<p>^what if you read the book on your own, then ended up reading it in school? would you put it down as a personal book or a shcool book?</p>
<p>finally started my essays today! wish me luck, lol</p>
<p>In my opinion, book-list really just exists to help the readers get a broader sense of you and your intellectual interests. There’s a big difference between someone who picks up “The Social Contract” for fun and someone who’s reading it for his required government class, you know? If you’re going to stress out, I would definitely stress out about the first four essays, not the book-list!</p>
<p>Yeah, I rarely post on CC, but I was accepted to TASP last year and started the 2010 thread. I usually just leave fate/curses/dogma/sparkly unknowns to Bokonon, so don’t worry about being the first poster. </p>
<p>Side note: my book list was neither long nor impressive and never mentioned in my interview. However, my interviewer asked me if I had read some books in the gender theory/queer studies realm (which had been indicated in my intellectual interests), and I had read none of the works he named (Haraway, Butler, etc.). Did I feel inferior at that point? A little (since he listed maybe six or seven). But honesty is always the best policy - because then you don’t need to remember what you said. </p>
<p>Be honest, be blunt, be frank, but above all, be yourself. Good luck guys! Oh, and Idnehzagup, if you’re from rural PA, my heart goes out; if you need anything, PM me.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, how many people have/have not submitted applications yet? is it okay if i submit them a few days before because i really wanna have as much time as possible to review/edit! (sorry if this has already been discussed, i didn’t really want to read every page of the thread)</p>
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<p>Me. I don’t have a single essay finished yet, and I have yet to come up with ideas for #2 and #3.</p>
<p>I haven’t turned mine in yet, I’m only about halfway done. And I’m thinking you’d be fine to turn it in a few days before, as long as it’s before the dealine.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about when it’s actually due. I know that I didn’t start most of my application until the night it was due, and turned it in a couple of minutes before midnight. I still got in. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>well…I have yet to start…and that’ll be this weekend cuz exams are this week…</p>
<p>I’ll finally have a weekend of no homework and crank out those deep intellectual essays =)!</p>
<p>@sister277 - if you can get them done over the weekend, I’ll be amazed. I spent all of Christmas break and then some working on them and have yet to truly complete any one single essay. I thought I had a debate tournament this weekend, but it got rescheduled, so I’ll be working on my essays (and preparing for the SAT the following weekend). </p>
<p>And a weekend of no homework? I can’t imagine such a thing!</p>
<p>How long was everyone’s essay #5 where you discuss which seminars you would like to attend?</p>
<p>I have a mock trial tournament and an orchestra concert this weekend and a History Day documentary to finish over finals week. And I still have most of my writing to do. Fortunately, I don’t need to study for my finals. :)</p>
<p>@sMITten ok…woww…
yeah this is the first weekend that I have no homework since junior year began! thanks to exams…well I guess finishing is a bit ambitious…how about…3…3 is good, I’ll be happy if I finish 3 (one of them being the booklist)</p>
<p>Insideout, mine was around 450-500 words.
And a conflict just came into my life in the past week so I finally have one to write about! haha great timing for my application.</p>
<p>I’ve only written two so far and one of them was the book list. I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend…</p>
<p>@sMITten Mine was about 1000 characters, idk if that’s too much though. I just felt like I had to explain the reasoning which led me to abandon a top choice seminar while bumping up others.</p>
<p>@Qualitative Haha same here! This particular conflict, by a stroke of luck or misfortune however you look at it, cleared up my weekend so it gave me some time to work on my essays as well as a conflict topic to write about. Disappointed but elated at the same time :p</p>
<p>Just a quick warning:</p>
<p>Some of us alumni are reading applications this year.</p>
<p>Could someone link the exact page where I can fill out an online version of the application? I am assuming the online application TASP mentions on their website is a digital copy that we type online, whereas the regular applications are the ones we send by mail.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, I can’t give you an exact link because you have to sign up and whatnot, but I think this is the process (according to my memory):
you go to the telluride association website
you make an account, fill out some info
ithen you’re redirected to this page that has an option for you to fill out either TASS or TASP applications.
Something like that.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
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<p>Ok - glad to know there are other procrastinators like me 
haha. I’ve been trying to write mine since December, but I’m in the same boat as so many - I haven’t had a BREAK since the start of junior year. but finals just ended and I’m in productive mode due to studying… YAY! no more life for one more week :D</p>