Telluride Association Summer Program ( TASP ) 2008

<p>^ahahaha you should suggest that :p</p>

<p>haha i was basically confused because i downloaded my app. everything's on separate pages, thus nothing to fold. (at least, i'm guessing that the requested form is foldable.) oh well, i doubt my origami skills will lead to the basis of my eventual rejection. <em>cough</em> </p>

<p>there can never be too many how-to videos in this information age. really.</p>

<p>oh my GAWD everyone, my school is shut down for ice today, so I can't pick up my transcript and letter. this is ironic because the same administrator who shut down school today for "ice on the sidewalks" refused to let school out until three days into last year's ice storm in Missouri.</p>

<p>ugh... well, at any rate, I got a reply from Telluride that said it wouldn't be a big deal if I mailed it in a day late. i'm gonna go crazy</p>

<p>Ugh, that sucks Tommy.</p>

<p>So five hours sleep, and I need to do my booklist, make something presentable of my awful future essay, hopefully pass this English exam and mail out my app. I think I'm gonna puke. Good luck!</p>

<p>CRAP the library's webpage is down and I need the list of books I've taken out in the past year....</p>

<p>earilmadith---trust me (100, here) the English Regents is absolutely nothing to worry about. at all. it is just a long, boring, waste of time test. COMPLETE waste of time. the problem 99.9% of the people i know had was thinking about things too much. it's a stupid test. think simple, stupid. don't try to analyze things. its pointless. write simple, clear, concise, no pretty language, none of that shiznit. good luck--my friends are taking it now too!</p>

<p>omg. i totally forgot about sending in my transcript/letter of evaluation. deadline was jan 15. oh no.</p>

<p>degoutant- I phoned them this morning re: the same issue. The woman I spoke with said to send them in as soon as possible, either today or tomorrow. I assume you applied online.</p>

<p>hey it says you have to be a junior, but it's over the summer
does that mean rising juniors or rising seniors?</p>

<p>rising seniors</p>

<p>Mailed! Now fingers crossed for the next couple months.</p>

<p>Hehe, mine got mailed out after a crazy mad dash to the post office at 4:55, when the last mail pick up of the day is 5:00... Not cutting it close there at all.</p>

<p>It feels good to know that I can't even worry about it now. I'm so happy I get the rest of the week off to read and not worry about everything.</p>

<p>I wonder if this thread is going to slowly die until people get interview notifications in March.</p>

<p>i can't believe I've just now found this place. </p>

<p>Hahah yeah I mailed mine at about 4:00 (they close at 4:30). I think I got about 30 minutes of sleep last night-- I am a preetty bad procrastinator :). </p>

<p>I'm a little worried because I'm wondering now if my tone was too informal. I'd never realized until after I wrote those essays that I naturally have a rather light/ jokey tone when I write anything relating to myself. My literary analysis essay was very serious, though (loooved that one- Sherwood Anderson baby!). Do any previous TASPers know if TA prefers essays written in a formal, scholarly tone and does that apply also in the seminars?</p>

<p>I just finished and submitted online. </p>

<p>I can't believe i submitted everything, its all out of my control now.</p>

<p>Well, my teacher still hasn't mailed my recommendation......but i've decided to accept that.</p>

<p>i hate and love the feeling of "just submitted." agh.</p>

<p>i really need to take CC off of my bookmarks</p>

<p>anyway, as a tasp'er 07 - jenny717 - scholarly can become pedantic, and TA is anything but pedantic. As long as your ideas were coherent and reasonably complex, ur informal/humorous style is totally fine. and regarding seminar.. haha its interesting, but no one is rigid or putting up pretenses of intellect. very relaxed but u can still feel the intensity in the air during seminars. i hope all of you guys get in.</p>

<p>I'm doing the online app so...still here haha.</p>

<p>I'm struggling with the thesis for the critical analysis mostly because we've never done one in English. Could I just present a theme I think is explored in the novel and prove it, or do I have to take a stance about the validity OF that theme and prove my case about it?</p>

<p>I hate semesters ;_;</p>

<p>the thing is, illuminar, (this is just in my opinion, i've never been to tasp or tass or anything) i think that if you take a stance, it'd give the readers a greater sense of person from you. they want to see your reasoning abilities, but they also want to see what interests you, what your opinions are, etc... i think? best of luck!</p>

<p>I didn't even mean it in terms of personality, but we've never done a critical analysis and I'm more of a science student so that part has me stumped.</p>

<p>Thanks though. I'll take a stance because it's not toooo complicated. It actually better allows for me to explore Wilde's view of the Victorian era by doing so.</p>