<p>Now that all the applications are in, there’s not much we can do, right? Scores and numbers can be nice, because it gives us something concrete to hold on to while we’re in decision limbo, but it seems like that makes up most of the board. Well, reading some of your profiles (especially extracurricular lists) you seem like interesting people! I thought it would be nice to make a thread to talk about our interests and things, as a way to get to know our future classmates. What are your hobbies? Planning on participating in any of the clubs at Vandy? Read a good book lately? You’ve talked yourself up to admissions. Time to share with the rest of the class. :)</p>
<p>FILM!</p>
<p>Here’s what I actually wrote on my short essay [the one you could talk an activity you do]… obviously, this little essay is no work of art, but it gets my passion for film across.</p>
<p>“I love to get lost in the works of Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Gus Van Sant, and the Coen Brothers. I live for those cinematic moments when I’ve been so emotionally and mentally overwhelmed by a scene that all I can do is shiver and get covered in goosebumps. I am always eager to learn more about film. Since my school offers no film classes, I hit up the friendly movie nerds at the local film store, Video Renaissance, to immerse myself in film knowledge. Additionally, I volunteered for a few days last year for the Sarasota Film Festival, selling shirts, food and tickets(William H. Macy even showed up!). I definitely enjoy being surrounded by others who also appreciate film. I am always intrigued to see how the Director infuses his groundbreaking vision with a beautiful ambiance provided by the Director of Photography, as actors bring the film to life by bearing their souls on the set. Film: the perfect way to become enlightened while simultaneously being entertained.”</p>
<p>I also like videogames a lot. I could play on my SNES & N64 for hours.</p>
<p>I love pop culture, too. And when I say pop culture, I mean 80s and 90s pop culture. I love love love love 80s new wave, and 90s rock-pop [The Cranberries, The Cardigans, Sixpence None the Richer].</p>
<p>As for stuff I’d do at Vandy, I might try to join the orchestra ensemble, since I’ve played the violin for 7 years. Any other hippie club would definitely be an option, too.</p>
<p>Anyone else care to elaborate on themselves? I’m curious!</p>
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<p>AMAZlNNNGGGG.</p>
<p>YES! I’m so glad someone agrees!</p>
<p>Well, I’m interested in cellphones actually. I’m a cellphone junky at times. I just absolutely love cellphones. I’m very outgoing and spontaneous, pretty quick to say whatever is on my mind. I relate a lot of things to sex, which actually is pretty helpful in understanding things… like some laws of chemistry haha.</p>
<p>The last good book that I read was The Poisonwood Bible. I think that book is absolutely amazing. Along with that… The Coldest Winter Ever. I didn’t like the sequel, but I’m a fan of Sister Souljah’s work.</p>
<p>Music… Hm. I’m currenly playing Hello by Beyonce, I Tried by Brandy, and a bunch of other unreleased songs. I played out Fearless by Jazmine Sullivan, and I used to be a really big fan of Ciara. Rihanna is okay, too. Maxwell is the business or whatever.</p>
<p>I’m a very urban guy. Sagging pants and all that good stuff.</p>
<p>I absolutely love kids. I am a mentor for children and I work with elementary and middle school kids. Obviously I’m applying to Peabody and I want to be an elementary school teacher. I’ve been a babysitter for 4 years and I want to work at a daycare this summer. Right now I work at a monogramming store, haha.</p>
<p>I am in love with classic books. If I have free time I read Pride & Prejudice, The Jungle, Little Women, Jude the Obscure, Sense & Sensibility, etc. I am an English junky. I love reading, analyzing and writing. English has always been my favorite class and I also enjoy Psychology.</p>
<p>I listen to semi-emo music along with popular music. Haha. I love The Maine, Family Force 5, All Time Low, The Higher. But right now Let it Rock is on repeat on my iPod. I’m a singer and have been for years. I sing for my church and I was in choir for 5 years. I played the oboe for a year and my mom was a professional singer. I am a pro at making Easy Mac and I’m a vegetarian.</p>
<p>Props for reading The Jungle. That’s a sad, but great book! </p>
<p>Pop music is so catchy nowadays. I used to find it easy to dislike it. But now there’s Paramore, Metro Station, and Kings of Leon which I have to admit to liking. And then there is Coldplay, but EVERYONE likes them.</p>
<p>Vegetarians are rad.</p>
<p>You seem like a nice, low-key person.</p>
<p>Cool things: Speech and Debate, Margaret Atwood, Broadway musicals (seen 12 ^.^), guys who can sing well, rap music, Frank Sinatra, the book Middlesex</p>
