you read other works by Wilde?), but then scrapped it for another essay.
good luck!
I don't know, I don't think i showed that much quirk in my essays, either. But I'm a pretty poor judge-er of that because a lot of people tell me that I'm .... quirky........
I don't think TASP will autoreject people who aren't blatantly quirky in their essays, though.......................?</p>
<p>Yes, by Camus. I loved that book, although I wasn't completely convinced about absurdism so much as moral relativism, although I guess they're pretty similar.</p>
<p>Haha. How about the all-time-classic Le Petit Prince? I was going to do that for my critnal but decided not to since it was difficult for me to pull together my commentary in my head (which means, more difficult on paper). >.></p>
<p>It's probably because my French is bad but The Stranger sounded a lot more stilted in French than in the English translation; a lot less eloquent, more "man I'm bored", although that's probably the intention.</p>
<p>I've never read Candide, but I probably should.</p>
<p>I LOVED the little prince too! ah!
wow, impressive with the reading in french...^
I just bought candide at barnes and noble today.
For some reason, when i read the stranger, I liked it a LOT.... but for no reason I could fully articulate. If you do write about The Stranger, could I read your essay after the deadline? haha, i get it if you don't want to let me read it, it's fine too... but I was just interested in what other people thought about it because the while book overall really appealed to me, i had nobody to discuss it with....
you can read my critnal after we submit, too :P</p>
<p>I would let you read it, but I'm beginning to hesitate. I think a lot is probably lost in the translation, and my English teacher cautioned me about it because of the existentialist themes (although I'm pretty comfortable with them). </p>
<p>I also don't own a physical copy to reference for the essay >____></p>
<p>Ouch. That's never a good thing, illuminar.</p>
<p>I think I'll just avoid reading anyone's essay until I get a rejection. That way I won't keep feeling as if I did something wrong...or my essays are all superficial and weren't "deep" enough.</p>
<p>Haha, you're right on that. Though I personally get eyestrain from that.</p>
<p>Hmmm. How do you go about saying that you don't really like two of the seminars offered. As in, one just doesn't interest you and the other you just don't want to take. -.-;</p>
<p>For one of them I said something along the lines of "Although I would not object to being placed in this program, I believe that I would gain much more from the others more aligned with my interests."</p>
<p>and for the one I do not want at all, I said something that goes like "I don't want to undermine the value of the program, but I wouldn't enjoy spending six weeks studying it, so if possible please do not put me in it"</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. That's basically what I had written down (except longer).</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Onto the conflict essay. Then the critnal. And thhhennn the issue essay. All done by tomorrow. Hopefully. I feel like pulling an all-nighter tonight to finish as much as possible so that I can study on Monday for my AP Chem test (booooooo, bad teacher).</p>