<p>I explained most of my responses…but here’s the simple answers.</p>
<p>Book: Around the World in 80 Pages. My fav book growing up
Website: Wrote about a forum I made with friends in frosh year to discuss anything.
Recording: lol I put the youtube video of the best field show I marched in
Source of Inspiration: My mom emigrated from the Philippines in 1971 to give her future family opportunity. Now her son has the chance to apply to Princeton.
Movie line: -Student- But it’s true. Teacher- What’s truth got to do with it? What’s truth got to do with anything? (The History Boys)
Movie: Top Gun
Adjectives: Optimistic/Goofy with discipline. Quotes from my gf lol…
Memento: Copy of a 100% math final of the first kid I tutored in 9th grade.
Word: wonder</p>
<p>Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Website: [Unleash</a> Your Imagination - FanFiction.Net](<a href=“http://www.fanfiction.net%5DUnleash”>http://www.fanfiction.net)
Recording: Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes by Daniel Barenboim
Source of Inspiration: nature
Movie: Titanic
Adjectives: intelligent and adventurous
Keepsake: “Moo Cow” - a stuffed animal from my childhood
Word: shaposhnikova (an uneven parallel bars release move)
Movie Line: “I should ask to be assigned to the other end of the universe…when an immortal finds himself envying the mortal entrusted to his care, it’s a danger signal.” - The Bishop’s Wife</p>
<p>Book: The Know-It-All (hilarious!)
Website: OneLook Reverse Dictionary (incredibly useful for those moments when one totally blanks out)
Recording: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (played by Lang Lang)
Source of Inspiration: A friend. Interestingly, he’s an undergrad at Harvard…
Movie line: “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption (which was in very high contention with the favorite movie i actually chose)
Movie: Casablanca
Adjectives: Motivated, Helpful
Memento: A little token I bought in China
Word: Epic</p>
<p>Book: The Catcher in the Rye
Website: Facebook haha
Recording: [the whole album…] Speak for Yourself-Imogen Heap
Source of Inspiration: Nighttime dreams/snippets of overheard conversations as fodder for my creative writing; stories and biographies of people who overcame great obstacles as inspiration in general
Movie line: A laugh is a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes, it’s the only weapon we have ~ Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie: Immortal Beloved/Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Adjectives: Loyal, witty
Memento: a 1991 silver (!) penny I found in the back of my dad’s cash register
Word: Furthermore</p>
<p>Yeaaa - Catch 22 ftw
hah - I think I broke a few rules on mine…</p>
<p>Your favorite book: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller</p>
<p>Your favorite movie: I don’t have one favorite, but I did especially like Napoleon Dynamite - it’s refreshing to see a good bit of ‘stupid,’ absurd comedy sometimes.</p>
<p>Your favorite website: [url=<a href=“http://www.google.com%5DGoogle%5B/url”>http://www.google.com]Google[/url</a>] - It takes me anywhere else I need to go. I would say Wikipedia, but I get interested in side links too easily.</p>
<p>Your favorite line from a movie and the movie’s title: “Sharks are only found in two places on Earth: the northern and southern hemispheres.” Strange Wilderness</p>
<p>Your favorite recording: It depends on my mood. World groove: Summit by George Brooks; J-Rock: mirror by Gackt, Relaxed: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley; Happy: any Beatles</p>
<p>Your favorite keepsake or memento:
An old, 1960s Gibson acoustic-electric guitar, given to me by my father; it has
such a great sound, and it always reminds me of him.</p>
<p>Your favorite source of inspiration: However clich</p>
<p>BOOK: The Little Princess by Francess Hodgson Burnett
WEBSITE: jcrew.com
RECORDING: Kabalevsky’s Concerto #3
INSPIRATION: my iTunes playlist
MOVIE LINE: “Life is like a box of chocolates…” from Forrest Gump
MOVIE: Pirates of the Caribbean
ADJECTIVES: stylish and competitive
MEMENTO: this little green moose I bought on a family trip to Maine in second grade
WORD: balderdash</p>
<p>Book: Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
Website: dance.net
Recording: Wicked the Musical
Source of Inspiration: Watching ballet performances
Movie line: “The limit does not exist!” -Mean Girls (AP Calc joke)
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean
Adjectives: Loyal and Understanding
Memento: Baby blanket and pillow
Word: Snurps (AP Bio joke)</p>
<p>These are hard…I kept going back in forth between being funny or being serious. Of course you want to sound intelligent, but you want to be real. I ended up with a mix because I feel that I am a mix of both. haha…i do think i will win the senior superlative for most stressed. i do stress about the silliest things…</p>
<p>Book: 1984
Website: reddit.com
Recording: 4’33" (I said whenever I don’t feel like listening to anything, I put this on. Look it up on Wikipedia :P)
Inspiration: cup of coffee, blank page, good pencil 2 hours before the deadline
movie line: awesome one from the truman show, too lazy to go grab it…
Movie: Memento! yeah.
