<p>My essays seem kind of tame in comparison with the others listed here. Oh well. I was also accepted RD.</p>
<p>Photo Essay: I sent in a picture of my team (consisting of my chaperone, a Puerto Rican lady from Connecticut, 5 guys from all over Poland, another older chaperone who was born in Poland but now works in London, and a father and son from Stockholm) from the church conference I went to in Poland this past summer. The essay was about working together as a team, since I am usually pretty independent, and learning that you can’t be amazing at everything but have to depend on someone sometime…about the experience being more valuable than winning the competition (although they had HUGE Toblerone bars as the prize…<em>sigh</em>) some cultural stuff in there and lots about the different languages (we tried to teach each other how to say stuff in our diff. languages).</p>
<p>Intellectual Interest Essay: a transcript of my thoughts about the hypocrisy of American troops freeing the Jews from the discrimination/genocide/racism of the concentration camps in WWII, while the American army was itself segregated plus some current events application (CIA use of torture, especially in ex-Soviet facilities).</p>
<p>Roommate Essay: not great. didn’t have that much time to write this essay, and looking back, it’s pretty cliche, about overcoming outward appearances, kinda quirky/weird/outright strange because I made myself a metaphor for Trader Joe’s…(I love that store!)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Essay: also not awesome. about all the bunches of things that remind me of debate and what I learned from it, intellecutal discussion and stuff. </p>
<p>i wrote the photo essay about a month or so after i came back, around the first few weeks of school. it was, by far, my best essay…the rest kinda sucked…</p>