<p>Wow, Shady Lane, that’s awesome that you’re published!</p>
<p>Thanks ri1391 
I’m hoping it’ll be my in…</p>
<p>I’m a drama kid. I played soccer up till my freshman years, but then switched over to doing plays/musicals. I got the lead in the play this fall. Right now I’m taking voice lessons to prepare for my upcoming musical audition. I’m president of my school’s drama club. I’m also in a club that promotes awareness about Darfur, and I tutor every week in math and chemistry.</p>
<p>I also debate actually. I do congress and public forum along with random things.
I do a lot of sports, v.tennis cptn for school but for fun i usually opt for pickup basketball and football with friends.
I’m also getting interested in filmmaking but its a little tougher than i thought getting started :|</p>
<p>And i agree, Shady Lane, that’s impressive and awesome that you have a published book! :)</p>
<p>And no I don’t think I’d debate at Brown if I got in. But I would be willing to if they accepted me and forced me to :D</p>
<p>Thanks, Mandolive (and your username makes me smile) </p>
<p>Rosarita, what was your play? Congrats on the lead. I was just Emily in Our Town–so much fun. The cast list for our musical comes up this weekend…I’m soooo nervous.</p>
<p>i really love reading what others wrote. you all seem like fascinating people. </p>
<p>i’m really into art, specifically painting. i worked with a professor at the art institute of chicago this past summer. i also brought a renowned political artist to my school to work with me in a couple of art pieces for my school. they were based on environmental art. </p>
<p>i also am really into activism. i helped found the anti genocide coalition at our school, STAND, and i talk alot about what i’ve done in this club on my application. We recently sent cooker pots to Darfur. </p>
<p>i also am president of the school’s diversity club, and have been involved in that quite a bit.</p>
<p>editor in chief of the yearbook, i’m not sure how much this matters.</p>
<p>and i’ve run, organized, planned, and cooked for four charity dinners in my community the past four summers for various international causes.</p>
<p>I debate too, in MUN I went to some conferences in Cairo, Egypt that were really fun…
I also raise environmental awareness by campaigning and I made a new club at my school 
Hmm, what else… I LOVE music. I sing at school events sometimes, Im singing at a Christmas event soon
I also love kids especially babies haha so I volunteered in India for one month a few summers ago and got to take care of lots of kids :]
I also really love medicine, so I do stuff like shadowing doctors and stuff! :D</p>
<p>Shade-- that’s b.a. badass.
i’m waiting until my 20’s, and hten i will write a book.</p>
<p>I draw. A lot.</p>
<p>I golf alot. Peer ministry lets me get to know a lot of underclassmen.
I still breakdance every once in a while (although I’m not too great) and, when it comes to art, I like messing around with graffiti (I don’t tag places tho…).</p>
<p>Shady: I’m gonna get your book once I find a couple other books to get from Amazon (free shipping if it’s over $25 I think)</p>
<p>On my good days, I write, draw, throw myself into music, read, work on my Philosophy of Life. On my bad days, I spend massive amounts of time on the Internet…</p>
<p>Oh, and Shady, you’re so cool.</p>
<p>And Hollyert I agree with itsgametime, I’m definitly going to buy your book because you seem like such an awesome person and I am amazed that you’re a published high schooler!</p>
<p>My last XC season just ended. I was on varsity as a junior before an infuriatingly timed knee injury this year. The first-semester play also just concluded; I’ve done some backstage/stage managerial work on every play. I wrote a 40-page research paper on the feminist reaction to single-sex education in the 1990s that kind of consumed my life for a few months, too, but that as well is done with. Right now my ECs include homework, socializing, and CC. >.<</p>
<p>EDIT: I also build websites when I’m too stressed out to work. It’s a dangerously time-consuming preoccupation to have, but hell, sometimes I get paid for it XD</p>
<p>You guys are so sweet Thanks a lot. Hopefully we’ll meet at Brown next year and I’ll sign all your copies :D</p>
<p>CC just ended and track hasn’t started…so pretty much it’s school (which is too easy this semester, i’m worried brown won’t like it, but i literally couldn’t take anything harder), and the GABY, a youth board that gives out grants to fund community youth-let projects…</p>
<p>Yay another cross-country runner!!!
I wrote my common app short answer on XC, and mentioned my favorite running-related quotes:
- Date runners, all the rest are players.
- Our sport is your sport’s punishment.</p>
<p>Those quotes are great!</p>
<p>Well I don’t know if I’d call running punishment for my sport… it’s more like conditioning :p</p>
<p>for golfers it would be called unnecessary 
xc is quite a demanding sport.</p>
<p>and i really like those 2 quotes too</p>
<p>Oh yes, I love that quote “our sport is your sport’s punishment”. so true.
At lacrosse it’s “go run until you puke” for something like losing a ball XD</p>