<p>book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coeljo and Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling
website: Red Carpet and Rebellion
movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
keepsake or memento: A lovely nacre pendant
recording: Drops of Jupiter by Train
source of inspiration: music
two adjectives: crazy, creative
word: magic
quote: When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. – “the Alchemist” by
Paulo Coeljo</p>
<p>book: A thousand splendid suns(i believe, not sure if it maid the cut acutally)
website: MLIA nd community channel (youtube)
movie: Forrest gump
keepsake/memento: Painting my brothers made for me when I was 3
recording: Imagine by John Lennon
source of inspiration: the greek mythology
adjectives: cheerful absentminded
word: crisp
quote: cela est bien dit repondit candide mais il faut cultiver notre jardin in “Candide ou l’optimisme” by voltair</p>
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<p>o_O’’ Question: do they want applicants to be honest?</p>
<p>no i’m not from france actually. are you?</p>
<p>i don’t know if i should put the quote in french…adcom might get confused reading that much french</p>
<p>ch’ti is a dialect of french spoken in the north…it’s crazy. ch’ti=c’est toi. ch’timi=c’est moi.</p>
<p>i intend to major in linguistics</p>
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<p>It’s not from a book though; idk where he said he.</p>
<p>Is it ok if the quote comes from the movie?</p>
<p>Movie: Back to the Future
Book: Water for Elephants
Website: imdb.com
Recording: You Belong with Me, Taylor Swift
Source of inspiration: Disney Movies
adjectives: surprising, mathy (my friends call me this all the time, though it’s not a word)
quote: “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are going to love it” -Marty Mcfly, Back to the Future
memento: Badminton Birdie</p>
<p>^You sound like someone I’d like to be friends with! Compare your answers to mine and you’ll why:</p>
<p>Movie: Disney’s “Robin Hood”
Book: “Mike and Psmith” by P.G. Wodehouse
Website: Fanfiction.net
Recording: “Fifteen” by Taylor Swift
Source of inspiration: Nature
Adjectives: Creative, passionate
Quote: “What if we just sang and laughed together for the rest of our lives?” - Evening
Memento: My gigantic teddy bear, Raspberry
Word: Empyrean</p>
<p>@darkblademaster: lol I don’t see why not be honest? Those are my fav books so I listed them :)</p>
<p>Is it mandatory to write something in for all the fields?
…because I’ve never had a favorite movie in my life, lol</p>
<p>@ wg90210 no im also not from france. Well they are both pretty famous quotes,(actually they are one quote combined:p) so you can expect the adcoms to know them</p>
<p>@nelesy: Exactly. Don’t like us as we are? (Then the school’s not good enough for us. lol)</p>
<p>Aww, I like this thread! Good way to get to know everybody. I kind of wish more colleges had a section like this on their application.</p>
<p>Anyway, here’s what I put:</p>
<p>Book: The Brothers Karamazov
Movie: The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Website: [LiveJournal.com</a> - Start a Free Blog / Journal Today](<a href=“http://www.livejournal.com%5DLiveJournal.com”>http://www.livejournal.com)
Adjectives: insightful, reserved
Recording: “Geisterfahrer” by Tokio Hotel
Keepsake/memento: A gold necklace with my name as the pendant
Source of inspiration: Music
Word: Listen
Quote: “I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.” - The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien</p>
<p>THIS IS WHAT THE ADMISSIONS OFFICERS WILL “LOVE” (notice how the list gets more perverted)</p>
<p>Fave site: facebook
fave movie: G. I. Joe: rise of cobra
fave book: twilight
fave word: doh
fave phrase: “your mother is so fat, that when she jumped for joy, she got stuck!”
fave memento: set of condoms
fave inspiration: women’s washroom
fave recording: taylor rain’s videos (go look this up)
two descriptive words : sensual, insensitive</p>
<p>^ hah that’s what I’d call an auto-admit</p>
<p>Book: Gone with the Wind
Movie: King of California
Source of Inspiration: New York City
Quote: All light is mute, with a bellowing like the ocean / Turbulent in a storm of warring winds. - The Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky translation
Adjectives: Eclectic and rational
Keepsake: A box of old greeting cards
Word: Whimsical
Recording: Hard to Explain, The Strokes
Favorite website: is it really vain to say shopbop.com? bc thatd be it, or like probably another clothing website if not shopbop.</p>
<p>@darkblade : eeeeexactly! It’s a take it or leave it deal.</p>
<p>^ :)</p>
<p>@taintedlove21: The Things They Carried is an amazing book. Good choice.</p>
<p>@altruition: Oh yes. Adcoms can’t resist but accepting you when they see that.</p>
<p>Lol my favourite word is **<strong><em>, but I always say it in a joking way lol… and seriously my friends would use the word </em></strong> to describe me, but again in a funny way… sigh dunno whether i shud use it haha</p>
<p>haha OMG they even censored it… so much for b!tch</p>
<p>Would it be okay to use the same quote for the short answer as for the supp. essay (choose your own quote, option 4)? Or should I put a different quote?</p>
<p>Book The Fountainhead
Movie Once
Website architectureblog.■■■■■■■■■■
Recording By the Time - Mika
Source of inspiration seeing something be done flawlessly (too general? not sure how to better convey it, like if I watch a ridiculous piano performance I’ll want to go practice, or if I see an amazing piece of artwork I’ll want to go draw)
Word - intense</p>