<p>xNorth22! I like your photography!!</p>
<p>Lol thanks stalker 
just kidding.
hey everybody check this-</p>
<p>[From</a> scrubbing floors to Ivy League: Homeless student to go to dream college - CNN.com](<a href=“http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html]From”>http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html)</p>
<p>I read that a while back. Inspiring(Understatement?).</p>
<p>I read it earlier too. Inspiring and interesting.</p>
<p>idream: How much are you expecting?? PM me.</p>
<p>Yes lets all be janitors.
Personally she persevered through all above ^ and that’s why she probably got in.
Just her situation was tad (fine very) extreme.</p>
<p>She had a story to tell. She must have told it really well. :D</p>
<p>I also have a story, just that its a different angle.</p>
<p>Wow, @xNorth22 thanks for sharing the article here… I just read and I really feel motivated and inspired by the girl…</p>
<p>Everybody has their own story. Its just, your take on it.
Do you make it a “woe is me” or take it in your stride?</p>
<p>Right now, brainstorming for essay ideas, everything is seeming like a cliche.
Anyone in the same boat?</p>
<p>Damn it, what luck I have… Anyone giving Topic 1 a shot? Its my favourite of the lot! Just wish it was there last year…</p>
<p>And thanks Paayas for sharing them… :)</p>
<p>xNorth22: I will tell you, in fact it is circumstances I am counting on most to get accepted, lol. All happens for a reason, you see?
You are welcome phr34k!</p>
<p>Oh I just saw the UChic supp questions. Wow. I really like the school but I’m not sure if I’ll be applying. Some questions though.</p>
<p>phreak!
Honestly after reading the essay topics again, topic one does seem enticing to me. I will be working on them both, more so because it will be a lot of fun writing them :)</p>
<p>Paayas I hope your essay makes you shine :-D</p>
<p>Yay being permanent resident makes Uchic need blind for me :-)</p>
<p>Also who are the other citizens/aliens out there?</p>
<p>@xnorth - Im a US Citizen. Lived in California from 1998 to 2010. Not a Resident though, Im pretty sure.</p>
<p>I wish I was a Ugandan citizen, would’ve made me a URM.</p>
<p>That janitor story was pretty inspiring, apart from the fact that we are a couple of wishful thinkers?!
Anyway,
I see many 17ers are aliens here. You guys have amazing FA options
Any NON-aliens out there?</p>
<p>Papayas- you write very well. Read your article(s).
You have advantage over many of because of fact that you have a better story to tell than rest of us :)</p>
<p>UChicago essays make me confused.
What exactly does the topic 6 mean? I find that nemesis topic pretty interesting! If only i had an arch nemesis. The essay wouldn’t look surreal any other way.</p>
<p>Hey rew2402: I don’t remember posting the link here or anything, you North’s friend? I don’t publish most of my articles for they are too candid but now that appreciation has come my way, I will put them up soon.
To be honest I did not understand most of those questions well, just 3 & 5 which I will be writing on.
I am non alien.</p>