<p>Your answers are great, too! That quote is awesome.</p>
<p>I put Atlas Shrugged too! Yay capitalism!</p>
<p>okay, look at the def:</p>
<p>Defenestration: (n.) the act of throwing something or esp. someone out of a window.</p>
<p>:) doesn’t that just make you smile inside?</p>
<p>Haha, I know…the definition is good, but its popularity is still uncanny to me. XD</p>
<p>book: The Phantom Tollbooth
movie: Somewhere in Time
Word: Gypsy
Inspiration: JK Rowling
Memento: jewelry from my grandmother
Quote: Luck is the intersection of preparation and opportunity</p>
<p>OMG, The Phantom Tollbooth, I had totally forgotten about that book! I remember reading it seven or eight years ago and <em>loving</em> it. I’m going to have to find a copy.</p>
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<p><em>high five</em> Woohoo fellow LJ-er!</p>
<p>And I loved 1984. Didn’t put it down as my favorite (Brothers Karamazov wins for me), but oh my goodness I loved that book so much. Blew my mind.</p>
<p>George Orwell was one of the most brilliant, if not the most brilliant, writer I’ve read. Too bad he was a socialist.</p>
<p>Haha, The Phantom Tollbooth was a work of art. I loved that book.</p>
<p>Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Website: wikipedia!
Adjectives: driven, witty
Recording: “Why I Am” by Dave Matthews Band
Memento: my first soccer jersey
Inspiration: music
Word: dream
Quote: “This above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Hamlet by Will Shakespeare</p>
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<p>book: Anthem by Ayn Rand
website: projectplaylist.com
recording: Savior by Rise Against
movie: Last Samurai
keepsake: customized chess piece
word: draconian
quote: “…for man grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.” Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>Book: The Little Prince
Website: Google
Recording: Top of the World - The Carpenters
Movie: The Pianist
Keepsake: Memories
Word: Integrity (dunno if this was a good choice, lol, but it kind of goes with the next one)
Quote: “When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things: Define the moment, or let the moment define you.”</p>
<p>I wish I didn’t actually want to go to Princeton. Otherwise, I would have said my favorite book is “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” my favorite movie is Transformers II, my favorite keepsake is my lucky jockstrap, and my favorite word is “hella.” (No, none of those things are actually true).</p>
<p>They’d HAVE to pick me for diversity’s sake.</p>
<p>EDIT: At least I hope they’d have to. I really hope there aren’t too many Tucker Max fans at Princeton.</p>
<p>Book: Journey through Genius (probably good if you like math)
Website: [url=<a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5DArt”>http://www.artofproblemsolving.com]Art</a> of Problem Solving<a href=“BETTER%20THAN%20CC!!”>/url</a>
Inspiration: Donald Duck(I wish they gave me room to explain this)
Movie: A Beautiful Mind (This is where I first heard about Princeton)
Friendly words: passionate and charismatic (blah, probably makes me sound like a snob)
Keepsake: some cartoon picture
Word: Optimism
Quote: 1984 - “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” (nothing didactic, but I just like the quote)</p>
<p>Book: Gone With the Wind
Movie: Steel Magnolias
Recording: le Festin by Camille (from the Ratatouille soundtrack)
Friendly Words: perceptive, pragmatic
Word: Quixotic (inspired by Don Quixote)
Website: the Economist online
Quote: “Lesbian? Her birthday’s in March. I thought she was a Pisces.” - Bend it like Beckham</p>
<p>No inspiration or keepsake… I honestly don’t have one.</p>
<p>Book: I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
Website: Google.com (Lame, but true…)
Recording: An old cassette tape of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” my mother gave me.
Inspiration: Looking at art, modern and old. (Lame, but also true-- I’m an illustrator, and I’m always looking at other illustrators’ work online, as well as the masters’, pop art, etc.)
Movie: Little Shop of Horrors (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog, actually, but they wouldn’t recognize that so I put my other favorite musical. I looove musicals (and animation).)
Friendly words: Open-minded, eccentric.
Keepsake: A “Happy Birthday” drawing one of my best artist buddies drew for me before we parted for the last time. (We’re still in contact online, though.)
Word: “Poppycock”
Quote: “Yes! Ah, yes is a word with a glorious ring! A true universal utopious thing! Engenders embracing and chasing of blues, the very best word for the whole world to use!” - Yellow Submarine</p>
<p>Pardon the formatting, I just thought it’d be easier to read. Haha.
I’m still looking through you guys’ answers… Very interesting choices. I hadn’t originally planned on applying to Princeton, but I’d be very happy to have classmates like you all.
(I’ll probably end up hanging out with the other rejects, though, hahaha.)</p>
<p>^I really like your answers! You should come over to the Princeton hopefuls thread so we can all get to know you better. :D</p>
<p>book: The Catcher in the Rye
website: xkcd.com
recording: I’ll Follow the Sun by The Beatles
inspiration: Dad
Your favorite line from a movie or book (and its title): “Do or do not… there is no try.”-Yoda(Star Wars)
movie: V for Vendetta
Two adjectives: Eclectic and Insightful
Your favorite keepsake or memento: My ID from the New York Stock Exchange
Your favorite word: Quixotic</p>
<p>Oops I guess I forgot to put inspiration and two adjectives:</p>
<p>Inspiration: Frustration
Adjectives: Visionary, Ambitious</p>
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<p>I love that movie! I think it’s where I first heard about Princeton too, believe it or not.</p>
<p>LOLOL, do tell us the story behind Donald Duck as a source of inspiration. That’s awesome. :)</p>