<p>Great Idea Kriti. Good to have something to talk about.</p>
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<li>3 Guesses (See K above)</li>
<li>I wrote paroxysm (sounds nice) but now I’m tending towards weltanshauung. </li>
<li>People should not be afraid of their Governments, Governments should be afraid of their people. (It is Princeton after all)</li>
<li>Don’t remember frankly, something about why I want to be a Yalie (Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be about?)</li>
<li>25th revision (did 14 for ICSE, so ahead of schedule) (I’m evil)</li>
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<p>I had this fascination with oxymoron, a love hate relationship really. Oh and then there’s ‘collective myopia’. I once accused the entire opposition in the debate of it (made myself a few enemies :)) and since then, I just love the way it rolls of the tongue. I’ve got a very weird relationship with words really, they need to be very long, derived from German (zeitgeist anyone?) or sonorous to attract me. (mellifluous) </p>
<p>Oh and to extend this, my Princeton list of Favourites: </p>
<p>Book: The Golden Gate – by Vikram Seth
Recording: Music of the Night – The Phantom of the Opera
Movie: Casablanca
Web site: Wikipedia (<a href=“http://www.en.wikipedia.org%5B/url%5D”>www.en.wikipedia.org</a>)
Keepsake/Memento: A photograph of my twin and myself.
Source of Inspiration: Everything.
Two adjectives to describe you: brilliant, driven (modest aren’t I <em>cough</em>)
Line from a movie: People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.
Word: paroxysm</p>
<p>Shrivats – ‘oxymoron’ is good fun. And I would’ve been a bit amused by ‘collective myopia’, since I am, in fact, medically myopic to an alarming degree. My glasses are thicker than some of my textbooks, almost (okay, that is hyperbole). </p>
<p>25 revisions? Ye gods. I don’t count how many I do, but no wonder your marks are vaguely stratospheric. </p>
<p>Princeton list, since you mention that (with amusing annotations :)):</p>
<p>Book: Four Quartets – T. S. Eliot (well, it’s a collection of four poems really, but who’s splitting hairs?)
Recording: Mozart Concerto for Strings & Orchestra no. 5, Wiener Philharmonic with Itzhak Perlman (I have two or three recordings of said concerto, this is my favourite)
Movie: Withnail and I, or My Fair Lady.
Website: bbc!
Keepsake: A miniature red silk shoe from Tokyo. (Don’t even ask!)
Source of Inspiration: literature. (I am avoiding mentioning that I wrote ‘T. S. Eliot’, because you lot will possibly strangle me now.)
Two adjectives: Quirky and analytical. (Not as weird a combination as it sounds.)
Line from a movie: Again. “We were, indeed, drifting into the arena of the unwell.”
Word: I used ‘paraphernalia’, but honestly regret not using ‘defenestration’ instead.</p>
<p>Talking of the Beeb, ever visited the Magazine Monitor. A collection of absolutely brilliant and wacky people, just up our street. (I’m am modest, it’s a character trait). Witty and eccentric observations on the nature of the universe abound.</p>
<p>What do you call it when you drink Evian and sneeze?</p>
<p>Sorry to interrupt your discussions, but can you grade my SAT essay? Thanks</p>
<p>Assignment: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is? </p>
<p>One can never expect to get a panoramic view of a predicament or person. There will always be information that is hidden from perception. In fact, first impressions are almost always the wrong impressions. Many people are fooled into believing that the first impression is the only impression, when in reality, it takes a long time to understand every aspect of the situation or personality.
In the field of literature, there are a myriad of examples that show that first impressions are inaccurate. In the book, Jane Eyre, Jane trusts Mr. Thornfield to be a man who is disappointed with life and so never tries to reach out for help. When she later learns that Mr. Thornfield’s demeanor was so because of his marriage to a mentally handicapped women, her opinions about him change. This shows that Jane’s first impressions were wrong because Mr. Thornfield was not rejected with life, he was actually keeping a very dark secret – a fact she had been oblivious to when she met him.
Jane’s example is one of fiction; in the real world, an example of wrong first impressions is one of Benedict Arnold. Known as the “greatest traitor in American History”, Arnold’s renege was not predicted by the American generals of yore. Arnold was seen as a respectable man with many credentials; he served alongside General Washington during the Revolutionary War. His desertion of the American army was unexpected – Washington’s cognizance about him was restricted to his first impression of Arnold, which was that Arnold was a loyal man.
Benedict Arnold’s example might be hard to grasp due to his stature in history books. On a personal level, I, myself, learned that first impressions are usually incorrect. My classmate in 4th grade was known as a heckler; she would constantly harass everyone. One day she did not come to school and we classmates learned that she had died due to cancer – she had been a cancer patient for the whole school year. The origins of her heckling were left unknown, but if I should take a guess, I would surmise that it was because she did not want anybody to know how physically weak she was. She was afraid that people would form wrong first impressions about her if she told them that she had cancer.
These examples show how first impressions are usually inaccurate and how they are not good indicators of neither the person nor the situation that the person is embroiled in.</p>
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<li>I’m short …5’4. 5’5 max </li>
<li>dimwit is my favorite word </li>
<li>everything is illuminated - great movie </li>
<li>didnt apply to yale </li>
<li>dont take the boards, have taken modular A level exams in History and Business, results out March 10th.</li>
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<p>Yummy, it’s page 199… it takes all my self control not to go for the 200 and 3000 posts… someone take cue and rush to the target… any of the newbies?.. coz I don’t want to irritate everyone over here all over again…</p>
<p>As for the fav movie … I gave A Beautiful Mind and the fav quote from the SAME movie… Dear Adcoms, I didn’t want to irritate you… But tell me how could I lie… rather why should I lie… that IS my fav movie (But I do love irritating the TiTers, perhaps they get exasperated too soon)</p>
(I’m evil)</li>