<p>SultunPepper: Ahhh Imogen Heap! I was going to put one of her songs, but chose a Morrissey one instead.</p>
<p>^Haha, not a bad choice at all, my friend =]</p>
<p>Book: One hundred years of solitude (Marquez)
Movie: Amelie
website: gives me hope
adjectives: dreamy, memorable
recording: didn’t put anything down.! silly me :
Keepsake: a B&W pic of me screaming when I was 5
inspiration: Haikus
word: berserk
quote: “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” -Life of Pi</p>
<p>I actually really enjoyed these questions (:</p>
<p>
ahh I literally just finished writing a paper on that [it just printed 10 mins ago…]! it’s an amazing book. I put down its very last sentence as my favorite quote :]</p>
<p>Book: Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation: The Difinitive Guide to The Evolutionary Biology of Sex</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>“I’m pretty sure putting “Ulysses” as your favorite book, Citizen Kane as your favorite movie, and Beethoven’s sixth as your favorite recording is the only wrong answer. I think they’re just testing to see if you’re being honest or trying to impress them.” -christiansoldier</p>
<p>Ach, does this mean that putting down Glenn Gould’s “Goldberg Variations” will make me seem like a flake? It is my favorite recording, I swear! <strong>cue foaming at the mouth</strong> :eek:</p>
<p>Movie: Rapture (John Guillermin; 1965)
Book: Les Miserables
Quote: “As a dog returns to its own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.” Proverbs 26: 11 (New International Version)"
Favorite Keepsake: my first purple pen
Favorite Website: pandalous.com
Word: tergiversation</p>
<p>I really wish I had put Rudy for my favorite movie now. =(</p>
<p>Book: The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)</p>
<p>Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</p>
<p>Website: Wikipedia</p>
<p>Adjectives: Savvy and ribald</p>
<p>Recording: Stadium Arcadium (RHCP)</p>
<p>Favorite Keepsake: A teardrop shaped rock. (the only thing I’ve managed to hold onto for so many years)</p>
<p>Inspiration: Music</p>
<p>Quote: " ‘I am myself sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It’s small mining—small mining. You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. you should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age’ " – Steinbeck (East of Eden)</p>
<p>Favorite Word: Vitriol</p>
<p>@bvjise - NICE BRAH</p>
<p>@emachined - Wikipedia was my website too!</p>
<p>Book: Traitor by Matthew Stover</p>
<p>Movie: The Matrix</p>
<p>Recording: “Aurora” by Foo Fighters</p>
<p>Word: accepted (me being clever)</p>
<p>Inspiration: Jorge Luis Borges (my solo instrumental pieces tend to take their names from parts of his works)</p>
<p>Quote: “Twit twit twit, jugjugjugjugjugjug” -T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland</p>
<p>Adjectives: amiable, genius</p>
<p>Keepsake: Incan Cross necklace</p>
<p>I think instead of everyone posting what they actually wrote, it would be far more entertaining to come up with the WORST possible responses to these questions. Any takers?</p>
<p>I think most honest anwers are okay,</p>
<p>here are some things I wouldn’t list:</p>
<p>Book: Going Rogue - An autobiography.
Movie: I don’t waste my valuable time watching such vulgar things as TELEVISION.
Keepsake or momento: My grandfathers’ Third Reich memorabilia. </p>
<p>I also think, but you guys might not agree, trying to be really clever doesn’t work either.
Like, deliberatly trying to pick answers that show your “Love” for Princeton, I think hundreds of people list movies like A Beautiful Mind or Across the Universe just because they are partially filmed at Princeton… Not to say you shouldn’t if it’s really your favorite, but for me it’s a bit artificial. I also wouldn’t leave questions open (esp. the recordings or books ones) either, except if you have a reason to (like someone on this thread had, in combination with the essay)… But these are just my two cents! Possibly everyone here and the admissions office would completely disagree… Just be yourself though.</p>
<p>^
we have the same favorite book ^___^
are you a fellow republican perhaps?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Hahaha, I love TS Eliot. :D</p>
<p>TS Eliot = <3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock has been my favorite poem for yeeeeaaars 
My Common App essay started with the quote “And indeed there will be time to wonder ‘do I dare?’ and ‘do I dare?’”</p>
<p>“Life’s not a marathon, it’s a sprint. Bang.” --Andy and Randy</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Sex Drive - Andy and Randy [HD]](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ln8Umx9ug]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ln8Umx9ug)</p>
<p>lol at “Going Rogue”</p>
<p>^^ YES! The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is absolutely amazing! For me, Eliot is only bested by A.E. Housman - and that’s saying a lot. ;)</p>
<p>I remember the “Love Song” back in AP English Lit sophomore year…good times! But maybe the most memorable poem from that class was “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens. It’s a toss-up between that and “Love Song”. Have you guys read “Emperor”?</p>
<p>^ Incidentally, I read the Love Song for AP English Lang.
I had forgotten all about the Emperor of Ice Cream! That one is pretty awesome, too.</p>
<p>Did you read Ice Cream in Lang or Lit or on your own? :P</p>
<p>I read it in class, but not for an AP. We had to choose a poem for English class in sophomore year for analysis. I chose a Whitman, but my friend chose that one, and we went over all the poems we chose in class.</p>