<p>treewannabe, haha. I submitted a skating photo as well. I assumed I would be the only one to do that.</p>
<p>I got in RD.
For the picture essay, I sent in this picture:
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It's a frame from a short film that I made.. thats me on the left and my bro on the right.</p>
<p>I wrote about family, learning, and having fun. I had a good time writing this essay, and I guess Stanford does appreciate a good lightsaber battle :D</p>
<p>got in RD.</p>
<p>i sent a picture of abe simpson.</p>
<p>My essays seem kind of tame in comparison with the others listed here. Oh well. I was also accepted RD.</p>
<p>Photo Essay: I sent in a picture of my team (consisting of my chaperone, a Puerto Rican lady from Connecticut, 5 guys from all over Poland, another older chaperone who was born in Poland but now works in London, and a father and son from Stockholm) from the church conference I went to in Poland this past summer. The essay was about working together as a team, since I am usually pretty independent, and learning that you can't be amazing at everything but have to depend on someone sometime...about the experience being more valuable than winning the competition (although they had HUGE Toblerone bars as the prize...<em>sigh</em>) some cultural stuff in there and lots about the different languages (we tried to teach each other how to say stuff in our diff. languages).</p>
<p>Intellectual Interest Essay: a transcript of my thoughts about the hypocrisy of American troops freeing the Jews from the discrimination/genocide/racism of the concentration camps in WWII, while the American army was itself segregated plus some current events application (CIA use of torture, especially in ex-Soviet facilities).</p>
<p>Roommate Essay: not great. didn't have that much time to write this essay, and looking back, it's pretty cliche, about overcoming outward appearances, kinda quirky/weird/outright strange because I made myself a metaphor for Trader Joe's...(I love that store!)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Essay: also not awesome. about all the bunches of things that remind me of debate and what I learned from it, intellecutal discussion and stuff. </p>
<p>i wrote the photo essay about a month or so after i came back, around the first few weeks of school. it was, by far, my best essay...the rest kinda sucked...</p>
<p>I was in early RD</p>
<p>lets see..
I wrote about how my brain is powered by sci fi novels
I wrote about how "a wise grad student once told me "relax, you go to an over achiever school" "
I wrote about how i spent my summer doing research and how it was a blast
I also wrote about some cool stuff in theoretical computer science that fascinates me.</p>
<p>I don't think many other folks listed reading books and watching cartoons as part of their ECs list either</p>
<p>I was accepted EA.</p>
<p>LONG ESSAY: Submitted a painting I'd done of my best friend and wrote about the way art can evoke depth without being physically deep. It was much corny admissions essay love, but it was a little unusual, I guess.
ACTIVITY ESSAY: Poetry club.
INTELLECTUAL THING: Transcendentalism...how Thoreau's a twit but I kind of love him anyway.
ROOMMATE: A spontaneous trip to Chicago.</p>
<p>I guess essays work best when they're really about you. So it's only a copout if you're like, YES, STANDARD EPIPHANY and STANFORD share like 4 letters! I'll do THAT! On the other hand, I would never write about learning to thread a needle the way my home ec teacher does or how the color of a giraffe pretty much represents life, because that's not me either.</p>
<p>I was accepted RA
Long essay: this might sound clich</p>
<p>RA
Long Essay: Wrote about how i failed 4th grade writing proficiency test, but worked hard and did advanced from 5th grade on even thought i struggled
Intellectual: Stem cell research (whats new? lol)
Roomate: I wrote about this time when I was in third grade and opened the sealed part of a mystery book that contained the answer lol.
Nothing great here, i guess they liked them becuase they weren't all mechanical, but reflected me i guess.
Activity Essay: Mentoring Froshes</p>
<p>EC Essay: Dance and how it takes a certain type of guy to do it, a person who let's down their gaurd to do something that is often regarded as gay (I'm not gay in case you were wondering, lifting pretty girls as opposed to hanging out in a sweaty locker room with a bunch of guys? easy choice, heh heh).</p>
<p>Intellectual Essay: Autonomous and integrated computing and processes, like the DARPA robot-car competition that Stanford won with Stanley!</p>
<p>Roommate Essay: If you recall, the prompt asked to describe an experience, so I described my dinner that I was eating as I was writing it. I believe I had quesadillas and an iced coffee. I originally wrote a whole long essay about it relating everything on my plate to something in my life but it was way too long so I trimmed it down to a rather random commentary on my food.</p>
<p>Long Essay: I went out and took a picture of some old people sitting on a bench in a historic park looking at a skyscraper rising from amongst some chinese-style buildings. It talked about how from the farms and the temples rise skyscrapers, how China and Taiwan's importance in the world is growing and how I'm living it through infiltrating the Asian electronics industry through my internships. It was a freakin' sweet essay, originally adapted from another essay about an old man sitting at a bus stop watching crammed-out students and businessmen build the Taiwan of tomorrow.</p>