<p>I had this conversation this summer how the best program on a multitude of levels would be at Tulane and looking at Hurricane Katrina and discussing the political and social ramifications (social especially on an actual case study basis going out into the area ect.) as well as discussing the racial issues that surrounded the situation.</p>
<p>The only problem with this I see is that these schools are rather tight financially due to all that has happened, and for a school to host a program they front half the cost and just like WASHu they would be hard pressed to attract many applicants. </p>
<p>So Idk, thats funny you say that though because I talked about this after Brianna's pubspeak on Katrina.</p>
<p>Wow, this is awesome.
I didn't recognize the college of one of the faculty for the Caribbean Dialogs TASP, so I googled it, and found that: "The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts is the English-speaking Caribbean's only conservatory for the fine and performing arts." sweeeeeet.</p>
<p>I do. I really really really want to be a sophomore so I can do TASS and redo TASP. If I didn't love my 19 fellow TASPers to death, I would even consider going back in time to arrange it so my parents didn't have me for another two years. Unfortunately, then I wouldn't have met my 19 fellow TASPers, and I think I'd rather be thrown off a cliff than have that happen.</p>
<p>If you had the means to go back in time, I am sure your MVHS smarty self would find a way to do your TASP and all the other exciting programs in subsequent years.</p>
<p>Sort of like that movie Groundhogs Day, which they watched in the Epedemiology (sp?) seminar last year (i dont know why).</p>
<p>Oh and Haley I was thinking about the TASS1 topic with the lgbt seminar. I bet you that one was in response to our TASS1, it only makes sense.</p>
<p>i can't believe i didn't realize that half of uMich TASP 07 would jump onto this thread.</p>
<p>more importantly, i can't believe it took me this long to get in on this :). it's so exciting to see this happen, yet so sad to think that it's been a year since i was getting pumped about seminar topics.</p>
<p>be warned - as exciting as they may sound, professors can easily make a seminar a lot less cool...</p>
<p>hey Tako!
how's it going
I remember when I still had it in mind to be a future TASPer, and although I did LEAD... I did contribute a small percentage of the massive amount posts in last year's thread</p>
<p>Joe, nice halloween costume. I saw this guy wearing the same concept downtown over halloween and he was with this guy dressed as a construction worker. (Long story short) the construction worker bumped into me and he didn't apologize and I said "The YMCA is over there you village person." </p>
<p>He didn't hear me but everyone else did, quite humorous.</p>
<p>For those who read my previous post about being torn between TASP and another summer program, it looks like I'll be applying to TASP because I missed the deadline for the other program (all that deliberation cost me because I couldn't find a teacher to write me a recommendation! Stupid seniors!) I feel really stupid about it (I should have asked for recs the minute I got the application) but I feel like this is fate!</p>
<p>Do you need recs for TASP? Because college season isn't so nice to juniors who want recommendations at my huge high school (one teacher I asked told me she MIGHT be able to have a rec for me by mid-December!)</p>
<p>Hehe. I think Telluride may have something to do with that, fate I mean. </p>
<p>Yes, the TASP application asks for one teacher recommendation. Fortunately for you, the deadline for the app is in January, so mid-December will even allow for breathing room! </p>
<p>This is so exciting. I kind of feel like Aida =P. Soon enough, I'll be calling up TASPers and forgetting their names on the phone (JKJKJK)!</p>
<p>Cornell 2 program is my favorire with UT Austin as a close second. If they do happen to have a fith program like last year, it should totally be at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>U of C is getting good support from the TASP crowd, very nice.
They actually use to have a program at U of C, along with Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Williams, St. Johns, Kenyon, Penn State among others.</p>
<p>They wont have another program this year. The process of selecting another school and securing funding and all that is a very long process as well as they suggested topics a long time ago and already finalized them with professors and all that good stuff.</p>
<p>lol corey, i see you have been perusing the telluride website. </p>
<p>anyways, good luck with your apps, kiddos. haha uber, i can totally see that. a couple of us went to a telluride alumni event and met ellen baer, and we can actually interview this year.. so a few of us might be interviewing you guys! heheh. exciting :)</p>
<p>^ That would be awesome to be an interviewer. My interviewer told me it was such a power trip to do. I s'pose that TASSers need to wait an extra year before they're allowed to, right?</p>
<p>And, Corey- if that really is the case, I'll laugh. A lot.</p>
<p>Corey
how does it work for you as a TASS alum
are you allowed to do TASP
are you cordially invited
all I know is that you are a superstar
I deem you Super Junior</p>
<p>Since there are so many old TASPers on here, I'm sure us newbies would LOVE advice on essaying and interviewing (if we even make it there <em>gulp</em>). </p>
<p>And is there a link to last year's essay topics? I need practice.</p>
<p>And I vaguely remember hearing something about a book list. What's that about?</p>
<p>Essaying? There is really no advice that we can give, other than to be yourself. Honestly, Telluride is looking for nothing specific in your essays, other than a sense of your voice and your personality. I wrote my essays the night before, and I'm extremely grateful that I never read anybody else's essays beforehand, 1) because it's intimidating. Reading essays scared the crap out of me, and had I read them, I may not have applied to TASP, and 2) I'm pretty sure it would have influenced my writing style, which is bad.</p>
<p>During TASP we traded essays, and I read essays that were serious and formal, essays that were quirky and cute, essays that were witty and blunt, etc. There is no perfect format. Mine were, if I may say so myself, rather superficial and informal; somehow I managed to scrape through an interview and I suppose Telluride saw some potential in me.</p>
<p>But yeah! Be yourself. :) Work hard.</p>
<p>The essay topics are the same every year, I believe. Critnal, future goals, booklist, topic/issue of interest, personal conflict, rankings.</p>