Brown College
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foolish_m0rtalI am applying to a residential college that exists within my university. It's called Brown College, and it sounds absolutely amazing and a perfect fit for me. Many people who I've got along with very well in the past, and many friends of mine have ended up living in Brown. I didn't apply last year because I was under the impression it was a college kid place, and not necessarily a place for engineers. Guess where all my engineering friends are living this year? Yup. T_T Sometimes regrets are the only proof you are learning from life.
Brown College has its own application, which is due on November 13. I've started a bit late, I'll admit. Because the essays are strange and fantastic, I'm posting the questions here for everyone to see. We must pick one from each set to write about.
I'm also posting the essays I write as I churn them out, but because I know there are external links to my blog, some of which may be accessed at some point by UVa students, I'm going to make the posts friends only until I get either my acceptance/rejection letter. (Oh please oh please let me INNN. I created a new 'brown college' tag on LJ as a good luck charm to help me get IN, so I can start blogging about this awesome place) Because the essay submission is totally anonymous, I can't afford to have anything compromised and have to write new things all over again. Then again, I think it would be constructive to get some feedback from everybody.
question 1 - PERSONAL BACKGROUND
a. Your friends are staging an intervention for you. They’re all fools, however, and you wind up
organizing everything yourself. What vice will you focus on and why?
b. Who would be the worst person (real or fictional) to pursue you romantically? Be aware that
you will NEVER love this person back.
question 2 - FUTURE PLANS
a. All of the world’s fluids will turn to mayonnaise, catching you unawares. As a result, you want to
kill yourself, but you don’t want to bleed mayonnaise all over everything. You’d drink poison,
but the poison is mayonnaise. What will you do?
b. You invented a time machine by putting a handful of change in a jar full of drain cleaner. If you
sit next to it, you will travel into the future very slowly. How will you be able to tell?
c. You have access to a crystal ball, and discover your first-born child will be a total asshole. What do you do in order to warn the people he will someday meet?
your space:
This space is yours. Use it as you wish.
question 3 - ABSTRACT REASONING
a. If truth is a woman, what then?
b. Mr. Clean is your illegitimate father. How do you simultaneously gain his acceptance and tarnish his spotless reputation?
question 4 - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
a. You come home to find Amelia Earhart, caked in your parents’ blood. Your parents, oddly, are fine. Still, this is only your second-worst birthday. What the hell happened last year?
b. Dear Applicant: It seems my doppleganger appeared in a series of erotic daguerrotypes from the late 1800’s. Please advise.
question 5 - ARTISTIC SUPPLEMENT
a. Use pictographs to explain why your alimony payments are late.
b. Describe the ultimate sandwich either as a flowchart or in an established form of poetry (haikus will be brutally savaged).
c. Imagine your dream house, as conceived by your five-year-old self. Revise the blueprints given
the bitterness and hostility that comes with the wisdom of age.
Brown College has its own application, which is due on November 13. I've started a bit late, I'll admit. Because the essays are strange and fantastic, I'm posting the questions here for everyone to see. We must pick one from each set to write about.
I'm also posting the essays I write as I churn them out, but because I know there are external links to my blog, some of which may be accessed at some point by UVa students, I'm going to make the posts friends only until I get either my acceptance/
question 1 - PERSONAL BACKGROUND
a. Your friends are staging an intervention for you. They’re all fools, however, and you wind up
organizing everything yourself. What vice will you focus on and why?
b. Who would be the worst person (real or fictional) to pursue you romantically? Be aware that
you will NEVER love this person back.
question 2 - FUTURE PLANS
a. All of the world’s fluids will turn to mayonnaise, catching you unawares. As a result, you want to
kill yourself, but you don’t want to bleed mayonnaise all over everything. You’d drink poison,
but the poison is mayonnaise. What will you do?
b. You invented a time machine by putting a handful of change in a jar full of drain cleaner. If you
sit next to it, you will travel into the future very slowly. How will you be able to tell?
c. You have access to a crystal ball, and discover your first-born child will be a total asshole. What do you do in order to warn the people he will someday meet?
