<p>Eh. I wrote about writing, which sounds self-referential but is in fact true.</p>
<p>Post not relevant, what with editing and all…</p>
<p>My younger bro is an avid debater… and always practicing for rebuttal soort of stuff… I debate as well but as is my nature I hate preps</p>
<p>Ah for me, it’s just a fancy way to get an excuse to argue with people. <em>smiles</em></p>
<p>Seriously though, it’s probably been the thing I’ve talked about most in my college applications. (There’re going to be a lot of very confused engineering adcoms out there, wondering what a debater’s doing applying for Materials :))</p>
<p>I couldn’t find a more stupid song “lyrics - sunlight shining on ur sculptured face” and I’m stupid enuf to listen to it again n again</p>
<p>Har har har. I don’t speak enough Hindi, Shrivats! (Although the 'K’s never fail to get a laugh out of me.) </p>
<p>Maybe I shall watch the Tamil-dubbed version of Star Wars, now there’s something amusing. (A word of advice to everyone: Do not die until you have seen Darth Vader overdubbed by some Tamilian guy with a gravelly voice and silly accent.)</p>
<p>once in a debate i spoke against MTV and then one of my frens interrupted the judges and told “this boy is an MTV junkie, I swear” the audience burst into laughter embrsng</p>
<p>Re. weird ECs not correlating with major – I’m rather similar. I’m writing/debate girl, applying for comp sci and math; there are going to be some raised eyebrows in Cornell Engineering at the very least.</p>
<p><em>imagines</em> Or that version of Spiderman they were trumpeting about last year. 
Try Arabic accents though. (Though there really is no such thing as a Arabic accent, but I digress)</p>
<p>And quizzing! We’ve all certainly educated a great many people about how there’s more to it than the weakest link. </p>
<p>Oh and you can add being a writer to that too.</p>
<p>Maybe I should write for a debate about the role of quizzing in the politics of engineering. (and that book’s made into a film for the United Nations, thereby encompassing all my ECs :D)</p>
<p>sach hits 200 …</p>
<p>Well, there is a case for there being certain forms of Arab-distinctive pronunciation. Which practically constitute an accent. </p>
<p>(Why yes, I have fond memories of my name being soundly massacred by my Arabic teachers of yore, why do you ask? :D)</p>
<p>Is everyone going to be calling me Kriti didi now? Arit, if I ever meet you… run for cover.</p>
<p>I forgot to talk about small kids in my last post >.<. I don’t really like them either, and my niece is the only kid I like. Puppies are cuter than most kids :). I like my niece a lot, but I still can’t bring myself to wipe her nose or accept the toffee she’s just popped out of her mouth :<.</p>
<p>I remember, we were sent to “mind” the fourth standard kids in school once, I was in tenth grade, and they all were like “YOU’RE TOO SHORT TO BE IN TENTH! HEE HEE HEE!” (Arit, cue the “shortyyyyyyyyyy!”) I’m 5;0", but still!</p>
<p>I’m on GMail too. You can redirect GMail to other GMail, I don’t know about Yahoo. I don’t have any other email addresses.</p>
<p>Ah my first ever Arabic teacher walked into my class (I’d just joined my school, in 8th grade) and stopped, looked at me in a very intense manner, and said, I saw you 1 minute back, how did you come here? 
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<p>:D</p>
<p>He didn’t know K and I were twins, had just finished teaching K in the previous class, and had then walked into mine. :)</p>
<p>Hilarity ensued for a few minutes, and then understanding dawned…</p>
<p>You were in the Gulf Noldo? Where, if I might ask? (I’ve been in Oman and (obviously) the UAE.)</p>
<p>Yeah, I had to mind fifth-graders. Little snots. Their vocabularies of curse-words are significantly larger than my own. (What are kids coming to these days? When I was that age, I used to giggle nervously over saying ‘heck’. Now I feel bloody ancient.)</p>
<p>And Kriti, I’m politely attempting to avoid calling you ‘Kriti didi’. APPRECIATE IT. 
(Seriously, I have amusing experience with being called [Noldo] akka, and am therefore not inclined to use any such form of endearment on others.)</p>
<p><em>smug in 5’7.75"-ness</em></p>
<p>Shrivats – hee! I feel for your teacher, the poor man. And I lived in Kuwait.</p>
<p>Jeez, my post is totally irrelevant.</p>
<p>What did you all write about in the common app short answer?</p>
<p>My common app short answer was the same as my MIT/Stanford EC short answer – babble about writing. With a bonus Flaubert quote, because one can never pass up the opportunity to be suitably literary-pretentious when the occasion presents itself, no?</p>
<p>Quizzes… I’d made it my habit to win everything and screw it up in the finals… though the law of averages caught up in time</p>
<p>My short was about (wait for it) debate. 
K’s was about Quizzing. (Shock! Horror! Awe! (that last was just because of stupidly named wars. :))</p>