<p>Bad things: Twilight, Sarah Palin, the people at my school who didn’t know who Jesse Jackson was, barbeque sauce (? why do people eat this?), meat in general</p>
<p>Ooh, which event do you do in Speech and Debate? PFD [I did that], LD, policy, HI, OO, OI, DI, DX, or FX?</p>
<p>WOOHOO SPEECH AND DEBATE! I did HOI, HD, Impromptu, and OO! Most successful in Oratory… definitely. ;-)</p>
<p>I’m a violinist. Applying to Peabody in the hopes of keeping my classical training going while establishing a country music career in Nashville. Yes, country. I love it. I’m from Montana. That’s how we are.</p>
<p>I’m a knee-jerk Republican and that’s been a bit of an issue since I go to an arts school. I’m also Jewish, which most people think is contradictory to the political side of things. I keep kosher and love to dance. In addition to violin, I play guitar, mandolin, and flute; I also sing.</p>
<p>Fave books: The Namesake, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Eat the Rich, a lot of what Ann Coulter has written, the Karleen Koen trilogy, Harry Potter (ha, sorry), The Kite Runner, Jacob Have I Loved</p>
<p>Fave TV: House, DH, Bachelor(ette), but I usually don’t watch TV</p>
<p>Movies: Thin (documentary), Amadeus, What Dreams May Come, Tuck Everlasting, Pirates trilogy, Trainspotters</p>
<p>Music: COUNTRY! Brooks and Dunn, Phil Vassar, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins… the list is long. Also Weird Al, Simon and Garfunkel, a lot of 60s and 70s. Classical… sure. Tchaikovsky is happiness.</p>
<p>I tend to talk about awkward things as though they’re not awkward: sex, suicide, eating disorders, religion, politics. I’m a really open person and I won’t hold much against people. I love to spend time with my friends just talking and laughing about dumb things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of life.</p>
<p>I’m planning on pledging once I get to Vandy, and also planning on getting involved in College Republicans and Hillel/Chabad. Hope to see you guys there! =)</p>
<p>ooh, i’m a speech junkie also! I usually do PFD & congress.
i LOVE LOVE LOVE Vanderbilt (applied EDII) 
I applied to Peabody HOD and plan on concentrating in Public Policy. </p>
<p>random things about me:
i am constantly drinking tea and i’m attempting to go veg/organic…but its soooo hard!
I love ALL types of music! There are lots of great concerts in Nashville and you can probably catch me at one of them. oh, and i’m catching myself CONSTANTLY thinking about my (potential) life at Vandy in a couple months.</p>
<p>gee vandy admissions—please admit me!</p>
<p>What Dreams May Come is probably the movie with the best visual effects I’ve ever seen. It’s like someone decided to make a modern Dante’s “Inferno” except making it way more beautiful than Dante ever could imagine.</p>
<p>House is pretty awesome. I would marry Wilson in a heartbeat [though, I prefer him in his super skinny self on Dead Poet’s Society]!</p>
<p>A Jewish Republican!? <em>gasp</em> All the many Jews at my school are liberal… though with the stereotype of Jews being stingy with money seems to parallel more of the Republican party.</p>
<p>I absolutely love the visual work in WDMC. I take such great pride in that the movie was filmed in my home state! =) And that part where you’re taken down to Hell and there’s that sea of struggling corpses… so macabre, but kind of my idea of the gates to Hell anyway. The whole psychological torment (your life gone completely awry) was just so… chilling… without being obnoxious. I love that movie!!!</p>
<p>Oh, yes. Wilson = gorgeous. I think the only one on that show I WOULDN’T marry is Dr. Foreman… he’s such a jerk. Never seen Dead Poet’s Society; I’ve gotten mixed reviews from my friends. Hugh Laurie would def be my first choice from the show. Have you seen some of his old sketches that he did with Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson? British humor at its best!</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, most Jews at any school are liberal (I believe the Democrat/Republican registration ratio among American Jews is something like 87/13). I have yet to meet another really conservative Jew; maybe in TN there’ll be one or two! =P Despite my Republican leanings, I’m usually pretty chill. I tend to eat mostly vegetarian, and honestly, if I could live the rest of my life on lemon pepper tofu, I’d probably do it. There’s an awesome health food store back home that’s about the size of a Wal-Mart that carries a zillion organic/local/vegetarian/vegan products. My mom and I are always in there raiding the shelves!</p>
<p>Yes, that scene is so dark but so not. Minus the part with the ship Cerberus, I like how hell doesn’t have anything to with fire or anything stereotypical like that. I wish I could have a painting of every scene in that movie. Is there any other movie similar to it?</p>
<p>You don’t like Foreman, what are you racist? 