your space:
This space is yours. Use it as you wish.
question 3 - ABSTRACT REASONING
a. If truth is a woman, what then?
b. Mr. Clean is your illegitimate father. How do you simultaneously gain his acceptance and tarnish his spotless reputation?
question 4 - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
a. You come home to find Amelia Earhart, caked in your parents’ blood. Your parents, oddly, are fine. Still, this is only your second-worst birthday. What the hell happened last year?
b. Dear Applicant: It seems my doppleganger appeared in a series of erotic daguerrotypes from the late 1800’s. Please advise.
question 5 - ARTISTIC SUPPLEMENT
a. Use pictographs to explain why your alimony payments are late.
b. Describe the ultimate sandwich either as a flowchart or in an established form of poetry (haikus will be brutally savaged).
c. Imagine your dream house, as conceived by your five-year-old self. Revise the blueprints given
the bitterness and hostility that comes with the wisdom of age.
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Date: 2009-10-18 08:02 am (UTC)I'm so tempted to do 1B! lol I have a million different things I could do with that!!!
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Date: 2009-10-18 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-19 04:16 am (UTC)It's Skunky
Date: 2009-10-19 11:28 pm (UTC)I agree. I'm partway through kuroshitsuji...
But I still think you could find worse.
Ringwraiths were a good start...
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Date: 2009-10-18 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-18 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-18 09:17 pm (UTC)For History, Amelia's got some weird tastes, but man last year you should not have invited those velociraptors and the Pope. I mean, AWKWARD, But damn did those raptors know how to party.
The Pope can breakdance. It was GloriousGranted, when Blackbeard crashed the party is was kinda a downer what with him flirting with your mom, but he brought some epic lootz as a gift.Expand as needed.
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Date: 2009-10-18 09:22 pm (UTC)I was really worrying about finishing these on time, but now you've got ideas going through my head. (do you mind if I use the Brawny and Ms. Buttersworth thing?)
I was going to do the doppleganger one perhaps and do like a fake Surgeon General's report, but now I feel that would be too much like the 'asshole' question (#2) and perhaps that would take away from that essay.
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Date: 2009-10-18 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-03 06:46 am (UTC)http://foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com/61632.html
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Date: 2009-10-19 11:26 pm (UTC)I also suggest melting yourself for the mayonaise one. Or making a cake from your own fluids. Or possibly deviled eggs. SHOW YOUR MAYONAISE PROWESS!
If it's anything like the Nazgul thing before, you shoudl get in for sure...
I HOPE THEY ACCEPT YOU.
IF THEY DON'T THEY HAVE NO TASTE
AND NOT ONE SINGLE SUSHI RESTAURANT.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:18 am (UTC)WHO DOES HEAVEN HAVE? ELGAR AND LISZT!
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:31 am (UTC)DON'T MESS WITH LISZT.
BUT DEBUSSY'S IN HELL FOR SURE.
A PITY, REALLY.
(WHY ARE WE TALKING IN ALL CAPS, STILL?)
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:34 am (UTC)IT'S LIKE WHEN DEATH TALKS.
ER... >_>
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:37 am (UTC)UNLESS THIS IS SANDMAN...
IN WHICH CASE, I SHOULD BE TALKING NORMALLY AND INSTEAD SAY, "peachy-keen!"
AND:
"Is the chemical aftertaste the whole reason people eat hot-dogs or is that just some kind of bonus?"
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:42 am (UTC)- Uh-Uh. It's always been like this.
You probably just don't get out enough."
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:36 am (UTC)Aziraphale suppresses a cultured shudder.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:40 am (UTC)Who I also liked.
One question--if Crowley's Bentley turns things into Best of Queen, is Freddie Mercury inherently infernal?
And what about my dear Ravel? D: *can't imagine Heaven without Ravel*no subject
Date: 2009-10-20 01:44 am (UTC)Like how Aziraphale and Crowley both thought speeding tickets were each others ideas.
A place without Rachmaninoff is not worth living in