<p>I think I’m one of the few - Princeton is a HUGE reach for me, so I figured I had nothing to lose, haha! :)</p>
<p>book: The Kite Runner
movie: Aladdin
website: YouTube.com
two adjectives: weird , funny
recording: Ali Ababwa (from aladdin)
memento: my tempur pedic pillow
inspiration: the moon
word: ouais
line from a movie or book: i don’t have one</p>
<p>anyone care to say whether or not i messed up hugely on the last one (line from a movie or book) ??</p>
<p>dillbilly123: I don’t think you messed up at all, and the reason I think so is that I believe that Princeton added these questions because they simply wanted to know us better. (As you’ve probably heard a million times xD) But, I’m not 100% sure in this, and I have to say that I have seen many posts here that said some weight are given into your choices of responses. Nevertheless, you couldn’t possibly go wrong without answering one or some of these responses… (After all, they ARE optional, aren’t they? :D)</p>
<p>Hmm, on that note, I totally forgot to paste in my “inspiration” on the other page. Oops.</p>
<p>^I wanna see it! 
Does it have to do with horses, by any chance? Haha.</p>
<p>Hahah no, not really. It’s really lame, just about how I’ve set up my bedroom to be kind of a shrine to creative thought. Not to mention it looks like a rainbow threw up in there.</p>
<p>I think that’s pretty cool, actually. ^_^</p>
<p>Haha, thanks! Although my room is less of an inspiration and more of a cave of horrendous mess and destruction since I’ve been working on these applications. ;)</p>
<p>Haha, everything becomes a mess during the app process. I think I gained like 10 pounds. lol. But in the last few days (after I was finally done completely!), I think I’ve already lost 5 of them. Haha.</p>
<p>I wish I could. I feel like a blimp. All I eat is spoonfuls of Nutella when I finally emerge from the cave. Soooo fun. And healthy.</p>
<p>book: the federalist papers
movie: slumdog millionaire
website: 538.com
words: compassionate and dedicated
recording: The White Album
Inspiration: the founding fathers
Word: Love
Memento: A letter from my mom
Quote:It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live-- Harry potter</p>
<p>Hmmm. I might post this later.</p>
<p>I actually really enjoyed this part of the app, as I feel it tells something about the applicant that can’t come out through essays. In a way it kind of makes up for the rather bland essay prompts- I preferred the essay options from Tufts much more.</p>
<p>Yeah, the personal info sections are a nice touch to the app, although I prefer Stanford’s personal info over princetons. I dont think you can draw as much out of someone with just superlatives.</p>
<p>book: 1984
movie: I Am Legend [it’s really not my fav…I’ve never had a fav movie so I just put down the last one that I saw :p]
website: livejournal.com
two adjectives: perceptive, something else I can’t remember
recording: Ballade No.4 by Chopin
memento: [left blank]
inspiration: Music+lyrics
word: ephemeral
line from a movie or book (and title): “…because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have another opportunity on earth.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</p>
<p>I liked princeton’s personal responses better than yale’s.</p>
<p>I just realized I came off as unbelievably pretentious. Completely unintentionally.</p>
<p>book: Atlas Shrugged
movie: Fight Club
website: reddit.com
words: entrepreneurial, suave
recording: Fur Elise
Inspiration: struggle
Word: Eudemonia
Memento: My LEGO collection
Quote:“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever - the goal is to create something that will.” - Diary</p>
<p>^
You and I would get along well.</p>
<p>^ So in the book, did our world fall over?</p>
<p>@Ivy_Equestrian18 - love your answers :)</p>
<p>haha I sorta just went on and on…so directly copied </p>
<p>book: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. For other books (if you care) I have so many favorites: Sherlock Holmes, Life Expectancy (Dean Koontz), The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984, Crime and Punishment, The Power and the Glory, Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain, Freakonomics, The English Patient, LOTR, Dune, and Twilight. </p>
<p>word: defenestration
movie: Fracture
momento: a small, smooth, thin, black jelly bean-shaped rock from a long forgotten beach.
website: Wikipedia, lmgtfy.com
inspiration: the taste of winter air</p>
<p>adj: Idiosyncratic and bouncy, but Ive been called nice, ambitious, helpful, hilarious, individualistic, naïve, rational, inventive, and thoughtful. Im blunt in speech but prone to altiloquence, procrastinatory but purposeful, pragmatic and crepuscular and lucky! </p>
<p>recording: Flight of the Bumblebee - Sharaevskiy Rostislav @ aadgt.org; Sure Thing Falling, City of Devils -Yellowcard; God Put a Smile upon Your Face, Fix You, Cemeteries of London - Coldplay; Brusied, Dark Blue, Bloodshot Eyes - Jacks Mannequin; Liebesträume, Hungarian Rhapsodies - Leslie Howard</p>
<p>quote: Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable, let’s prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams.</p>
<p>I think I sort of went overboard, but I really couldn’t decide.</p>
<p>Why does everyone love the word “defenestration” so much? It seems like SO many people say that’s their favorite word! (Not on this thread, but just in life. :D)</p>