<p>I wrote about how scientific discoveries are made by not only brute force, but also by imagination and insightful speculation…and how much I love peering into the unknown.</p>
<p>Very cool :)</p>
<p>Well, in my English Class, we once learned about Mortimer Adler’s pursuit of truth beliefs, where the truth can never be completely found, and opinions will always circulate (like there will never be straight facts for everything). So I talked about a debate we had in my class about whether or not God existed (I know, bad idea, regretted it after I submitted it…), and then how everyone had their own beliefs, and I said how learning opinions arouse my curiosity sorta thing… I don’t know how to explain it, hahaahaha.</p>
<p>I wrote about the first time I read the Subtle Knife as a kid. THere was one scene that made e consider that all the molecules and atoms in the world are interconnected.</p>
<p>i wrote about how I saw a homeless man feeding birds and it made me think a lot about social constructs! </p>
<p>everyone’s seems soo good!</p>
<p>everybody choose a lot of great topics</p>
<p>I wrote about Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” and its relation to other dystopian works and what made it so different and tralalala</p>
<p>I wrote about the only thing I ever do: work. I talked about how I kept my intellectual vitality alive, even though working as a cashier can easily be a mindless, meaningless job.</p>
<p>No lie…I wrote about the business of fantasy sports.</p>
<p>i talked about governor’s school
worked for me</p>
<p>Am I the only who talked about God and physics?</p>
<p>I talked about living for a few thousand years</p>
<p>^That’s so cool… how?</p>
<p>I second absoluteshocker – Esplin, how on earth did you go about that???</p>
<p>It was a sucky essay. I’m a bad writer.</p>
<p>But it was about watching paranormal activity, not finding it scary, and investigating the nature of fear.</p>
<p>I talked about my future online business plans. It was just an idea, but I sounded passionate about it, I think. In the middle of the traffic, I started the interesting conversation out of the mundane setting. It should show initiative, creativity, passion, and maturity. =]</p>
<p>I talked about how much we’ve advanced in just a hundred years and imagined the coming possibilities in a hundred years.</p>
<p>Oh, I did not touch on family members dying. Just the things I would see through my eyes.</p>
<p>The intellectual vitality essay is interesting. To me, Stanford really likes budding entrepreneurs, but talking about business and stuff like that in my eyes is a little bit cliche.</p>
<p>@QuantumArbiter</p>
<p>I also talked about God/Faith/Religion and Science. (Hint: Read the first post.) I tied it into phenomenon that cannot be explained by science. I also talked about how a scientific law can, at any moment, be disproved and demoted to a theory. I also talked about how, I personally, do not believe anyone can truly know which religion is better than the others, and I, therefore, remain agnostic. It was a very risky paper, but I guess my “why Stanford” essay was risky as well. (I opened it by talking about quitting smoking.) My entire application is a risk, but it is 100% me, so I am not concerned whether or not Stanford rejects me for the risks I took on my application.</p>