<p>100 hours… the dream is gonna either live forever or die this Thurs. </p>
<p>@jackson61 you made my day! Trust me if you are applying to these schools you are anything but inadequate in every sense of the word. 100 hours seems so soon but so far away</p>
<p>I made mine about destroying my created reality of books to come into myself socially, with Pride and Prejudice references</p>
<p>@XxCountdownxX haha, my Harvard optional essay was almost the opposite of that :P</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Erected a created reality? o:</p>
<p>My optional was about cooking lol.</p>
<p>@XxCountdownxX ^:)^ </p>
<p>4 more days, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(( [-X </p>
<p>@XxCountdownxX kind of… more along the lines of “discovering” words and using them in a paradoxical way to learn more about the world while escaping from the world around me (I’m slightly anti-social and would prefer the company of a good book to almost any person, haha. I didn’t say that, though :P)</p>
<p>I read all of these optionals and I’m like “Yup. I’m gonna get rejected.”</p>
<p>My UChicago and Harvard ones were better than my Yale one, I think. My UChicago “favorites” essay was on my favorite hobby, time travel, and my Harvard long essay ended with “And it was freaking awesome.”</p>
<p>@LAMuniv SAME HERE. My parents had such a terrible time dragging me away from my books… I have a video of me on my fourth birthday, and my parents were helping me open my gifts… They were like “Look, [Jackson]! Clothes! A board game!” and I was like “That’s nice, but can I please go back to my book now?”</p>
<p>Antisociality for the win, man. It’s great to be an INTJ. </p>
<p>lol. @jackson61 I’m guessing a lot of people who apply to HYP are INTJs. :P</p>
<p>@DreamsofNewHaven i love cooking :D</p>
<p>@jackson61 I’m an INTJ too! So many struggles being an INTJ girl surrounded by an entire school of loud extroverts… </p>
<p>@jackson61 omg you’re amazing lol</p>
<p>I’m second guessing my essays right now… my common app one was about me shaving my head </p>
<p>okay I didn’t state that one well lol. I’m Black and I had chemically straightened my hair. So I wrote about breaking social norms by shaving my head to start anew, embracing myself and my culture.
My last line was “You’ll know me by my wide smile and full 'fro!”</p>
<p>@XxCountdownxX I think that’s really cool. :)</p>
<p>You guys have great stories! I hope after this whole process we can actually send each other our statements</p>
<p>Argh! After reading all these ah-mazing essay ideas, I’m really worried about my own essays. They were such generic topics… I should’ve been more specific. Poo. But there’s nothing I can do about that now.</p>
<p>Wow, compared to yours, my essays suck SOOOO much. One of them was about how not getting drunk with everyone during a debating summer school changed my perspective on learning, but the ending was so terribly generic…meh</p>
<p>Well, mine was about peeling potatoes so…hope everyone feels better</p>