<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>A lot of people are curious about what we wrote about, so here are my topics:
8. My work w/ Lou Gehrig's Disease and it's connection to me
9. Water purification for third-world countries and rural areas and my research about it
10. How I love talking
11b. My guru and his guru. :D</p>
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<li>Medical mission in North Korean region</li>
<li>Universal Theory (cliched hehe)</li>
<li>My friends and I
11a. My piano concert</li>
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<li>my work as a tutor for minorities</li>
<li>cognitive psychology and how thoughts/feelings are formed - i really liked this one</li>
<li>my work as a baseball umpire
11b. my quote was "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning." - i basically talked about my passion for learning and how it feuled me to do so</li>
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<li>The National Student Leadership Conference on Forensic Science in Washington D.C., where I met a girl from Columbia who told me about her life experiences with gangs, fear, etc. I also mentioned that I got the award for "Leading an Investigation and Always Smiling"</li>
<li>the idea of truth and what others have said about it and how it forms the basis of an individual's actions, and I will inevitably see the variety of beliefs in the college setting</li>
<li>REALLY random. Told my roommate that we will go to Disneyland before orientation and show him all the uncanny stuff I know about Disneyland
11 b. my quote "Knowing that here on earth, God's work must truly be our own." -JFK memorial monument at Arlington Cemetery. I talked about how when I was in fifth grade, my sister had a brain problem and almost died, but she was very strong-willed and survived the surgery, even though she had less than a one percent chance of survival. I inputed how it affected me, my thoughts during the ordeal, how her persistence inspires me to face every challenge with courage. ended it with Carpe Diem.</li>
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<p>I got defered, by the way (low SAT and AP scores - 2180 and a 3 and 4)</p>
<p>Great idea for a thread. Thanks man...</p>
<p>haha i remember reading the '10 post for this</p>
<p>essay 1: medical research that was published
essay 2: string theory
essay 3: debate
the pic one: volunteering + living through the embarrassing houston panic/evacuation of rita</p>
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<li>Being a part of the Junior Classical League/the glory that is the California JCL annual convention</li>
<li>Crazy historical parallels (the Second Samnite War/WWII; the 17th century religious wars in Europe/current theopolitical issues)...I definitely needed more than 300 words for this one...<br></li>
<li>How I'm afraid of painting because it's so permanent, but paint anyway
the quote one: really wide ranging...but basically started with a quote by this artist about how OCD he was about being a perfect pointillist...and how this desire for perfection in divisionism actually detracted from his work...and then how I try to be a non-obsessive-divisionist in life...it's kind of hard to summarize coherently...</li>
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<li>How I loved telling stories as a one year old when nobody could understand what I was talking about (:)) ,and how that love has turned into a passion for literature and writing.</li>
<li>Ummm...it's not really that intellectual, but I wrote about how solar energy is used in poor villages to light the houses, and how I appreciate and feel excited about advanced technology used in places that need it the most, however fundamental and simple the applications may be.</li>
<li>Commuting to school by train everyday, and how it's formed both spiritual and physical balance in me. I also talked a bit about memorizing Chinese poetry while standing on a train.
11a. A little park in front of the train station, where homeless people gather at night. I talked about how the sight of the homeless has affected me since I saw them for the first time, and how I want to use words and literature to reach out to the homeless and inspire more people to help them.</li>
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<li>Marathon Running</li>
<li>Rain drops on my window.</li>
<li>Playing Risk
11a. Something about robotics. :)</li>
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<li>My love of programming</li>
<li>Nanotechnology (cliche I know, but I've actually read up on this stuff (connected it to programming))</li>
<li>How I had a summer camp roomate - we both had quirks and had to accept eachother (me - whistling, always listening to music, etc, him - nightmare, needed a nightlight.)
11a. My 3 summers as an intern at a visual effects company
-Aaron</li>
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<li>Working as Editor for Art and Literary Magazine</li>
<li>"Love"- emotion, or chemical reaction?</li>
<li>Quote, "Non scholae sed vitae discisimus", "We learn not for school, but for life". Interactions between academics and real life</li>
<li>Picture of my 5 year old friend with Juvenile Diabetes testing himself, discussion on the impact of medical research on people's lives, specifically stem cell research.</li>
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<li>Cheerleading, and how it is different from other sports because every single person matters and we don't have a bench</li>
<li>How physics taught me to tumble</li>
<li>How soccer taught me that respecting people and liking them are two different things, but when part of a team (such as roomates) respect is more importan
11b. "george washington syndrome" or my inability to sacrafice my integrity at the cost of diplomacy</li>
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<li>How I wasn't all that great at wrestling (I'm a girl)</li>
<li>My experience working in the Exploratorium Machine Shop</li>
<li>A story about my brother losing his favorite stuffed duck and how we went about finding him.
11a. How my family builds a haunted house every halloween, how that's shaped me into how i want to be an engineer, and how I want pictures documenting how it has evolved.</li>
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<li>The benefit concert I am putting on for the American Cancer Society and how I see it as the culmination of my experiences from each of my extracurricular activities</li>
<li>The Butterfly Effect in terms of groundwater depletion and the surrounding riprarian ecosytem; basically, how our generation needs to be more conscious of water loss, which has been the focus of my reseach work at ASU for the past 2 years</li>
<li>My last name and how my roomate better be able to say it! Jk, it's really hard to say and people rarely say it right, so I talked about how to say it, what it means, and how it serves as a metaphor for my own quirky characteristics
11b. My experiences at the hospice where I volunteer at, specifically with a patient that I had gotten very close to, which I tied to a quote by Marianne Williamson, "Your playing small does not serve the world...there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you"</li>
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<li>This experience I had once at my music school where I was practicing the piano, and noticed a little boy and his father watching/listening, and how it has helped me realize how much I've grown all these years musically.</li>
<li>The run-up to the 2004 Presidential Election, when my school was rife with partisanship and how the only place I found open and honest dialogue on the issues was in the football locker room amongst my teammates.</li>
<li>How I'm a god-awful skiier but I still accepted my hardcore-skiing friend's offer to come up with him to Vermont and ski.
11a. I've had the same barber for 13 years, and how the barbershop is one place I can really relax and find peace.</li>
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<li><p>Basketball. I paralled it to a drug (ie: started with "I am a drug user") and didn't say I was talking about basketball until the very last word.</p></li>
<li><p>The intimate connection between math and physics, and how they together create the best possible environment for describing the world.</p></li>
<li><p>How every weekend I take little, local mini-busses, and how sitting there with people in extreme poverty reminds me of the reality of the country I like in, and how the situation is reversed at my school (I'm the comparatively poor one there).</p></li>
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<p>11b. Art is more expansive than some people try and label it. Physics, math, basketball, even stuff like running or talking can be art. I tied it to Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.</p>
<p>I can't wait to meet you all next year. Everyone's so interesting!!! My essays sound so boring now... :D</p>
<p>I guess my essays are pretty normal as well.</p>
<p>Same here. Skatearabia, can I read your basketball essay? You can send it to me after college app season.. it just sounds really really good lol.</p>
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<li><p>Swimming in high school, what it means to me and teaching free swim lessons to inner-city kids</p></li>
<li><p>art from a neurological perspective, the parrallels between my interest in art and in science</p></li>
<li><p>A box I kept my Halloween candy in when I was little. When someone started stealing the candy, I made a burglar alarm to see who it was. The alarm didn't work, but after that I was a lot more interested in electronics than candy.</p></li>
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<p>11a. My summer working on a trail crew in Oregon.</p>
<p>figgiesblazin--Working in the Exploratorium Machine shop sounds awesome! How did you find out about that?</p>