<p>@Yeoman:
For the exact deadline, you want to email The Telluride Association.</p>
<p>And when they mean “insights” it means what you learned that has in some way changed you, your view, etc etc.</p>
<p>^^ I think they mean 00:00 on January 25, i.e. the night of January 24.</p>
<p>Blah! I think I just finished off my conflict essay…I was going to put it away, but it’s 49 words over the limit. That shouldn’t matter, right? Eeesh.</p>
<p>Alrighty, thanks Antagonist. That’s what I figured, I just wanted to make sure.</p>
<p>For the seminar ranking one, can we use bullet points or in paragraphs?</p>
<p>I would write paragraphs. It’s ok if this one is shorter than the others, though.</p>
<p>Oh no… Is our second essay supposed to be directly related to our first essay? Because my first was a fantasy, and my second was about human rights…</p>
<p>No, they don’t have to be related. Once again, I would stop worrying about topic choice in essays…if you’re interested in them, that’s fine.</p>
<p>haha I miraculously managed to pull off one essay in the span of 5 days, and it’s 1495 words. Edited and trimmed from 1620…
My other one is close to the word limit as well. x.X. It’s not as if I’m particularly verbose either.</p>
<p>Stop trying to connect your essays thematically and just write them.</p>
<p>Invoyable- Lucky you! My essay lengths are all over the place- one’s almost 1500, one’s a little over 1000, and one’s currently about 600 words long (though I’m rewriting it soon).</p>
<p>Wombat and Keilexandra, as the ones with TASP experience here, I was wondering if you could answer my earlier question:</p>
<p>The personal conflict essay asks you to discuss a conflict that has “led you to new insights about yourself/other people.” What are they looking for when they say “insights”? Do they want something like specific things you learned about specific people’s psychology (so-and-so has a tendency to do such-and-such)? Or are they saying more generally, “life lesson”-type things you learned?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>They want you to stop freaking out and just write the essay.</p>
<p>@Yeo: I agree with Epigramimpelled on this one. If you can’t figure out the essay, then don’t apply. I don’t think anyone from my year had this much trouble with it.</p>
<p>and P.S.
I hate to be snooty, but Wombat and KxA aren’t the only ones with TASP experience here, and I feel like they would give you the same answer as before.</p>
<p>You forgot embeezy and Antagonist, m’dear. We’re all from the same TASP, go ADPi! 
And yes, my answer is the same: if YOU consider something a “personal conflict,” then write about it already.</p>
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I wouldn’t call that lucky…if anything, I’d prefer my essays to be short. Instead they (so far) are all almost 1500.</p>
<p>Ah, sorry to Antagonist, I was unaware. I just found the wording of the essay a bit strange, but anyhow. Thanks all.</p>
<p>How does TASP regard the topic of art? I think all of mine are art-related except for maybe the lit analysis.</p>
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Well that’s art related too: literature is one of the arts.</p>
<p>Invoyable, I got you beat: two of my essays are exactly 1500 words… I didn’t even do that on purpose… they just turned out that way.</p>
<p>._. Let me clarify that. How does TASP regard the topic of visual arts? Would they think that’s weird if I write most of my essays about it considering how TASP is more of a humanities program?</p>