<p>Nomad:</p>
<p>In response to your enquiry I am from Panama although I am currently studying in the U.S.</p>
<p>wow. you all had some crazy creative topics. i’m not even gonna post mine because it’s so bad compared to all of yours. :D</p>
<p>mine is totally normal… on a spring day: bike ride, drive to bagel shop, lunch w/ friends, walk to ice cream shop, rent movies, pig out, and have fun way into the night… i got accepted ED ha</p>
<p>i think i was smacked when i wrote mine…but it was about how i would get icecream and pay for some random little girl and her dad was an airplane ceo who would give me and my friends free tickets to anywhere. So we would go to Borneo but the plane would crash in the ocean and we’d use the last dollar we had to light on fire and signal an airplane. Then we’d get to Borneo and make an orangutan operated recycling system and end world pollution. Heh. I didnt really want to go to hopkins so I thought i’d at least make them laugh.</p>
<p>watching pre-viewed video with dad, eating popcorns</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>hmmm asdfjkl87 if u crash into the ocean wouldnt that make the money wet therefore not being able to be lit…lol</p>
<p>Mine was reallly elaborate—i mean, I planned it out to the very last 64 cents!!</p>
<p>well seeing that i also said i’d end world pollution with the help of my orangutan minions…i dont think a dry dollar bill is gonna be that unbelievable</p>
<p>cmonkey,
i would LOVE to read that essay
sounds awesome
did you hear back about admissions yet?</p>
<p>If I had $10 to plan a day’s adventure, I would attempt to share my good fortune with all those around me who would not have $10 to plan a day’s adventure. What better way is there to spread wealth than by overthrowing our capitalist government and installing a social democracy? My first action of the day would therefore have to be planning and organizing a secession from the United States of America and forming the United Socialist State of Westbrook, otherwise known as the USSW.</p>
<pre><code>Of course, in order to accomplish such a feat, I would first have to organize the People’s Pacifist Army of Westbrook, because I am a strict adherent to non-violent solutions to problems. In fact, I once gave a kid a bloody nose when he claimed that non-violence is for cowards. After gathering up a sufficient crowd of turbulent teenagers, strident sailors, boisterous boy scouts, and other miscellaneous goonies, I would stampede down to the town hall, kick in the front door, storm into the mayor’s office, and proceed to have a polite conversation with him about how I have been offered a hypothetical sawbuck to spend on a hypothetical day’s hypothetical adventure. Seeing the humor in the situation, and an excuse to leave the office to play eighteen holes, he would then hand me the key to the town.
After completing that phase of the adventure, I could distribute the $10 among the citizenry. Each of the 5,714 residents of the USSW would be the proud owner of a brand new 17.5% of a penny! They would be overjoyed that despite their town being in shambles and their mayor being an avid golfer, they would be a slight amount richer. Of course, in running an effective socialist government, I would be forced to collect a 50% tax on all income accrued during my reign. I would then appropriate the entire $5 net asset of the USSW to repair the dent I appropriated into the door of the town hall, thereby ending my day’s adventure. In conclusion, if I had $10, I would unseat the government, appease the townsfolk with 0.0875 cents apiece, and take a delightful one way trip to Guantanamo Bay.
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<p>Not exactly my best work… I haven’t heard from them yet, but I’m not planning on going to JHU anyway.</p>
<p>hahaha that is ingenious</p>
<p>“Bribe the admissions office” and stapled a ten dollar bill to the application.</p>
<p>hahaha. how did that work out for you?</p>
<p>I thought the activities planned have to be adventurous</p>
<p>i like your style, cmonkey :)</p>
<p>hahahaha ecliptica that is AMAZING</p>
<p>Would you guys mind sharing your $10/common app essays with us? Decisions are being mailed out soon and you never know…we may be seeing each other next year. So this could be a great opportunity for us to learn more about each other. ^^</p>
<p>Ecliptica, sorry to inform you, but at an information session at JHU, the student said that too many people sent them 10 dollars in lieu of an essay.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I sent to my adcom a pie. It supplemented my common app essay, and besides, I would rather cook than write a trite anecdote.</p>
<p>took a trip under the sea with nemo…woot</p>
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<p>Good thing I never applied then, huh? :)</p>
<p>I got a phone call like two weeks ago from Coach Van Allen (the track coach) and he said that if I was still interested I could still apply. I was like, “Dude, it’s March 14th”.
Sorry I won’t be there to share the fun with you guys next year, I didn’t want to run for a (bad) DIII school.</p>