Rants - Closure for US applications

I've written about an introduction to US undergrad education for my juniors in the acjcboleh blog. It's more like a consolidation of links. hahha. Oh well, why write when there're so many authors who've said it well? :p

Btw, recently, the Wall Street Journal got 10 university presidents to answer their own admission essay questions. I SOOOOO wish I read this to have a better glimpse of essay-writing... oh well..

List of essays:

1. Barnard College's Debora Spar on daily routines
2. Carleton College's Robert A. Oden Jr. on getting lost -- and found -- in Cairo
3. Grinnell College's Russell K. Osgood on a historical figure that has influenced him
4. Oberlin College's Marvin Krislov on a historical figure that has influenced him
5. Pomona College's David Oxtoby on an experience that was 'just plain fun'
6. Reed College's Colin Diver on an experience in diversity
7. The University of Chicago's Robert J. Zimmer on "Living the Question"
8. University of Pennsylvania's Amy Gutmann on her autobiography
9. Vassar College's Catharine Hill on an influential person in her life
10. Wesleyan University's Michael S. Roth on an influential person in his life

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*On second thought, few of the above are nice. Oh wellz. Read urself to figure out which is nice.

No. I'm not sharing mine. not now, at least.

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After all the stress put into the essays, the SAT exams, the money, the timeee, the mind bogglement, i only got waitlisted at three places. and i just submitted a sucky letter to two of them. and a pretty good one to one of them. but, chances are like 1%? sigh. oh wellz. might as well count it as zero.

oh well, life goes on. i've been blessed and good in some ways too.

look forward, i will.