Yeah, he’s so pessimistic. Rowan Atkinson is so hilarious. He basically reinvented Charlie Chaplin in his 90s Mr. Bean stuff. Ah, British humour. </p>
<p>I like Whole Foods. My friend and his mom works there. They have the raddest people ever there. You know, people who have purple hair, lots of tattoos, piercings… it’s such a breath of fresh air. It’s just more expensive than a normal grocery store, but that’s because it sells organic goodness.</p>
<p>Dead Poet’s Society should have been surpassed by The Emperor’s Club IMO but the former just seems to get more media attention :(</p>
<p>And in Speech and Debate, I did HI, PF, Impromptu, and OO. I absolutely SUCK at OO for some bizarre reason. I think it’s because I always hit this kid that’s going to Yale next year and it intimidates me subconsciously.</p>
<p>I guess because Dead Poet’s Society was the original. I do very much like The Emperor’s Club, but I don’t reference it because I think that most people haven’t seen it. Kevin Kline was absolutely wonderful in it!</p>
<p>Screw that Yale kid. But hey, I sucked at PFD, probably worse than you suck at OO. If I had my way, I would have a debating event that you debate over silly things every time instead of politics. Eww.</p>
<p>I am in love with Don Bluth movies. I can’t get enough of them. I can’t get enough of Anastasia and The Land Before Time. Disney movies are pretty addicting, too.</p>
<p>I haven’t come across a movie with such a high caliber of creativity yet… I’ll let you know! =P I’ve never seen Hell as that fire-brimstone-bottomless-pit sort of thing that everyone seems to imagine. Likewise, Heaven isn’t a bunch of fat naked seraphim playing harps and stuff. Ick!</p>
<p>Ha. Yeah. I’m <em>so</em> racist. It’s because I’m a soulless Republican who secretly wants to wage war on every starving African child and lead a crusade of fiery torches against the environment. Burn, Yosemite, burn! :D</p>
<p>Aw, one of my best friends is a pierced-purple-hair guy. He’s Israeli, which in itself is a breath of fresh air. I love international students; it’s so much fun to hear about issues other than the auto bailout and all that other happy crap. Honestly, I just get depressed reading the news nowadays. I miss the innocent childhood days of the 90s.</p>
<p>I make Jew/Mexican/Black jokes all the time, and so do my Jew/Mexican/Black friends. Obviously, we aren’t serious but some people seem to think we are. I guess it depends on your sense of humour.</p>
<p>Yeah, I miss the 90s too. Full of no homework and Nickolodean shows. Legends of the Hidden Temple was my favorite! Followed by All That and Rocko’s Modern Life. Good times.</p>
<p>I have a big sense of humor when it comes to joking.
I’m Bengali (South Asian) and I’m bestfriends with numerou different races.
Keeps the mood lightened, and it’s all good fun. =)</p>
<p>Goodness, what to say.
I love watching movies. Old or new. Repeatedly.</p>
<p>If you meet me, you’ll think I’m such a spontaneous person.
I am ; I go with the flow.
But I love making plans, and I’m cautious about what I do.</p>
<p>Music…
RANGES FROM EVERYTHING!
I’m a urban r&b type of girl.
But, I listen to hiphop, alternative rock, pop, and even country.
My mood changes with my music. :)</p>