<p>hmmm…
thanks embeezy that was profound
but really, its making me think! 
aaaaaaand I need to sleep now. goodnight everyone…or good morning :p</p>
<p>Carin: are you writing your app?</p>
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Despite the half-penny depth to that, I’m wondering if I could actually write my essay about that—how I feel little connection to high school melodrama and how society tends to create controversy/drama to enrich otherwise mediocre lives, citing soap operas, teenage angst, and cable news.</p>
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I think that’s sorta stretching it, and unless you present it really well it might cause offense. just IMO.</p>
<p>You could write your conflict essay about any conflict at all; it’s about your insight into the conflict and yourself. The only problem I see with the idea you just presented is that there is no conflict–you feel disconnected, are you conflicted about that?</p>
<p>On a related note there is a really good Kurt Vonnegut quote about “drama” that I would look up if I wasn’t already procrastinating by checking websites (like this one).</p>
<p>This thread is quite delectable…like cookies and a cup of tea!</p>
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same.</p>
<p>Since the conflict question begins by discussing the TASP community and the importance of maturity, would it be unwise to write about a conflict you did/have not resolve(d)?</p>
<p>^ and to take that question further,
would it be unwise to describe a conflict to which you acted a little immaturely in, but then learned from upon reflection?</p>
<p>Can I write something anti-democracy?</p>
<p>Glad to see other people are having trouble with the conflict one. After a lengthy discussion with my mom, I finally came up with a topic, but it’s more of a personal struggle than a real conflict with other people. Sure, others disagreed with my decisions, but it still wasn’t really the most interpersonal of conflicts.</p>
<p>Do you think it’ll still work?</p>
<p>“List your main areas of intellectual interest”</p>
<p>What are they asking for specifically…</p>
<p>Like, “biology, statistics, us history” sort of intellectual interests or “causes of racism, music” type intellectual interests?</p>
<p>And by list…do they mean just what I did above, i.e. brief phrases and words?</p>
<p>I’d probably frame my conflict one around debate, but extend it to discuss general conflict/societal drama.</p>
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Yea, that’s what I was actually thinking of. Here’s the quote: [Kurt</a> Vonnegut explains drama | Derek Sivers](<a href=“http://sivers.org/drama]Kurt”>Kurt Vonnegut explains drama | Derek Sivers)</p>
<p>nith: Yes, that is perfectly fine. Be honest. I did this, essentially.</p>
<p>Internal conflicts are fine, I wrote about one and I know others who did.</p>
<p>Lucky: Both types, I’m not really sure what you’re asking. And when they say list they really do mean list.</p>
<p>happysunnyshine: I don’t know exactly what you’re writing so I can’t answer that. Keep in mind that TASP and the Telluride Association are democratically run: as a group, you decide what goes at your TASP by voting in house meetings, and the organization as a whole is run similarly.</p>
<p>This is a really silly question, but for juniors, do they mean sophomores becoming juniors after summer, or juniors right now and seniors after the summer?</p>
<p>It’s about 9AM and I barely slept. I checked their site all over and the walls of text are making me nauseated. I don’t want to nap and ruin my schedule I just fixed, though. D:</p>
<p>they mean juniors right now.</p>
<p>and thank you wombatsoup.</p>
<p>MLA states that book titles are to be italicized if at all possible, underline as a last-resort alternative. Same goes for periodicals, since both are considered long-form works. Short-form such as poems would go in quotes unless it is an epic poem like Odyssey. I am fond of putting a comma after the title, but that’s a personal preference, not MLA.</p>
<p>jhwu - I wrote about a personal dilemma, although it did peripherally involve other people.</p>
<p>It should be noted that this discussion is completely irrelevant if you plan on applying online–the formatting is just text, no italicizing or underlining possible.</p>
<p>I really want to answer some TASP related questions, but I’m never here on time to answer them…If you have any specific/general/any questions, PM me and I’d love to help y’all :)</p>
<p>I personally would love to read an anti-democracy essay, but that’s just because I enjoy controversy and outlandishness. However, wombatsoup is definitely right; this might not be the program to write that for, since one of its pillars is democratic living. (You could draw a contrast between democratic living and governmental democracy, however, because one could argue that we don’t have a true democracy now. Are you against this democratic government, or all forms of democracy? That distinction is important. PM me for clarification/discussion on this, since I’m interested.) <–supah long parenthetical ftw.</p>
<p>wombatsoup: good point</p>