@collegeapps2k14 Really? Wow, I thought I picked an obscure one lol
Well, anyway, here’s to both of us talking about the Defenestration of Prague at Stanford this fall! Good luck with your apps!
I chose the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation cause I think I would’ve been an abolitionist 
Publication of On the Origin of Species… I had a short explanation but I couldn’t think of much else!
I said Ferguson (given its proximate relevance)
@butterfreesnd not obscure at all, considering that a sizeable amount of high schoolers applying to competitive colleges like Stanford take lots of AP classes. Lots of AP classes probably includes AP Euro. AP Euro means that they know a lot about the 30 yrs war. Lots of info on the 30 yrs war means… info on window incident…
I chose the battle of Agincourt. Did not give this much thought since it was the first event that came to mind. I love the 100 years war and this was a pretty important battle, but in retrospect I guess I could have come up with something else like the eruption of Thera…
I chose the first telephone call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A Watson.
Hi guys, I’m applying this year and to be honest, I wish I could see the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, since it’s not a happy story and might make me look sinister/evil, should I write it? The college asks us to be yourself but is it over the line??
Why would you want to witness that event? That’s what they’re looking for.
Wrote about Hendrix’s rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock. I loved the way he mimicked the sound of bombs as he interweaved it in our national anthem as dissent against the War in Vietnam and how this embodied the '60s counterculture movement – which I can definitely see myself be a part of if I lived back then. Plus its freaking Hendrix, who would miss the opportunity to see him live?
Is it a little sad I was proud of this the most in my Stanford App? (I got rejected btw – but I highly doubt it had anything to do with this answer)
The creation of Euler’s Identity e^ipi + 1 = 0
@bandersnatch You have 50 words to say and explain it.
I put the Peoples Temple Cult in Jonestown Guyana. I find it astonishing that 1,000 people can be brainwashed into following a crazy man to a remote area, and eventually convinced to drink poisonous kool-aid. I just find this so interesting. No, I am not a future serial killer…I am just fascinated by this kind of social psychology.
I think I’m gonna talk about watching how they built the pyramids
Atlantis, a story written 2,500 years ago, by the Greek philosopher Plato, continues to capture the public’s imagination. I would visit Plato in 330 B.C. to discover whether he was trying to warn future generations about climate change, or if it was just an attempt to throw homer’s odyssey as best seller.
Stanford Prision Experiment with ya boy Phillip Zimbardo
California Gold Rush
@sorvis I said that too! I think it would be cool to witness the first time humans realized they could shape their environment instead of simply reacting to it, so witnessing the first man-made fire would be awesome.
The day NASA decided to demote Pluto as a planet.
Kidding, but I did say the first moon landing… and managed to bring up Pluto somehow.
The Eureka! moment when Al Gore invented the internet