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<p>Can we be best friends? : D</p>
<p>Book: The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Movie: A Beautiful Mind
Website: xkcd
Adjectives: Intelligent, nice
Recording: Toguro by the Japanese band Dir en grey
Keepsake: A keychain that was given to me by a Thai girl
Inspiration: Books
Favorite Word: juxtaposition
Quote: “Boards don’t hit back.” Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon</p>
<p>@dec:
Haha thats why I chose it… its a very useless word but I love finding the useless part of English. :)</p>
<p>Book: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Website: www . mcsweeneys . net
Adjectives: vibrant; spacey
Recording: Please Please Me - The Beatles
Keepsake: wristband from festival
Inspiration: glow in the dark dinosaurs on my ceiling!
Favorite Word: alfalfa or curlycue
Quote: “Buon Giorno, Principessa!” - La vita e bella</p>
<p>For my son:
Book: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Movie: Inception
Website: [The</a> Last Page of the Internet](<a href=“http://www.wwwdotcom.com%5DThe”>http://www.wwwdotcom.com)
Adjectives: Multi-talented and personable
Recording: Barber and Meyers Concertos performed by Hilary Hahn
Keepsake: Scrapbook
Inspiration: Everyday conversation
Favorite Word: Ferret
Quote: “Good heavens–people!” Mr. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice, the movie</p>
<p>LOL, these answers must be so much fun to read by the adcoms XD
I’m an RD applyin…tonyt :P</p>
<p>Just wanted to ask tho- we can include explanations for our choices?</p>
<p>Book: Wuthering Heights
Movie: Le fabuleux destin d’Am</p>
<p>Book: The Aeneid
Movie: The Little Mermaid
Website: Google Art Project
Adjectives: eccentric, feline
Recording: Björk - Homogenic
Keepsake: a stuffed cow
Inspiration: Emily Dickinson
Favorite Word: hope
Quote: “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” -The Sun Also Rises</p>
<p>Book: The Princess Bride
Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Website:ted.com
adjectives: exuberant, unorthodox
recording: The Scientist -Coldplay
keepsake: my robotics team button
inspiration: the night sky
favorite word: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words)
quote: “Don’t panic.” -The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</p>
<p>gah I just had to join in on this though I don’t expect to get in…</p>
<p>Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Website: forensicsandpathology.■■■■■■■■■■ [I intend to become a forensic pathologist…]
Adjectives: determined, passionate
Recording: The Life and Death of Amy Pond - Murray Gold, Doctor Who Series 5 Soundtrack
Keepsake: stuffed dog
Inspiration: Doctor Who
Favorite word: calcification
Quote: “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World</p>
<p>Leo in post 146: To answer your question (too late for the application), yes, you can and should include explanation of why you chose the words.</p>
<p>Book: The Footprints of God - Greg Iles
Movie: The Prestige - Christopher Nolan
Website: xkcd
Adjectives: Silly and Confident
Recording: Masterpiece - The King’s Singers
Keepsake: Curious George Stuffed Toy
Inspiration: Quietness
Favorite Word: Interesting
Quote: “You’re familiar with the phrase “man’s reach exceeds his grasp”? It’s a lie: man’s grasp exceeds his nerve.” - Nikola Tesla, The Prestige</p>
<p>Book: Tuck Everlasting
Movie: The Social Network
Website: xkcd.com
Adjectives: tech-savvy, unconventional
Recording: “Static Waves” by Andrew Belle ft. Katie Herzig
Keepsake: The wall above my study desk, plastered with drawings, awards, formulas, essays, assorted media, letters, rants, ideas, in short memories.
Inspiration: entrepreneurial success stories
Favorite Word: xanthippic
Quote: “Your will turns thought into reality. To master the ring you must learn to focus your will and create what you see in your mind. The ring’s limits are only what you can imagine.” - Green Lantern</p>
<p>Your favorite book: A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens</p>
<p>Your favorite movie: It’s a Wonderful Life</p>
<p>Your favorite website: Marginal Revolution (a blog that discusses the economic factors in everything from books to education to current events)</p>
<p>Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Curious, Sponge-like</p>
<p>Your favorite recording: Elie Wiesel’s Speech ‘The Perils of Indifference’ </p>
<p>Your favorite keepsake or memento: My books, in particular the books I’ve read and marked up with thoughts whether on first or repeated readings</p>
<p>Your favorite source of inspiration: The thought of the possibilities. </p>
<p>Your favorite word: I like words, period. But okay, here are a few: loquacious, cobblestone, hope, cerulean, outlier, zephyr.</p>
<p>Your favorite line from a movie or book (and its title):
“I came,” she said, “hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy.”
“Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. “What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don’t let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
— Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49)</p>
<p>Book: Body by Science
Movie: The Dark Knight
Website: cracked.com
Recording: March to the Sea-Pelican
Inspiration: My dog
Favorite Word: Challenge
Quote: Overkill is underrated- The A-Team</p>
<p>Your favorite book: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)</p>
<p>Your favorite movie: Toy Story 3</p>
<p>Your favorite website: [Fun</a> Trivia Quizzes - World’s Largest Trivia and Quiz Site!](<a href=“http://www.funtrivia.com%5DFun”>http://www.funtrivia.com)</p>
<p>Two adjectives your friends would use to describe you: Memorable; Passionate</p>
<p>Your favorite recording: Vitali’s Chaconne by Sarah Chang</p>
<p>Your favorite keepsake or memento: A golf ball from my first birdie</p>
<p>Your favorite source of inspiration: Classical Music (specifically Baroque)</p>
<p>Your favorite word: umbelliferous, meaning covered in umbels or basically flowers (used between my best friend and me since 8th grade)</p>
<p>Your favorite line from a movie or book (and its title):
“I will work harder.” (Animal Farm)</p>
<p>Book: The Things They Carried
Movie: Get Smart
Website: [craftgawker</a> | look to inspire](<a href=“http://www.craftgawker.com%5Dcraftgawker”>http://www.craftgawker.com)
Adjectives: Assertive, vibrant
Recording: River Flows in You -Yiruma
Favorite keepsake/memento: Grandmother’s jewelry
Favorite source of inspiration: Youtube. oops.
Favorite word: Recombobulation (Although technically it isn’t a word, the airport in my hometown has a sign with this word on it)
Quote: “One person standing on the rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea.” Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers</p>