I've been feeling pretty good about myself these past few days, to be honest. I submitted my ApplyTexas app to UT Dallas and UT Austin a few days ago, and since then I've been working on getting the other required items checked off my list for UT. I sent out my last few recommendation requests today and completed as much of the Supplemental Info Form and Honors App as I could.
I also got Mr. Correa to read my essays today. He liked them too! I was relieved, but for some reason I still don't feel like either of them were that extraordinary. I mean, Correa and Templet both liked BOTH of them, but... Still. I just don't have complete faith in my abilities as a writer, okay. That's kind of why I want to minor in English in college - so that I can build my writing skills (and my self-confidence, haha) along the way. Anywho, though, I'm going to submit Essay A over the weekend for ApplyTexas and save this supplemental one for later. (And you know what? I think I'm actually going to use these two essays for UC Berkeley. I mean, if both of my teachers liked them... I may not have faith in myself, but I do trust their judgment, so I'm going to go for it.)
I also typed up my "Why Brown" supplement essay. I'm almost - well, not quite - done with it. All I've finished talking about is the Open Curriculum and my academic/extracurricular interests, and I'm already at 157 words. The limit is 200. Why.
OH, that brings me to another point - I'm glad they liked that second essay I wrote about my culture and heritage, but guess what? It's 174 words over the limit. (I hate my life. Why do I always have to write so much?!) I'm going to sit down with them again and ask them to help me get it down to a manageable size. I mean, the ApplyTexas essay I wrote was 901 words, for goodness sake! (I don't even know how it happened. Thankfully, neither of those in-state schools I'm applying to have an essay word limit, yay!)
As I was writing the Brown essay, I looked up their study abroad programs so that I could talk about a specific one and I found a "Distinctively Brown" program in India that I actually found rather interesting. It's a program in which you live in Delhi for a semester and get to experience all of India's cultural events and things. The one thing that caught my eye about it, though, was that students who choose that program actually get to learn Hindi. How cool is that?! I always refused to consider going to India for study abroad, but this opportunity sounds pretty awesome. I'd love to learn Hindi! I can speak a little bit of it, just from what I picked up while living with my grandparents in Mumbai over summer vacations, but I'd like to actually learn to speak it fluently. I just might do it - if I get into Brown, that is. (On a somewhat tangential note, they had a picture of all the students dressed up in sarees. It was interesting.)
I also got Mr. Correa to read my essays today. He liked them too! I was relieved, but for some reason I still don't feel like either of them were that extraordinary. I mean, Correa and Templet both liked BOTH of them, but... Still. I just don't have complete faith in my abilities as a writer, okay. That's kind of why I want to minor in English in college - so that I can build my writing skills (and my self-confidence, haha) along the way. Anywho, though, I'm going to submit Essay A over the weekend for ApplyTexas and save this supplemental one for later. (And you know what? I think I'm actually going to use these two essays for UC Berkeley. I mean, if both of my teachers liked them... I may not have faith in myself, but I do trust their judgment, so I'm going to go for it.)
I also typed up my "Why Brown" supplement essay. I'm almost - well, not quite - done with it. All I've finished talking about is the Open Curriculum and my academic/extracurricular interests, and I'm already at 157 words. The limit is 200. Why.
OH, that brings me to another point - I'm glad they liked that second essay I wrote about my culture and heritage, but guess what? It's 174 words over the limit. (I hate my life. Why do I always have to write so much?!) I'm going to sit down with them again and ask them to help me get it down to a manageable size. I mean, the ApplyTexas essay I wrote was 901 words, for goodness sake! (I don't even know how it happened. Thankfully, neither of those in-state schools I'm applying to have an essay word limit, yay!)
As I was writing the Brown essay, I looked up their study abroad programs so that I could talk about a specific one and I found a "Distinctively Brown" program in India that I actually found rather interesting. It's a program in which you live in Delhi for a semester and get to experience all of India's cultural events and things. The one thing that caught my eye about it, though, was that students who choose that program actually get to learn Hindi. How cool is that?! I always refused to consider going to India for study abroad, but this opportunity sounds pretty awesome. I'd love to learn Hindi! I can speak a little bit of it, just from what I picked up while living with my grandparents in Mumbai over summer vacations, but I'd like to actually learn to speak it fluently. I just might do it - if I get into Brown, that is. (On a somewhat tangential note, they had a picture of all the students dressed up in sarees. It was interesting.)
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