<p>^ Agreed. ten char</p>
<p>@Rush10 so they get to tell you how you should write an essay that’s supposed to show your personality? just my opinion… but it sounds kind of against the objective</p>
<p>I mean… they don’t control how I write, they just didn’t want me to write about mountain biking. I had plenty of other stuff to write about, so I didn’t really argue.</p>
<p>StanfordCS: I have time for a movie maybe once every few weeks… just happens that we’re talking about movies I’ve seen when I had free time</p>
<p>if people tell me to do something i do the exact opposite
i think i’ll just stay up and go for a run in a couple hours:)</p>
<p>@calgirl15 haha YES i replayed that scene and the scenes with the cool turtle when i we were watching it on dvd at home… my sisters got so annoyed lol</p>
<p>I personally don’t see anything wrong with enlisting parents’ help with application essays. They can sometimes offer extremely valuable insights, and might think of more effective ways to present yourself in the application. However, under no circumstances should they ever write any part of the essays for you. </p>
<p>Just my $0.02.</p>
<p>calgirl: dooooonnnnntttt worry, I wrote every single word of my application… many late nights since my parents and I decided I should pretty much rewrite all of my Stanford supplements two weeks before the deadline >.></p>
<p>avtrox: how do you even function without sleep? I went to bed at 8 pm on Sunday because I was so exhausted and I felt a hint of a fever setting in.</p>
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<p>Master Oogway is a boss. 'Nuff said.</p>
<p>helping with the process and directing the process are different, i showed my parents my essay draft but they gave suggestions, not consent. their feedback did help, too.</p>
<p>anyway i get what Rush10’s saying… if his/her parents really didn’t like him/her writing about mtbiking:P</p>
<p>@ Rush10: Sorry if I came across as a little spazzy. I just had a mug of coffee, so, er, that tends to happen. 
But I do trust that you exercised good judgment in terms of how much they contributed.</p>
<p>@Rush10, i don’t know, really. around 6th grade i started taking a flashlight to bed cause my parents wouldn’t let me read after 8, and i was supposed to go to bed before 9… depending on the length of the book i’d spend the night awake or go to sleep whenever i finished. then i got to high school and interest switched to films, and by then staying up was just a habit</p>
<p>Wow, this thread really got big.</p>
<p>I’ve found Coldplay to sound a little too over-produced, you know what I mean? I mean, it’s good music but I just cant really get into it.</p>
<p>I’ve done some mountain biking and I wish I could do more…</p>
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HOLY **** ME TOO! Ah, the years of my childhood spent reading books with flashlights…</p>
<p>Anyone ever gone skydiving? I LOVEEEEE ITTTT!!!</p>
<p>is mountain biking like tour de france? or more intense?</p>
<p>@ StanfordCS: You’ve got serious guts. I’ve done some fairly insane stuff, but I don’t think I’d be able to handle the massive adrenaline rush I’d get from an activity like that. :P</p>
<p>SKYDIVINGGGGGG
i thought i was going to **** in my pants the first time but once i got the guts to jump it was soo exhilarating</p>
<p>anyone play tennis??? or Taekwondo? any black belts?</p>
<p>I’ve bungee jumped, base jumped (illegally), HALO jumped, and sky dived. And, I broke my leg on 1 sky dive when I landed in a ditch.</p>
<p>@squidgetx
i miss those days… judy blume and roald daul and jules verne… beverly cleary…</p>
<p>I remember reading Junie B. Jone’s books in third grade.</p>
<p>I read Roald Dahl and Beverly Cleary as a kid too! It seems as though we have more in common than we expected. 
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<p>@ StanfordCS: That’s intense. I can’t imagine doing anything even remotely like that. Call me boring, but I generally prefer to stick to not-so-thrilling activities. ;)</p>
<p>What are your lifetime goals, besides academics?</p>
<p>I want to climb Everest and K2.</p>