Adjectives: eccentric/optimistic
Memento: a notebook I wrote ideas in during 5th grade. It annoys me because I see all my awesome concepts and figure that I’ve just gotten dumber since then.
Word: conflux</p>
<p>Someone on page three: Ooh, epic was a good word. i use it way to much. :)</p>
<p>Fancypants: Oh goodness, I used to LIVE on “A Little Princess” when I was younger. Did you ever read the “Lost Prince of Samavia”? It’s lesser known but possibly even better. :)</p>
<p>Book: Animal Farm
Website: talkingpointsmemo.com
Recording: Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
Inspiration: Without Limits - A movie about Steve Prefontaine
Movie Line: “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” - The Matrix
Movie: 300
Adjectives: witty / intellectual
Memento: Grandpa’s coin collection
Word: Jam</p>
<p>“A Little Princess” was my favorite book for pretty much my whole life. I only stopped admitting it a few years ago!!</p>
<p>Book: Jane Eyre
Website: freerice.com
Recording: You Get WHat You Give, the New Radicals
Inspiration: Remembering my family loves me and wants me to do my best
Movie Line: “No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world>” Dead Poets Society
Movie: 1776 (musical comedy about the Declaration of Independence= best thing EVER)
Adjectives: curious, logical
Memento: Miraculous medal necklace I got for Confirmation
Word: Defenestrate… which I thought was so original until two minutes ago. I used the verb, though!</p>
<p>Technically 4’33" isn’t silence though, haha. And 4’33" is something you’re supposed to listen to; that was John Cage’s point. But nice choice regardless. I think there are actually serious recordings of 4’33" out there (but that sort of misses the original intention of the piece).</p>
<p>lol @ hookem - it would be overrated if it wasn’t kingly. if i would have sent in my app now, i probably woulda switched over to Dark Knight/Wanted… heh i was actually thinking about putting Fight Club but the content of the movie was questionable lol – and Minority report definitely a classic…</p>
<p>and i just asked my friend like 2 min before i sent in my app of what i should put lol so w.e - thnks for the comments on the trip beasts :P</p>
<p>Book: The Practical Cogitator
Website: postsecret
Recording: is this it - the whole cd
Inspiration: music
Movie Line: “No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world” Dead Poets Society
Movie: Saving Private Ryan
Adjectives: Blunt, Impulsive
Memento: First Edition of Old Man and The Sea
Word: Mary - my girlfriend</p>
<p>I know that like 1/4 of the applicants probably put my movie quote. But sometimes things are popular for a reason!</p>
<p>BOOK: Le Petit Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
WEBSITE: DeviantArt
RECORDING: Li Yundi’s rendition of Liszt’s La Campanella
INSPIRATION: Clear night sky
MOVIE LINE: Something along the lines of “Cars are easy, it’s people you need a manual for.”- Sister of the Traveling Pants 2
MOVIE: August Rush
ADJECTIVES: Empathetic and Visionary
MEMENTO: My faithfully kept scrapbook since I was 7
WORD: Serendipity</p>
<p>^ I almost used a quote from Dead Poets Society, although not that one.
I was gonna use “What was language invented for?”
“To communicate?”
“NO! To woo women!”</p>
<p>Recording/Song: “Kashmir” - by Led Zeppelin</p>
<p>Source of Inspiration: Albert Einstein</p>
<p>Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight</p>
<p>Movie line: “I’ll have you know that I have the reflexes of a cat and the speed of a mongoose. Throw it. I DARE YOU!” - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls</p>
I used the verb, though!</p>