<p>Hey, so what did you guys put? I thought this was, by far, my favorite prompt out of all of my college admissions essays. I wrote about my view on there being a higher power. Basically I talked about how I was, ultimately, a scientist, but, if you look deep into science, there are several phenomena that are unexplained. One of my examples was how people that use the drug DMT, that are in the same room at the same time, will sometimes appear in each others’ hallucinations. It’s simply amazing. (I’m a chem drug buff. I talked about, somewhere else on my application, that I go on bluelight.ru frequently.)</p>
<p>The semicolon and how it is representative of my psyche and educational goals.</p>
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oh man i bet that was pretty interesting.</p>
<p>I wrote about sorting out old stuff, speculating about the stories behind those objects and thinking about the connection between people. Don’t know if that’s intellectual enough</p>
<p>Wrote about my experiences with my company.</p>
<p>^ same!</p>
<p>Well, I talked about how I built a little website when I was 10, and how that experience prompted me to start a business more recently.</p>
<p>I wrote about the ongoing expansion of the private space industry and its implications for politics and society.</p>
<p>Wrote about Neuroscience and the new technology able to manipulate the electrical activity in the brain</p>
<p>I talked about how I found the parallels of science and religion very interesting…and I talked about my research in that.</p>
<p>Very touchy topic, I know. I was careful not to sound radical like trying to find the intersection point of science and religion or something like that.
I used the same essay (but modified) for Princeton…I quoted Physicist Steven Weinberg and refuted his argument on religion (he’s an atheist)…he was a Princeton grad LOL.</p>
<p>talked about how im fascinated by the interplay between psychology, or rather a positive mind set, and human physiology. For instance, how a person like Wim Hof can scale mountains like Mt. Everest wearing nothing but shorts, totally in defiance of nature and its effects. He attributed this feat to a certain mental state. I tied this into how I’m a runner and how i have to try push my body past its limits…this is where my whole interest in mental states come in; some people can do more with their bodies if they believe that they can</p>
<p>i hated this prompt. i’d prefer stanford let us submit an optional essay where we can talk about whatever we’d like… this question took me a rly long time to answer and i kind of took a risk on it. i hope it turns out well…</p>
<p>i talked about evolution, human possibility…</p>
<p>I talked about several problems that humans would have traveling into deep space.</p>
<p>I talked about an epiphany I had on how cognition and perception and imagination accounts for the relationship between fiction and reality, as well as the union in a hypothetical venn diagrams of artists, innovators and leaders.</p>
<p>It’s cheesy. But there was no way I would have chosen an idea that isn’t mine over one that is mine and represents me better.</p>
<p>wow ^^^^^^^^^ so profound! 
I just about talked exremophiles. dang.</p>
<p>haha i just talked about a rubik’s cube and my first time solving one and the usual initial struggle/getting better story. wow, you guys pwn me.</p>
<p>haha invisibleman–> NIce!
my first experience with rubiks is the one with the pull- off sticker. I was a champ until ppl figured out what I was doing. =p</p>
<p>i wrote about Transcendentalism</p>
<p>@cicero_oratore</p>
<p>Yay! Another space related answer :P</p>
<p>I love this thread. It sounds like everyone’s responses were very interesting :)</p>
<p>I talked about the neuroscience behind using music to prevent car accidents.</p>
<p>^how did you go about that one?!</p>