<p>I'm just wonder how orginal my favorites were on the Princeton ap. so if you could post yours I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>Song..... "I Can" by Nas
Movie.... Bodyguard
Website... <a href="http://www.amazon.com%5B/url%5D">www.amazon.com</a>
Keepsake.... Tiffany's bracelet
Newsource... CNN (I was gonna put the Daily Show but decided against it)</p>
<p>I can't remember any of the other ones. Sorry if I forgot any.</p>
<p>I honestly don't think Princeton cares that much about the favorites section. I can't remember what I put for most of them, but I put CNN for favorite news source, too.</p>
<p>Song: 3rd movement of Winter in "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi (wasn't sure about putting that one because I didn't want to sound presumptuous, but I'm a violin player and it really is my favorite song so I decided to put it).</p>
<p>Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</p>
<p>Website: <a href="http://www.dance.net%5B/url%5D">www.dance.net</a></p>
<p>Keepsake: All of my old journals and my current journal</p>
<p>News source: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (I figured the adcoms would mostly be pretty liberal and wouldn't mind)</p>
<p>(EDIT--Favorite source of inspiration: I can't remember at all what I said.)</p>
<p>I tried to sound original, but ended up just being myself. I guess that's all they really want. I think if people are honest about their favorites, it gives an accurate portrayal of the person. I guess from my favorites--and maybe looking a little further into my application--one might be able to tell that I play the violin and love it, I speak Mandarin and enjoy Chinese cinema, I dance and love it, I am a thinker (or whatever my journals say about me), I know what's going on the world, and I enjoy a good laugh.</p>
<p>But how do they know if people are really being honest? They can't possibly know, so I don't think they put any weight on these favorites. I think it's just helps them see the applicant more as a person than just another paper-crammed folder.</p>
<p>I think there was also
favorite source of inspiration</p>
<p>Song: Hallelujah (yes the one from shrek lol)
News: NY Times
Keepsake: Stuffed Ox my mother made for me when I was 3</p>
<p>the rest were really boring...actually, the ones I just listed are pretty boring too. I didn't think too much about this section, but if I could do it again, I'd put
<a href="http://uploads.ungrounded.net/190000/190465_egg_song_English_2.swf%5B/url%5D">http://uploads.ungrounded.net/190000/190465_egg_song_English_2.swf</a>
as my favorite website.</p>
<p>Hallelujah -- not just from Shrek. They played it on the OC last season a couple times. :) AND OMG!!! I can't believe you know about the egg song! I love that thing!</p>
<p>Song: "Get it While You Can", Janis Joplin
Keepsake: Old, dusty, negatives.
Movie: Apocalypse Now
Website: <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org%5B/url%5D">www.wikipedia.org</a>
Source of Inspiration: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and all the other tripped out authors of the 60's
News: Live with Regis & Kelly (catch the first 5 minutes)
Book: Catcher in the Rye
Adjectives: Thirsty, Demanding</p>
<p>ooh! good idea! Going back to commonapp online for the first time in a long time...</p>
<p>and my PDF isn't working. Let's see what I remember.</p>
<p>Source of inspiration: "Defying Gravity" from Wicked
News: NPR
Keepsake: I wanted to put "the button I stuck up my nose when I was four", but I was finishing my application in China and didn't have access to Acrobat so I couldn't print preview my supplement to make sure everything fit. Thus I changed it to "Signed copy of the Joy Luck Club
website: <a href="http://www.google.com%5B/url%5D">www.google.com</a>
Movie: Mary Poppins
Album/recording: The Planets
Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p>
<p>Oh I forgot, I put "Still-Life with Woodpecker" for book</p>
<p>KNOW about the egg song? I think I introduced it on CC, lol.</p>
<p>That egg song is the most awesome thing ever!</p>
<p>Here is the full list, in order as it appears on the app::</p>
<p>Book: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Recording: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Movie: American Beauty
News: Christian Science Monitor
Website: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com%5B/url%5D">www.motherjones.com</a>
Keepsake: plastic dinosaur from childhood
Inspiration: Psalms
2 adjectives friends use to describe you: smart, hot</p>
<p>I think this section is important IF it accurately reflects the rest of your application, which in my case, it does.</p>
<p>zante's future husband(s)</p>
<p>You said hot, mzlover? lol</p>
<p>no thanks ilcapo, I already have a man</p>
<p>lol, well I asked my friends on AIM, and those were the two most popular responses. I didn't wanna LIE. lol</p>
<p>book: the tao of physics
recording: hayaku
movie: lagaan
news: news.google.com
keepsake: a yantra
inspiration: my environment
adjectives: i forgot, lol</p>
<p>your environment....?</p>
<p>book: All the Pretty Horses
recording: "She's My Kind of Rain"-Tim McGraw
movie: In America
news: San Francisco Chronicle
keepsake: don't remember
inspiration: the prologue to Bertrand Russel's autobiography
adjectives: dedicated, bookish</p>
<p>MzLover: my surroundings, the people and ideas I'm exposed to</p>
<p>oops, hope that was clear in the pton app :D</p>
<p>Does favorite recording mean CD? I was a little suprised when people put down songs instead of albums.</p>
<p>Book: Bluest Eye and Black Like Me
Recording:omg I put as much as it would fit into the space
Movie: Lion king
News: nytimes
Website: google.com
Keepsake: letters?
Inspiration: friends, books, music
2 adjectives friends use to describe you: smart, compassionate</p>
<p>I had a hard time picking favorites...hope they don't get annoyed by the blatant ignorations of their request :p</p>
<p>I think I watched Lagaan in my history class- good movie. <baliwood></baliwood></p>
<p>Did everyone put down a song? I put down an album.</p>