(I know, Yale extended its deadline to November 4th. But I don't care - I'm going to have all my stuff in for them by tonight.)
In thesis today, I showed Correa the few minor edits I made to my Common App essay as well as the Short Takes I wrote. He liked them and suggested a few changes, which I then made.
Do you know what this means? This means I'm officially done with all the writing I have to do for my SCEA app. Yay!
Now I only have about 20 more essays to go. How exciting.
I also went and got my supplementary recommendation letter ready; all I have to do is drop it off at the post office tomorrow morning to make sure it gets postmarked and sent in time.
I'm so glad I'm finally submitting this app. I've put a ton of thought and effort into it, and I feel like it's ready. I'm also kind of tired of revising the same old essays when I still have some that I haven't even started yet.
As for thesis, I worked on my annotated bibliography. The kind of frustrating thing about my thesis is that my resources are going to be different from everyone else's. Most people are writing research papers or studying a topic on which extensive research has already been done; for those kinds of projects, the resources they'd cite on a bibliography are things like abstracts of scientific research, newspaper/magazine articles, Internet articles, etc. Mine are completely different, though - because my thesis is specifically based on one organization (that is Pratham), it really only makes sense to use their resources and publications. Which is all well and good except for the fact that some of their publications are things I'm not sure how to cite because they don't easily fall into the typical categories. For example, one of my resources is a Pratham USA 2012 Annual Report, but there's not really a section in the Purdue OWL website that talks about that directly. So I'm going to have to do a little bit of searching to make sure I do it right. (Even then, I'm not completely sure it'll be accurate because of other weird things like authors and publishers.) A few of my resources are going to be YouTube videos as well, and I've never heard of anyone citing a YouTube video before. (Thank goodness there's a section for that on the OWL site, though.)
Anywho. Tomorrow is Diwali (my favorite holiday of the year!) so I'm probably not going to have much time to do anything, either college apps or thesis related. Hopefully I'll find time to finish either tonight or Sunday.
College apps: 5 down (technically 8), 10 more to go.
College acceptances: 2.
In thesis today, I showed Correa the few minor edits I made to my Common App essay as well as the Short Takes I wrote. He liked them and suggested a few changes, which I then made.
Do you know what this means? This means I'm officially done with all the writing I have to do for my SCEA app. Yay!
I also went and got my supplementary recommendation letter ready; all I have to do is drop it off at the post office tomorrow morning to make sure it gets postmarked and sent in time.
I'm so glad I'm finally submitting this app. I've put a ton of thought and effort into it, and I feel like it's ready. I'm also kind of tired of revising the same old essays when I still have some that I haven't even started yet.
As for thesis, I worked on my annotated bibliography. The kind of frustrating thing about my thesis is that my resources are going to be different from everyone else's. Most people are writing research papers or studying a topic on which extensive research has already been done; for those kinds of projects, the resources they'd cite on a bibliography are things like abstracts of scientific research, newspaper/magazine articles, Internet articles, etc. Mine are completely different, though - because my thesis is specifically based on one organization (that is Pratham), it really only makes sense to use their resources and publications. Which is all well and good except for the fact that some of their publications are things I'm not sure how to cite because they don't easily fall into the typical categories. For example, one of my resources is a Pratham USA 2012 Annual Report, but there's not really a section in the Purdue OWL website that talks about that directly. So I'm going to have to do a little bit of searching to make sure I do it right. (Even then, I'm not completely sure it'll be accurate because of other weird things like authors and publishers.) A few of my resources are going to be YouTube videos as well, and I've never heard of anyone citing a YouTube video before. (Thank goodness there's a section for that on the OWL site, though.)
Anywho. Tomorrow is Diwali (my favorite holiday of the year!) so I'm probably not going to have much time to do anything, either college apps or thesis related. Hopefully I'll find time to finish either tonight or Sunday.
College apps: 5 down (technically 8), 10 more to go.
College acceptances: 2.
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