<p>If you read the UChicago thread on CC about those topics, you’d see a much different opinion. I don’t like them as much as last year’s, but apparently everyone else thinks they’re genius.</p>
<p>The Common App website is meant to make you hate the admissions process with a passion. If it were pretty, that would defeat the purpose.</p>
<p>Today I wasted time by comparing Chicago weather to the weather in my town, and I have concluded that my friends’ and relatives’ claims of deplorable Chicago weather are basically unfounded, since it’s pretty much the same weather we have here.</p>
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<p>I registered at the Common App website too. Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>The UChicago essays make me want to apply.</p>
<p>Haha. Hahahaha. Revenge.</p>
<p>I’m certainly not going to stop you from applying.</p>
<p>Really, I think the worst thing about the Common App is all the stupid supplements. Some of them <em>ahem</em> Princeton <em>ahem</em> rival the Common App itself in length. Then again, that makes you appreciate the schools with free applications online and no supplements.</p>
<p>I made a big oopsie in my vigorous bike ride today. Oop’s, that is.</p>
<p>Princeton’s supplement isn’t out yet. And neither is Yale’s. Damnit. Only Harvard and Chicago have released theirs, so far. Actually, some other schools probably have too, I just don’t have them on my silly thing.</p>
<p>Question. Are the character limits in the common app essays limits you should keep in mind even for essays that are uploaded? Like, if the limit says 2000 characters, should I make sure my uploaded essay is less than that? As far as I can tell, it doesn’t automatically check (I uploaded my final ToK essay, which is definitely well over 10,000 characters, and it didn’t reject it).</p>
<p>Those limits are a bit loose, from what I can tell. I think it will take more even if you just type it in the space. But keep in mind that admissions officers don’t want to read a novel with your application.</p>
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<p>Of course not, but I find it sort of strange that the limit is in characters rather than in words. I’ve looked at the paper form of the common app before, and I don’t think it gave the limit in characters… I don’t know.</p>
<p>I finished Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll replace Rice with UChicago. I’ve been rethinking Texas anyway.</p>
<p>I would rethink Texas too.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies is a horrible book. It was almost unbearable, but little special things made me survive.</p>
<p>I am officially at page 45 of Crime and Punishment. This is a draining read. And I can’t remember any of the names because they’re so similar in that they all end in -ov or -ova. Horrible.</p>
<p>It was okay. The ending was contrived. I should write that in the many essays I have to write about it.</p>
<p>Now to read Crime and Punishment. I wanted to finish all my homework before my surgery but I don’t think that’s going to happen.</p>
<p>I rethought Texas. It probably would have been fine, but I couldn’t pull the trigger.</p>
<p>Capitol, Washington Monument tomorrow, Fireworks day after.</p>
<p>Rice is just so nice though. So nice. But Texas isn’t, it really isn’t. </p>
<p>I like the fireworks on post.</p>
<p>Right Round by Flo-Rida is ridiculous.</p>
<p>As are fireworks.</p>
<p>You will probably finish Crime and Punishment before me.</p>
<p>The fireworks on the National Mall are pretty fantastic, I must say.</p>
<p>Rice is very nice. If only it weren’t in Texas.</p>
<p>Kung Fu movies are the best.</p>
<p>Right Round is a travesty.</p>
<p>UChicago or Rice. Obamaland or Bushland. What a choice.</p>
<p>The right choice is obvious.</p>
<p>I desperately want to get into Yale. I think my essays will be the deal-breaker. I must make them bangin’.</p>
<p>You can’t just commission the word bangin’ like that. That’s my word. </p>
<p>I suppose the choice is obvious then. But Rice was so nice! Owls! OWLS!</p>
<p>Chicago>Houston, in my obviously biased opinion. I still think you should apply to Northwestern, especially if you want to be a screenwriter. We have all sorts of theater and writing stuff goin on.</p>
<p>He just said “we”.</p>
<p>Bangin’ is mine because I said so.</p>
<p>OH MY GOD ONE AT A TIME I CAN’T THINK LIKE THIS </p>
<p>I’m a fragile artist, for pete’s sake.</p>
<p>Bangin’ is mine. I already laid claim.</p>